Background
Purmort, Charles Hiram was born on March 22, 1847 in Kempville, Canada. Son of Minor and Perlena (Nettleton) Purmort.
Purmort, Charles Hiram was born on March 22, 1847 in Kempville, Canada. Son of Minor and Perlena (Nettleton) Purmort.
Student Otterbein U., Westerville, O., 1867-1870. Graduated from College of Wooster, 1875, Doctor of Divinity, 1898. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1878.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1879. Pastor Genesco, Illinois, 1879-1882. Home missionary, Mitchell, South Dakot, 1882-1885, Canton, 1885-1887.
Pastor 1st Church, Waterloo, Iowa, 1887-1899. Superintendent home missions, Presbyterian Church of Iowa, 1899-1916. Field secretary for Iowa, Board of Home Missions Presbyterian Church, 1917-1922.
President trustees Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Omaha, Nebraska. Trustee Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1899-1906. As superintendent of missions has organized 37 chs., dedicated 70 church buildings, directed in the settlement of more than 1,000 ministers, raised over $100,000 for church purposes, erected 6 church and missionary buildings Private 191st Ohio Volumes during latter part of Civil War.
Member G. Arkansas.
Married Mary Etta Elliott, of Pataskala, O., May 4, 1880. Children: Virgilia (deceased), Jean Crete, Margery (deceased), Minor La Doyt (deceased), Etta Claire, Charles Elliott.