Background
Mcdowell, John was born on September 24, 1870 in Dairy, Scotland. Son of William and Margaret (Beggs) M.
Mcdowell, John was born on September 24, 1870 in Dairy, Scotland. Son of William and Margaret (Beggs) M.
Student Mount Hermon School, Massachusetts, 1885-1890. Princeton University, 1890-1894, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1896. Doctor of Divinity, College of Wooster, 1915, Princeton, 1916.
Doctor of Laws, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1933.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1896. Pastor Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1896-1890, Second Avenue Church, Detroit, 1899-1905, Park Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1905-1915, Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, 1915-1919. Secretary Board National Missions of Presbyterian Church, United States of America, since 1919, also secretary of commission on social and industrial relations of same board.
President Home Missions Council, 1930-1932, Young Men's Christian Association religious work director for war industries, 1917-1918.
Moderator General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, United States of America, 1933-1934. Author: Dwight L. Moody, the Discoverer of Men and Maker of Movements, 1915.
Christian Essentials, 1928.
Married Minnie M. Fowler, June 2, 1897.