Background
Hazen, Joseph Chalmers was born on April 5, 1874 in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Shadrock Burney and Mary Jane (Booth) Hazen.
Hazen, Joseph Chalmers was born on April 5, 1874 in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Shadrock Burney and Mary Jane (Booth) Hazen.
Bachelor of Arts Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1899, Master of Arts, 1902, Doctor of Divinity, 1919;graduate Division School, University of Chicago, 1902, Doctorate.B., 1903. Doctor of Divinity, Colgate 1927.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1903. Pastor successively Kankakee, Illinois, First Church, Janesville, Wisconsin, First Church, Peoria, Illinois, until 1923, North Orange Church, Orange, New Jersey, 1923-1936. Correspondent secretary Northern Baptist Convention, New York City, 1940-1951.
Member Executive Committee general council Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board.
Member board of managers New Jersey Baptist State Convention, president, 1937-1941. Ex-president Ministers’ Association of Oranges.
Member Executive Committee and radio commission of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in American, 1930-1945. Chairman General Commision on Army and Navy Chaplains, Washington, 1947-1950.
Member board Executive Committee, Bap.
World Alliance, 1946-1950. Member relief committee and chaplain’s committee, Northern Baptist Convention. Member Church World Service Board of manager and finance committee.
Member of advisory board, American Bible Society, 1940-1947.
Now member World Relief communications of National Council Churches President board of trustees International Baptist Seminary, East Orange.
Mason (32°, Shriner). Clubs: Kiwanis (ex-president), Essex County Country, Skytop.
Married Ruth Burchard, December 22, 1908. Children: Joseph Chalmers, Burchard Miller, Mary Ruth.