Excerpt from Centennial General Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Professors and Alumni of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia: 1807-1907

General Catalogue of the Seminary, compiled by the late Rev. Prof. Benjamin M.Smith, D.D., was published in 1884. Deterred, perhaps, by the scantiness and confusion of the records in regard to the thirty or more students to whom he alludes as having attended the classes of Dr. Moses Hoge from 1812 to 1820, Dr. Smith attempted no sketches of these, but confined his work to the period beginning in 1824, when the Seminary was re-organized by Dr. John Holt Rice. In the present edition, which is based on Dr. Smiths and is more indebted to that, perhaps, than to all other sources, the attempt is made to give the names of all persons who have been connected with the Seminary from its foundation by the Synod of Virginia, in 1812, to the present time, whether as trustees or professors or students. Further, for the sake of completeness and because of the peculiar value of the labors of some of them to the church, we have even included five persons whose names we find in the classes taught by Dr. Hoge from 1807 to 1812, while the Seminary was still under the care of Hanover Presbytery, and before its formal adoption by the Synod. There were probably others in this earliest period whose names we cannot now recover, and the same thing, no doubt, is true of the period from 1812 to 1823.

Since the materials are so scanty and the dates of matriculation so uncertain, it has seemed best to group these forty-four earliest students under one heading, 1807-1823, instead of giving a separate numbered sketch of each, as in the case of all students matriculating after 1823.

Moreover, it is not certain that all of these forty-four first-named men were students in the Synods School of Theology. Some of them may have been merely candidates for the ministry in Hampden-Sidney College.

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