City: Sewanee
BISHOP, William Samuel, educator and clergyman; born Northhampton, Mass., Aug. 26, 1865; son of George Sayles and Hannah More (Williston) BISHOP; father’s occupation, clergyman, pastor emeritus First Reformed Church, East Orange, N. J.; paternal grandparents William Samuel and Mary (Sayles) BISHOP, maternal grandparents John Payson and Cecilia (Lyman) WILLISTON; educated in Rutser’s Grammar School and Rutser’s College, New Brunswick, N. J., and received theological education, New Brunswick, Princeton and general theological seminaries; graduated Rutser’s, B. A., 1887, M. A., 1891, General Theological Seminary, B. D., 1892, D. D., 1905; studied in Oxford University, England, winter of 1902-1903; lecturer on dogmatic theology in General Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y., winter of 1907-1908; secretary of the Sewanee Summer School of Theology three years, and since July, 1902, he has been professor of dogmatic theology and metaphysics in the University of the South; author of “The Development of Trinitarian Doctrine in the Nicene and Athansasian Creeds” (Longmans, Green & Co., N. Y., 1910), and of articles and reviews in The Sewanee Review, The N. Y. churchman, The Church Eclectic and The Living Church; married Mary E. LUTTRELL, of Washington, D. C., June 17, 1907; member Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, E. Q. B. Club, Sewanee, president of same 1910-1911; member of Protestant Episcopal church.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
