Background
Johnson, Herbert Spencer was born on October 4, 1866 in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. Son of John Wesley and Helen Elizabeth (Adams) Johnson.
Johnson, Herbert Spencer was born on October 4, 1866 in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. Son of John Wesley and Helen Elizabeth (Adams) Johnson.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Oregon, 1887. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1891. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1893, Army War College, 1923, Infantry School United States Army, Fort Benning, 1924.
Doctor of Divinity, Berea (Kentucky) College, 1911.
Doctor of Laws, Franklin College, 1918.
Herbert South. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1893. Pastor Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1893-1899, Warren Avenue Church, Boston, 1899-1922, Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1934-1936, Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, 1936-1937, First Baptist Church, Boston, 1938-1940. Delivered addresses throughout United States, 1905-1906, interest of Congo reform, also lobbied in the United States Senete to secure action by Government.
So-called Congo resolution passed by Senate, 1907, and later the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium, Special field representative Baptist Five Year Program, 1915-1916.
Speaker on Laymen’s Missionary Movement programs throughout the country, 1917-1918. Joined American Red Cross.
September 16, 1918. Became commissioner to Czechoslovakia, April 1919, with military rank of major.
Commissioned major Infantry O.R.C., January 11, 1922. Trustee Berea College.
Married Mary Crane, June 21, 1900. Children: Elizabeth (deceased), Mary, Helen.