Patrick Henry Carmichael

Background

Carmichael, Patrick Henry was born on May 4, 1889 in Goodwater, Alabama, United States. Son of Daniel Monroe and Amanda (Lessley) Carmichael.

Education

Graduate in Pharmacy, Mercer University, 1909. Bachelor of Science, University of Alabama, 1915. Certificate, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1918.

Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1931.

Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Southwestern College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1930. Doctor of Letters, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1937.

Career

Willena. Pharmacist, 1909-1912. Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1918. Moderator of the Presbytery of Birmingham, Synod of Alabama, 1925.

Professor of English Bible and religious education, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, 1933-1938.

Director leadership education.

Achievements

• Patrick Henry Carmichael has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, school dean by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member International Council Religious Education from 1942 (Chairman of Commission, Cycle Graded Lesson Series 1941-1947). Member department research and education, commission on prison chaplains, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in American, from 1943. Member commission on promotion, Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1945-1946.

Member Executive Committee leadership section, International Council of Religious Education, from 1943.

Member Cooperative Public Association, 1946-1948. Member American Association Schools Religious Education (chairman accreditation commission), Presbyterian Ministers Association Richmond (president 1956), Jasons (University of Alabama), Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappa, Pi Gamma Museum.

Clubs: Torch, Rotary (Richmond).

Connections

Married Mary McPhail Partridge, August 16, 1917.

Father:

Daniel Monroe Carmichael

Mother:

Amanda (Lessley) Carmichael

Spouse:

Mary McPhail Partridge