Background
Magary, Alvin Edwin was born on July 12, 1879 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Albert and Frances (Fisher) Magary.
Magary, Alvin Edwin was born on July 12, 1879 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Albert and Frances (Fisher) Magary.
Graduate San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1903. Graduate Auburn Theological Seminary, 1905. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1909.
Doctor of Divinity, Coe College, 1918.
Student pastor Belvedere, California, 1902-1904. Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1905. Pastor successively Oswego, Moosic, Pennsylvania, Trinity Church, South. Orange, New Jersey, and First Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to 1925, Woodward Avenue Church, Detroit, 1925-1930, Lafayette Avenue.
Mason.
Married Edna Horton, February 12, 1907 (died 1935). Married second, Marion Janet Clayton, June 21, 1938. Children: Alva Virginia (Mistress William P. Benson), Louise, Alan.