Background
Plumer, William Swan was born on July 26, 1802 in Griersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Catherine (McAllister) Plumer.
Plumer, William Swan was born on July 26, 1802 in Griersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Catherine (McAllister) Plumer.
Graduate Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Virginia, 1824. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1826, honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1838. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette College, Washington College, 1838.
Honorary Doctor of Laws U. Mississippi, 1857.
Ordained to ministry Presbyterian Church, 1827. Did evangelistic work in North Carolina, and Virginia. Pastor churches in Virginia and Maryland. including 1st Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1834-1846.
Outstanding Old School leader and debater in Old School, New School Controversy, 1837.
Elected moderator Old School General Assembly, 1838. Professor didactic and pastoral theology Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1854-1862.
Professor Columbia (South Carolina.), Theological Seminary, 1867-1880. Moderator General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1871.
Founded The Watchman of the South, religious paper, 1864, sole editor for 8 years.
Attended Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1877. Author: Studies of the Book of Psalms, Being A Critical and Expository Commentary, 1866. The Law of God as Contained in the Ten Commandments, 1864.
Married Eliza (Garden) Hasell, 1829, 2 children.