Background
Swisher, Walter Samuel was born on September 15, 1882 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Jefferson and Ella Electa (White) Swisher.
Swisher, Walter Samuel was born on September 15, 1882 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Jefferson and Ella Electa (White) Swisher.
Bachelor of Divinity, Meadville Theological School, 1910, Doctor of Divinity, 1935. Crufts fellow University of Göttingen, Germany, 1910-1911. Graduate study University of Michigan and Harvard.
Student Pennsylvania College of Music. Meadville.
1 d., Rosamond Lee; married second, Heeln Viola Plumly, August 19, 1948. Ordained ministry Unitarian Church, 1911. Pastor Passaic, 1911-1914, All Souls Church, New London, Connecticut, 1914-1920, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1920-1933, Church of the Messiah, St. Louis, 1933-1937, First Congressional Church, Freeport, Maine, 1940-1945.
Parish minister, Hope Congressional Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1946-1947. Grace Union Church, N. Wilbraham, Massachusetts, since 1948. President Tuckerman School (normal school of religious education), 1925-1929.
Author: Religion and the New Psychology, 1920. Psychology for the Music Teacher, 1927. Music in Worship 1929.Editor (with others) Beacon Hymnal. Composer hymn tunes and songs. Contributor to Atlantic Monthly, Psychoanalytic Review, etc.Lecturer onmusic and psychology.
Served as chairman American Red Cross (New London), and volunteer chaplain, Camp Gordon, and captain Connecticut Reserve Corps, World War. Chairman Freeport Chapter American Red Cross since 1940. Trustee Meadville Theological School, 1936-1941.
Club: Sandwich.
Married Marion Lord Newell, August 18, 1914 (died July 5, 1945).; married second, Heeln Viola Plumly, August 19, 1948.