Background
Plyler, Alva Washington was born on September 14, 1867 in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Conrad and Mary Lunda (Kimball) Plyler.
Plyler, Alva Washington was born on September 14, 1867 in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Conrad and Mary Lunda (Kimball) Plyler.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College (now Duke U.), Durham, North Carolina. Graduate study University of Chicago, 1909. Doctor of Divinity, Asbury College, 1932.
Doctor of Divinity, Duke U., 1937.
Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892. Pastor successively Hot Springs, Pineville, Winston, Waxhaw, Asheboro and Weaverville (all of North Carolina) until 1904. Presiding elder Asheville district, 1905-1907, Salisbury district, 1908.
Pastor Trinity Church, Charlotte, 1910-1911, First Church, Lexington, 1912-1915, Wadesboro, 1916-1917, Centenary Church, Greensboro, 1918-1920. Presiding elder, Greensboro district, 1921. Editor North Carolina Christian Advocate, 1921-1945.
Member; member Joint Board of Sesquicentennial Celebration of America Methodism. Member of 6 General Confs. Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Member 6th Ecumenical Conference, Atlanta, Georgia., 1931, Uniting Conference, Kansas City, 1939. Trustee Methodist Assembly, Brevard College. Member Southern Methodist Press.
Association (president), Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Associates. Club: Varsity (Duke U.).
Married Grace Davis Barnhardt, July 20, 1911. Children: Mary Barnhardt (deceased), Helen Davidson.