Background
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd was born on November 14, 1843 in Cardiganshire, Wales. Son of Richard Lloyd and Mary (Thomas) Jones.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd was born on November 14, 1843 in Cardiganshire, Wales. Son of Richard Lloyd and Mary (Thomas) Jones.
Parents moved to Wisconsin when an infant. Worked on farm until 1862. Private 6th Wisconsin Battery, 3 years in Civil War.
Graduate Meadville (Pennsylvania) Theological Seminary, 1870.
Doctor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1909.
Pastor of All Souls Church, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1871-1880. Secretary Western Unitarian Conference, 1875-1884. Organized, and was 1st secretary Western Unitarian South.S. Society, 1874-1880.
With others established Unity, a weekly paper, 1878, now organ of the Congress of Religion and of the Free Religious Association of America, editor, since 1879.
Organized, 1882, and pastor of All Souls Church, Chicago. Director Abraham Lincoln Centre, Chicago, since 1905.
Secretary World’s Parliament of Religions, 1892-1893. Instrumental in organizing the Congress of Religion, 1894 (general secretary till 1905).
1st president Illinois State Conference of Charities, 1895-1897.
Lecturer in English, University of Chicago, since 1893. President Tower Hill Summer School of Literature and Religion. Founder and 1st president Chicago Browning Society Author: The Faith That Makes Faithful (with William C. Gannett), 1886.
Practical Piety, 1890.
Word of the Spirit, 1897. Jess: Bits of Wayside Gospel, 1899.
A Search for an Infidel. Bits of Wayside Gospel (2d series), 1901.
Nuggets from a Welsh Mine.
1902. Reinforcement of Faith, 1905. Conscience Calls, 1906.
Love and Loyalty (sermons), 1907.
What Does Christmas Really Mean? (with John T. McCutcheon). On the Firing Lincolnshire in the Battle for Sobriety, 1910. An Artillery Manitoba’s Diary, 1862-1865.
Love for Battle-torn Peoples, 1917.
Member of the board of directors Church Peace Union, founded by Andrew Carnegie.
Married Susan C. Barber, June 1870 (died 1911). Married second, Mistress.