Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/McGarvey, John William

McGARVEY, John William, theologian, b. in Hopkinsville, Ky., 1 March, 1829. He was graduated at Bethany college, Va., in 1850, became a minister of the Christian denomination, and preached at Fayette, Mo., in 1851-'3, then at Dover, Mo., till 1862, and from 1862 till 1881 at Lexington, Ky. Since 1865 he has been professor of sacred history in the College of the Bible, Kentucky university. From 1869 till 1876 he edited the "Apostolic Times." He is the author of a "Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles" (Cincinnati, 1863); "Commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark" (1876); "Lands of the Bible" (Philadelphia, 1880); and "The Text and the Canon," consisting of the first two parts of a work on the evidences of Christianity (Cincinnati, 1886).