Background
Ayer, Joseph Cullen was born on January 7, 1866 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph Cullen and Caroline Eliza (Roberts) Ayer.
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Joseph Cullen Ayer
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Educated Harvard, Berlin, Halle and Leipzig. Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1887. Fellow Johns Hopkins, 1899-1900.
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Leipzig, 1893.
Honorary South.T.D., University of the South, 1917. Doctor of Divinity from Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1931.
Doctor of Civil Law, Divinity School of P.E. Church, Philadelphia.
Career
Deacon, 1887, priest, 1890, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1887. Rector South. Groveland, Massachusetts, 1888-1890, Keene, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1893-1895, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1895-1899.
Lecturer on canon law.
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1901-1905. Professor ecclesiastical history, P.E. Division School, Philadelphia, 1905-1936.
Lecturer on History of Religions, University of Pennsylvania, 1927-1936. Rector Saint Philip’s Church, Philadelphia, 1929-1936.
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Membership
Member American Church Historical Society, Oriental.
Connections
Married Cora Julia Whittaker, January 11, 1894. Children: Caroline Elizabeth, Richard Gordon Lawrence.
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American