Edgar Dewitt Jones

Background

Jones, Edgar Dewitt was born on December 5, 1876 in Hearne, Texas, United States. Son of DeWitt Clinton and Mary Virginia (Rumble) Jones.

Education

University of Missouri, 1894-1895, Kentucky (now Transylvania) University, 1898-1900, Doctor of Divinity, 1934. Doctor of Divinity, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1915. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln Memorial University, 1932.

Doctor of Letters, Culver-Stockton, 1932, Bethany.

1937, Texas Christian, 1938, Doctor of Letters, Wayne U.

Career

Abandoned study of law for ministry. Ordained ministry Disciples of Christ, 1901. First pastorates, Bullettsville, Pint

Pleasant, Florence, and St. Petersburg, all of Kentucky.

Pastor Erlanger, Kentucky, 1901-1903, Franklin Circle Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1903-1906, 1st Christian Church, Bloomington. Illinois, 1906-1920, Central Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1920-1926, Central Woodward Church, Detroit, 1927-1947, emeritus, 1947.

Summer lecturer on preaching Pacific School Religion, 1953. Exchange preacher to Scotland, 1932.

Appointed member Judicial Council of Michigan, 1933, reappointed, 1939.

Appointed member Michigan Corrections Commission, 1941. Editorial staff Detroit News, 1922-1928. Member of staff of The Christian, 1926-1932, and of the Christian Century, since 1927.

Contributing editor to World Call.

1933. Delaware to World’s Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910. Delegate Oxford and Edinburgh Conferences, 1937.

President Illinois Convention Disciples, 1915-1916. President International Convention Disciples, 1917-1919.

President Association for Promotion Christian Unity, 1931-1941.

Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1937-1938. President Detroit Council of Churches, 1944.

Achievements

• Edgar Dewitt Jones has been listed as a notable clergyman, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Judicial Council of Michigan, 1933, reappointed, 1939. Member Michigan Corrections Commission, 1941. Member; Member National Council of Fifty Against Intolerance in America, Lincoln Foundation Advisory Group.

Director of Abraham Lincoln Association.

Mason (32°).; Clubs: Rotary, Wranglers, Detroit Athletic.

Connections

Married Frances G. Willis, January 23, 1902. Children: Edgar DeWitt, Mary Eunice (deceased), Dorothy Louise (Mistress Thomas J. Sherrard), Frances Virginia (Mistress John R. Walker), Willis Rumble, William Westbrooke.

Father:

DeWitt Clinton Jones

Mother:

Mary Virginia (Rumble) Jones

Spouse:

Frances G. Willis

child:

Willis Rumble Jones

child:

William Westbrooke Jones

child:

Dorothy Louise Jones (Mistress Thomas J. Sherrard)

child:

Frances Virginia Jones (Mistress John R. Walker)

child:

Edgar DeWitt Jones

child:

Mary Eunice Jones (deceased)