Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-08
THE WIna CoILraEn

The LOG College" celebrated not only in Pres
byterian but in colonial and national ecclesi-
astieal and educational history, was established
by VIM. Tennent, in l726, for the education of
young men for Presbyterian ministers, and was
the focus Of all the early movements Of that
county, Pa, about 20 miles north Of Philadel-
phia, mile from the Neshaminy creek, famous
in aboriginal history, and where the first Pres
byterian church was erected. Its founder, VIM.
Tennent, was an Irishman by birth and Scotch
Presbyterian by education, and emigrated to
America in 1717. His son Gilbert, who was
fourteen years Of age at that time, assisted his
father as a teacher Of the LOG College," which
he founded nine years after in the wilds OF the
Neshaminy, and was afterward licensed to
the college Of New Jersey, known as Prince.
ton College, which was founded as q synodical
institution in 1746-7. In 1853 Gilbert Tennent,
son Of the founder, went to London to solicit
funds for that educational offspring.
GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGE.
The apostolic men who spread the early
seeds Of Presbyterisnism in America were all
graduates of the LOG College," Whitfield
made it his headquarters, and the colleges Of
Princeton, in New Jersey, Hampden-Sydney, in
Virginia, Jefferson, at Washington, Pequa
academy, Of Nottingham, and Fagg's Manor
academy, in Pennsylvania, sprang from it.
The occasion, chronologically, is the centen-
NAL celebration Of the general assembly OF the
church by the parent presbytery. The site il
now a ploughed field and somewhat of the
line of modern highways Of travel being ~
miles from Huntsville, on the North Pennsyl-
yania railroad. For the presidential party,
however, it is proposed to drive to the locality
by the York turnpike from Postmaster-Generai
Wanamakers country seat at Cheiton Hills.
most romantic of the garden spots OF Pennsyl-
yania, but of its most
HISTORICALLY INTERESTING REGIONS,
passing en- route the grave of Samuel Finley,
an early graduate Of the LOG College" and one
of the pioneers Of American Presbyterianism,
William PENIS great road between the rivers,
the line of Howe's retreat from Philadelphia,
the localities where Brainerd and Whitfield
preached. the Abingdon church and manse, and
the battlefield of Crooked Billet. The historic
spot and its traditions are not only of interest
to the President on account of his religious
convictions but associated by ancestral
ties with the family of Mrs. Harrison.
Among the covenanters battling for Scot
lands rights at Boutwell, bridge was Sir William
Scott, one Of the ancestors of the family of
that name to which the wife of the President
belongs. The American ancestor of Mrs. Har-
rlsons father, was the laird of Arras,
who went to America and purchased tracts Of
land in Pennsylvania. The Log College"
was situated on a tract Of the laird of Arras,
are buried in the graveyard of the college
church, and among these hallowed graves,
tradition says, is that of the laird of Arras.
John Scott, one of the seven sons of the
Scotch laird, was the progenitor of the line Of
descendants now represented by Mrs. Har-
risons father, who was his grandson. Mrs.
Hayes, wife of the nineteenth President of the
UAited States, is descended from one Of the
daughters of the laird. The grandfather of the
Scots of Kentucky another branch of the
family, a captain in the Revolutionary
army. John Scott, of Kentucky, was a surgeon
in the Indian wars with Gen. w. H. Harrison.
Owing to their friendship the former named
his son John Harrison Scott and the latter
named his John Scott Harrison, who was the
father of the President.
THE GREAT GRANDFATHER OF MRS. HARRISON
on her fathers side married Miss McElroy
while still living on the patrimonial estates in
what is now Northampton county, and removed
to the tract in Bucks where the LOG College
stood, and where her grandfather, Geo. NOEL
roy Scott, was born. Having been licensed to
preach, he removed to Beaver, Pennsylvania,
where John Witherspoon Scott, Mrs. Harrison 8
father, was born June %, 1900.
The President, in participating in the cele-
bration of the centennial of the Presbyterian
general assembly on the site of the Log Col
lege," will also be doing homage to the brave
eovenanter who was the paternal ancestor Of
his estimable wife. DEB. r. K.