Background
Armstrong, Maurice Whitman was born on May 29, 1905 in Bridgetown, Nova Scoti. Son of Doctor Melbourne E. and Mary B. (Davis) Armstrong.
Armstrong, Maurice Whitman was born on May 29, 1905 in Bridgetown, Nova Scoti. Son of Doctor Melbourne E. and Mary B. (Davis) Armstrong.
Bachelor of Arts, Dalhousie U., 1925, Master of Arts, 1927, Bachelor of Divinity, Pine Hill Division Hall, 1930. School of Theology and Ministry, Harvard, 1941, Doctor of Philosophy, 1945.
Came to the United States in 1940, naturalized in 1946. Ordained to ministry, United Church of Canada, 1928. Pastor, Alberta, Nova Scoti, N.B., 1928-1940.
Pastor Congregationalist Churches, Scituate, also Belmont, Massachusetts, 1940-1945. Teaching fellow history Harvard, 1942, lecturer, instructor reformation history, division school, 1944. Teaching fellow history Radcliffe College, 1942.
Professor of history Ursinus College, from 1945, head department, 1947-1967, faculty dean, 1952-1954, acting head of the department of fine arts, 1967. chairman social science staff, experimental program in teacher education Temple University, 1955-1958. Member Presbytery Philadelphia. Interim pastor Walnut St.
Member.
Married Irene Margaret MacDonald, May 23, 1928. Children: Sheila (Mistress R. W. Hallowell, Junior), Christina (Mistress James E. Brouse), Ainslie (Mistress John H. McLees, Junior.