author
S. E. (Samuel Ellis) Wishard
1825–1915
A Presbyterian minister and writer from Indiana, he turned years of church work into books on religion, local history, and public debate. His best-known titles show a practical, argumentative style shaped by the concerns of late 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant life.
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The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism
by S. E. (Samuel Ellis) Wishard
About the author
Born in Johnson County, Indiana, in 1825, Samuel Ellis Wishard studied at Wabash College, graduating in 1853, and then attended Lane Theological Seminary, where he completed his training in 1856. Contemporary and genealogical sources describe him as a prominent Presbyterian minister, and he died in Los Angeles in 1915.
Wishard wrote under the name S. E. Wishard and published works tied closely to his ministry and public interests. Surviving bibliographic records link him to titles including In memoriam, Rev. Frederick R. Gallaher (1870), History of the half century celebration of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, Indiana (1874), The Mormons (1904), and The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism.
His books suggest a writer who was less interested in literary display than in persuasion, remembrance, and religious instruction. That makes his work a useful window into the concerns of American Protestant life in his era, especially in the Midwest and in church debates of the period.