Walter E. Woodbury

Background

Woodbury, Walter E. was born on May 7, 1886 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Edgar Charles and Eva Jane (Wheeler) Woodbury.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Brown U., 1906, A.M., 1908. Student Harvard, 1908-1909. Bachelor of Divinity, Newton Theological Institute, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, 1911.

Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Northern Baptist Seminary, Chicago, 1938.

Career

Ordained to ministry Baptist Church, 1911. Minister Bristol (Connecticut) Church, 1911-1915, Worthen Street Church, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1915-1920, Trinity Church, Minneapolis, 1920-1923, 1st Church, Melrose, Massachusetts, 1924-1930. Director promotion, field secretary, Southern California Baptist Convention, 1930-1936.

Secretary evangelism American Baptist Home Mission Society, New York City, 1936-1956. Director evangelism for Pennsylvania Baptist Convention, since 1956. Associate director Northern Baptist Crusade for Christ thru Evangelism, 1947-1949.

Ednl. secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Camp Devens, Massachusetts, 1918.

Membership

Member Ministers’ Council of America Baptist Convention, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi.

Connections

Married Maude Alice Rideout, August 2, 1911 (deceased).; married second, Gladys Rose Roberts, August 5, 1930. Children: Dorothy Maude, David Walter, Newton Edgar, Roger Fiske.

Father:

Edgar Charles Woodbury

Mother:

Eva Jane (Wheeler) Woodbury

Spouse:

Gladys Rose Roberts

Spouse:

Maude Alice Rideout

child:

David Walter Woodbury

child:

Dorothy Maude Woodbury

child:

Roger Fiske Woodbury

child:

Newton Edgar Woodbury