(4 May 1848-13 March 1921), schoolteacher, clergyman, lecturer. (R. C. Allen) Born in Mercer County, Penn. He studied at Westminster College, of New Wilmington, Penn., and the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, of Allegheny (now a part of Pittsburgh) and served as a pastor in Nebraska. While a student, he had supported himself by combining his academic work with schoolteaching. From Oct. 1887 to 1897 he was pastor of the tiny Covenanter (Reformed Presbyterian) Church at Brodie, in GC, being the first resident pastor there. After returning to the United States, he seems to have given up regular pastoral work, but was a lecturer and supply clergyman. In 1878 he was married to Sara Elizabeth Lytle, also of Penn. He died at his home in Grove City, Penn. (six children, four surviving him) He was the author of a number of booklets, including Fundamental Principles in Civil Government (1898), The Bible in Our Public Schools (1907), and Civil Government: Harmony of Nature and Revelation (1918).

     See also R. H. McKelvy.

Christian Nation, 20 April 1921 (includes useful list of topics on which he wrote) * W. M. Glasgow, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America (1888) 433 * O. F. Thompson, Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America from 1888 to 1930 (n.d., 1930?) 28-29 * Twentieth Century History of Mercer County (1909) 471-472 * Butternuts and Maple Sugar 285 * MacMillan, Kirk, 269 * Pre-1956, 9:442 * information kindly supplied by the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary and by Westminster College