Background
Wherry, Elwood Morris was born on March 26, 1843 in South Bend, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James and Sarah (Nesbit) Wherry.
Wherry, Elwood Morris was born on March 26, 1843 in South Bend, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James and Sarah (Nesbit) Wherry.
Bachelor of Arts, Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College, 1862, A.M., 1875. Teacher, 1862-1864; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1864-1867. (Doctor of Divinity, Parsons, Iowa, 1885).
Presbyterian missionary in India, 1867-1889, and 1898-1921. District secretary American Tract Society, 1889-1898, and for 2 years manager Tract Society book store, Chicago. Also secretary Chicago Tract Society.
Honorary secretary Society, 1889-1898, and for 2 years manager Tract Society book store, Chicago. Also secretary Chicago Tract Society. Honorary secretary Christian Literature Society for the Punjab, India, 1900-1921.
Moderator India Presbyterian Church, 1910-1911. Founder, 1872, and for 32 years editor of the Nur Afshán (Light Disseminator), a weekly paper in the Hindustáni language. Correspondent secretary World’s Congress of Missions, Chicago, 1893.
Editor Missions at Home and Abroad, 1893. Woman in Missions, 1893. Author: The Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurán (4 vols.), 1886.
Zainab the Panjabi, 1893. Islam, or the Religion of the Turk, 1894. The Moslem Controversy, 1905.
Islam and Christianity in India and the Far East, 1907. Progress and the Present State of the Muslim Controversy, 1910. Islám Refuted on Its Own Ground, 1911.
Manual of Islam; Religion of Islam. And a number of booklets on religious subjects published in native langs. of North India. Our Missions in India, 1923.
Translator: Moffatt’s Church History in Brief. Vaughan’s What Think Ye of Christ?. Sell’s Progressive Development of the Qurán.
Joint Editor: The Mohammedan World of Today, 1906. Methods of Missionary Work Among the Moslems, 1906. Islám and Missions, 1911.
Lucknow, 1911; also many tracts on Islam in the Hindustani language. President All-India Federation of Christian Literature and Tract Socs. President Missionaries to Moslems League.
Home: Cincinnati, O.
Married Clara Maria Buchanan, July 17, 1867. Children: Clara E., James E. (deceased), Alice (deceased), Grace E., William Buchanan, Lillian, Sarah Almena, Annie Griffith, John Llewellyn.