Black burn, William Maxwell

D.D. (Princeton College, 1870), Presbyterian; b. at Carlis 31 le, Ind., Dec. 31, 1828; graduated at Hanover College, 1850, and at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1854; was pastor of Park (Presbyterian) Church, Erie, Penn., 1856-63; Fourth Church, Trenton, 1ST. J., 1864-68; profe or of church history in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago, 111., 1868-81; pastor of the Central Church, Cincinnati, O., 1881-84; president of the Territorial University of North Dakota, 1884-85 since president of Pierre University (Presbyterian), East Pierre, Dak. He has published, besides numerous Sunday-school books, William Farel, Philadelphia, 1865; Aonio Paleario, 1866; Ulrich Zwingli, 1868; St. Patrick and the early Irish Church, 1869; Admiral Coligny, 1869, 2 vols.; A History of the Christian Church from its Origin to the Present Time, New York, 1879.