Background
Kerr, Hugh T. was born on February 11, 1871 in Elora, Ontario, Canada. Son of William and Anne (Thomson) Kerr.
Kerr, Hugh T. was born on February 11, 1871 in Elora, Ontario, Canada. Son of William and Anne (Thomson) Kerr.
Bachelor of Arts, University Toronto, 1894, Master of Arts, 1895, Doctor of Laws, 1937. Student Knox College, Toronto, 1894-1895. Graduate Western Theological Seminary, 1897.
Doctor of Divinity, Emporia College, Kansas, 1908.
Doctor of Divinity, University Pittsburgh, 1918. Doctor of Laws, 1934.
Doctor of Laws, Washington and Jefferson College, 1920. Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette College, 1931.
Doctor Humanities Bucknell University, 1948.
Ordained to ministry Presbyterian Church, 1897. Pastor Oakland Church, Pittsburgh, 1897-1901, First Church, Hutchinson, Kansas, 1901-1907, Fullerton Avenue Church, Chicago, 1907-1913, Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, 1913-1946. Chairman Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1947.
Lecturer systematic theology and religious pedagogy, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1910-1911.
Stone lecturer Princeton Seminary, 1935. Moore lecturer San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1941.
Executive secretary The Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation, since 1947. President.
Member of the board of trustees U. Pittsburgh, Washington and Jefferson College, Presbyterian Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Association for Improvement of Poor, Western Theological Seminary. Clubs: Duquesne, University, The Cleric.
Married Olive M. Boggs, June 12, 1901. Children: Anna Boggs (Mistress John Watson Harmeier), Hugh Thomson, Donald Craig.