Background
Emmons, Grover Carlton was born on February 13, 1886 in Walnut Hill, Florida, United States. Son of John Davidson and Martha Jane (Huggins) Emmons.
Emmons, Grover Carlton was born on February 13, 1886 in Walnut Hill, Florida, United States. Son of John Davidson and Martha Jane (Huggins) Emmons.
Student Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1903-1905. Bachelor of Arts, University of New Mexico, 1909. Graduate student, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1909-1912.
Doctor of Divinity, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, 1929.
Entered ministry of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1912. Pastor, Salem, Arkansas, 1912-1913, San Marcial, New Mexico, 1913-1914, Gallup, New Mexico, 1914-1917. War work evangelist and secretary to Bishop Walter R. Lambuth, 1917-1918.
Young Men's Christian Association secretary with American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918-1919.
Secretary to Bishop Lambuth in Orient, 1919-1920. Pastor Santa Rosa, California, 1920-1925, San Diego, California, 1925-1927, Long Beach, California, 1927-1928, Fresno, California, 1928-1930.
Presiding elder Los Angeles District, 1930-1934. Secretary of home missions and hospitals, Board Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1934-1940.
Secretary Pacific Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928-1939.
Secretary Southern California-Arizona Annual Conference, Methodist Church, 1939. Editor, founder The Upper Room (religious quarterly) and coordinate executive secretary of the General Commission on Evangelism of the Methodist Church. President board mngrs.
Textile Industrial Institute, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1935-1941.
Member of the board of trustees Paine College, Augusta, Georgia.
Member of the board of trustees Paine College, Augusta, Georgia. Member of the board of trustees Miles Memorial College, Birmingham, 1935-1943. Member Glide Foundation, San Francisco.
Member Joint Commision on Methodist Union, 1934-1939.
Member General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, South, 1930, 34, 38. Member Methodist Uniting Conference, Kansas City, April 1939.
Member 1st General Conference The Methodist Church, Atlantic City, 1940. Member Pi Kappa Alpha.
Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle, 32º, Shriner).
Married Helen Keith Boulware, December 11, 1920.