Shailer Mathews

Background

Mathews, Shailer was born on May 26, 1863 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Jonathan Bennett and Sophia Lucinda (Shailer) Mathews.

Education

Brother of Edward Bennett M. Bachelor of Arts, Colby College, 1884, A.M., 1887. Graduate Newton Theological Institution, 1887.

University of Berlin, 1890-1891. Doctor of Divinity, Colby, 1901, Oberlin, 1908, Brown, 1914, Miami, 1922, University of Glasgow, 1928, Faculte Libre de Theologie Protestante de Paris, 1929, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1933. Doctor of Laws, Pennsylvania College, 1915, University of Rochester, 1926, Colby, 1934.

Career

Associate professor rhetoric, Colby College, 1887-1889, professor of history and political economy, 1889-1894. Associate professor New Testament history and interpretation, Divinity School, University of Chicago, 1894-1897, professor, 1897-1905, professor systematic theology, 1905-1906, historical and comparative theology, 1906-1933, junior dean, 1899-1908, dean, 1908-1933, emeritus since 1933. Lecturer on New Testament, Newton Theological Institution, 1888-1890.

Editor The World Today, 1903-1911, Biblical World, 1913-1920. President The Quadrangle Club, 1902-1903, Western Economics Society, 1911-1919, Chicago Co-operative Council of City Missions, 1908-1915, Chicago Baptist Executive Council, 1910-1919. Director religious work, Chautauqua Institution, 1912-1934.

President Federal Council Churches of Christ in America, 1912-1916, Northern Baptist Convention, 1915, Chicago Church Federation, 1929-1932, Kobe College Corporation since 1920. Trustee Church Peace Union (founded by Andrew Carnegie) since 1914. Was in Japan as representative of the chs. of the United States, 1915.

State secretary of war savings for Illinois, 1917-1918, vice-director, 1918-1919. Haverford Library lectures, 1907, Sarle lectures (Berkeley, California), 1913, William Belden Noble lectures, Harvard, 1916, McNair lectures, University of North Carolina, 1918, Slocum-Bennett lectures, Wesleyan University, 1921, Cole lectures, Vanderbilt, 1926, 1934, Ingersoll on Immortality, Harvard University, 1933. Barrows lectures in India, University of Chicago, 1933-1934.

Politics

Patriotism and Religion, 1918.

Membership

Clubs: Quadrangle, University, City.

• Clubs: Quadrangle, University, City.

Interests

• Farming. Address. Div. School, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago. T.A.: 5736 Woodlawn Av.
  
  T.: 1286 Hyde Park.

Connections

Married Mary Philbrick Elden, July 16, 1890.

Father:

Jonathan Bennett Mathews

Mother:

Sophia Lucinda (Shailer) Mathews

Spouse:

Mary Philbrick Elden