John Lawrence Seaton

Background

Seaton, John Lawrence was born on January 25, 1873 in Manchester, Iowa, United States. Son of Milon D. and Mary (Riley) Seaton.

Education

Graduate Epworth (Iowa) Seminary, 1895. Bachelor of Arts, Upper Iowa University, 1898. Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Boston University School of Theology, 1901.

Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1905.

Williams scholar, Harvard, 1913-1914. Doctor of Divinity, Upper Iowa U.

Doctor of Letters, Dakota Wesleyan University. Doctor of Laws, West Virginia Wesleyan University and Boston University.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Principia College and Albion College.

Career

Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1897. Associate pastor Morgan Memorial Institutional Church, Boston, 1898-1900. Pastor Norwood, Massachusetts, 1901, Grandview Avenue Church, Dubuque, Iowa, 1901-1904.

Professor psychology and Bible, Dakota

Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakot, 1904-1914. President College of the Pacific, San Jose, California, 1914-1919.

College secretary Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, April 1919-1924. President Albion College, 1925-1945.

Retired September 1945.

College and university consultant since 1945. President of the University Senate, Mechanical Engineering Church since 1925 and secretary Educational Association, 1925-1934. President Association of American Colleges, 1938-1939.

Achievements

• John Lawrence Seaton has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, college president by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Commision on Public Relations of Association of America Colleges, American Council on Education. Member National Education Association, Phi Beta Kappa. Mason.; Clubs: Rotary, Torch.

Connections

Married Jessie Evans Davis, August 27, 1900. Children: William Davis, Mary Wells.

Father:

Milon D. Seaton

Mother:

Mary (Riley) Seaton

Spouse:

Jessie Evans Davis

child:

Mary Wells Seaton

child:

William Davis Seaton