Sneha Girap (Editor)

George Richmond Grose

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
George Grose

Died
  
1953

Books
  
James W. Bashford


George Richmond Grose Religion and the Mind Classic Reprint George Richmond Grose

Education
  
Boston University School of Theology, Ohio Wesleyan University

George Richmond Grose (1869–1953) was an American academic administrator and a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1924, serving as a Missionary Bishop in China.

Contents

Family

George was born 14 July 1869 in Nicholas County, West Virginia, the eldest son of Andrew Dixon and Mary Estaline (née Harrah) Grose. George's grandfather, William Grose, was a Licensed Exhorter in the M.E. Church, and an earnest, forceful speaker. He was encouraged to obtain a License to Preach. But he preferred to remain an Exhorter and a local worker in the church.

George married Lucy Dickerson of Cadiz, Ohio 28 June 1894. They had children Wilbur Dickerson, Francis, Helen, William and Virginia.

Education

George taught school for a few years in Fayette County, West Virginia, then graduated in 1894 from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, with the degree of A.B.. He went on to the Boston University School of Theology, where he earned the degrees of S.T.B. (1896) and M.A.. Ohio Wesleyan awarded him the honorary doctorates D.D. in 1908 and LL.D. in 1916.

Ordained ministry

The Rev. George Richmond Grose served as a Pastor of the Cherry Valley Church, Leicester, Massachusetts (1896–97). He then went to Boston where he served for three years as the Pastor in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Then he was appointed to the First Methodist Church of Newtown, Massachusetts (1900–05), then the First Methodist Church of Lynn, Massachusetts (1905–08). Rev. Grose then accepted the pastorate of Grace Methodist Church in Baltimore (1908–12).

From Baltimore he was called to the Presidency of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana in 1912. He served in this position for eleven years. During a period of expansive growth at the University, his term as President brought stability and financial strength. He also transferred his conference membership to the North Indiana Annual Conference. He stepped down as President upon his election to the episcopacy.

Selected works

  • The Outlook for Religion 1913
  • Religion and the Mind 1915
  • James W Bashford - Pastor, Educator, Bishop 1922
  • The New Soul in China 1927
  • Edward Rector: a Story of the Middle West 1928
  • Browning as a contemporary: An address given to the Browning Society 1940
  • The Man From Missouri, the Story of James E. MacMurray 1943
  • References

    George Richmond Grose Wikipedia