Excerpt from Our Presbyterian Educational Institutions
Dr. Shearer was born in 1832 in Appommattox County, Virginia. He was prepared for college at Union Academy, graduated with degree of A. B. at Hampden Sidney College in 1851. He later took the A. M. degree at his Alma Mater and also at the University of Virginia. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1858. From 1858 to 1862 he was pastor of Chapel Hill Church, N. C. He founded Cluster Springs High School, was President of Stewart College - now Southwestern Presbyterian University - from 1870 to 1879. Then Professor of History and English Literature until 1882, when the Theological Department was organized and he became professor of Biblical Instruction. In 1888 he was made President of Davidson College and Professor of Biblical Instruction, which position he held until 1902, when he was made Vice President and Professor of Biblical Literature in the same institution.
Dr. Shearer placed the Bible in the rank of earnest studies, wrote a number of text books for Bible study, helped to organize a number of educational institutions in our church, gave liberally of his time and energy and means to keep other institutions alive, and possibly did more than any other man to hold the church to true ideals and earnest purpose concerning Church and Christian Education.
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