Background
Strong, Sydney Dix was born on January 25, 1860 in Seville, Ohio, United States. Son of Lyman Whitney and Ruth Maria (Dix) Strong.
Strong, Sydney Dix was born on January 25, 1860 in Seville, Ohio, United States. Son of Lyman Whitney and Ruth Maria (Dix) Strong.
Student Wooster (O.) College, 1877-1878, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1878-1879. Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin (O.) College, 1881, Bachelor of Divinity, 1884, Doctor of Divinity, 1897. Graduate study Yale Division School, summer school, Oxford (England) College.
Pastor First Congressional Church, Mount Vernon, O., 1887-1892, Walnut Hills Congressional Church, Cincinnati, O., 1892-1897, Pilgrim Church, Oak Park, Illinois, 1897-1906, Bethlehem Bohemian Settlement, Chicago, 1907, Queen Anne Congressional Church, Seattle, Washington, 1908-1921, Australian Church, Melbourne, Australia, 1922. Associate editor Unity, since 1921. Corresponding Melbourne Age, since 1922.
Organizer, with Rabbi Samuel Koch, Seattle, Central Social Agencies, 1910-1916.
Author: Child in the Midst, 1900. His Last Week, 1906; South African Sermons to Boys and Girls, 1906.
The Master Manitoba, 1910. Bible Hero Classics (20 volumes), 1910.
A Seattle Pulpit (10 volumes), 1917-1920.
The World’s Best Manitoba, 1921. Roger Claps Memoirs, 1928. His Coming, 1929. Compiler (symposiums): We Believe in Immortality, 1929.
We Believe in Prayer, 1930.
What I Owe to my Father, 1931. How to Find God, 1931.
The Rise of American Democracy, 1935. From Seville to Seattle (autobiography), 1937.
Contributor of travel letters to Unity.
Conductor of symposiums, New York Times, New York World. Associate editor of Unity. President “The Peacemaker”.
Address: Seattle, Washington
Married Ruth Tracy, November 20, 1884. Children: Anna Louise, Tracy, Mistress Charles H. Niederhauser.