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William Blackburn was born on December 30, 1828, at Carlisle, Indiana, United States, the son of Alexander and Delilah (Polk) Blackburn.
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William Blackburn was born on December 30, 1828, at Carlisle, Indiana, United States, the son of Alexander and Delilah (Polk) Blackburn.
William was educated in the Academy of La Porte, Indiana, and at Hanover College, graduating in 1850. Later he entered Princeton Theological Seminary. Here he spent four years, pursuing theological studies, but not graduating.
Blackburn was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in April 1853, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lake on September 28, 1854. His first charge as a minister was the church at Three Rivers, Michigan, where he preached from 1854 to 1856. From this work he was called to Erie, Pennsylvania, to take charge of the newly organized Park Presbyterian Church. The following year he was installed as pastor of this church and continued as such until 1863. When he left this field it was in order to supply the pulpit, and then become the pastor, of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey.
In 1868 Blackburn was called to the professorship of Biblical and ecclesiastical history in the Seminary of the Northwest (later McCormick Theological Seminary), Chicago. This position he occupied until 1881. Meantime in addition to his labors as professor in the seminary he served as acting pastor of the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church of Chicago (1869 - 1871). In 1881 he accepted a call to the Central Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, Ohio, which he served until 1884. From this pastorate he was called to the presidency of the Territorial University of North Dakota. He served in this position, however, only until the next year, when he was transferred to the presidency of Pierre University in South Dakota. From 1885 to the day of his death Blackburn was not only president of the University, but also professor of mental, moral, and political science, and from 1886 to 1890, and again from 1892 to 1894 he had charge of the local Presbyterian Church at East Pierre, South Dakota.
Blackburn early developed aptitude for and facility in writing. His first effort, a translation of Gerhard's Sacred Meditations, was followed by The Holy Child (1859), a story for use in Sunday schools, which proved successful and was republished in England. This was followed by a series of six juvenile tales under the general title of the Uncle Alick Stories. He also published a comprehensive treatise on church history under the title History of the Christian Church from its Origin to the Present Time (1879), which received wide recognition, and was used as a textbook in the study of the subject, though recent advances in this field of knowledge have practically superseded it.
William Blackburn was a distinguished pastor of the Presbyterian Church who served as President of the University of North Dakota (1884) and Pierre University in South Dakota (1885- 1898). Blackburn also produced a large number of historical and biographical works designed to disseminate knowledge concerning the important personalities and events of the world's religious life, especially those of the Reformation period.
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Great energy characterized all Blackburn's numerous activities: his writing, his labors as pastor, teacher, and college president, his work on committees of Presbytery and Synod. In personal appearance and bearing he was dignified and even courtly, producing the impression of one who was a forceful thinker but was indisposed to impose his thoughts upon others.
On August 16, 1864, Blackburn was married to Elizabeth Powell.
