Background
Dunning, James Edwin was born on January 23, 1886 in Three Springs, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles T. and Mary H. (Crever) Dunning.
Dunning, James Edwin was born on January 23, 1886 in Three Springs, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles T. and Mary H. (Crever) Dunning.
Bachelor of Arts, Dickinson College, 1905, Master of Arts, 1912, Doctor of Divinity, 1930.
Professor mathematics, Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, 1905-1906. Assistant principal, high school Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 1906-1907. Ordained to ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, 1907.
Pastor, Center and Sandy Ridge, Pennsylvania, 1907-1908, Lumber City, Pennsylvania, 1909-1912, Howard, Pennsylvania, 1912-1915, Louther Memorial Church, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1915-1917, Ford Memorial Church, Ford City, Pennsylvania, 1917-1921, Chesterfield Square Church, Los Angeles, 1921-1925, Euclid Heights Church, Los Los Angeles 1925-1929, Pacific Palisades, 1929-1933, Orange, California, 1933-1935.
District superintendent San Diego-Phoenix District, 1935-1939. Executive secretary Board Missions and Church Extension, Southern California Arizona Conference, 1939-1943.
Executive secretary Los Angeles Missionary and Church Extension Society, 1939-1943. Associate minister First Methodist Church, Los Angeles, 1943-1950.
Field secretary Conference Endowment Fund, 1950-1955.
Associate minister First Church Downey, California, since 1955. Delaware to General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1936. Reserve delegate Uniting Conference The Methodist Church, Kansas City, Missouri, 1939.
Delegate 1st General Conference Methodist Church, Atlantic City, 1940, 1st Western Jurisdictional Conference Methodist Church, Sn Francisco, 1940.
Member of board of managers Board Foreign Mission Methodist Episcopal Church, 1939. Member Alpha Chi Rho. Phi Beta Kappa. Corresponding The Christian Advocate.
Married Daisy Winande Fisher, June 20, 1906. Children: James Fisher (deceased), Charles Wesley, Edwin Crever.