Power, James, Dd

Power, James, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1746. He graduated from Princeton College in 1766, was licensed to preach to the Presbytery of Newcastle June 24, 1772, and settled in the western part of Pennsylvania. In 1776 he became pastor of Mt. Pleasant congregation, and retained this position until 1817. He died August 5, 1830. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3:326.