Charles William Sommerville

Background

Sommerville, Charles William was born on May 22, 1867 in White Post, Clarke County, Virginia, United States. Son of William (Doctor of Medicine and Maria Louisa (Aby) S.

Education

Preparatory education, Front Royal High School. Bachelor of Arts, 2d honor, Hampden-Sidney College, 1890, Bachelor of Science, 1890, A.M., 1896. Diploma, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 1895.

Post-graduate study, Kentucky Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Tbeol. Seminary, University of Chicago. Toured Europe, 1902, 06.

Career

5 step-children. Began teaching, 1885. Assistant professor Latin and German, Hampden-Sidney College, 1891-1896. Licensed ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1895.

Pastor successively Church of the Covenant, Baltimore, Maryland., St. Albans, West Virginia, Crescent Hill (Louisville), Kentucky, until 1910. Professor Hebrew and New Testament Greek, Southwestern Presbyterian U., 1910-1915. Pastor Westminster Church, Memphis, Tennessee, 1915-1925.

Professor of English Bible and religious education, Queens (now Queens-Chicora) College, Charlotte, North Carolina, since 1925. Young Men’s Christian Association camp religious director United States Marines, Parris Island, South Carolina., July-December 1918.

Connections

Married Kate Nelson Gregory-Dabney, August 4, 1892 (died 1936).

Father:

William Sommerville

Spouse:

Kate Nelson Gregory-Dabney