TIPPY, WORTH MARION: 1866-
Worth Marion Tippy , son of Oren and Mary Isabel Carder Tippy, was born in Larwill, Ind., on Nov. 8, 1866, and graduated from De Pauw University in 1891, receiving the D.D. degree in 1907. He also studied at Cornell University and at Sage School of Philosophy. On May 16, 1895, he married Zella B. Ward.
Ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1893, he served as pastor in New Jersey, Indiana ( Lafayette, Oxford, Terre Haute , and Indianapolis ), Ohio , and New York until 1917. From 1917 to 1937 he was executive secretary of the Commission on the Church and Social Service of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. He was also a lecturer and university preacher.
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