WEST, Nathaniel, clergyman, born in Ulster, Ireland, in September, 1794; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 September, 1864. He studied theology in Edinburgh, Scotland, was ordained in 1820, labored there for several years as a missionary, and was one of the founders of the first temperance society in that city. He came to this country in 1834, was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Meadville, Pennsylvania, 11 May, 1836, and after 1838 was pastor successively of churches in Monroe, Michigan, and Northeast, Pittsburg, McKeesport, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In 1853 he received the degree of D. D. from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, and he was elected a corresponding member of numerous literary and scientific societies. At the opening of the civil war he resigned his pastoral charge in Philadelphia, and in May, 1862, was appointed chaplain of the Satterlee United States general hospital at West Philadelphia, one of the largest military hospitals in the country, where he served till his death. He published "The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation" (Pittsburg, 1850) ; "Popery the Prop of European Despotisms" (1852) ; " The Fugitive-Slave Law" {1852) ; "Babylon the Great " (1882); "Right- and Left-Hand Blessings of God" (Philadelphia, 1852) ; " Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, containing the Whole of the New and Old Testaments" (New York, 1853); "The Overturning of Tyrannical Governments," a sermon preached before Louis Kossuth when he was in the United States, which, by his order and at his expense, was translated and published in Magyar; " Lecture on the Causes of the Ruin of Republican Liberty in the Ancient Roman Republic" (Philadelphia, 1861); and "History of the United States Army General Hospital, West Philadelphia" (1863).