Additional information can be found in Alfred Nevin, Encyclopaedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publishing Co, 1884) and Matthew Brown’s “Memoir”, in Joseph Smith, History of Jefferson College (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1857).
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Kennedy User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Kennedy's sermons and other discourses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the address was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Jesus is the Promised Messiah
John Herron Kennedy
This sermon, on Genesis 49:10, appeared in the March 1836 issue of the Pittsburgh-based Presbyterian Preacher. At the time of its publication, Kennedy was a professor of mathematics at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (now Washington & Jefferson College in Washington).
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Sympathy, its Foundation and Legitimate Exercise Considered, in Special Relation to Africa: A Discourse Delivered on the Fourth of July 1828, in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
John Herron Kennedy
Kennedy was affiliated with the American Colonization Society, which was “formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States.” This sermon was apparently preached on its behalf; as he says near the end of the discourse, “In whatever light therefore we contemplate this Society either in relation to Africa, to the People of color already Free, or in relation to Domestic slavery, it merits our prayers and our patronage” (p. 10).
