This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: seekerJay Surnames: Cuthbertson, Buchanan, Junkin, Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.cuthbertson/25.26.30.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: From: "[email protected]" I think the original diary is held by the library of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Presbyterian USA). ------------------------------------------ I went over the Introduction more carefully. You are right, of course. In addition, there are a number of copies: ". . .The book itself is four and one-half inches long by three and one-half inches broad, and a little over an inch thick. It is bound in soft, brown vellum. His hand-writing is wonderfully clear and the book well preserved, showing disintegration only where bound to the cover. (See page xvii.) In tracing its history [. . .] the Diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson passed into the hands of Mrs. Rebecca Buchanan Junkin, their Grandmother, because of her descent from representative families in his Societies. This was left, it is believed, at one of their homes, where he was thought to have died. Mrs. Junkin suffered a fractured leg in her old age, and while confined to her room made a copy of the Diary, contained in two large volumes. Thereafter, in 1896, Dr. Joseph Buchanan, a cousin of Mrs. Sinclair, thought it wise to place the Diary in the then Allegheny, Pa., Theological Seminary for safe keeping. Dr. Wm. M. Glasgow states in his Church History, published in 1888, that he had the loan of the original Diary from Mrs. Junkin. Revs. A. S. Aiken and J. N. Adair gathered vital statistics from it for their sketch of Rev. John Cuthbertson, published in 1878. Whether these gentlemen also made copies of it is not known, but it would have been difficult for them to have accompl! ished what they did without doing so. Mss. copies of the original Diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson are to be found in several places: The earliest one of record is that made by Mrs. Junkin, and now in Steubenville, Ohio. One was made in 1914 by William H. McNaugher, son of the President of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (formerly the Allegheny Theological Seminary, and now (1933) the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary). A carbon copy of this is retained in the Seminary, as is also a transcription of it by the writer. From these other copies have been made. One is in the Library of the State Historical Society at Harrisburg, Pa., and one, with complete index by the writer, in the Library of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D. C. One was presented to the Library of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., by Mr. Albert L. Hood of that city, on September 8, 1914, apparently the original of the copy in the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. A! Mr. Nilson, deceased, of Chambersburg, Pa., had copies typed some years ago, and the one at Harrisburg is believed to be from one of his copies." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>