Content Summary: Arrangement and description of this collection is nearing completion. Partial listings of the folder contents will appear here, but are subject to relocation as processing continues and as sub-groups in the collection are more firmly established.
| Span dates: 1923-2017 |
Size: 24.0 cu. ft. (26 cartons) |
Access: We expect this collection to be open to researchers by April or May of 2025.
Preferred citation: Morton Howison Smith Manuscript Collection, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, Missouri.
Related Collections: Presbyterian Church in America; Stated Clerk's Office (PCA); Reformed Theological Seminary; Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. |
 Rev. Dr. Morton Howison Smith
[11 December 1923 – 12 November 2017]
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Biographical sketch—
Born: Roanoke, VA, 11 December 1923.
Father: James Brookes Smith; mother: Margaret Morton Howison.
Wife: Lois Virginia Knopf, Ann Arbor, MI, 30 June 1944.
Education:
• University of North Carolina, 1945.
• University of Michigan, 1947, Bachelor of Arts.
• Westminster Theological Seminary, 1950-1951.
• Columbia Theological Seminary, 1951-1952, Bachelor of Divinity.
• Free University of Amsterdam, 1962, Th.D.
Ministry:
• Licensed, 17 January 1954 and ordained, 31 January 1954, Potomac Presbytery.
• Pastor, Springfield & Roller churches, Sykesville, MD, 1954.
• Professor, Belhaven College, 1954-1963.
• Visiting lecturer/professor, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1963-1964.
• Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS, 1964-1979.
• Stated Clerk, Presbyterian Church in America, 1973-1988.
• Professor & Dean, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Taylors, SC, 1987-2017.
Died, 12 November 2017.
This collection has been arranged in the following subgroups:
• Biographical
• Writings
• Sermons
• Schools where Dr. Smith served as professor.
• Correspondence
• James Erskine Moore Correspondence (mentor and close friend)
• Organizations (by correspondence and close association)
• Organizations (largely informational): (1.) Parachurch; (2.) Ecumenical; (3.) Reformed; (4.) Schools; (5.) Churches.
• Articles by others
• Subject Files
Links to the finding aids in this collection:
176.1 — Biographical, including materials from his years of graduate education.
176.2 — Sermons, sermon notes, and Writings by Dr. Smith
176.3 — Published works of Dr. Smith
176.4
— Lectures on the Westminster Confession of Faith
177.1 — Correspondence, A—E
177.2 — Correspondence, F—L
177.3 — Correspondence, M—R
178.1 — Correspondence, S—Z
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178.3 —
179.1 —
179.2 —
179.3 —
180.1 — Reformed Theological Seminary, documents specific to Dr. Smith’s efforts towards the formation of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, 1956-1964, and his time as professor there, 1964-1979.
180.2 — Reformed Theological Seminary, Faculty Minutes, 1964-1979, Executive Committee Minutes, 1964-1976, and Minutes of the Board of Trustee, 1964-1976.
180.3 — Materials pertaining to other schools where Dr. Smith served as professor: Belhaven College, Westminster Theological Seminary and Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
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181.2 —
181.3 —
182.1 —
182.2 —
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183.1 —
183.2 —
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183.5 —
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