DRURY, MARION RICHARDSON: 1849-1939.
Marion Richardson Drury , son of Morgan S. and Elizabeth Lambert Drury, was born at Pendleton, Ind., on Dec. 27, 1849, and graduated from Western (now Coe) College in 1872, receiving the A.M. degree in 1875. In the latter year he also graduated from Union Biblical (now Bonebrake Theological) Seminary. He married Lucinda Denny on June 20, 1872.
Ordained to the United Brethren ministry in 1875, he served as pastor of churches in Iowa, Ohio, and California until 1910, when he became president of Philomath College in Oregon . From 1913 to 1916 he was president of Leander Clark College in Iowa , from 1917 to 1919 pastor at Cedar Rapids , from 1912 to 1922 student secretary of Coe College, and after 1922 missionary in Puerto Rico . He was editor or compiler of several books besides those listed.
He died on Feb. 21, 1939.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- At Hand: a Pocket Vocabulary of Daily Duty and Privilege for
the Use of Christian Young People. Dayton, O.,
1895.
- Life of Bishop J. W. Hott. Dayton,
O., 1902.
- Our Catechism. Dayton, O., n.d.
- After Eighty Years. 1930.
- Reminiscences of Early Days in Iowa. 1931.
- Life of Augustus Waldo Drury. 1936.
