Background
Haeussler, Armin was born on May 24, 1891 in at Lewiston, Minnesota, United States. Son of Review Carl Herman and Elizabeth Catherine (Scherer) Haeussler.
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Armin Haeussler
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Graduate Elmhurst Junior College, 1910. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Elmhurst College, 1946. Graduate Eden Theological Seminary, 1913.
Studied Ellsworth College Conservatory of Music. Bachelor of Arts, Manchester College, 1923. Bachelor of Divinity, Yale, 1926.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Evansville (Indiana) College, 1955.
Career
Ordained in Evangelical Synod of N. American, 1913. Pastorates at Alden, Iowa, Royal Oak, Michigan, Wabash, Indiana, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, and Evansville, Indiana (St. Lucas Church 1934-1958. Assistant minister Glenview Community Church, 1958-1961.
Assistant minister Central Church, Chicago, 1961-1963. Minister at large N.E. Illinois Association Conference of United Church of Christ, since 1963. President Union Lyceum, Alden, Iowa, 1915-1916.
Assistant auditor Southern Equipment Company, San Antonio, Texas, 1920. History teacher Wabash (Indiana) High School, 1923-1925. MoCauley Lecturer Lancaster Theological Seminary, 1957.
Director Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Marshalltown, Iowa, 1913-1917, Detroit Council Churches, 1930-1934, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Detroit, 1932-1934, Protestant Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, 1934-1958, Elmhurst College, 1937-1957, Vanderburgh County (Indiana) Tuberculosis Association, 1935-1942, Evansville Council of Churches, 1941-1946, Evansville Community Fund, 1941-1942. Evansville chapter American Red Cross, 1942. Teacher of courses in comparative religion and other subjects under various denominational and interdenominational auspices.
Instructor in department of philosophy and religion, Evansville College, 1942-1943. Member Executive Committee Detroit Council of Religious Education, 1927-1934. Chairman of Commission which founded Evansville Council of Churches, 1938.
Member committee for new hymnal Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1935-1941. Member of commission higher education Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1950-1960, commission on liturgics, 1950-1953. Chairman National Hymnic Verse Contest, 1937.
Vice president Indiana State Pastor’s Conference, 1940-1941. President Evansville Ministers’ Association, 1941-1942. Member Board for Homeland Ministries of United Church of Christ, division higher education, since 1957.
Speaker at first international and interfaith conference on hymnody (13 nations) Luedenscheid, Germany, 1959, helped organize International.
Membership
Member Executive Committee Detroit Council of Religious Education, 1927-1934. Member committee for new hymnal Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1935-1941. Member of commission higher education Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1950-1960, commission on liturgics, 1950-1953.
Chairman National Hymnic Verse Contest, 1937. Member Board for Homeland Ministries of United Church of Christ, division higher education, since 1957.
Connections
Married Margaret Davis, 1926. Children: John Scott, Ann Elizabeth.
