MONFORT, FRANCIS CASSATTE: 1844-?
Francis Cassatte Monfort , son of Joseph Glass and Hannah Congar Riggs Monfort, was born in Greensburg, Ind., on Sept. 1, 1844, and graduated from" Wabash College in 1864, receiving the A.M. degree in 1867. He studied theology at McCormick Theological Seminary and Lane Theological Seminary and in Europe. In 1883 he received the D.D. degree from the University of Wooster. He married Anna Louisa Hubbard on May 17, 1871.
Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1870, he served as pastor of a church in Cincinnati but resigned in 1873 to become editor of his father's journal, THE HERALD AND PRESBYTER. In 1879 he resumed his ministerial work in Cincinnati, at the same time continuing his editorship.
Information from Who's Who in America and Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV.
- Sermons for Silent Sabbaths: an Offering to Christian
Families and Vacant Churches. Cincinnati. 1884.
- Socialism and City Evangelization. 1887.
- The Law of Appeals. 1893.
- Ecclesiastical Discipline. 1900.
- Applied Theology. Cincinnati,
1904.
