Background
Drury, Marion Richardson was born on December 27, 1849 in Pendleton, Indiana, United States. Son of Morgan S. and Elizabeth (Lambert) Drury.
Drury, Marion Richardson was born on December 27, 1849 in Pendleton, Indiana, United States. Son of Morgan S. and Elizabeth (Lambert) Drury.
Bachelor of Arts, Western (now Coe) College, 1872, Master of Arts, 1875. Graduate Union Biblical (now Bonebrake Theological) Seminary, Dayton, O., 1875. Doctor of Divinity, Western College, Westfield College, Illinois, 1891.
Ordained U.B. ministry, 1875. Pastor Fayette, Iowa, 1872-1873, Miami Chapel, Dayton, O., 1874-1875, Toledo, Iowa, 1875-1878, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1878-1881, Toledo, Iowa, 1898-1907, Oakland, California, 1907-1910. President Philomath (Oregon) College, 1910-1913, Leander Clark College, Toledo, Iowa, 1913-1916.
Pastor Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1917-1919.
Student secretary Coe College, 1919-1922. Missionary. Ponce, Porto Rico, since 1922.
Associate editor of the Religious Telescope, Dayton, O., 1881-1897. Author: Handbook for Workers.
1888; After Eighty Years.
1930. Memorial Record Western College Class of 1872, 1930. Reminiscences of Early Days in Iowa, 1931.
Life of Augustus Waldo Drury, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, 1936.
Home: Ponce, Porto Rico.
Married Lucinda Denny, June 20, 1872. Children: Mistress Florence Blanche Foster, Philo Walker.