Henry Christopher McCook (1837-1911)

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Henry Christopher McCook is buried at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Henry Christopher McCook is buried at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Object and Outline Teaching: A Guide Book For Sunday-School Workers (1871)

The Teacher’s Commentary on the Gospel Narrative of the Last Year of Our Lord’s Ministry (1871)

Introduction to The Tercentenary Book (1873)

Mound-Making Ants of the Alleghenies (1877)

The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas (1879)

Historic Decorations at the Pan-Presbyterian Council: A Lithographic Souvenir (1880, 1884)

The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains (1881, 1882)

Tenants of an Old Farm: Leaves From the Note-Book of a Naturalist (1884, 1902)

The Women Friends of Jesus: A Course of Popular Lectures Based Upon the Lives and Characters of the Holy Women of Gospel History (1885, 1886)

The Gospel in Nature: A Series of Popular Discourses on Scripture Truths Derived from Nature (1887)

Notes on the Age and Habits of the American Tarantula (1888)

Descriptive Notes of New American Species of Orb-Weaving Spiders (1889)

A New Fossil Spider, Eoatypus Woodwardii (1889)

Nesting Habits of the American Purseweb Spider (1889)

American Spiders and Their Spinningwork: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States with Special Regard to Their Industry and Habits, Vol. 1 (1889)

Jonathan Edwards as a Naturalist (1890)

American Spiders and Their Spinningwork: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States With Special Regard to Their Industry and Habits, Vol. 2 (1890)

Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Opening of the New Lecture Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, February 22, 1892 (1892)

Introduction to Robert Shiells, The Story of the Token as Belonging to the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (1891, 1902)

American Spiders and Their Spinningwork: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States With Special Regard to Their Industry and Habits, Vol. 3 (1893)

Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign in Brownieland Against King Cobweaver’s Pixies (1895)

Scotch-Irish Women Pioneers (1896)

The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794 (1897, 1898)

The Martial Graves of Our Fallen Heroes in Santiago de Cuba (1899)

Some Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln: An Address (1901)

The Debt of the Present to the Past: Its Payment - Annual Address to the Presbyterian Historical Society (1901)

The Several Editions of the Constitution of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (1901)

The Progressive Development of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1901, 1902)

“To the Alleghenies”: The Atlantic States: The Motherland of Home Missions (1902)

The Senator: A Threnody (1905)

Nature’s Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects (1903, 1907)

Funeral Address for the Rev. David Steele (1907)

Records of Accomack County, Virginia, Relating to the Rev. Francis Makemie (1907)

The Story of the Makemie Monument (1908)

A Summary of the Evidence That the Traditional Place of Francis Makemie’s Burial is the True Site (1908)

Lincoln and His Veterans: A Centenary Ode (1909)

Ant Communities and How They are Governed: A Study in Natural Civics (1909)

Quaker Ben: A Tale of Colonial Pennsylvania in the Days of Thomas Penn (1911)

Prisca of Patmos: A Tale of the Days of St. John (1911)

This 4-part article appeared in the March, June, September and December 1907 issues of the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society.