Background
Meeser, Spenser Byron was born on February 16, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Henry and Josephine Hoover (Shermer) Meeser.
Meeser, Spenser Byron was born on February 16, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Henry and Josephine Hoover (Shermer) Meeser.
Graduate Girard College, Philadelphia, 1874. Bachelor of Philosophy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Pennsylvania, 1883; graduate Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1886.
(Doctor of Divinity, Brown, 1901).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1886. Pastor 1st Church, Paterson, New Jersey, 1886-1893, 2d Church, Wilmington, Delaware, 1893-1896, 1st Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1896-1902, Woodward Avenue Church, Detroit, 1902-1907. Abroad 1 year; acting pastor Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn, 1908-1909.
Professor systematic theology, Crozer Theological Seminary, 1909-1930.
Secretary and Executive officer Citizens’ State League of New Jersey, 1892-1893. Aided in securing legislative act raising age of consent in Delaware.
College preacher, Vassar, 1904. University preacher, University of Chicago, 1906.
Corresponding secretary General Convention Baptists of North.A., since 1907.
President American Baptist History Society, 1916-1931. Editor of The Crozer Quarterly. Home: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Married Lillian Burk, December 14, 1886. Children: Carol Cooke (Mistress Eugene Edmond Ayres), Burk Shermer (deceased).