Author: McJimsey, William
Biography:
MCJIMSEY, William (1797-1881: ancestry.com)
The son of a minister of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in upper New York State, he himself became a minister and Evangelist in the church and travelled quite widely in the US, mainly on missionary work, though his base remained in New York. His parents were Ann (Wilkins) and John McJimsey; he was born in Neeleytown NY and received his education first from his father, then from Union College (graduated 1819), the Associate Reformed seminary in New York, and Princeton Theological Seminary (Class of 1822-23). He was licensed to preach in 1823 and ordained in 1826. After missionary work and preaching in New York, Virginia, and Missouri, he returned to New York in 1846 as editor of The Family Circle, and Parlor Journal. He suffered from ill-health in the last twenty years of his life and retired to Montgomery NY, where he died. But he continued to write and to publish occasional poems, the last of them celebrating a centennial for Alexander von Humboldt in New York in 1869. He never married. (ancestry.com 29 Dec. 2019; Princeton Theological Seminary, Necrological Reports and Annual Proceedings of the Alumni [1891] 11)