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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School) (Corporate Name)

Preferred form: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School)

Hall, R. E. Amer. Presb. churches, a genealogy, 1706-1982, 1982: p. 101-103 (Presbyterian Church in the USA divided into Old School and New School (over doctrine & practical operation) in 1837; Presbyterian Church in the USA (Old School) and Presbyterian Church in the USA (New School) org. 1838; reunited in 1869 to form one Presbyterian Church in the USA in 1870) [info. from MnHi]

Mead, F. S. Handb. of denominations, c1980: p. 209 (In 1837, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. was split in two between New School and Old School; Old School and New School bodies, holding separate assemblies since 1837, united in 1870)

Drury, C.M. Presbyterian panorama, c1952: p. 67, etc. (American Home Missionary, although interdenominational in character, was recognized for about ten years by the Presbyterian Gen. Assembly as a semiofficial agency of the Church; after the division of 1837 the New School churches continued to carry own their home missionary work for a number of years through the American Home Missionary Society)

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