Lewis Robeson Akers

Background

Akers, Lewis Robeson was born on August 25, 1881 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Son of William David and Mary Istalena (Robeson) Akers.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, 1903, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, 1904, Doctor of Divinity, 1916. Harvard, summer 1909. European travel study, summers 1922, 31.

Bachelor of Divinity, Ashland (Ohio) Theological Sem*, 1924.

Master of Arts in Education, University of Kentucky, 1927. Doctor of Laws, Ohio Northern University, 1927.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Southern College, 1929. Doctor of Letters, McMurry College, 1929.

Career

Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1904. Pastor Conesville, O., 1904-1907, Nevada, O., 1907-1911, Willard, 1911-1915, Sebring, 1915-1919, Ashland, 1919-1924. Professor ethics, Ohio Wesleyan School of Theology, 1917-1923.

Vice president Asbury College, 1924-1925, president, 1925-1933.

Later minister Louisiana Belle View Meth Church, Steubenville, O. Chaplain American Red Cross, World War. Delaware Methodist Ecumenical Conference, Atlanta, 1931.

Achievements

• Lewis Robeson Akers has been listed as a notable clergyman, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Ohio Society South.R., Association Kentucky Colleges Universities (president 1926-1927), Association of America Conservative Colleges (president 1928-1932), Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Delta Kappa. Kentucky reprinted of National Council for Prevention of War.

Rotarian.

Lyceum lecturer.

Connections

Married Addie Avanelle Dyer, July 6, 1905. Children: William Gerald, Lewis Robeson, Dorothy Dyer, Richard Lawrence.

Father:

William David Akers

Mother:

Mary Istalena (Robeson) Akers

Spouse:

Addie Avanelle Dyer

child:

Dorothy Dyer Akers

child:

William Gerald Akers

child:

Lewis Robeson Akers

child:

Richard Lawrence Akers