Background
Shippen, Eugene Rodman was born on January 30, 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Rush Rhees and Zoë (Rodman) Shippen.
Shippen, Eugene Rodman was born on January 30, 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Rush Rhees and Zoë (Rodman) Shippen.
Preparatory education, Roxbury Latin School, Boston, and Emerson Institute, Washington. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1887. Studied Harvard Division School.
University of Oxford, 1893-1894.
Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Theological School, 1925.
Ordained Unitarian ministry, 1892, pastor Wichita, Kansas, 1890-1893, First Parish, Dorcester, Massachusetts, 1894-1907. McQuaker Trust lecturer, Scotland, 1908. Pastor Church of Our Father, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1908-1910, First Unitarian Congressional Church, Detroit, 1910-1918.
Special representative War Camp Community Service, 1918-1920.
Pastor Second Church, Boston, 1920-1929, retired Harvard University guest preacher, 1925. Incorporator The Ingleside Club, Detroit.
Organizer Religious Arts Guild, president, 1922-1928. President North End Union (neighborhood house), Boston, 1925-1928.
President Harvard Divinity School Alumni, 1928-1929.
President University Club, Winter Park, 1936-1937. Founder of Golden Rose Poetry award. Honorary member Puddingstone Club, Boston.
Honorary member American Guild of Organists (Boston chapter), Delta Phi.
Member Puddingstone Club, Boston. Member American Guild of Organists (Boston chapter), Delta Phi.
Married Elizabeth Herrick Blount, April. Children: Harold Blonut, Zoë, Sylvia, Eugene Rodman.