Isaac Ogden Rankin

Background

Rankin, Isaac Ogden was born on November 22, 1852 in New York, United States. Son of Edward E. (Doctor of Divinity) and Emily (Watkinson) R.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1873, Master of Arts, 1876. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1877. Also studied University of Berlin.

Career

Stated supply Congressional Church, Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, 1879. Pastor Nassau and East. Nassau, New York, 1880, Kingsborough Avenue Church, Gloversville, New York, 1882-1891. Stated supply, Milton, New York, 1894.

Editorial writer and literature editor, 1896-1905, associate editor The Congregationalist, 1905-1921.

Author: Hewers of Wood (with Review West. G. Puddefoot). Closet and Altar; Prayers and Thanksgivings for a Christian Year.

Foreign 28 years contributed a weekly article “Saturday Night Thoughts” to Boston Evening Transcript. Home: Brookline, Massachusetts

Achievements

• Isaac Ogden Rankin has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Martha Clark, June 23, 1880. Children: Hugh, Margaret (Mistress James M. Barker), Lawrence A. Ordained, 1878.

Father:

Edward East. Rankin

Spouse:

Martha Clark

child:

Lawrence A. Ordained Rankin

child:

1878 Rankin

child:

Margaret Rankin (Mistress James M. Barker)

child:

Hugh Rankin