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   Pressly, John Taylor (1795-1870) <http://exclusivepsalmody.com/2010/11/05/pressly-john-taylor-1795-1870/>
   Posted on November 5, 2010 <http://exclusivepsalmody.com/2010/11/05/pressly-john-taylor-1795-1870/> | 2 comments <http://exclusivepsalmody.com/2010/11/05/pressly-john-taylor-1795-1870/>
   <http://exclusivepsalmody.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/jt-pressly-memorial-stone.jpg> <http://exclusivepsalmody.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/jt-pressly.png>& <http://exclusivepsalmody.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/jt-pressly.png>“Pressly, John Taylor, D. D.—Son of David Pressly, born in Abbeville Co., S. C, March 28, 1795, graduated at seventeen Transylvania University, Ky. Four years in the A. R. P. Seminary, N. Y., under the peerless Mason fitted him for license by the Second Presbytery, July 3, 1816. July 10, 1817, he was ordained and installed pastor of the large and waiting congregation of Cedar Spring, S. C, and Long Cane eleven years later, Feb. 28, 1828. Under Synod he was entrusted with the first mission West—to Tennessee. Two months in 1819 were spent, a sermon on an average, was preached each alternate day, $17.25 collected, expenses $33.40 and $7.00 per week was allowed. Synod highly approved his work and “expressed their gratitude to the head of the Church for the cheering intelligence and kind reception of the missionarv during his tour.” He was Moderator of Synod 1820, her Professor of Divinity 1825-1831, early influential and always punctual. Dr. Pressly, in connection with Dr. Isaac Grier, was a delegate to a convention of the three A. R. Presbyterian Synods in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 12, 1827, with the hope of union. In the midst of his rising popularity and extended usefulness in his congregation of 172 families and 334 members this relation was dissolved Nov. n, 1831. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the West established a Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 1825. To the sole charge of this responsible work he was unanimously elected Oct. 10, 1831, and entered upon his duties Jan. 5, 1832. During that year he accepted a call to the First A. R. P congregation of Allegheny, Pa., and removed the Seminary to his church. The title of D. D. was conferred by Jefferson in 1832, of which he was a trustee 1839-1865. He married Miss Jane Hearst of Cedar Spring, S. C., Sept. 22, 1846. Synod elected him President of Erskine College. This was declined. For over 15 years he was an honor to our Synod, facile princeps, very early in his ministry being called to her most responsible, difficult and delicate duties. His subsequent, useful and far reaching career belongs to another Church very near to us. He was the prince of the distinguished Pressly family. Dignified in person, systematic and laborious in study, able in debate, expository in preaching, a master in the classroom and oracular with his students. Psalm singing Presbyterianism never had an abler or more influential defender. His death occurred August 13, 1870.”
   <http://exclusivepsalmody.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/jt-pressly-memorial-stone1.jpg> <http://exclusivepsalmody.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/jt-pressly-memorial-stone1.jpg>“In commemoration of the virtues and faithful services of their beloved pastor, the members of the congregation, among whom he had labored so long and acceptably, erected a mural tablet of white marble to the right of the pulpit, with the following appropriate memorial, inlaid with letters of gold inscribed upon a shield of black marble: [see above]: This testimonial of loving and grateful hearts was unveiled on the occasion of the semi-centennial anniversary of the church, held Nov. 8, 1881.”
   “The personal appearance of Dr. Pressly was strikingly impressive. Six feet in height, with clear-cut, strong, sensitive and refined features, iron gray hair and keen dark eyes, he looked at once the clergyman and patrician. He was a fine horseman, and when mounted suggested a resemblance to his cavalier ancestors. In manner he may have seemed to some somewhat austere, as he never lost the dignity of his profession or the demeanor of a cultured, Christian gentleman, but no one could be near him and not teel that he had a great, loving heart. In character, in life, and in all the work of his life, he was a good man.”
   Pressly’s work on Psalmody can be found here <http://www.archive.org/details/reviewofralstons00pres>

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   Biographical Information
   Posted 05 May 2012 by l_mccartney
   "Greenwood Sketches":
   John Taylor Pressly, son of David and Jane Patterson Pressly, born ca 1795, died ca 1870, graduated at the age of 17 from Transylvania University in Lexington KY., was ordained pastor of Cedar Springs Church in 1817, and 11 years later also became pastor of Long Cane Church. In 1829 he spent several months on a missionary tour in what was then called "the West", referring to Tennessee, Alabama and adjoining states. He reported his collections on the tour as $17.25 and his expenses as $33.40. In 1831 he was elected head of a theological seminary in Pittsburgh, PA, and a few years later moved the seminary to Allegheny, PA, where he was also pastor of an A R P congregation. He had a son, the Rev. John Taylor Pressly, Jr.
   
   
   "History of Pittsburgh " by George Thornton Fleming
   REV. JOHN TAYLOR PRESSLY—"He left a memorial in his work and a fragrance in his name through which his memory has been made dear to countless hearts." These words were spoken of Rev. John Taylor Pressly, D. D., for thirty-eight years the loved and honored pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny, Pa. There are many in that community who remember Dr. Pressly, and there are many throughout the land, filling hundreds of pulpits, whose hearts burn with affectionate and grateful remembrance of him as their theological instructor.
   John Taylor Pressly was born March 22, 1795, in Abbeville District, S. C., a son of David and Jane (Patterson) Pressly, both of Abbeville District, and descended from Scottish ancestors, who were among the early and influential settlers of that State. It has been truly said of Dr. Pressly that "he was an honored member of an honored family." He received his early education in a local academy, afterward entering Transylvania University, Kentucky, and graduating with the class of 1812. Having resolved to devote himself to the ministry of the gospel, he entered the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary, New York, where he was under the instructions of the eminent Dr. John Mitchell Mason. Having completed there a full three years' course of study, he was licensed in the spring of 1815 by the Second Associate Reformed Presbytery of South Carolina, and for a year devoted himself to missionary work, traveling on horseback through several of the Southern States and as far north as Pennsylvania and New York.
   On his return home Mr. Pressly was called to the pastorate of the church, in which he had been baptized, the Cedar Springs Congregational, and there he ministered for fifteen peaceful, pleasant and profitable years, dating from ordination, July 3, 1816. Gladly would he have spent his life there, but he was known not only as a great preacher, but as one eminently qualified to educate preachers, and in 1825 he was appointed Professor of Theology by the Associate Reformed Synod of the South. The duties of this position he discharged acceptably until October 10, 1831, when he was elected professor of theology by the Associate Reformed Synod of the West, and on Jan. 5, 1832, entered upon his duties in Allegheny Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. His singular fitness for the work was soon recognized and added a new attraction to the Seminary.
   In October, 1832, Dr. Pressly was called to the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Allegheny, and on Aug. 27, 1833, was installed as the first pastor of that congregation, having previously served the church while reserving his decision. The history of this congregation is an interesting one. It was organized in the third story of what was known as "Semple's Long Room," a building which is still standing on the west side of West Diamond street, four doors below South Diamond street. In this room the congregation worshipped for some time after Dr. Pressly took charge, but the purchase of a lot, one hundred and twenty feet square, on the corner of what are known as South Diamond and Hast Diamond streets gave it an abiding place. In 1838, the congregation having become too large to be accommodated in this building, it was decided to erect a more spacious structure on the same site. This was done, but at the close of 1853 additional room was again found necessary and a lot was procured on Ridge street on which the Ridge Street Church was built to take care of the overflow, as the congregation was too large for one church. Once more, in 1867, it was decided to build a new house of worship and the result was the erection of the present structure on Union avenue. It is Gothic in its general style of architecture, and the front is rendered imposing by two massive square towers about one hundred feet in height. In 1834 a charter for the congregation was granted by the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in 1872 a new charter was granted by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county.
   From the very beginning of Dr. Pressly's pastorate, the young congregation entered upon an era of prosperity. Large attendance became the rule, attracted by the earnest and eloquent preaching of the pastor, and there were many applications for admission to membership. The record of the passing years was one of rapid but permanent growth. The forces of the congregation were organized and these organizations flourished. As a preacher, Dr. Pressly was remarkable for clearness of conception and expression, and his fine personal appearance, his strong and sonorous voice, and his dignified and solemn action, gave to his delivery power approaching the magisterial. As a pastor he was watchful, tender and faithful, visiting, counselling and praying with his people in their homes and at their beds of sickness.
   In a high degree, Dr. Pressly embodied the Roman ideal of perfect manhood, "a sound mind in a sound body." Throughout his life he apparently did the work of two or three ordinary men. In addition to the cares and burdens of a great congregation, he carried on for sixteen years the entire work of the Theological Seminary, while during the remaining twenty-two years of his pastorate he served continuously as a professor in that institution. In 1842 he founded "The Preacher," a semi-monthly religious paper, now "The United Presbyterian," and for two years was its editor, proprietor and business manager, also contributing on a wide range of subjects to other periodical literature. Meanwhile he found time to publish several volumes on controverted points of theology, and at the meetings of the various courts of the church he was a familiar figure. He was one of the most prominent factors in the negotiations which resulted in the happy union of the Associate Reformed and Associate churches, and at its consummation no one rejoiced more heartily than he. He was faithful in the discharge of the duties of citizenship, taking a deep interest in all that pertained to the welfare of Pittsburgh, so long the scene of his labors and the home of his heart.
   To be the right man in the right place was the happy lot of Dr. Pressly. He was one of the few men to whom it is given to minister to a great congregation and a great community in the formative period of their history, and upon that congregation and community he left an indelible impression. Throughout the entire United Presbyterian church his influence was felt, and it was in recognition of his invaluable services in helping to adjust the differences that separated the Associate and Associate Reformed churches that he was unanimously accorded the high honor of presiding as moderator over the first General Assembly of the united body, which was held in Zenia, Ohio. His fine executive talent gave him great influence in church courts, and in ecclesiastical matters generally, but undoubtedly his greatest service to the denomination was the signal influence he exerted as a professor in the Theological Seminary. His power as an instructor resulted in part from his personality and the reverence it excited, and in part from the fullness of his knowledge, the clearness of his statements, and his exceptional power of analysis. The personal appearance of Dr. Pressly was strikingly impressive. Six feet in height, with clear-cut, strong, sensitive and refined features, iron gray hair and keen dark eyes, he looked at once the clergyman and patrician. He was a fine horseman, and when mounted suggested a resemblance to his cavalier ancestors. In manner he may have seemed to some somewhat austere, as he never lost the dignity of his profession or the demeanor of a cultured, Christian gentleman, but no one could be near him and not teel that he had a great, loving heart. In character, in life, and in all the work of his life, he was a good man.
   Another institution with which Dr. Pressly was identified was the Jefferson College, of Canonsburg. In 1832 he became a member of its board of directors, retaining the office until the college was merged with Washington College as the Washington and Jefferson College. For many years he was a member of the Board of Education of Allegheny City.
   Dr. Pressly married, July 4, 1816, Jane Hearst, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Pressly) Hearst, of Abbeville District, S. C, and their children were: Joseph H., now deceased, formerly a clergyman of Erie, Pa. ; Louisa Jane, married John Steele, of Kentucky, and is now deceased; Mary Matilda, also deceased; Sarah, died young; David A. P., died Feb. 22, 1845; Elizabeth Caroline, died young ; Samuel, also died young ; and Margaret Malinda, now living on the North Side, a woman of wide culture, greatly beloved by a large circle of friends. Mary Matilda Pressly, now deceased, became the wife of Thomas McCance. Their children are: Jane Hearst, married Dr. John Mabon, of Pittsburgh; Joseph K., a physician of Pittsburgh ; Pressly T., also of Pittsburgh; Mary Louise; Margaret M.; and William J., of New Haven, Conn., married Anna Hodge.
   In his wife, who died April 4, 1873, Dr. Pressly found a helpmate worthy of his high calling, and he ever delighted to acknowledge that it was to her unfailing aid that he owed much of his success. Mrs. Pressly possessed in a high degree the beautiful, womanly traits of Christian character which, modest and unassuming as she was, shone out of her life with radiant beauty in the sweet sunlight of a perpetual cheerfulness. She seemed to be gifted with a power to secure the confidence, win the affections, and touch the better chords in every heart by her simple presence and by a single word. No one could bind up a broken heart with a tenderer hand or a kindlier sympathy. Her presence was the light and joy of her own home, and her visits a bright summer day in the homes of the congregation, but it was in the abode of sickness and sorrow that she was most frequently found, and her coming constantly brightened the dwellings of the lowly. Dr. Pressly was a man who regarded the ties of family and friendship as sacred obligations. What he was to those nearest and dearest to him, they alone could tell. His life as a husband and father was one of rare beauty, and his home was the central spot in the congregation where the poorest and humblest were as welcome as the richest and most honorable.
   In the early summer of 1870 Dr. Pressly's health became seriously impaired. A trip to the Great Lakes brought no relief, and on August 13, a few days after his return home, he ceased from his labors. He died in the harness, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, the fiftyfifth of his ministry, and the thirty-eighth of his pastorate in Pittsburgh. He was mourned with a sorrow unfeigned, not only by his people but by many who had never been members of his congregation, and the largest assembly of mourners that had ever gathered in the city came together in the church in which he had ministered for so many years to pay tribute to his memory. People * of all denominations felt that a great man had fallen in Israel. While he lived he spoke, and being dead he still speaks by the lives and lips of the great multitude who have never ceased to manifest the impress of his teachings.
   In November, 1881, the First United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny celebrated its semi-centennial anniversary, and on that occasion was' unveiled a tablet to the memory of Dr. Pressly. It was placed upon the wall at the right of the pulpit, and is of white marble, having in the center a shield of black marble on which, in gold letters, is the following inscription :
   In Memory of
   Rev. Jno. T. Pressly, D. D.,
   for 38 years
   The beloved and honored pastor
   of this church.
   A good and great man
   Whose pure life, tender affection.
   Wise counsel, unflinching fidelity,
   And abundant labors
   Are enshrined In the hearts
   of a grateful people.
   Born March 22d. 1795,
   Died August 13, 1870.
   The Righteous Shall Be In Everlasting
   Remembrance.
   A noble and enduring tribute, but truly has it been said: "Dr. John T. Pressly needs no other memorial, among the living who knew him, than the tablets of their own hearts." Many of those to whom his stately and benignant presence was familiar have now passed away, but his influence abides, and his works do follow him.
   
   "The Centennial History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church 1803-1903"
   Pressly, John Taylor, D. D.—Son of David Pressly, born in Abbeville Co., S. C, March 28, 1795, graduated at seventeen Transylvania University, Ky. Four years in the A. R. P. Seminary, N. Y., under the peerless Mason fitted him for license by the Second Presbytery, July 3, 1816. July 10, 1817, he was ordained and installed pastor of the large and waiting congregation of Cedar Spring, S. C, and Long Cane eleven years later, Feb. 28, 1828.
   Under Synod he was entrusted with the first mission West—to Tennessee. Two months in 1819 were spent, a sermon on an average, was preached each alternate day, $17.25 collected, expenses $33.40 and $7.00 per week was allowed. Synod highly approved his work and "expressed their gratitude to the head of the Church for the cheering intelligence and kind reception of the missionarv during his tour."
   He was Moderator of Synod 1820, her Professor of Divinity 1825-1831, early influential and always punctual. Dr. Pressly, in connection with Dr. Isaac Grier, was a delegate to a convention of the three A. R. Presbyterian Synods in Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 12, 1827, with the hope of union.
   In the midst of his rising popularity and extended usefulness in his congregation of 172 families and 334 members this relation was dissolved Nov. 11, 1831.
   The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the West established a Theological Seminary in Pittsburg, Pa., May 1825. To the sole charge of this responsible work he was unanimously elected Oct. 10, 1831, and entered upon his duties Jan. 5, 1832. During that year he accepted a call to the First A. R. P. congregation of Allegheny, Pa., and removed the Seminary to his church.
   The title of D. D. was conferred by Jefferson in 1832, of which he was a trustee 1839-1865. He married Miss Jane Hearst of Cedar Spring, S. C., Sept. 22, 1846. Synod elected him President of Erskine College. This was declined. For over 15 years he was an honor to our Synod, facile princeps, very early in his ministry being called to her most responsible, difficult and delicate duties.
   His subsequent, useful and far reaching career belongs to another Church very near to us. He was the prince of the distinguished Pressly family. Dignified in person, systematic and laborious in study, able in debate, expository in preaching, a master in the classroom and oracular with his students. Psalm singing Presbyterianism never had an abler or more influential defender. His death occurred August 13, 1870.

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   Rev John Taylor Pressly, D.D.
   
   Birth: Mar. 22, 1795
   Cold Spring (Abbeville County)
   Abbeville County
   South Carolina, USA
   Death: Aug. 13, 1870
   Pittsburgh
   Allegheny County
   Pennsylvania, USA
   
   John Taylor Pressly was born March 22, 1795, in Abbeville District, South Carolina, the second son of David and Jane (née Patterson) Pressly, both of Abbeville District, and descended from Scottish ancestors, who were among the early and influential settlers of that State. It has been truly said of Rev. Pressly that "he was an honored member of an honored family." He received his early education in a local academy, afterward entering Transylvania University, Kentucky, and graduating with the class of 1812. Having resolved to devote himself to the ministry of the gospel, he entered the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary, New York, where he was under the instructions of the eminent Dr. John Mitchell Mason. Having completed there a full three years' course of study, he was licensed in the spring of 1815 by the Second Associate Reformed Presbytery of South Carolina, and for a year devoted himself to missionary work, traveling on horseback through several of the Southern States and as far north as Pennsylvania and New York.
   
   On his return home Mr. Pressly was called to the pastorate of the church, in which he had been baptized, the Cedar Springs Congregational, and there he ministered for fifteen peaceful, pleasant and profitable years, dating from ordination, July 3, 1816. Gladly would he have spent his life there, but he was known not only as a great preacher, but as one eminently qualified to educate preachers, and in 1825 he was appointed Professor of Theology by the Associate Reformed Synod of the South. The duties of this position he discharged acceptably until October 10, 1831, when he was elected professor of theology by the Associate Reformed Synod of the West, and on Jan. 5, 1832, entered upon his duties in Allegheny Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. His singular fitness for the work was soon recognized and added a new attraction to the Seminary.
   
   In October, 1832, Rev. Pressly was called to the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Allegheny, and on Aug. 27, 1833, was installed as the first pastor of that congregation, having previously served the church while reserving his decision. The history of this congregation is an interesting one. It was organized in the third story of what was known as "Semple's Long Room," a building which is still standing on the west side of West Diamond street, four doors below South Diamond street. In this room the congregation worshipped for some time after Rev. Pressly took charge, but the purchase of a lot, one hundred and twenty feet square, on the corner of what are known as South Diamond and East Diamond streets gave it an abiding place. In 1838, the congregation having become too large to be accommodated in this building, it was decided to erect a more spacious structure on the same site. This was done, but at the close of 1853 additional room was again found necessary and a lot was procured on Ridge street on which the Ridge Street Church was built to take care of the overflow, as the congregation was too large for one church. Once more, in 1867, it was decided to build a new house of worship and the result was the erection of the present structure on Union avenue. It is Gothic in its general style of architecture, and the front is rendered imposing by two massive square towers about one hundred feet in height. In 1834 a charter for the congregation was granted by the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , and in 1872 a new charter was granted by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
   
   Rev. John Pressly married, July 4, 1816, the former Miss Jane Hearst, daughter of Joseph Albert and Jane (née Pressly) Hearst, of Cedar Springs in the Abbeville District of South Carolina, with whom he had nine children. In his wife, who died April 4, 1873, Dr. Pressly found a helpmate worthy of his high calling.
   
   On the 13th of August 1870, Rev. John Taylor Pressly died in the seventy-sixth year of his age, the fifty-fifth of his ministry, and the thirty-eighth of his pastorate at First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Allegheny in Pittsburgh.
   
   In November, 1881, the First United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny celebrated its semi-centennial anniversary, and on that occasion was' unveiled a tablet to the memory of Dr. Pressly. It was placed upon the wall at the right of the pulpit, and is of white marble, having in the center a shield of black marble on which, in gold letters, is the following inscription:
   
   In Memory of
   Rev. John T. Pressly. D. D.,
   for 38 years
   The beloved and honored pastor
   of this church.
   
   A good and great man
   Whose pure life, tender affection.
   Wise counsel, unflinching fidelity,
   And abundant labors
   Are enshrined in the hearts
   of a grateful people.
   Born March 22d, 1795.
   Died August 13, 1870.
   The Righteous Shall Be 1n Everlasting
   Remembrance.
   
   A noble and enduring tribute, has been said: "Dr. John T. Pressly needs no other memorial, among the living who knew him, than the tablets of their own hearts."
   
   
   Family links:
   Parents:
   David Pressly (1756 - 1818)
   Jane Patterson Pressly (1769 - 1856)
   
   Spouse:
   Jane Hearst Pressly (1793 - 1873)
   
   Children:
   Joseph H. Pressly (1817 - 1874)
   John Mason Pressly (1821 - 1821)
   Sarah Patterson Pressly (1824 - 1839)
   David Adger Patterson Pressly (1829 - 1865)
   Caroline Elizabeth Pressly (1831 - 1832)
   Samuel Pressly (1833 - 1836)
   Malinda Margaret Pressly (1837 - 1921)
   
   Siblings:
   Samuel Patterson Pressly (1792 - 1837)
   John Taylor Pressly, D.D. (1795 - 1870)
   Mary Pressly Lowry (1797 - 1875)
   George William Pressly (1803 - 1870)
   James Patterson Pressly (1808 - 1877)
   William Patterson Pressly (1811 - 1905)
   
   Burial:
   Union Dale Cemetery
   Pittsburgh
   Allegheny County
   Pennsylvania, USA
   Plot: In Division One
   
   Created by: GMG
   Record added: Jan 09, 2012
   Find A Grave Memorial# 83176460

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• Jour de naissance 28 mars 1795
• Jour du mariage 22 septembre 1816
• Jour du décès 13 août 1870

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