Background

Moxom, Philip Stafford was born on August 10, 1848 in Markham, Canada. Son of Review Job Hibbard and Anne (Turner) Moxom.

Education

Served with Army of the Cumberland at Fort Donelson as “captain’s boy,” 1862. Enlisted in 17th Illinois Cavalry, October 3, 1863, serving until November 30, 1865. Student Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, 1866-1868, Shurtleff College, Illinois, 1868-1870.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1879, Master of Arts, 1882.

Studied Rochester Theological Seminary, 1875-1888. (Doctor of Divinity, Brown University, 1892).

Career

Ordained to ministry, September 19, 1871. Pastor First Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1879-1885, First Baptist Church, Boston, 1885-1893, South Congressional Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1894-1917, and pastor emeritus, June 30, since 1917. University preacher, Harvard, 1894-1897.

Preacher at Yale, Cornell, Vassar, Wellesley, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Chicago, et cetera

Lowell lecturer, 1895, presented paper on Immortality, before World’s Parliament of Religions and sermon before World’s Peace Congress. Delegate to various International Peace congresses, International Congressional Council, Boston, 1899.

Author: The Aim of Life, 1894. From Jerusalem to Nicæa—The Church in the First Three Centuries, 1895.

The Religion of Hope, 1896.

Two Masters: Browning and Turgenief, 1912.

Achievements

• Philip Stafford Moxom has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Ecumenical Council, Constance, Baden, August 2, 1914, which was broken up by Germany’s declaration of war.

Connections

Married Isabel Elliott, September 6, 1871 (died 1919). Married second, Mistress.

Father:

Review Job Hibbard Moxom

Mother:

Anne (Turner) Moxom

Spouse:

Isabel Elliott

Spouse:

Mistress