Background
Kirk, Harris Elliott was born on October 12, 1872 in Pulaski, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Harvey and Katherine (McCord) Kirk.
Kirk, Harris Elliott was born on October 12, 1872 in Pulaski, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Harvey and Katherine (McCord) Kirk.
Graduate Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee, 1897, Doctor of Divinity, 1905, Doctor of Laws, 1925. Doctor of Laws, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, 1937.
Julius Lane Wilson), Helen Lucretia (Mistress Harry J. Verner, Junior). Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1897. Pastor Cottage Church, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897-1899, 1st Church, Florence, Alabama, 1899-1901, Franklin Saint Church, Baltimore, Maryland., since 1901.
Annual lecturer on historical Christianity, Princeton University, 1923-1929, Goucher College, 1925-1928.
Professor Biblical literature, Goucher, since 1928, lecturer General Conference Christian Workers, Northfield, 1917-1926, mission conferences in China, summer of 1924. Summer preacher Westminster Chapel, London, 1922-1940.
Sprunt lecturer Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, 1916. Carew lecturer Hartford Theological Seminary, 1916.
Special lecturer on homiletics and psychology, Hartford Seminary, 1919-1924.
Alumni lecturer New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1920. Faculty lecturer, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1922. University preacher Princeton, Yale, University of Virginia, et cetera
Shepard lecturer Bangor Theological Seminary, 1928.
Reinicker lecturer P.E. Seminary in Virginia, 1929. Cole lecturer, Vanderbilt, 1930.
Otts lecturer, Davidson College, 1930. McNair lecturer, University of North Carolina, 1931.
Rockwell Lectures, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, 1939.
Smith Lectures, Columbia Theological Seminary, 1946. Moderator Virginia Synod, 1911. Elected moderator General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1928.
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: University, P. and L., Arts and Letters.
Married Helen O. McCormick, June 24, 1897. Children: Harris Elliott, Mary Louise (wife of Doctor.