Background
Raine, James Watt was born on May 2, 1869 in London, England. Son of William and Janet Watt (Muir) Raine.
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James Watt Raine
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Came to the United States, 1881. Student Searcy College, Arkansas. Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1893 (class orator), Master of Arts, 1897.
Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1897. Doctor of Divinity, Berea College, 1912.
Career
Harriet (Mistress U. V. Portmann). Married second, Clara Rebecca Martz, May 22, 1899. Children—Forrester, Robert, William Thorwald, Kenneth Edgar, Dorothy (wife of R. P. Swire).
Instructor at Kansas State Agricultural College, 1891-1892, Oberlin College, 1894-1896. Ordained Congressional ministry, 1898. Pastor successively Dayton, Litchfield, O., Cortland, and Riverhead, New York, until 1906.
Head Department English, Berea College, 1906-1939, emeritus since 1939. Director College Theater. Director religious work Army Young Men’s Christian Association, Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, 1917-1918, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, 1918-1919.
Author: Public Speaking (textbook), 1909. Mountain Ballads, 1920. The Land of Saddlebags, 1924.
Bible Dramatics, 1927. Job, Prince of Uz (a play), 1938. Saddlebag Folk, the Way of Life in the Kentucky Mountains, 1941.
Home: 46 Center St., Berea, Ky.
Connections
Married Harriet May, August 14, 1894 (died 1895).; married second, Clara Rebecca Martz, May 22, 1899. Children: Forrester, Robert, William Thorwald, Kenneth Edgar, Dorothy (wife of R. P. Swire).
