Background
Durham, Plato Tracy was born on September 10, 1873 in Shelby, North Carolina, United States. Son of Plato and Leonora Catharine (Tracy) Durham.
Durham, Plato Tracy was born on September 10, 1873 in Shelby, North Carolina, United States. Son of Plato and Leonora Catharine (Tracy) Durham.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina, 1895 (Doctor of Divinity, 1913). Student Yale Division School, 1895-1896, Christ Church College, Oxford, England, 1901-1902. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1899.
Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1903. Professor Biblical literature and church history, Trinity College, North Carolina, 1899-1906. Pastor Trinity Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1906-1908.
Central Church, Concord, North Carolina, 1908-1911. Presiding elder Winston District, North Carolina, 1911-1913, Charlotte District, 1913-1914. Dean Candler school of Theology, Emory University, 1914-1918.
Also professor Church history, same university, and trustee.
Member Federal Council Churches in America. Member Inter-Church World Movement of N.A. Served as First lieutenant 2d Regiment North Carolina Vols., Spanish-American War, 1898.
Married Lucy Cole, April.