David Bittle Floyd

Background

Floyd, David Bittle was born on March 15, 1846 in Middletown, Maryland, United States. Son of Hezekiah and Lydia (Bittle) Floyd.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, 1872 (2d honor), Master of Arts, 1879. Medical department University of Michigan, 1866-1867. Student Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, New York, 1872-1873.

Graduate Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1876.

(Doctor of Divinity, Roanoke College and Susquehanna University, 1906). Studied Bible history in Greece, Palestine and Egypt, 1910.

Career

Ordained Evangelical Lutheran ministry, 1876. Pastor Uniontown, Maryland., 1876-1882, Boonsboro, 1882-1885, Newville, Pennsylvania, 1885-1899, Funkstown, Maryland., 1900-1904, Washington, District of Columbia, 1905. Professor Hebrew and Greek languages, Biblical criticism, Christian ethics and church polity, Susquehanna University, since 1905.

Achievements

• David Bittle Floyd has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as corporal, sergeant and Lieutenant, Company I, 75th Indiana Regiment Volumes, Civil War, 1862-1865. Member Committee on 100th Anniversary Lutheran General Synod. Member Examination Committee Maryland.

Connections

Married Mary Elizabeth Cutting, February 15, 1877.

Father:

Hezekiah Floyd

Mother:

Lydia (Bittle) Floyd

Spouse:

Mary Elizabeth Cutting