Murdoch of Buckhorn
Harvey Short Murdoch, 1871-1935, came from Brooklyn, N.Y. and, as Field Secretary of E. O. Guerrant’s
Society of Soul Winners founded Witherspoon College, 1902. Became Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency.
Log Cathedral built 1907. Murdoch was pastor until his death. “To Buckhorn and Eastern Kentucky he
brought a love for baseball, for education and for God.”
Marker is at the intersection of Kentucky Route 29 and Buckhorn Lane, on the left when traveling east on State Route 29.
Courtesy hmdb.org
