Background
Romig, Edgar Franklin was born on March 22, 1890 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Ida (Butz) Romig.
Romig, Edgar Franklin was born on March 22, 1890 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Ida (Butz) Romig.
Bachelor of Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, 1911. Union Theological Seminary, 1912-1913, Bachelor of Divinity, 1918. A.M., Columbia, 1923.
Doctor of Divinity, Rutgers University, 1928. Doctor of Theology, Faculte Libre de Theologie Protestante de Paris, 1936. Doctor of Letters, Muhlenberg College, 1937.
Instructor in Syrian Protestant College (now American U.), Beirut, Syria, 1913-1916. American consular service, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1914. Ordained ministry Reformed Church in American, 1918.
Pastor Middle Collegiate Reformed Church, New York City, 1918-1931, West End Collegiate Church 1931-1960. Also, since 1944, Senior Minister Collegiate Church Board of directors Waldensian Aid Society. Board of managers, Chairman of Commission translations American Bible Society.
Trustee Presbyterian Hospital. Trustee Leake and Watts Children’s Home. Member honorary committee Netherlands Division, Red Cross War Fund (1941-1946).
Chairman of Commission to plan for Tercentenary Observance Founding of Reformed Church in New Netherland, 1928 Delegate to Pilgrim Tercentenary, Holland, 1920. Minister in charge American Church, The Hague, Netherlands, summer 1927. Preached in Great Britain, summers 1933, 35, 37, 46, under auspices of Committee on Interchange of Preachers, delegate World Conference on Faith and Order, Edinburgh (member continuation committee), 1937.
President General Synod, Reformed Church in America 1940-1941. Delegate to World Council of Churches, Amsterdam, 1948. Vice president World Alliance Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, 1948-1954.
Trustee, vice president Collegiate School (New York) Paris Theological Seminary Endowment Fund, Inc. Director Union Theological Seminary. Advisory board American Friends, Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Trustee Japanese-American United Church of Christ New York. Director American Middle East Relief, Inc.
Member New York History Society (trustee), Leyden (Holland) Pilgrim Fathers-Society (director), Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania (president 1934-1936), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega, etc. Club: Century. Writer: Jonas Michaelius (in Tercentenary Studies), 1928.
Married Ella Woodruff Dutcher, May 11, 1918. Children: Edgar Dutcher, David Woodruff, Eleanor Crawley.