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title: 'Biographical sketches compiled by William B. Sprague'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2019-03-21
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2019-biographical-sketches-compiled-by-william-b-sprague
---

# Biographical sketches compiled by William B. Sprague

The *Annals of the American Pulpit*, a nine-volume series (an additional volume was planned but not completed) edited by [William Buell Sprague](/authors/william-buell-sprague), is a treasure that [we have written about before](/blog/2017-william-b-spragues-annals-of-the-american-pulpit-a-biographical-classic). Sprague was a prolific writer and compiler of valuable historical information and mementos. His own original research for the biographical sketches which he produced is very significant and valuable. In addition to his biographical writings, he solicited biographical sketches from living writers who knew the deceased ministers he was writing about and, additionally, borrowed from published biographical literature as well.

As one reads the Presbyterian volumes (3, 4 and 9), one begins to take note of the personal connections between the leading ministers of the early American Presbyterianism. So many of Sprague’s subjects and contributors are to be found here at Log College Press. The following is an attempt to map out these particular LCP connections. As the site continues to grow, more connections are likely to be made, but this may serve as a useful reference to see who on LCP was written about within or contributed to the creation of [William Sprague’s](/authors/william-buell-sprague) *Annals*.

**Volume 3 (Presbyterian)**

- subject: [Francis Makemie](/authors/francis-makemie)
- subject: [Jonathan Dickinson](/authors/jonathan-dickinson)
- subject: [William Tennent, Sr.](/authors/william-tennent-sr) - contributor: George Whitefield
- subject: [Gilbert Tennent](/authors/gilbert-tennent) - contributor: [Samuel Finley](/authors/samuel-finley)
- subject: [John Tennent](/authors/john-tennent) - contributor: [Gilbert Tennent](/authors/gilbert-tennent)
- subject: [William Tennent, Jr.](/authors/william-tennent-jr) - contributor: [Elias Boudinot IV](/authors/elias-boudinot-iv)
- subject: [Samuel Jacob Blair](/authors/samuel-jacob-blair) - contributors: [Samuel Davies](/authors/samuel-davies), [Samuel Finley](/authors/samuel-finley)
- subject [Aaron Burr, Sr.](/authors/aaron-burr-sr)
- subject: [Francis Alison](/authors/francis-alison) - contributor: [John Ewing](/authors/john-ewing)
- subject: William Robinson - contributor: [Samuel Davies](/authors/samuel-davies), [Archibald Alexander](/authors/archibald-alexander)
- subject: [Samuel Finley](/authors/samuel-finley)
- subject: [David Brainerd](/authors/david-brainerd) - contributor: Jonathan Edwards
- subject: [Charles Clinton Beatty](/authors/charles-clinton-beatty)
- subject: [David Bostwick](/authors/david-bostwick)
- subject: [John Rodgers](/authors/john-rodgers) - contributor: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: [Samuel Davies](/authors/samuel-davies) - contributor: [Samuel Finley](/authors/samuel-finley)
- subject: [Robert Smith](/authors/robert-smith)
- subject: Elihu Spencer - contributor: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: Matthew Wilson - contributor: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: [George Duffield II](/authors/george-duffield-ii) - contributor: [George Duffield V](/authors/george-duffield-v)
- subject: [Samson Occum](/authors/samson-occom)
- subject: [Alexander MacWhorter](/authors/alexander-macwhorter)
- subject: John Strain - contributors: [Archibald Alexander](/authors/archibald-alexander), [Charles Hodge](/authors/charles-hodge)
- subject: [John Ewing](/authors/john-ewing) - contributor: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: [John Joachim Zubly](/authors/john-joachim-zubly)
- subject: [James Caldwell](/authors/james-caldwell) - contributor: [Nicholas Murray](/authors/nicholas-murray)
- subject: Azel Roe - contributor: [John McDowell](/authors/john-mcdowell)
- subject: James Waddel - contributors: [William Wirt](/authors/william-wirt), [Archibald Alexander](/authors/archibald-alexander)
- subject: [David Rice](/authors/david-rice)
- subject: [William Tennent III](/authors/william-tennent-iii)
- subject: [John Witherspoon](/authors/john-witherspoon) - contributor: [Ashbel Green](/authors/ashbel-green)
- subject: [Hezekiah James Balch](/authors/hezekiah-james-balch)
- subject: Thomas Reese - contributor: [David Ramsay](/authors/david-ramsay)
- subject: [Samuel Stanhope Smith](/authors/samuel-stanhope-smith) - contributor: [Philip Lindsley](/authors/philip-lindsley)
- subject: [Samuel Eusebius McCorkle](/authors/samuel-eusebius-mccorkle)
- subject: [William Graham](/authors/william-graham) - contributor: [Archibald Alexander](/authors/archibald-alexander)
- subject: John McKnight - contributor: [George Duffield V](/authors/george-duffield-v)
- subject: John Linn - contributor: [Robert Baird](/authors/robert-baird)
- subject: [Samuel Doak](/authors/samuel-doak)
- subject: [John Blair Smith](/authors/john-blair-smith) - contributor: [William Hill](/authors/william-hill)
- subject: James Dunlap - contributor: [Robert Baird](/authors/robert-baird)
- subject: [Moses Hoge](/authors/moses-hoge)
- subject: Charles Nisbet - contributor: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: Aaron Woolworth - contributor: [Lyman Beecher](/authors/lyman-beecher)
- subject: [Ashbel Green](/authors/ashbel-green) - contributors: [Jacob Jones Janeway](/authors/jacob-jones-janeway), [Nicholas Murray](/authors/nicholas-murray)
- subject: [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller) - contributor: [Nicholas Murray](/authors/nicholas-murray)
- subject: [Archibald Alexander](/authors/archibald-alexander) - contributors: [John Hall](/authors/john-hall), [Henry Augustus Boardman](/authors/henry-augustus-boardman)

**Volume 4 (Presbyterian)**

- subject: [John Mitchell Mason](/authors/john-mitchell-mason)
- subject: Edward Dorr Griffin - contributor: [Nicholas Murray](/authors/nicholas-murray)
- subject: [George Buist](/authors/george-buist)
- subject: [George Addison Baxter](/authors/george-addison-baxter) - contributor: [John Leyburn](/authors/john-leyburn)
- subject: [Conrad Speece](/authors/conrad-speece) - contributor: [William Hill](/authors/william-hill)
- subject: [Robert Hamilton Bishop](/authors/robert-hamilton-bishop)
- subject: [John Holt Rice](/authors/john-holt-rice) - contributors: [James Waddel Alexander](/authors/james-waddel-alexander), [Benjamin Mosby Smith](/authors/benjamin-mosby-smith)
- subject: [Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1781-1847)](/authors/benjamin-morgan-palmer) - contributor: [Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902)](/authors/benjamin-morgan-palmer)
- subject: [James Patriot Wilson, Sr.](/authors/james-patriot-wilson) - contributor: [John Hall](/authors/john-hall)
- subject: Uzal Ogden - contributor: [John McDowell](/authors/john-mcdowell)
- subject: William Shields Reid - contributor: [Clement Read Vaughn](/authors/clement-read-vaughan)
- subject: [Philip Lindsley](/authors/philip-lindsley) - contributor: [John Maclean, Jr.](/authors/john-maclean-jr)
- subject: Samuel Davies Hoge - contributor: [Moses Drury Hoge](/authors/moses-drury-hoge)
- subject: Philip Melancthon Whelpley - contributor: [Gardiner Spring](/authors/gardiner-spring)
- subject: James Gallaher - contributor: [Robert Jefferson Breckinridge](/authors/robert-jefferson-breckinridge)
- subject: [Ichabod Smith Spencer](/authors/ichabod-spencer) - contributor: [Gardiner Spring](/authors/gardiner-spring)
- subject: [Albert Baldwin Dod](/authors/albert-baldwin-dod) - contributor: [Charles Hodge](/authors/charles-hodge)
- subject: Samuel Gover Winchester - contributor: [William Morrison Engles](/authors/william-morrison-engles)
- subject: William Mayo Atkinson - contributors: [Charles Hodge](/authors/charles-hodge), [William Swan Plumer](/authors/william-swan-plumer)
- subject: [Nicholas Murray](/authors/nicholas-murray)
- subject: [Francis Smith Sampson](/authors/francis-smith-sampson) - contributor: [Robert Lewis Dabney](/authors/robert-lewis-dabney)
- subject: William Cowper Scott - contributor: [Clement Read Vaughn](/authors/clement-read-vaughan)

**Volume 9 (Associate, Associate Reformed, Reformed Presbyterian)**

- subject: [William Marshall](/authors/william-marshall)
- subject: [John Anderson](/authors/john-anderson)
- subject: [Robert Annan](/authors/robert-annan)
- subject: [Alexander Proudfit](/authors/alexander-proudfit)
- subject; James McKinney - contributors: [Gilbert McMaster](/authors/gilbert-mcmaster), [Samuel Brown Wylie](/authors/samuel-brown-wylie)
- subject: [Alexander McLeod](/authors/alexander-mcleod) - contributors: [Samuel Brown Wylie](/authors/samuel-brown-wylie), [John Black, Sr.](/authors/john-black), [Samuel Miller](/authors/samuel-miller)
- subject: [John Black, Sr.](/authors/john-black) - contributor: [John Neill McLeod](/authors/john-niel-mcleod)
- subject: [Samuel Brown Wylie](/authors/samuel-brown-wylie)
- subject: [James Renwick Willson](/authors/james-renwick-willson) - contributor: [James McLeod Willson](/authors/james-mcleod-willson)
- subject: [Gilbert McMaster](/authors/gilbert-mcmaster)
- subject: John Reily - contributor: [Samuel Wylie](/authors/samuel-wylie)
- subject: Robert Wallace - contributor: [Thomas Sproull](/authors/thomas-sproull)
- subject: John Cannon - contributor: [Thomas Sproull](/authors/thomas-sproull)
- subject: Robert Gibson - contributor: [David Scott](/authors/david-scott)
- subject: James Blackwood - contributor: [Thomas Sproull](/authors/thomas-sproull)
- subject: Moses Roney - contributor: [Samuel Oliver Wylie](/authors/samuel-oliver-wylie)
- subject: Hugh Walkinshaw - contributor: [Thomas Sproull](/authors/thomas-sproull)