Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-23
An Eminent Presbyterian Editor
and Clergyman.

The late DR.. Plumer, whose death
was announced yesterday, was al
luded to as follows, by the Pittsburgh
Dispatch of the 10th
Rev. DR.. VIM. S. Plummer, former
" of Allegheny City, one Of the most
eminent Presby terrain clergyman in
the United States, who has been ly-
ing seriously i'll at the Union Presby-
terrain intirmary in Baltimore, had a
change for the worst Monday, his
pulse quickening from u to over 100,
delirium setting in, and other condi-
tions developing which lead the at
tending physicians to believe that he
may pass away at any moment,
and to express the opinion that 1t wa
impossible Tor him to live more than
a few days at the most. Since 1866,
until very recently, he has filed the
chair of didactic' and polemic theOlo-
gy in the Southern Theological semi
nary at Columbia, South Carolina, but
has been in the habit Of spending his
summers in the north. Last July he
stopped over in Baltimore to fill for
six weeks the pulpit Of his friend,
Rev. DR.. Leftwich, at the First Pres
byterian church, while that clergy
man was on his vacation. This he
did very acceptably. Almost immc-
diately upon leaving Columbia tho
painful disease Of calculi began to de-
velop, and grew worse aud worse dur
ing his sojourn in Baltimore.
Hoping to find relief, he made {
visit to his friend, Rev. Samuel I
Lowry, ID, then occupying Mr.
John Wanamaker's cottage at Cap,
MAY. during that gentleman absenc,
in Europe, and from there went on {
short visit to Nh. S. ii. Mccormick
of Chicago, at his summer resort a
Richfeld Springs, N. y, Growing n,
better, he returned to Baltimore anC
determined to submit to the operation
Of lithotomy at the hand Of Prot
Atan. p Smith, whose success in tina.
most difficult and dangerous Of al
surgical operations has become famou
both in this country and abroad. Tn
, operation was entirely successful, ant
such great relief did DR.. Plumer ex
perience that he felt sanguine o
b being abe to reioin his relatives ant
colleagues In the south. In this
= however, he was destined to be disap
pointed. The operation took place OF
the 18th OF September, but a weeI
after symptoms Of a complication 0
, new diseases began to appear, and il
a few days the aged clergyman's con
; dition was felt to be such as to justli.
summoning his folativosto his bedside
! His grandson, Rev. w. Flumer Bryan
of Beverly Springs, W. Va, was tn
first to arrive, and in a few days wa
followed by Mr.. and Mrs, Samuel !
Bryan, Of Allegheny City, his son-in
: law and daugher, and Mrs. Douglas
I Plumer, Of Columbia, S. c., anothe
daughter. These have been constant
ly at his bedside ever since, and wit
Miss Duncan, the matrOn OF the in
Urinary, have left undone nothin
that the tenderest affection could sug
gest. Every day for a week the lead
ing Presbyterian clergymen of Balti
more have been at his bedside b
turns. notably Rev. DR.. Leftwieh
Rev. DR.. Leyburn, Rev. DR.. Smitl
and Rev. DR.. Murkland.
DR.. Plumer is now in his 10Th year
having been born in Darlington, Bea
yer county, Pennsylvania. July %
1902. He graduated at Washington
college in 1875, studied theology q
Princeton, N. j.. was licensed Z,
preach in 1926, and a year later organ
lied the Pre- ,byterian church in Dan
vile, Va. He afterwards removed Il
Warrenton, N. G., where h. also or
ganized a church, and preached late
in Raleigh, Washington and Newbern
N. G. In 1894 he became pastor il
Richmond, and in 1917 in Baltimore
The church of which Rev. DIR. Murk
land is now pastor was built for hin
In 1887 he founded the Watchmal
Of the South, which he edited 70
eight years. In 1851 he became pro
lessor in the Western TheolOgca
seminary at Allegheny City, and iror
there, in 1866. went to the seminar
at Columbia, where he as been eve
since, he IS the author Of volumir
GUS works, some of which have bC
4 anna standard AIMING atudenfa of III