Background
Matheny, Ezra Stacy was born on October 16, 1870 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Jacob Sylvestor and Christian Elizabeth (Jackson) Matheny.
Matheny, Ezra Stacy was born on October 16, 1870 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Jacob Sylvestor and Christian Elizabeth (Jackson) Matheny.
Education common and high schools. Theological training in Ohio Conference Course of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1897-1906. Extension work, University of Chicago.
Apprentice carpenter, 1892-1895. Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1901. Successively pastor at Byer, Omego, Piketon, Portsmouth and Crooksville.
Pastor Columbia Heights Church, Columbus, 1930-1934, Cleveland Avenue Church, 1934-1938.
Pastor Central Community Church, Columbus, since 1940. Chaplain Ohio State Senate since 1921.
In business as architect in Columbus, 1913-1915. Member Mathany, Allen & Mounts, 1915-1917.
Member Riebel, Sons & Matheny, 1923-1929.
Has designed 57 public buildings including a number of high schools and churches in Ohio. Was director bureau of Architecture Ohio Council of Churches With Young Men's Christian Association in France, 1918-1919. Trustee Industrial Mission.
Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle).; Club: Buckeye Republican. Compiler. American Patriotic Devotions, 1932, 3d edit, 1938 (officially approved by National Council Jews and Christians, by finance committee Ohio State Senate and by Parent-Teacher Association, regardless of creed, for placement in schools and libraries throughout the country), 4th edit, under title American Devotion (copies ordered by Ohio legislature for State use, May 24, 1943).
Married Nellie Maud Beery, March 21, 1895. Children: Merrill Everitt, Thelma Elizabeth (wife of Eugene H. Roseboom, Ph.