Charles Hamilton Pridgeon

Background

Pridgeon, Charles Hamilton was born on June 7, 1863 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Johnson and Rebecca (McCreight) Pridgeon.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1886, Master of Arts, 1889. Student Princeton Theological Seminary, 1886-1887, 1888-1889, graduate 1889. Studied Free Church College and United Presbyterian Seminary, Edinburgh, Scotland, and University of Leipzig, 1887-1888, Worcester University, 1891-1892.

Career

Hamilton (deceased); married second, Emma Louise Hogg, April 2, 1930. Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1890. Pastor Canonsburg, 1890-1901.

Withdrew from Presbyterian Church, 1901.

Organizer and pastor Wylie Avenue Church of The Evangelization Society, since 1901, also founder and president Pittsburgh Bible Institute. General director Evangelization Society (made trip around world to determine location for foreign missions).

Founder and director an orphanage near Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. Founder and director missions in China, Africa, India, and churches and missions in the United States Editor: Record of Faith.

Home: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Achievements

• Charles Hamilton Pridgeon has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married F. Louise Shepard, December 4, 1900 (died 1928). Married second, Emma Louise Hogg, April.

Father:

Johnson Pridgeon

Mother:

Rebecca (McCreight) Pridgeon

Spouse:

F. Louise Shepard

Spouse:

Emma Louise Hogg