Background
Lilly, David Clay was born on September 17, 1870 in Irvine, Kentucky, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Catherine (Tracy) Lilly.
Lilly, David Clay was born on September 17, 1870 in Irvine, Kentucky, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Catherine (Tracy) Lilly.
Bachelor of Arts, Central University of Kentucky, Richmond, Kentucky, 1890. Doctor of Divinity, 1900. Student Union Theological Seminary, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, 1892-1893.
Edinburg University, 1903.
Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1894. Pastor successively Frankfort, Kentucky, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, First Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Grace Street Church, Richmond, Virginia, again at Winston-Salem, First Church, Lexington, Kentucky, until 1924, Reynolds Church, Winston-Salem, since 1923. Has held various church offices, among them: secretary General Assembly’s Executive Committee of colored evangelization, 1898-1903.
Special representative Foreign Mission Committee, 1907-1910.
Member Executive Committee Foreign Missions, 1908-1910, 1924-1927. Member Committee of Publication and South.S. Work, 1911-1913.
Field secretary International Laymen’s Missionary Movement, 1913-1916. Chairman General Assembly’s committee of stewardship, 1920-1924.
Organizer, 1923, and chairman Reynolda Conferences for the study of present day problems of Christianity.
Moderator General Assembly of Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1937. Trustee Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Peace Institute, Raleigh.
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Married Mary Doctorate. Guerrant, September 3, 1891. Children: Mary Catherine (deceased), Grace Guerrant, Henry Tracy, Edward Guerrant, Anne Elizabeth.