1840
George D.
McLean - On the class rolls of Cumberland College in Princeton,
Kentucky
["Treasurer's Book,"
1826-1848, typescript]
1841
George D.
McLean - On the class rolls of Cumberland College in Princeton,
Kentucky
["Treasurer's Book,"
1826-1848, typescript]
1851
G. D. McClean
[sic]
Commissioner to General Assembly - from Princeton
Presbytery
May 1851 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chairman of the Committee on the State of Religion
Chairman of the Committee on Synodical Records of Hernando Synod
Chairman of Special Committee to examine and report on the Minutes of Brazos Synod
The following preamble and resolution was offered by Brother
McLean, and passed by this Assembly:
Whereas, The
last General Assembly fixed the salary of its Stated Clerk at
one hundred dollars per annum;
Resolved,
That the Assembly's Treasurer by authorized to pay out of the
contingent fund, said sum, together with the expenses incident
to that office.
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1851, pages 1, 8, 9, 12, 21, 23, 25, 32
1853
George D.
McLean, President of the Trustees of the General Assembly
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1853, page
48]
1854
G. D. McLean,
President of the Board of Trustees of the General Assembly
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1854, page
76]
1854
The
Board adjourned, to meet at 6 o'clock, P.M., at the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.
Six o'clock,
P.M., the Board of Directory met according to adjournment.
According to appointment, a large
collection of citizens of Princeton and its vicinity assembled
at the Church, and the throne of grace being appropriately addressed
by Rev. A. J. Baird, Dr. Beard delivered his valedictory address
to the students of
Cumberland
College, and the Board of Directory, and also to the citizens
at large.
Rev. A. J. Baird was
now regularly installed as President of Cumberland College, and
afterwards being introduced to the
audience by the President pro tem. of the Board, he delivered
his inaugural address.
The public
exercises being now over, on motion of Rev. George D. McLean,
the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
'Resolved, That the
thanks of this Board are due, and are hereby tendered, to the
retiring President, Dr. Richard Beard, for
his faithful services for a series of years as President of this
institution, and of this Board.
Resolved,
That this Board yield reluctantly to the necessity which is laid
upon them, of parting with an officer of the institution
who has done so much for the promotion of its interests, and for
the cause of education in our midst.
Resolved,
That the sympathies and best wishes of this Board will accompany
our esteemed late President wheresoever his lot
may be cast, and into whatsoever field of usefulness he may be
called to labor.'
J. H. RACKERBY, Sec'y."
[Source: Records of the Board of Directory
of Cumberland College in: Beard, Richard. "Sources and Sketches
of Cumberland Presbyterian History. No. V." The Theological
Medium. A Cumberland Presbyterian Quarterly. April 1876, pages
166-167]
1855
Vacancies
have occurred in the Board by the death of Revs. G. W. [sic] McLean
and Silas
N. Davis, which it will be proper to fill, and they recommend
to your favorable notice the Revs. Milton
Bird and Azel
Freeman as proper persons to fill said vacancies.
[Source: "Report From Board of
Trustees of the Church, at Princeton, Ky." Minutes of
the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1855, page 45]