Background
Nordell, Philip Augustus was born on January 19, 1846 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Per and Carin (Palmquist) Nordell.
Nordell, Philip Augustus was born on January 19, 1846 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Per and Carin (Palmquist) Nordell.
Brought to America, 1853. Educated Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1864-1866. University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1866-1869.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1870, Doctor of Divinity, 1886.
Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1873.
Hospital steward, 197th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volumes, July 13-November 11, 1864. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1873. Pastor Chili, New York, 1873-1874, Lee, Massachusetts, 1874-1877, Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1877-1882, New London, Connecticut, 1882-1892.
Assistant professor New Testament literature and exegesis, University of Chicago, 1892-1893.
Associate editor Bible study, Union South.S. publications, 1893-1908, editor, 1908-1911. Later writer for Charles Scribner’s Sons and American Baptist Publn.
Society, and lecturer on Old Testament subjects. Progressive. Author: Biblical Studies for Adult Classes, 1902.
Preparations for Christianity, 1911.
Keystone Senior Studies, Volunteer I, 1912, Volunteer 11, 1913. The Modern Church, 1913. Home: Brookline, Massachusetts
Married Lizzie V. Turner, July 14, 1870. Married second, Florence East. Gallup, April.