Mccartney, John B

McCartney, John B.

a Presbyterian minister, was born near Apollo, Armstrong Co., Pa., June 22, 1835; graduated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa.; and in 1855, at the Western Theological Seminary, Alleghany, Pa.; was licensed in 1857, and in 1858 was ordained and installed pastor of the churches at Mount Washington and Temperanceville, in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pa. In 1864 he accepted a call from the Twelfth Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md., and was installed its pastor May 2,1865, where he labored until he died, May 14, 1865. Mr. McCartney was a man of superior abilities, a close student, and an excellent scholar. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 136.