Background
Meredith, Ernest Sidney was born on May 26, 1879 in Canton, Ohio, United States. Son of William Davis and Sarah (Kee) Meredith.
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Ernest Sidney Meredith
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Graduate Mount Union Preparatory School, 1897. Bachelor of Science, Mount Union College, 1900, Bachelor of Philosophy, 1902. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1904.
Bachelor of Laws, Northeastern U. Law School, 1921. Student University of Oxford, England, 1911, Harvard Law School, 1922.
Career
City editor Canton (Ohio) News, 1902. Assistant pastor Harvard Church, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1902-1905. Ordained Unitarian ministry, 1905.
Minister First Parish, W. Roxbury, Boston, 1905-1912, Third Religious Society of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912-1916. First Parish, Watertown, 1916-1947. Chaplain Ancient and Honorary Artillery Company, 1906-1907.
President Massachusetts Convention Congressional Ministers, 1923-1925. President Unitarian Sunday School Society, 1931-1934. Vice president Harvard Divinity School Alumni Association, 1929-1931, president 1931-1934.
President S. Middlesex Conference of Unitarian and Other Liberal. Churches, 1928-1937; president Ministerial Union of Unitarian Denomination, 1930-1937. Member Harvard University Visitation Committee of Divinity School, 1931-1939.
Became member fellowship committee American Unitarian Association, 1938. Lieutenant chaplain Camp Zachary Taylor, 1918-1919. Captain, chaplain, The United States of America.R., 1919.
Became attached to Division Headquarters, Boston, 1937. Chaplain Sons of Vets, of Civil War (Mass, division), 1930-1931.
Membership
Member Harvard University Visitation Committee of Divinity School, 1931-1939. Mason.; Clubs: Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Harvard Faculty, Oakley Country.
Connections
Married Florence Lyndon, June 27, 1905.
