Background
Timmons, Wofford Colquitt was born on September 20, 1888 in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States. Son of Benson Ellison Lane and Margaret Elizabeth (Longden) Timmons.
Timmons, Wofford Colquitt was born on September 20, 1888 in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States. Son of Benson Ellison Lane and Margaret Elizabeth (Longden) Timmons.
Student Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, 1905-1908. Bachelor of Arts, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, 1913. Student Union Theological Seminary and Columbia, 1915-1917, University of Oxford, summer 1925.
Doctor of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1926.
Assistant pastor Roseville Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark, 1914-1917. Young Men’s Christian Association secretary, Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1917-1918, Minneapolis, 1918-1920. Associate pastor Plymouth Congressional Church, Minneapolis, 1920-1922. Pastor First Congressional Church, St. Louis, 1922-1932, South Church, New Britain, Connecticut, 1932-1946, now minister Church Wide.
Member Pi Kappa Delta, Chi Alpha. Mason.; Clubs: Friars (Hartford, Connecticut).
Married Fanny Elizabeth Pray, June 21, 1917. Children: James Joseph (deceased), Robert Lansing, John Benson.