Alexander Blaine Brown was elected the seventh president of Jefferson College on October 14, 1847. The son of Matthew Brown, Jefferson College's fifth president, Brown was professor of belles lettres
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named after its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches
Sanctuary of the Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago)
Iona Abbey in Scotland, founded by Saint Columba
John Knox, leader of the 16th century Scottish Reformation
Painting by John Henry Lorimer, The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, 1891, now in the National Gallery of Scotland