Background
Engle, Jesse Agbionly was born on March 12, 1901 in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, United States. Son of Rosser Lee and Alice Moline (Bell) Engle.
Engle, Jesse Agbionly was born on March 12, 1901 in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, United States. Son of Rosser Lee and Alice Moline (Bell) Engle.
Bachelor of Arts, Randolph-Macon College, 1927, Doctor of Divinity, 1946. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1930.
Ordained to ministry Methodist Church, 1932. Joined Virginia Conference, 1928. Pastor Blandford Church, Petersberg, Virginia, 1923-1928, Trinity Church, 1935-1939, West Chesterfield, Virginia, 1928-1931, Trinity Church, Hopewell, 1931-1935, Highland Park Church, Richmond, 1939-1944, Park Place Church, Norfolk, 1944-1946.
Superintendent Richmond district Virginia Conference, Methodist Church, 1946-1950, general secretary joint section education and cultivation Board Missions, since 1950.
Member television, radio, film commission and council of secretaries Methodist Church; member Southeastern Jurisdiction Conference, Methodist Church, 1948, 56. Member Tau Kappa Alpha, Sigma Upsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha.
Married Nancy DuPuy Johnston, June 29, 1933. Children: Mary Ann, Nancy Prentiss.