Background
Morris, George Van Derveer was born on December 5, 1867 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of George Kenneth and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Morris.
Morris, George Van Derveer was born on December 5, 1867 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of George Kenneth and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Morris.
Bachelor of Arts, Dickinson College, 1889, Master of Arts, 1892. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1891. Doctor of Divinity, Dickinson, 1907.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1892. Pastor Norwood Church, Cincinnati, 1891-1894, Batavia, O., 1894-1897, Franklin, O., 1897-1899, Clifton and Mount Lookout churches, Cincinnati, 1899-1903, Centenary Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 1903-1911, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Frankfort, Indiana, 1911-1913, First Church, Laporte, Indiana, 1913-1917, Maple Avenue Institutional and Community Church, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1917-1918, First Church, Brazil, Indiana, 1919-1920. Enforced rest, literature research and pulpit supply at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1921-1922, Federated Church, Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June-October 1923, 24, 25.
Member Kentucky Board of Education, 1903-1911. Traveled and studied abroad, 1892, 1907, 11.
Married Anna Young Terry, May 17, 1894. Children: Anna Katharine, George William.