Background
Douglass, Harlan Paul was born on January 4, 1871 in Osage. Iowa. Son of Truman Orville and Maria (Greene) Douglass.
Douglass, Harlan Paul was born on January 4, 1871 in Osage. Iowa. Son of Truman Orville and Maria (Greene) Douglass.
Bachelor of Arts, Iowa College, 1891, Master of Arts, 1896. Graduate Chicago and Andover Theological seminars, 1894. Williams fellowship, Harvard.
Courses University of Chicago, Columbia and New York School of Philanthropy.
Doctor of Divinity, Drury College, 1905.
Mistress William A. Leech, Junior). Ordained Congleton ministry, 1894. Pastor, Manson, Iowa, 1894-1895, Ames, 1896-1900, Springfield, Missouri, 1900-1906.
Instructor in psychology, 1900-1904, professor philosophy, 1905-1906, Drury College.
Superintendent of education, American Missionary Association, in charge of 75 schools for Negroes and mountaineers in the South, 1906-1910. Correspondent secretary, American Missionary Association, 1910-1918.
With American Expeditionary Forces in France as Young Men's Christian Association secretary and member of Army Ednl. Corps, 1918-1919; manager agricultural labor branch Interchurch World Movement, 1919-1920.
Research director, Institute of Social and Religious Research, 1921-1933.
Director China Survey of Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry, 1930-1934, communications of Appraisal of America Unitarian Association, 1934-1935. Secretary Commission to Study Christian Unity, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1937-1942. Chairman of research department, 1943.
Editor of Christendom, 1938-1948, associate editor the Ecumenical Review, 1948-1950.
Director Committee for Coöperative Field Research, 1945.
Member Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Married Rena Sherman, June 25, 1895.