Background
Venable, Joseph Glass was born on September 17, 1877 in Christiansburg, Kentucky, United States. Son of Joseph Glass and Susan McCurdy (Hann) Venable.
Venable, Joseph Glass was born on September 17, 1877 in Christiansburg, Kentucky, United States. Son of Joseph Glass and Susan McCurdy (Hann) Venable.
Bachelor of Arts, Central U., Richmond, Kentucky, 1899. Bachelor of Divinity, Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky, 1905. Doctor of Divinity, Davidson, 1918.
Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1905. Pastor successively Memorial and Mount Olive chs., Saline County, Missouri, First Church, Moultrie, Georgia, Riverside Church, Jacksonville, Florida, and First Church, Norfolk, Virginia, until 1924, First Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 1924.
Served with Young Men’s Christian Association in France, 1918. Member of the board of directors Assembly Training School, Richmond, Virginia.
Married Mary Irvine Bird, October 19, 1905. Children: Elizabeth Bird, Joseph Glass, William Bird, Robert Hann.