Background
Cherrington, Ernest Hurst was born on November 24, 1877 in Hamden, Ohio, United States. Son of George and Elizabeth Ophelia (Paine) Cherrington.
Cherrington, Ernest Hurst was born on November 24, 1877 in Hamden, Ohio, United States. Son of George and Elizabeth Ophelia (Paine) Cherrington.
Educated Ohio Wesleyan University, 1893-1897. Doctor of Laws, 1921. Doctor of Letters, Otterbein.
Became editor of Kingston (Ohio) Tribune, 1900. Superintendent for Canton District, Ohio Anti-Saloon League, 1902. State assistant superintendent Ohio Anti-Saloon League, Columbus, Ohio, 1903-1904.
Associate editor The Pacific Issue, 1905.
State superintendent Anti-Saloon League of Washington, 1906-1907. Editor The Citizen, Seattle, 1906, 07.
Associate editor, 1908, 09, editor since 1909, The American Issue. Chicago and Westerville, O. Editor The American Patriot, 1912-1916, The National Daily, Westerville, O., 1915-1916.
Managing director Richmond Virginian (daily), 1916-1919.
Secretary national Executive Committee, member of national administrative committee, and general manager public interests, Anti-Saloon League of America, 1915-1936. Also director The Temperance Education Foundation.
General manager American Issue Public Company. President chairman of the executive committee Scientific Temperance Federation.
General secretary World League Against Alcoholism.
Secretary National, Temperance Council: president Intercollegiate Association for Study of Alcohol Problem, Columbus, Ohio. President National Conference of Orgns. Supporting 18th Amendment, 1930-1931.
Chairman National Prohibition Board of Strategy, 1931-1932.
United States delegate 13th International Congress on Alcoholism, The Hague, 1911, 14th Congress, Milan, Italy, 1913 (elected member international permanent Executive Committee), 16th Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1921, 17th Congress, Copenhagen, 1923. Secretary 15th Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, and 16th Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Member Joint Commission, 1920-1928. Member Commision on Church Union of Mechanical Engineering Church, 1920-1936. Member joint Commission which drafted plans for uniting Methodist Church, 1939.
Member Unifying Conference of Three Methodisms, 1939.
Member executive committee Mechanical Engineering Board of Home Missions, 1920-1936. Member Executive Committee Federal Council of Churches in America, 1920-1948.
Member General Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains, since 1942. Member National Council of Service Men's Christian League, 1942.
Member Phi Delta Theta.
Mason (33°, K. T.).
Married Betty Clifford Denny, March 17, 1903. Children: Ernest Hurst, Ann Elizabeth (Mistress Russell B. Driver).