Background
Bell, Wilbur Cosby was born on April 1, 1881 in Augusta Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel Hendren and Sallie Ellen (Cosby) Bell.
Bell, Wilbur Cosby was born on April 1, 1881 in Augusta Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel Hendren and Sallie Ellen (Cosby) Bell.
Bachelor of Arts, Hampden-Sydney College, 1900. Bachelor of Divinity, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1905. Doctor of Divinity, Washington and Lee University, 1914, Princeton University, 1929, Cambridge Theological School, 1929.
Deacon, 1905, priest, 1906, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector R. East. Lee Memorial Church, Lexington, Virginia, 1906-1911, Saint Andrew’s Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1911-1912. Professor systematic divinity and apologetics, P.E. Theological Seminary in Virginia, since 1912.
Chaplain 117th Engineers, American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1918.
Author: Sharing in Creation, 1925. The Making of Manitoba, 1931.
Bohlen lecturer, Philadelphia, 1925. Paddock lecturer, New York, 1929.
Married Anne Lee Laird, June 21, 1905.