Background
Hillis, Newell Dwight was born on September 2, 1858 in Magnolia, Iowa, United States. Son of Samuel Ewing and Margaret (Hester) Hillis.
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Newell Dwight Hillis
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Bachelor of Arts, Lake Forest University, 1884, later Master of Arts Graduate McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1887. Doctor of Divinity, Northwestern University, 1892.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Western Reserve University.
Career
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1887. Pastor First Church, Peoria, Illinois, 1886-1889, Evanston, Illinois, 1889-1895, Central Church (independent), Chicago, 1895-1899, Plymouth Congressional Church, Brooklyn, January 1899-October 1924, now pastor emeritus. President Plymouth Institute, since 1914.
Author: The Investment of Influence: A Manitoba’s Value to Society.
How the Inner Light Failed. Foretokens of Immortality.
Great Books as Life Teachers. Influence of Christ in Modern Life.
Quest of Happiness, 1902.
Success Through Self-Help, 1903. Building a Working Faith, 1903. The Quest of John Chapman, 1904.
The Fortune of the Republic, 1906.
Contagion of Character, 1911. Anti-Slavery Epoch, 1911.
Prophets of a New Era, 1912. All the Year Round. 1912.
Battle of Principles, 1912.
Misfortunes of a World Without Pain, 1912. Noble Thoughts, 1912. Studies of the Great War, 1915.
Story of Phædrus, 1913.
Message of David Swing, 1913. German Atrocities, 1918.
The Blot on the Kaiser’s ’Scutcheon, 1918. Rebuilding the Ruined Lands of Europe, 1919.
The Better America Lectures, 1921.
Compiler: Lectures of Henry Ward Beecher, 1913. Home: Brooklyn, New New York
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Married Annie Louise Patrick, April. Children: Richard Dwight, Marjorie, Nathalie Louise (Mistress Robert O. Kellogg).
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American