Background
Shute, Abraham Lincoln was born on February 15, 1865 in Braman’s Corners, Schenectady County, New York, United States. Son of Lewis Parkes and Lucinda (Foote) Shute.
Shute, Abraham Lincoln was born on February 15, 1865 in Braman’s Corners, Schenectady County, New York, United States. Son of Lewis Parkes and Lucinda (Foote) Shute.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1887, Master of Arts, 1890. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1890. Studied Illinois Wesleyan, University of Chicago.
Doctor of Divinity, Fargo, 1913.
American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, summer session, 1925. Doctor of Theology summa cum laude, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1927.
Now deceased), Zelma Luella, Harold James (now deceased), Olin Yates, Clarence William. Married second, Laura Belle Ward, 1914. Began in Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1885.
Pastor in Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin and North Dakota over 30 years.
Chaplain North Dakota House of Representatives, 1911. Centenary stewardship lecturer, financial agent, evangelist, 1919-1920.
Near East lecturer and organizer in North Dakota, 1920-1921. Pastor Thoburn Church, Calcutta, 1921-1922.
Professor of English Bible and systematic theology, Bareilly Seminary, India, 1922-1923.
Founder, organizer, first principal India Methodist Theological College, Jabalpur, C.P., India (now Leonard Theological College), 1923-1925. World tour of missionary and archeological investigation, including Ur, Babylon, Kish, Birs Nimrud, Palestine, Egypt, 1921-1925. Biblical research and burn Church, Calcutta, 1921-1922.
Principal and Professor of English Bible and systematic theology, India Methodist Theological College, Bareilly, India, 1922-1923, and Jabalpur, C.P., India, 1923-1925, now known as Leonard Theological College.
World tour of missionary and archeological investigation, including Ur, Babylon, Kish, Birs Nimrud, Palestine and Egypt, 1921-1925. Biblical research and literature work, South. Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1926-1927.
Head of department of Bible and theology, Taylor University, 1929-1934.
Member of executive board World’s Purity Federal, 1913-1921. Member Palestine Oriental Society, National Association of Biblical Instructors, Pi Gamma Museum.
Married Nellie Haney, 1887. Married second, Laura Belle Ward, 1914. Children: Lewis Haney (now deceased), Vivian Lizzie (Mistress George Barney Thompson.