Background
Mcdowell, Edmund Wilson was born on March 13, 1857 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Allison and Mary (Harbold) Mc.D.
Mcdowell, Edmund Wilson was born on March 13, 1857 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Allison and Mary (Harbold) Mc.D.
Bachelor of Arts, Wooster (O.) College 1884, Doctor of Divinity, 1909. Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1884-1887.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1887. Missionary in Kurdistan, 1887-1897. Pastor St. Clair Avenue Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1897-1902.
Returned to Kurdistan, 1902. Relief work in Uramia, 1915-1917, in Bagdad, 1918-1922. Leave of absence in the United States, 1923.
Married Mary Coe, of Milford Center, O., 1887 (died in Uramia, Persia, 1915). Married second, Margaret Dean, of Chicago, Illinois.