Robert Edward Lee Jarvis

Background

Jarvis, Robert Edward Lee was born on August 6, 1870 in Sparta, Tennessee, United States. Son of Sylvester and Maranda (Simril) Jarvis.

Education

Education public and private schools of Tennessee and McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, class of 1903.

Career

Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1898. Pastor Mount Vernon, Missouri, 1898-1900, Clay Center, Kansas, 1903-1908, Winfield, 1908-1911, Bethany Collegiate Church (Wanamaker Church), Philadelphia, 1911-1915, Westminster Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1915-1917. Appointed religious director for Young Men's Christian Association, 1917, and assigned to Eagle Rock, California.

Achievements

• Robert Edward Lee Jarvis has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Mason (32 degree), Author: The Making of a Christian, 1903.

Connections

Married Fannie Catron Todd, of Carthage, Missouri, November 7, 1894.

Father:

Sylvester Jarvis

Mother:

Maranda (Simril) Jarvis

Spouse:

Fannie Catron Todd