Background
Mcgiffert, Arthur Cushman was born on March 4, 1861 in Sauquoit, New York, United States. Son of Review Joseph Nelson and Harriet Whiting (Cushman) M.
Mcgiffert, Arthur Cushman was born on March 4, 1861 in Sauquoit, New York, United States. Son of Review Joseph Nelson and Harriet Whiting (Cushman) M.
Bachelor of Arts, Western Reserve, 1882, A.M., 1885. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1885. Student of University of Berlin, 1885-1886.
University of Marburg, 1886-1887. France and Italy, 1887-1888. Doctor of Philosophy, Marburg, 1888.
Doctor of Divinity, Western Reserve, 1892, Harvard, 1906, Presbyterian College, Halifax, 1920, St. Andrews, 1922. Doctor of Laws, Gettysburg, 1917, Queen’s U., Kingston, 1919.
Wife of Review Dwight F. Mowery). Married second, Gertrude Huntington Boyce, November 12, 1891. Children—Arthur Cushman, Katharine Wolcott (Mistress John K. Wright).
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1888. Became Congregationalist, 1899. Instructor and professor church history, Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, 1888-1893.
Professor church history, 1893-1927 (emeritus), and president, 1917-1926, Union Theological Seminary. Author: Translation of Eusebius’ Church History (with prolegomena and notes), 1890. A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age, 1897.
The Apostles’ Creed, 1902. The Christian Point of View (with Francis Brown and G. W. Knox), 1902. Protestant Thought Before Kant, 1911.
Martin Luther, the Man and His Work, 1911. The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas, 1915. The God of the Early Christians, 1924.
A History of Christian Thought, volunteer 1, 1931, volunteer 2, 1932. Address: Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, New York.
Married Eliza Isabelle King, June 9, 1885 (died 1887).; married second, Gertrude Huntington Boyce, November 12, 1891. Children: Arthur Cushman, Katharine Wolcott (Mistress John K. Wright).