Background
Keeler, Ralph Welles was born on February 1, 1877 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of George Welles and Emily Clifford (Wells) Keeler.
Keeler, Ralph Welles was born on February 1, 1877 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of George Welles and Emily Clifford (Wells) Keeler.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1904, M. A., 1909. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1907. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1914.
Master’s Diploma in Education, Teachers College, 1914.
Doctor of Divinity, Baldwin-Wallace, 1913. Wesleyan, 1919.
Member New York East Conference Methodist Church. Pastor Wethersfield, Connecticut 1901-1904, Goodsell Church, Brooklyn, 1904-1906, Bayville and Locust Valley, New York, 1906-1907. Ordained elder, 1907.
Pastor Cropsey Avenue Church, Brooklyn, 1908-1911.
Secretary China Centennial Commission, Board Foreign Missions, 1907-1909. Executive secretary Africa Diamond Jubilee Commission, 1909-1910.
Publicity secretary of Korea Quarter-Centennial Commission, 1910-1911. Assistant editor South.S. publications Methodist Episcopal Church, 1911-1914.
Associate editor adult class publications Methodist Episcopal Church (Adult Bible Class Monthly, Home Department Quarterly, et cetera), Cincinnati, 1914-1917.
Director bureau of publicity, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension Methodist Episcopal Church, 1917-1923. Publicity secretary Joint Committee Foreign Language Publs., Home Missionary Council, Council of Women for Home Missions, and South.S. Council, 1920-1923. Director of publicity Committee on Conservation and Advance, Council of Board of Benevolence, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1920-1923.
Executive secretary General Conference South.S. Exhibit and Institute, 1912.
Chairman publicity committee National Convention Methodist Men, 1913. Publicity secretary Home Mission Council, 1919-1923.
Director publicity, General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, 1916, 20.
Member New York East Conference Methodist Church. Member editorial committee World Outlook, Missionary Review of the World, Missionary News, 1918-1923. Member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Sons of Veterans of Civil War, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Mason.
Grand Chaplain, Grand Lodge of. Clubs: Beta Theta Pi, University. Company-editor: Militant Methodism, 1913.
Married Ellen Martin Coughlin, July 11, 1906 (died June 30, 1944). Children: Eleanor Elizabeth, Ralph Welles.