Ozora Stearns Davis
Subtitle: his life and poems
By: by Grace Tinker Davis.
Publisher: The Pilgrim press
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Boston; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Davis, Ozora Stearns, 1866-1931.
First sentence: The history of New England is full of romance and the ancestry of Ozora Davis went far back into those years of the early pioneers.
Description: A competent and delightful narrative of a greatly loved Congregational leader.

Descendant of vigorous pioneers, son of a soldier of the Civil War, born in a humble home in Wheelock, Vermont - by his own efforts securing an education in St. Johnsbury Academy, Dartmouth College, Hartford Theological Seminary and Leipzig. Pastor at Springfield, vermont; Newtonville, Massachusetts; and New Britain, Connecticut. Author of significant and scholarly volumes. President of Chicago Theological Seminary from 1909 to 1930. A career of pulpit power, literary and administrative achievement. As president, he increased the prestige, enlarged the curriculum, secured great teachers, gained a new site for the Seminary and housed it in dignified and imposing buildings. Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, he made friends for Christ and the Church in his travels throughout the United States and in the Hawaiian Islands by his brotherly nature.

Written by his wife, this volume is straightforward, intimate and satisfying. All who knew and loved Ozora Davis will be happy to have his book.
Notes: Description taken from the inside sleeve of the hardcover book. Ozora was my great grandfather whom I have never met but have heard many stories about from my grandfather. He seems to make a very lasting impression on all who knew him. How I wish I could have heard him speak. He has some wonderful poetry in here.
Table of contents: label: I
title: Dim Distant Sires
pagenum: 2; label: II
title: A Little Boy at Home
pagenum: 9; label: III
title: The World of Play
pagenum: 15; label: IV
title: Finding a Friend and a Faith
pagenum: 23; label: V
title: A Night of Failure and a Dawn of World Consciousness
pagenum: 39; label: VI
title: Two Years of a Scholar's Life
pagenum: 47; label: VII
title: The Young Minister in the Old White Church
pagenum: 51; label: VII
title: The Newtonville Parish
pagenum: 57; label: IX
title: In the Strength of His Ministry
pagenum: 72; label: XI
title: Lands of the Far Away and Long Ago
pagenum: 83; label: XII
title: His Great Task
pagenum: 89; label: XIII
title: As Moderator of the National Council
pagenum: 108; label: XIV
title: Facing the Great Adventure
pagenum: 114