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William Anderson Scott (January, 1813 – January 14, 1885) was an American
William Anderson Scott was born in Rock Creek, Tennessee, in January of 1813 to Eli and Martha Scott, although sources differ as to the exact date. He graduated from Cumberland College in 1833 and attended
William Anderson Scott (January, 1813 – January 14, 1885) was an American Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...
minister and author.
Biography
William Anderson Scott was born in Rock Creek, Tennessee, in January of 1813 to Eli and Martha Scott, although sources differ as to the exact date. He graduated from Cumberland College in 1833 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of ...
from 1833-34. He began his ministry in 1835, and his first congregation included Andrew Jackson.
Scott married Ann Nicholson on January 19, 1836, with whom he had had nine children. He commissioned a painting of his children, ''The Children of Reverend Scott'', which is studied today as an example of the historical gender and race-based social structure and values of Scott and the times he lived in.
Scott served the church in the southern states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana, notably serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans
First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans is the oldest Presbyterian congregation in Louisiana (1818) and the second oldest Protestant congregation in entire Mississippi Basin after Christ Church of New Orleans (1816). First Presbyterian Church of ...
. He was then called to San Francisco in 1854 as the first pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, but his sympathy for the southern cause got him into trouble with the more liberal congregation of the city, and he was forced to resign.
Scott traveled to England to serve a congregation in Birmingham in 1861, returning to America to serve a New York congregation from 1863-1870. Returning again to San Francisco, he served as the first pastor of St. John's Presbyterian Church from 1870 until his death. Scott helped found San Francisco Theological Seminary
The San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) is a seminary in San Anselmo, California with historic ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). SFTS became embedded in a new Graduate School of Theology of the University of Redlands in 2019. It was ...
, and served on the faculty and board of directors of the institution.
He wrote a number of books including ''Daniel, a Model for Young Men'' (1854), ''Achan in El Dorado'' (1855), ''Trade and Letters'' (1856), ''The Giant Judge'' (1858), ''The Bible and Politics'' (1859), ''Esther, The Hebrew-Persian Queen'' (1859), ''The Church in the Army, or the Four Centurions of the Gospels'' (1862), ''Moses and the Pentateuch'' (1863), and ''The Christ of the Apostles Creed'' (1867). He also wrote for and edited various church periodicals.
He received honorary degrees from the University of Alabama in 1844 and the University of New York in 1872.
Scott died in San Francisco on January 14, 1885.
Further reading
* Clifford Merrill Drury (1967). ''William Anderson Scott, "No Ordinary Man"''. H. Clark Co.References
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