Abel Mciver Fraser

Background

Fraser, Abel Mciver was born on June 14, 1856 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Boone and Sarah Margaret (McIver) Fraser.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1876. Graduate Columbia (South Carolina.) Theological Seminary, 1880. Doctor of Divinity, Davidson, and Central University of Kentucky, 1896.

Doctor of Laws, Hampden-Sydney College, 1921.

Career

Freeman H. Hart). Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1881. Pastor successively Mount Horeb Church, Fayette Company, Kentucky, Walnut Hill and Bethel, same county, until 1893, First Church, Staunton, Virginia, 1893-1929 (emeritus). President Mary Baldwin College, 1923-1929.

Elected president Columbia Theological Seminary 3 times (declined).

Moderator Synod of Virginia, 1903, General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1919. Chairman Committee of Presbyterian Church in the United States on Closer Relations with Other Churches, 1919-1922.

Chairman of Conference of Committees of Presbyterian Churches on Closer Relations, 1919-1922.

Achievements

• Abel Mciver Fraser has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Octavia Blanding, July 14, 1881. Children: Nora Blanding (deceased), Margaret McIver, Thomas Boone (deceased), Douglas de Saussure, Abel McIver (deceased), Jean Blanding (wife of Professor.

Father:

Thomas Boone Fraser

Mother:

Sarah Margaret (McIver) Fraser

Spouse:

Octavia Blanding

child:

Douglas de Saussure Fraser

child:

Nora Blanding Fraser (deceased)

child:

Thomas Boone Fraser (deceased)

child:

Abel McIver Fraser (deceased)

child:

Jean Blanding (wife of Professor Fraser

child:

Margaret McIver Fraser