In Memoriam: James Lyons Chesnut, D.D.

2 IN MEMORIAM Biographical Sketch. James Lyons Chesnut was lforn in Carn– bore, County Antrim, Ireland, on March 21, 1867. He was the son of Moses and Martha Chesnut. He had two sisters, one of whom died in infancy; the other, Mary M., now Mrs. Thomas Biggert, and his mother, remain to hold him in ·1oving remembrance. · His father eritered into rest a few years ago. Dr. Chesnut received his education in the common schools of Ireland and the Coleraine Academic Institute. While yet a mere lad, he came with his parents and sister to America, but not long afterward his parents longed for their- home land, and, with his sister, they returned to Ireland, leaving Jam.es alone in America. He found employ– ment in the Pennsylvania Railroad offices, and pursued his studies in the Rleformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (then located at Twentieth and Vine streets, Phil– adelphia), graduating April 5, 1893. He also took a post-graduate course in the University of Pennsylvania. On May 12, 1892, he acquitted himself well in a thorough exami– nation before the Philadelphia Reform~d Presbyterian Presbytery, at a meeting held in the Fourth Church, and was licensed to preach the Gospel, and during the summer of 1892 served the Grand Cote Congregation at Coulterville, Ill., with marked ability. He received a call from this church, and at a meeting of the Philadelphia Presbytery held in the First Church on November 1, 1892, was granted a certificate of dismissal to "the