Edward Warren Capen
| Edward Warren Capen PhD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1870 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford, Conn. USA 146 Sargent Street, Hartford, Conn. [1923] 80 Sherman Street, Hartford, Conn. [1927] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
church sociologist | ||||||||
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1915.11.17 proposed by W.C. Willoughby, seconded by Henry O. Forbes
Notes From Elsewhere
Capen, Edward Warren was born on September 24, 1870 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of of Samuel Billings and Helen Maria (Warren) C.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1894. Doctor of Divinity, 1935. Graduate Hartford Theological Seminary, 1898.
Columbia, 1898-1901, Doctor of Philosophy., 1904.
Seminary, 1902-1915; Thompson lecturer on missions, 1909, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18. In history researches for American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1904-1907. In special sociological and missionary research in the far East, 1907-1909.
Member of commission (preparation of missionaries) World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910, International Commision on Training Schools for Missionaries, 1910-1922, Board of Missionary Preparation for United States and Canada, 1911-1922. Secretary 1911-1919; instructor sociology, 1911-1914, associate professor, 1914-1917, professor, dean, 1919-1939, emeritus since 1939, Kennedy School of Missions. Assistant recording sec, A.B.D.F.M. 1915-1944.
Chairman training school section of Religious Education Association, 1919-1920. Chairman Association of Institutions engaged in Missionary Training, 1920-1922. Ordained Congressional minister, May 13, 1912.
Lecturer on missions, L. H. Severance Foundation, Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, 1912
Married Lydia Elizabeth Sanderson, October 6, 1904
Publications
External Publications
The Kennedy School of Missions: the story of a decade, 1911-1921
Author: Historical Development of the Poor Law of Connecticut (Columbia University series), 1905. Sociological Progress in Mission Lands, 1913. Contributor The History of Connecticut Institutions, in History of Connecticut in Monographic Form, 1925.
Also many articles and pamphlets on missions. Editor: Preparation for Missionary Work in Japan, 1915. Presenting Christianity to Hindus, 1917
Sociological Progress in Mission Lands