Background
Musgrave, Walter Emmett was born on September 7, 1880 in Stockport, Ohio, United States. Son of Sidney Bartlett and Almyra (Coler) Musgrave.
Musgrave, Walter Emmett was born on September 7, 1880 in Stockport, Ohio, United States. Son of Sidney Bartlett and Almyra (Coler) Musgrave.
Student Huntington College, 1913-1914, Doctor of Divinity, 1928.
Ordained ministry Church of United Brethren in Christ, 1902. Pastor successively at Chesterhill, Pomeroy, Junction City, and Baltimore (all Ohio) until 1915. Superintendent Scioto District, Church of United Brethren in Christ, 1915-1920.
Executive secretary Otterbein Forward Movement, 1920-1925. Bishop of church, since 1925. President board education Huntington College.
President Domestic, Frontier and Foreign, Missionary Society of Church of United Brethren in Christ, since 1933, official historian, 1945.
Author The Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Its Teachings and Progress, 1945. Contributor to Christian Conservator.
Married Anna Yarnell, February 6, 1904. Children: Wilford Paul, Leona Irene, Emmett Burton (deceased).