Warren Prince Landers

Background

Landers, Warren Prince was born on July 15, 1869 in North Bridgewater (Brockton), Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edmund N. and Meribah (Perkins) Landers.

Education

Graduate Brockton High School. Student Boston University, 1888-1890.

Career

Ordained Congleton ministry, December 2, 1891. Pastor First Church, Huntington, Massachusetts, 1891. Middleton, 1891-1898, Sutton, 1902-1905, Westport, Connecticut, 1905-1908, Gilbertville (Hardwick), Massachusetts, 1909-1913, East Congressional Church, Milton, 1922-1927, pastor ad interim, 1927-1932.

Pastor North Reading, Massachusetts, 1933-1936.

Chaplain State Sanatorium, North Wilmington, 1933-1939. Lecturer. Secretary American Committee London South.S. Convention, 1898.

Superintendent circulation, The Congregationalist, Boston, 1898-1902. Secretary Boston Layman’s Missionary Movement, 1908.

Secretary of Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 1913-1918.

Secretary Allied Temperance Organizations of Massachusetts, 1919. Editor report San Francisco Civil Engineer Convention, 1897. Denver South.S. Convention, 1902.

Press secretary Cincinnati Civil Engineer Convention, 1901.

Editor The Temperance Cause (monthly), Boston, 1913-1918. Secretary Sutton Bicentennial, 1904.

Secretary and historian Brockton Centennial, 1921. Chairman Milton Committee on Centennial of First American (Granite) Railway, 1926.

Executive secretary Boston committee British Congressional Pilgrimage, 1928.

With Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary, 1928-1929. Chaplain, 1914-1943, emeritus since 1943, and historian Joseph Webb Lodge. Armed Forces and Master of Arts, Boston.

Chaplain Baalis Sanford Lodge, Armed Forces and Master of Arts, Brockton, 1921-1922.

Associate prelate since 1926, chaplain, 1926-1943, emeritus since 1943, Boston Council, and Jos. Warren Commandery, Knights Templar.

Chaplain of Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 1931. Chaplain of Grand Council of Massachusetts since 1932.

Achievements

• Warren Prince Landers has been listed as a notable religious leader, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Suffolk South Association Congregational Ministers (secretary 1919-1922). Club: Dickens.

Connections

Married Bertha Wakefield Corliss, September 16, 1890 (died April. Married second, Elizabeth Griffith Donovan, April.

Father:

Edmund North. Landers

Mother:

Meribah (Perkins) Landers

Spouse:

Elizabeth Griffith Donovan

Spouse:

Bertha Wakefield Corliss