Background
Felton, Ralph A. was born on July 26, 1882 in Arkansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Marshall A. and Isabelle (Nichols) Felton.
Felton, Ralph A. was born on July 26, 1882 in Arkansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Marshall A. and Isabelle (Nichols) Felton.
Bachelor of Arts, Southwestern College, 1905. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1912. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1913.
Student of University Pennsylvania, 1920-1923.
Doctor of Philosophy, Drew Theological Seminary, 1932.
Instructor American University, Beirut, Lebanon, 1907-1910. Assistant in charge rural church surveys Presbyterian Department Church and Country Life, 1913-1919, assistant in charge inservice training rural pastors Methodist Rural Church Department, 1919-1923. Extension New York, 1923-1930.
Professor rural church Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, 1930-1952.
Visiting teacher Union Seminary, Nanking, China, 1936-1937, of Korea, 1937-1938, Mexico City, Mexico, 1943. Field progKorea, 1937-1938, Mexico City, Mexico, 1943.
Field program analyst Agricultural Missions, Incorporated., New York City, 1952-1956, consultant, 1957-1958. Author: The Rural Church in the Far East, 1938.
Manitoba’s Use of God’s Earth, 1945.
Hope Rises from the Land, 1955. Church Bells in Many Tongues, 1958. The Pulpit and the Plow.
And also writer of numerous others (also in Spanish, Korean, Japanese languages).
Home: Madison, New Jersey.
Married Blanche Shimer, August 19, 1914. Children: Mary (Mistress Judah Drob), Ralph, Margaret (Mistress James H. Pyke), Robert.