William Mackergo Taylor
Deceased Person
1829 – 1895
Who was William Mackergo Taylor?
William Mackergo Taylor was an American Congregational minister, born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. He graduated at the University of Glasgow, and at the divinity hall of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. He was pastor of churches in Britain till 1872. He entered the United States where he became pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, in New York till 1893 when a paralytic stroke caused his retirement. He wrote biographies of Rev. Matthew Dickie and John Knox and published numerous volumes of sermons and discourses, of which those of a biographical character on Joseph, Moses, David, Elijah, Daniel, and Paul were very popular. He lectured at Yale in 1876 and at Princeton in 1880. He published: The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation to the Present Day.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds.. "". New International Encyclopedia. New York: Dodd, Mead.
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- Born
- 1829
Kilmarnock - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Died
- 1895
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on July 23, 2013
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