Background
Taft, George Wheaton was born on July 17, 1865 in Salem, Michigan, United States. Son of Review Howard Bailey and Harriett C. (Cole) Taft.
Taft, George Wheaton was born on July 17, 1865 in Salem, Michigan, United States. Son of Review Howard Bailey and Harriett C. (Cole) Taft.
Bachelor of Science, Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, 1886 (Doctor of Divinity, 1915). Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1889. Attended lectures Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1898-1902.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1889. American Baptist Missionary Union missionary to Tokyo, Japan, 1889. Professor church history, Japan Baptist Theological Seminary, 1893-1896.
Missionary, Kobe, Japan, 1896-1897.
Field worker Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, 1897-1902. Pastor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Norman, Oklahoma, and Hastings, Nebraska, 1902-1913.
President Grand Island (Nebraska) College, 1913-1916. Dean and professor church history and homiletics, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago, December 1916, president 1918-1936, president emeritus, since 1936.
Member board directors Winona Assembly and Bible Conference, 1917-1926, advisory committee, since 1926. Member and officer many local, state and national corns, and boards Member of advisory committee Columbiana-on-Lake George Conference, since 1927.
Married Mary A. Boyden, June 26, 1889 (died 1890). Married second, Jessie Doctorate. Humpstone, November 14, 1892. Children: Howard Boyden, Stanley Cole.