George Dod Armstrong

George Dod Armstrong ( September 15, 1813 – May 11, 1899) was a Presbyterian minister and author born in Mendham, New Jersey. He was one of ten children by Amzi Armstrong, a Presbyterian pastor, and Polly Dod.

George Armstrong graduated from Princeton University in 1832 and then taught school until he entered Union Theological Seminary, Virginia. He became a professor of chemistry and mechanics in 1838 at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. He held this position for thirteen years when he left to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, Virginia. He remained here until his death in 1899.

In 1855 his family was nearly destroyed by Yellow Fever losing 3 children and his wife. In 1856 he authored a personal account of the epidemic: "The Summer of the Pestilence."

Works

*"Politics and the Pulpit" 1856
*"The Christian Doctrine of Slavery" 1857
*"Doctrine of Baptism" 1857
*"The Theology of Christian Experience" 1858
*"The Good Hand of Our God Upon Us," a Thanksgiving Sermon Preached on the Occasion of the Victory of Manassas" 1861
*"The Sacraments of the New Testament as Instituted by Christ" 1880
*"The Two Books of Nature and Revelation Collated" 1886

References

* Starr, Harris Elwood. "Armstrong, George Dod." "Dictionary of American Biography." Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928.
* [http://worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AGeorge+D+Armstrong&fq=yr%3A1858&qt=facet_yr%3A Worldcat.org]

External links

* [http://www.webroots.org/library/usameds/asopva00.html "The Summer of the Pestilence."]
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/va/history/firstpresby/pictures/tombstones.html Tombstone Inscriptions]