Background
Echols, William Graham was born on November 11, 1892 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. Son of John Thomas and Lillie (Ware) Echols.
Echols, William Graham was born on November 11, 1892 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. Son of John Thomas and Lillie (Ware) Echols.
Bachelor of Arts Alabama, 1914. Student, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, 1915. AM, Birmingham Southern College, 1924.
Doctor of Divinity, Athens College, 1934.
Pastor, Brandon Church, St. John's Church, 67th St. Church, Fountain Hieghts Church, N. Highlands Church, Mount Vernon Church, 1912-1933;
member of faculty, Athens College, 1918-1919;
member of faculty, Birmingham Southern College, 1928-1930;
university minister, director, Wesley Foundation, 1933-1958;
member of faculty, U. Alabama, 1933-1958;
pulpit minister, Broadway Temple, New York City, 1925. Dean S.E. Jurisdiction Methodist Student Movement. Dean director Alabama Methodist Students.
Founder, president Pilgrimage Associations, Inc., educational travel tour company. Cruise lecturer Mediterranean and the Holy Land. Lecturer pastor's schools, leadership schools, federated and civic clubs.
Member executive council Boy Scouts American, chairman conference commission on vacat. guidance. Member National Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis, National Society Biblical Instructors, American Schools Oriental Research, American Oriental Society, Middle East Institute, American Research Center Egypt, Southern Council International Relations, Southern Society for Philosophy of Religion, NaT. Triennial Society University pastors (vice president), Pi Tau Chi (founder), Omicron Delta Kappa, Kiwanis.
Married Virginia Hale, May 26, 1916. Children: Mary L. Echols Blackmarr, William Graham, John Hale.