Background
Carr, Floyd Leverne was born on January 24, 1880 in Alfred, New York, United States. Son of Adelbert John and Alice F. (Green) Carr.
Carr, Floyd Leverne was born on January 24, 1880 in Alfred, New York, United States. Son of Adelbert John and Alice F. (Green) Carr.
Preparatory education, high school, Hornell, New York, 1897. Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1901. Bachelor of Divinity, Newton Theological Institution, 1906.
May. ordained Baptist ministry, 1906. Pastor successively North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Roslindale Church, Boston, First Church, Lynn, Massachusetts, and Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, until 1923. Field secretary Board of Missionary Coöperation, Northern Baptist Convention, 1923-1924.
Field secretary Department of Missionary Education, Northern Baptist Convention 1924-1945.
Author: Survey for Baptist Pastors, 1920. (booklets) Missionary Heroes Courses, 1925.
Missionary Anniversary Programs for Sunday Schools, 1926. Founder of a chain of 30 boys’ camps to train boys for church leadership.
Now retired. Home: 83 Merriam Saint, Lexington 73, Massachusetts
Married Florence Newell Lawton, June 13, 1906.