Background
Edwards, Richard Henry was born on October 22, 1877 in Lisle, New York, United States. Son of Hamilton and Martha Ann (Hanford) Edwards.
Edwards, Richard Henry was born on October 22, 1877 in Lisle, New York, United States. Son of Hamilton and Martha Ann (Hanford) Edwards.
Graduate Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1897. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1901, Master of Arts, 1902. Student Yale Division School, 1902-1904.
Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1906.
General secretary Yale University Christian Association, 1901-1904. Assistant pastor Old First Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1904-1906. Ordained Congressional ministry, 1906.
Congressional university pastor University of Wisconsin, 1906-1912.
Secretary for social study and service of Student Department International Committee Young Men's Christian Association, 1912-1917. Secretary National War Work Council Young Men's Christian Association bureau of Personnel, 1917-1918, associate executive department of the East, 1918-1919.
Executive secretary, Cornell United Religious Work, 1919-1937. Executive director National Council on Religion in Higher Education, 1924-1931, counselor, since 1931.
Visiting professor Graduate Divinity School University of Chicago, and Chicago Theological Seminary, summers, 1928-1933.
Visiting professor Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 2d term, 1933. Lecturer Psychological Center, Paris, summer. 1934; visiting professor Union Theological Seminary, New York, summer, 1935, Auburn Theological Seminary, summer, 1936, Southern Methodist University, winter, 1937, Scarritt College, winter, 1938, Southern Methodist Pastors Schools, summers, 1936-1943, Howard University, fall quarter.
1943, Keuka College (spring Quarter), 1944.
Spelman College, 1944-1945, Bennett College, 1945-1946. Secretary to Arkansas Methodist Commission on Tenancy, 1938-1939.
Founder, with wife, Happy Valley Homes, Lisle, New New York President Happy Valley, Incorporated., 1930-1942.
Member Commision on Survey of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1933.
Member board of managers, Ithaca (New York) Reconstruction Home for Infantile Paralysis, 1935-1937. Chairman advisory committee Hazen Agency Grants, 1931-1941. Member of commission on Religion and Health, Federal Council of Churches, 1941-1946.
Member Commision on Survey of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1933. Member board of managers, Ithaca (New York) Reconstruction Home for Infantile Paralysis, 1935-1937. Member of commission on Religion and Health, Federal Council of Churches, 1941-1946.
Member Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones.
Married Anna R. Camp, August 6, 1908. Children: Elizabeth Ann (deceased), David Hamilton, Katharine Camp, Richard Pierrepont.