Cathcart, William

D.D. (Lewis burg University, 1873), Baptist; b. in County London derry, Ireland, Nor. 8, 1825; studied in Glasgow University, and at Horton (now Rawdon) Baptist Theological College, Yorkshire, Eng., and gra 46 duated 1850; was pastor at Barnsley, near Sheffield, 1850-53; at Mystic River, Conn., 1853-57; in Philadelphia (Second Baptist Church), 1857- 84; and is now living at Gwynedd, Penn. He was president of the American Baptist Historical Society, by annual election, from 1876-84. He has published The Papal System, from its Origin to the Present Time. An Historical Sketch of every Doctrine, Claim, and Practice of the Church of Rome, Philadelphia, 1872, 4th ed. 1885; The Baptists and the American Revolution, 1876; The Baptism of the Ages and of the Nations, 1878, 3d ed. 1884. He edited The Baptist Encyclopcedia, 1881 (1 vol. bound in 2), revised ed. 1883.