Bibliography of Ministerial Resources

Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

• Robinson, Edgar Sutton. The Ministerial Directory. (Oxford, Ohio: Ministerial Directory Co., 1898.) Also includes information on Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) ministers. (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

Presbyterian Church in the United States

• Scott, Eugene Crampton, et al. Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., 1861-1941. (Austin: Press of Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1942.) Scott's Directory was updated in 1950, 1967, 1975, and 1983. (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

United Presbyterian Church of North America (with the Associate Church and the Associate Reformed Church)

• Scouller, James Brown. A Manual of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, 1751-1887. (Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1887.) (Available in digital form on the Internet Archive.)
• Glasgow, William Melanchthon. A Cyclopedic Manual of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. (Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1903.) (Available in digital form on the Internet Archive.)
• Kelsey, Hugh Alexander. The United Presbyterian Directory: A Half-Century Survey, 1903-1958. (Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1958.)

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

• Beard, Richard. Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1867.) Beard's resource was updated in 1874. (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

(Dutch) Reformed Church in America

• Corwin, Edward Tanjore. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-1902. (New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, 1902.) (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)
• VandenBerge, Peter, ed. Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-1978. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.)

Orthodox Presbyterian Church

• Dennison, Charles, ed. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1936-1986. (Philadelphia: Committee for the Historian of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1986.)

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America ("Covenanters")

• Glasgow, William Melanchthon. History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America. (Baltimore: Hill & Harvey Publishers, 1888.) (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)
• Thompson, Owen F. Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America from 1888 to 1930. (N.p.: Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, 1930.) Continued by Alvin W. Smith's Covenanter Ministers (below).
• Smith, Alvin W. Covenanter Ministers, 1930-1963. (Pittsburgh: Guttendorf, 1964.)

Associate Presbyterian Church of North America

• McBee, Basil G., and Reid W. Stewart. History of the Associate Presbyterian Church of North America, together with a Manual of the Associate Presbyterian Church. (Apollo, Pa.: Closson Press, 1983.)

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (Synod of the South)

• Centennial History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1803-1903. (Charleston: Presses of Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1905.) (Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

Researchers should also consult standard volumes of clergy history and biography such as:

Webster, Richard. A History of the Presbyterian Church in America from Its Origins Until the year 1760. (Philadelphia: J.M. Wilson, 1857.) (Also available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

Sprague, William. Annals of the American Pulpit: Vols. 3-4, Presbyterian (also published separately as Annals of the American Presbyterian Pulpit, Vols. 1-2); Vol. 9, Dutch Reformed Associate, Associate Reformed, and Reformed Presbyterian (also published separately as Annals of the American Reformed Dutch Pulpit and Annals of the American Associate, Associate Reformed, and Reformed Presbyterian Pulpit). 1858-1869.
(Available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site: Vol. 3, Presbyterian; Vol. 4, Presbyterian; Vol. 9, Dutch Reformed, Associate, Associate Reformed)

Nevin, Alfred, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Encyclopaedia Publishing Co., 1884.) (Also available in digital form on the HathiTrust Digital Library site.)

Dictionary of American Biography, 1928-1958. For Presbyterians, see "clergyman" in the occupational listing in Index to V. I-XX.

Sicherman, Barbara, and Carol Hurd Green, ed. Notable American Women, 1971-1980. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980.) For extracts from this work, see Smylie, James H. “Notable Presbyterian Women,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 52 (1974): p. 99-121.