John R. Paxton SWORD AND GOWN A MEMORIAL VOLUME 1st ed 1926, Civil War, Penna

  
A Memorial Volume: a Gift to His Friends, Issued by His Daughter, Mary Paxton Hamlin. Edited, with a Biography, by Calvin Dill Wilson. Author: PAXTON, John R[andolph]; Calvin Dill Wilson, ed Title: Sword and Gown. Illustrated Publication: New York: Knickerbocker Press (Privately Published), 1926 Edition: First Edition. Blue cloth hardcover; top edge gilt; x, 517pp; frontispiece and 16 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones).

Slightly shaken, with front hinge (interior) cracked at gutter but holding; occasional foxing to plate margins, faint old dampstain to extreme outer margin of final dozen leaves; Very Good. Paxton would leave his pastorate under a cloud in 1894, as his passionate sermons against the accumulation of wealth increasingly alienated his millionaire congregation - chief among them the financier Russell Sage, who is said to have engineered Paxton's ouster. Several of the offending sermons are collected here, as well as a substantial section devoted to Paxton's Civil War service in the 140th Pennsylvania Infantry, which he joined while still an undergraduate at Jefferson (now Washington & Jefferson) College.

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