John Shaw Foster

Background

Foster, John Shaw was born on November 17, 1870 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of William Story and Margaret (Shaw) Foster.

Education

Preparatory education, Barton Academy, Mobile. Master of Arts, Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1891, Bachelor of Divinity, 1894. Doctor of Divinity, Hampden-Sidney (Virginia) College, 1906.

Career

West. Speer), Margaret H. (Mistress Starke B. Sullivan), John South. Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1894. Pastor successively Senatobia, Mississippi, Franklin, Tennessee, Tabb Street Church, St. Petersburg, Virginia, First Church, Birmingham, Alabama, and First Church, Anderson, South Carolina., until 1921, First Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1921-1936. Professor homiletics and practical theology, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, since January, 1936 (on leave of absence from Decatur for 1936).

Achievements

• John Shaw Foster has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Board of Education, St. Petersburg, Virginia, 5 years Trustee Southwestern Presbyterian University, 7 years, Barlum Springs Orphanage, 4 years. Member Executive Committee Home Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, 27 years, General Assembly’s Work Committee of 44. Member Pi Kappa Alpha.

Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle).

Club: Civitan.

Connections

Married Bessie Goss, June 20, 1894. Children: Bessie (Mistress West. L. Harsh), Juliet East. (Mistress Georgia

Father:

William Story Foster

Mother:

Margaret (Shaw) Foster

Spouse:

Bessie Goss

child:

Bessie Foster (Mistress West. L. Harsh)

child:

Juliet East. (Mistress Geo Foster