John Rogers Edwards

Background

Edwards, John Rogers was born on August 16, 1871 in Cornwall, England. Son of Philip Corin and Amelia (Rogers) Edwards.

Education

Came to the United States, 1881. Student Shepherd College State Normal School, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Bachelor of Arts, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1896, Doctor of Divinity, 1917.

Career

Deacon Methodist Episcopal Church, 1896. Elder, 1901; pastor Highland, Baltimore, Maryland., 1896-1900, Towson, 1900-1905. Catonsville, 1905-1910.

Walbrook, Baltimore, 1910-1917.

District superintendent, Washington District, 1917-1924. Correspondent secretary Board of Foreign Missions Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924-1936.

District superintendent, Jacksonville, Illinois, 1936-1937. Pastor Union Mechanical Engineering Church, Washington, District of Columbia, 1937-1941.

District superintendent Washington West. District, 1941-1944.

Associate pastor Foundry Church, Washington, District of Columbia, 1944-1945.

Achievements

• John Rogers Edwards has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member board trustees Dickinson College. Missionary travels, 1926, North Africa and Europe, 1929-1930, China and Japan. Member Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, 1931.

Member Western Division Ad Interim Committee of Ecumenical Methodism.

Member Board of Examiners, 1904-1917. Member Committee on Chaplains in World War.

Member and recording secretary Board of Prohibition, 1918-1924. Member Board of Foreign Missions and Executive Committee, 1920-1924.

Member Committee of Conservation and Advance, 1920-1924.

Member General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1920, 24, 28, 32, 36. Member Uniting Conference of Methodism, 1939. Member Phi Kappa Sigma.

Connections

Married Ellen Brown Rumsey, 1900. Children: Philip Corin, Ruth Rumsey.

Father:

Philip Corin Edwards

Mother:

Amelia (Rogers) Edwards

Spouse:

Ellen Brown Rumsey

child:

Philip Corin Edwards

child:

Ruth Rumsey Edwards