An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Rutgers College; Volume 1
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George Junkin was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator. He took part in a major event in Presbyterian Church history, known as the Old School-New School Controversy. He also served as the prosecutor in a church trial of Albert Barnes (a leading New School theologian), accusing him of heresy.
Background
George was born on November 1, 1790, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Joseph and Eleanor (Cochran) Junkin, and the sixth of their fourteen children. He was a descendant of Scotch Covenanters who fled to Ireland under the persecution of the Stuarts. His grandfather, Joseph, emigrated from Antrim, Ireland, about 1735, and acquired five hundred acres of land.
Education
Junkin received such instruction as the log schoolhouses of the frontier afforded until 1806. In 1809, however, he entered the grammar school of Jefferson College, and in 1813 graduated from that college, with the reputation of being a grave, reserved youth, intent upon study. Immediately after his graduation he went to New York where he studied theology in the seminary established by Rev. John Mitchell Mason.
Career
In 1806 his family moved westward and settled in Mercer County. For the next three years he was farmer, lumberman, carpenter, cabinetmaker, miller, and wool-carder.
In September 1816 he was licensed to preach by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Monongahela. For three years he was engaged in missionary work, being in the meantime ordained, June 29, 1818, by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Philadelphia.
His first and only pastorate was at Milton, Pennsylvania, where he was installed on October 17, 1819. Here for eleven years he devoted himself zealously to the interest of religion, did pioneer work in behalf of temperance, and became increasingly interested in problems of education.
In 1826 the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Church having united with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church a few years earlier, he was sent as a commissioner to that body, and thereafter became prominent in the councils and controversies of his denomination.
He resigned his church at Milton in 1830, and began a long career as head of educational institutions by becoming principal of the Manual Labor Academy of Pennsylvania at Germantown. He remained in this position but two years, and then became the first president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The institution had been chartered in 1826, but had no property or funds. The trustees hired a farm; the manual-labor system, of which President Junkin was an earnest advocate, was adopted; and former pupils at Germantown constituted the student body. Through his untiring efforts money was secured, a permanent site obtained, and the first building completed in May 1834. For nine years he devoted himself to the upbuilding of the college, resigning in 1841 to become president of Miami University, Ohio. In the meantime, during the strife which resulted in the division of the Presbyteriah Church in 1837-38 he had been one of the uncompromising leaders of the Old School party, and had instigated the trial of Albert Barnes for heresy.
Later, he again became the head of Lafayette College, continuing as such until 1848, when he assumed the presidency of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. This position his loyalty to the Union compelled him to resign in 1861. Thereafter he resided in Philadelphia.
In 1863 he published Political Fallacies: An Examination of the False Assumptions and Refutation of the Sophistical Reasonings Which Have Brought on the Civil War. A week before his death in 1868 he completed A Commentary upon the Epistle to the Hebrews.