Background
Harris, Hugh Henry was born on July 26, 1875 in Coldwater, Michigan, United States. Son of John Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Harris.
Harris, Hugh Henry was born on July 26, 1875 in Coldwater, Michigan, United States. Son of John Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Harris.
Student University of Michigan, 1895-1896. Bachelor of Arts, Northwestern University, 1904, Master of Arts, 1908. Studied Yale.
Ordained ministry Mechanical Engineering Church, 1895. Mechanical Engineering Church, South, 1913. Pastor Gladstone, Michigan, 1906-1908.
Director religious education, First Church, Evanston, Illinois, 1908-1912.
Director Wesley Memorial Institute, Atlanta, Georgia., 1912-1913. Professor religious education, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1913-1943.
Professor sociology, Emory University, 1926. Visiting professor religious education, Yale, 1924-1925.
Director Corresponding School Methodist Church, Emory University, Georgia.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Isabel Silverthorn Wright, December 8, 1907 (deceased). Married second, Ethel Purcell, September 6, 1935.