Background
Hanzsche, William Thomson was born on July 28, 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of William Thomson and Mary McLean (Hunt) Hanzsche.
Hanzsche, William Thomson was born on July 28, 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of William Thomson and Mary McLean (Hunt) Hanzsche.
Preparatory education, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Student Johns Hopkins, 1910-1911. Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Lee University, 1913, Doctor of Divinity, 1928.
Student Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1913-1915.
Master of Arts, Princeton, 1916. Bachelor of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1916.
M. South.Th., 1917: graduate study University of Chicago. 1917-1918.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry. 1917; served as chaplain Western Military Academy and pastor Upper Alton Church, Alton, Illinois. Pastor Union Tabernacle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1919-1922, Prospect Street Church, Trenton, New Jersey, since 1922.
Editor The Presbyterian Magazine, New York City.
1929-1933; member operating committee, Presbyterian Church, 1927-1932. Trustee Presbyterian General Assembly since 1936, Presbyterian History Society Editor Pageant.
1936. Chairman Publication Board.
Member Delta Upsilon, Delta Sigma Rho, Pi Gamma Museum Phi Beta Kappa. Indiana Republican Past president Trenton Kiwanis.
Married Miriam Elizabeth Woolf, October 3, 1917.