Biography

SKU (ISBN): 9781609579883Author: Wigton, JamesBinding: Trade PaperPublisher: Xulon PressPublished: 11/10

The story of Dr. John Gibson Paton (1824-1907), Scottish Presbyterian missionary to the South Pacific, is well-known. Paton settled on the island of Aniwa (1866-1881) with his second wife, Margaret (Maggie) Whitecross Paton. By the end of the...

The life of Benjamin Franklin is stranger than fiction. Its realities surpass the idealities of novelists. Imagination would scarcely venture to portray such victories over poverty, obscurity, dificulties, and hardships. The tact, application,...

This biography by Miss Woodson is the only full-length treatment on William B. Johnson, being first published in 1950. A spiritual heir of the early Particular Baptists in South Carolina, William B. Johnson's contribution to American Baptist life was not...

Product Description Five hundred years ago, on All Hallows' Eve in 1517, monk Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses---and ignited a firestorm that scorched the medieval church and forever transformed Western society. From the author...

Compiled and edited by Charles D. Mallary “Among the early Baptist ministers in South Carolina, one of the more influential and colorful was Edmund Botsford (1745-1819). He was nurtured in the faith by Oliver Hart, was a contemporary and...

Written by his daughter, Susan P. Lee, originally published in 1893. A valuable narrative of Brigadier-General, C.S.A. Chief of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, Rector of Latimer Parosh, Lexington, Va. Dr. Pendleton's address on the "Personal...

This delightful yet scholarly work for ages 10 to adult portrays Mrs. Lee's faithfulness to Christ through youth, marriage, motherhood, loss of luxury, war, and crippling arthritis. Douglas Southall Freeman says Mrs. Lee displayed all the qualities that...

The autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence.Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution.Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the...

White’s fascinating biographical sketches of leaders in the Southern Presbyterian Church, from the establishment of Presbyterianism in the American Colonies in the 1680s to the beginning of the twentieth century, has never been superseded. The...

This work is the first authorized biography of the great Confederate general. Based on correspondence, official records, and a close personal relationship with the general which began when he served as his adjutant general in the Valley and Peninsula...

“Without John Smith, who believed that God providentially orders history and that his own preservation could only be explained by the divine protection so evident throughout his life, the English colony at Jamestown in Virginia would have perished...