Background
He was born in Henrietta, Ohio, United States.
He was born in Henrietta, Ohio, United States.
He graduated in 1915 from Oberlin High School, Oberlin, Ohio, and attended Baldwin-Wallace College for two years before being drafted into the army in World War I. After the war, he earned in 1921 his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and in 1923 his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary and Master of Arts
From Northwestern University. In 1938, Baldwin-Wallace College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity Hobart had 2 brothers Clarence John "Stutz" Amstutz and Melvin Amstutz. Clarence had 3 children C. John Amstutz, Grethen (Amstutz) Timmons and Virginia (Amstutz) Wilhelm.
Review
Amstutz served as a missionary in South East Asia beginning in 1926. Foreign many years, he was pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore. In 1942, he was imprisoned by the Japanese, spending three and a half years in a prison camp.
From 1956 to 1964, he served as elected Methodist Bishop for Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Burma) and also served as founding President of Trinity College in Singapore.
Bishop Amstutz died on 26 February 1980, aged 83, in Claremont, California.