William Taggart

William Taggart

a Presbyterian divine, was born in 1783, educated privately, graduated at the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church, New York, in 1813; was licensed to preach by the Monongahela Associate Reformed Presbytery in the same year, and ordained by the same presbytery and installed pastor of the united congregations Ῥ at Upper Wheeling and Cadiz in 1814, where he continued to labor until old age. He died Sept. 11, 1865. Dr. Taggart was a man of strong thought." His moral and intellectual attributes were perhaps rarely, if ever, excelled." See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 279.