Bertrand Martin Tipple

Background

Tipple, Bertrand Martin was born on December 1, 1868 in Camden, New York, United States. Son of Martin and Sarah Elizabeth (Squier) Tipple.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1894, Doctor of Divinity, 1904. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1897.

Career

Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, 1897. Pastor Epworth Church, New Haven, Connecticut, 1897-1900. Embury Memorial Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1900-1906.

First Church, Stamford, Connecticut, 1906-1909.

Transferred to Rome, Italy, 1909, as pastor of America Methodist Episcopal Church. President Reeder Theological Seminary, Rome, 1910-1923.

Founder and president Collegio Internazionale di Monte Mario, 1911-1924, Lecture trips, 1910-1924, in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany. Delaware to World Convention of Young Men's Christian Association, Robert College, Constantinople, 1911.

Delegate to Ecumenical Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1913.

Maintained social service rooms in Methodist Building, Rome, for British and American soldiers and sailors during World War I. During college years was correspondent for the New York Tribune and the Mail and Express, and for the Post-Standard of Sryacuse. Correspondent-at-large in Europe and North Africa for The Christian Science Monitor, 1912-1924, archaeological and miscellaneous research work in Samaria, Jerusalem, Patmos and Mount Athos, 1933. Travel, lecturing and writing since 1934.

Associate with American Archaeological

Expedition, Van, Turkey, 1938-1940.

Achievements

• Bertrand Martin Tipple has been listed as a notable writer, lecturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church 1916, 1920. Received at Italian Court in 1910, and knighted by Victor Emmanuel III, 1915. Commander Order of Crown of Italy, 1920.

Member Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa.

Mason (33 degree of Italy).

Connections

Married Jane Baldwin Downs, June 2, 1897. Children: Silva, Elizabeth, Bertrand Squier, Marion.

Father:

Martin Tipple

Mother:

Sarah Elizabeth (Squier) Tipple

Spouse:

Jane Baldwin Downs

child:

Bertrand Squier Tipple

child:

Silva Tipple

child:

Elizabeth Tipple

child:

Marion Tipple