WILLSON, James Renwick, clergyman, born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 9 April, 1780; died in Coldenham, New York, 29 September, 1853. He was graduated at Jefferson in 1805 and licensed to preach as a Reformed Presbyterian in 1807. He then took charge of schools in Pennsylvania till 1817, when he became pastor of the Coldenham and New-burg" congregations in New York, and, with the exception of a pastorate at Albany in 1830-'3, retained the former charge till 1840. In 1838 he had been appointed professor in the Eastern theological seminary, and retained his chair after the union with the Western seminary till 1851. He received the degree of D.D. in 1825 from the western University of Pennsylvania. He edited "The Evangelical Witness" in 1822-'6, the "Christian Statesman" in 1827-'8, and the " Albany Quarterly" in 1831-'3. In connection with the last he published a " History of the Church of Scotland." His other published works are "An Historical Sketch of Opinions on the Atonement " (Philadelphia, 1817); "Prince Messiah's Claims to Dominion over all Government" (Albany, 1832); " The Written Law" (1840); and many single sermons and addresses.--His son, James McLeod, clergyman, born near Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 17 November, 1809; died in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 31 August, 1866, was graduated at Union in 1829, licensed by a Reformed presbytery in 1834, and from that year till 1862 held a pastorate in Philadelphia, being elected professor in the Reformed Presbyterian theological seminary at Allegheny in 1859. From Westminster college, Pennsylvania, he received the degree of D.D. in 1865. He was chairman of the committee that published "True Psalmody" (Philadelphia, 1859), and edited the "Covenanter," a monthly, front 1845 till 1863, when it was consolidated with the "Reformed Presbyterian." of which he was co-editor till his death. Dr. Will-son published "The Deacon" (Philadelphia, 1841); "Bible Magistracy" (1842) ; "Civil Government " (1853); " Social Religious Covenanting" (1856); and " Witnessing" (1861).--James McLeod's son, David Butt, clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27 September, 1842, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1860 and at Jefferson medical college in 1863, serving in the medical corps of the United States army from that, date till 1865. He was then graduated at the Allegheny seminary in 1869, ordained as a Reformed Presbyterian, and was pastor in Allegheny from 1870 till 1875, when he was chosen to his present post in the seminary there as professor of theology. Besides publishing occasional addresses he edited an edition of "Lyman's Historical Chart" (Philadelphia, 1867), and since 1874 has been an editor of the "Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter" in Pittsburg.