Douglas Horton

Background

Horton, Douglas was born on July 27, 1891 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Byron and Elizabeth Swaim (Douglas) Horton.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1912. Graduate study New College, Edinburgh, Scotland, Mansfield College, Oxford, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 1912-1913. Bachelor of Divinity, Hartford (Connecticut) Theological Seminary, 1915.

Doctor of Divinity, Lawrence College, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1931, Princeton University, 1941, Dartmouth College, 1957, Colgate University, 1958.

Doctor of Letters, Marietta College, 1942. Doctor of Laws, Beloit College, 1953.

Master of Arts, Harvard, 1955, South.T.D., 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rollins College, 1959, Ursinus College, 1960.

Doctor of Laws, Merrimack College, 1966.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Saint Michael’s College, 1965, South.E. Mass Technology Institute, 1966.

Career

Ordained to the ministry Congregational Church, 1915. Assistant minister 1st Church of Christ, Middletown, Connecticut, 1915-1916, minister, 1916-1925. Minister Leyden Congressional Church, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1925-1931.

Minister United Church of Hyde Park, Chicago, 1931-1938.

Minister of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches, 1938-1955. Professor practical theology, Newton Theological Institution, 1930-1931.

Lecturer in practical theology, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1933-1938. Lecturer in Congregational polity.

Union Theological Seminary 1943-1955.

Dean Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, 1955-1959. Lecturer United Church polity, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1961.

Achievements

• Douglas Horton has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as chaplain, United States Navy, 1918-1919. Chairman of commission faith and order World Council Churches, 1957-1963. Member board of trustees Princeton University.

Member Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Carol Scudder Williams, May 9, 1916 (died 1944). Married second, Mildred Helen McAfee, August 10, 1945. Children: Margaret Huntington (Mistress Robert McQueen Grant), Alan Williams, Alice May (Mistress Norris Lowell Tibbetts, Junior.

Father:

Byron Horton

Mother:

Elizabeth Swaim (Douglas) Horton

Spouse:

Mildred Helen McAfee

Spouse:

Carol Scudder Williams

child:

Alan Williams Horton

child:

Junior Horton

child:

Alice May (Mistress Norris Lowell Tibbetts Horton

child:

Margaret Huntington Horton (Mistress Robert McQueen Grant)