Additional information can be found in McConaughy’s Wikipedia page; a biographical sketch on the website of the Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections; and Volume 4 of William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit (New York, Robert Carter & Brothers, 1858).
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McConaughy 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 McConaughy's sermons and addresses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the discourse was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Address Delivered to the Graduates of Washington College at the Annual Commencement, September 26th, 1832
David McConaughy
This is the first commencement address McConaughy delivered as president of Washington College. It is not a sermon, but it is included in the Library to help demonstrate the full range of McConaughy's oratory.
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Christ, “The Lord Our Righteousness”
David McConaughy
This sermon, on Galatians 2:21, was published in the September 1833 issue of the Presbyterian Preacher. At the time of its publication, McConaughy was president of Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania (now Washington & Jefferson College).
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Discourses, Chiefly Biographical, of Persons Eminent in Sacred History
David McConaughy
The 20 sermons in this collection address such biblical figures as Abel, Abraham, Adam, Enoch, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Nathaniel, Noah, and Simeon. McConaughy wrote that they “are respectfully presented to the Christian community, in hope that they may be, in some measure, useful in illustrating the doctrines and duties of our common faith and responsibility.”
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Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy
David McConaughy
This sermon, on Jeremiah 17:27, was published in the October 1835 issue of the Presbyterian Preacher. At the time of its publication, McConaughy was president of Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania (now Washington & Jefferson College).
