James Morris Whiton, son of James Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Knowlton) Whiton, was born April 11, 1833, in Boston, Mass. His grandfather, John Milton Whiton (B.A. Yale 1805, D D Princeton, 1848), was pastor for almost fifty years of the Presbyterian Church at Antrim, N.H. The first member of the family in America was James Whiton, of Hingham, England, who settled at Hingham, Mass, in 1647. James Morris Whiton's maternal grandparents were Ebenezer and Margaret (Bass) Knowlton. The latter was a fifth generation descendant of John Alden, whose daughter married John Bass. Other ancestors included Capt. William Knowlton, who moved from Nova Scotia to Ipswich, Mass, early in the seventeenth century, and James Morris (B.A. Yale 1775), a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, who was present at the siege of Yorktown, and who subsequently founded an academy at Litchfield South Farms (now Morris), Conn.
He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, graduating as a valedictorian. At Yale he received a second prize in Freshman year for the translation of Latin into English, in Sophomore year won two prizes in English composition, and in Senior year was awarded a Townsend Premium. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ranked as a salutatorian at graduation. He rowed boat oar in the Undine Crew in 1852.
He taught in the high school at Worcester, Mass., the first year after graduation and from 1854 to 1864 was the rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. The degree of PhD was conferred upon him by Yale in 1861. He was licensed to preach November 25, 1859, and on May 10, 1865, was ordained and installed minister of the First Congregational Church in Lynn, Mass, having studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary for a year, supplementing his reading and study with Professors Noah Porter and George P Fisher of Yale. In April, 1869, the North Congregational Church of Lynn was established as a colony of the First Church, and he became its pastor. He continued in this connection until 1875. He became principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass, in 1876, but resigned at the end of two years " largely in consequence of theological animosities excited by his book, 'Is Eternal Punishment Endless?'". From 1879 to 1885 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newark, NJ. In 1886 he was installed as pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in New York City, which he helped to organize and where he remained for five years. During this period he was instrumental in forming two other new churches in the section of the city now known as the Bronx. Owing to poor health he retired from pastoral work in 1891, and engaged in teaching, writing, and occasional preaching. During 1893-94 he was acting professor of ethics and economics in the Meadville (Pa) Theological School. For a number of years he spent his summers in New England, where he had regular engagements in Congregational pulpits. In the summer of 1884 he preached in Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, England, and this was the first of a series of similar engagements during the next twenty years. Since 1896 Dr Whiton had devoted his time mainly to literary work as a member of the staff of the Outlook, literary adviser to a large publishing house, and contributing editor of the Homiletic Review. From 1898 to 1901 he also ministered every Sunday to a small congregation in Haworth, NJ. In 1899 he took an active part in promoting the organization of the New York State Conference of Religion, formed of members of some fourteen denominations, and until his death was chairman of the executive committee of the conference. He was the editor, and one of the authors of a unique volume of essays, "Getting Together" (1913), by " members of communions once estranged" - an "exposition of the fundamentals of theology believed by them all". His unusual attainments as a classical scholar appeared in several textbooks, but he was more widely known as a writer on theological and ethical themes, and as a preacher of a social gospel. Besides countless magazine and newspaper articles he wrote many books, of which some of the best known are: "Is Eternal Punishment Endless" (1876), "The Gospel of the Resurrection" (1881); "The Evolution of Revelation" (1885); "The Divine Satisfaction", a critique of theories of the Atonement (1886); " Turning Points of Thought and Conduct" (1887); "New Points to Old Texts" (1889); "Gloria Patri" (1892); "Interludes in a Time of Change, Ethical, Social, and Theological" (1909), and "The Life of God in the Life of His World" (1918), his latest published work. He served as Secretary of the Class of 1853 from 1903 until his death, and in 1903 published "The Class of Fifty-Three in Yale College: a Supplementary History, including the Fifth Decade". On June 17, 1917, he delivered the Founders' Day address at Williston Seminary.
James received his AB degree from Yale College in 1843, and his PhD in 1861. He was one of three awarded the PhD degree at Yale that year, and those three were the first doctoral degrees awarded by any university in America. (Source: The Whiton Family Bulletin, Fall 1963 edition, page 4.)
His death occurred at his home in New York City on January 25, 1920, after an illness of three days due to acute bronchitis. Burial was in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, June 2, 1920.
Dr Whiton was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 1, 1855, to Mary Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bartlett, and a sister of his classmate, Dr William V F Bartlett. Mrs Whiton died September 27, 1917. Their oldest son, James Morris, born February 10, 1856, died on May 4, 1862. A son and two daughters survive their father; James Bartlett (BA Williams 1884), who is connected with the New England Life Insurance Company of New York City; Mary Bartlett (BA Smith 1879), one of the organizers of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington DC; and Helen Isabel (BA Smith 1894; MA Columbia 1897; PhD Columbia 1898). He is also survived by a brother, John Milton Whiton, ex-'63S, and two sisters, Mary Elizabeth, widow of Charles F. Washburn, and Charlotte Grosvenor, wife of Wolcott Calkins, '56. His two grandsons volunteered in the World War. The elder was in service from May, 1917, to August, 1919, becoming aide to General Alexander, with the rank of Captain of Infantry. The younger served from May, 1918, to July, 1919, as a Corporal in the Motor Transport Corps.
Source: Yale University Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1920.
- Thank you to volunteer "Lara" for taking the time to share this sketch of his life.
He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, graduating as a valedictorian. At Yale he received a second prize in Freshman year for the translation of Latin into English, in Sophomore year won two prizes in English composition, and in Senior year was awarded a Townsend Premium. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ranked as a salutatorian at graduation. He rowed boat oar in the Undine Crew in 1852.
He taught in the high school at Worcester, Mass., the first year after graduation and from 1854 to 1864 was the rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. The degree of PhD was conferred upon him by Yale in 1861. He was licensed to preach November 25, 1859, and on May 10, 1865, was ordained and installed minister of the First Congregational Church in Lynn, Mass, having studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary for a year, supplementing his reading and study with Professors Noah Porter and George P Fisher of Yale. In April, 1869, the North Congregational Church of Lynn was established as a colony of the First Church, and he became its pastor. He continued in this connection until 1875. He became principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass, in 1876, but resigned at the end of two years " largely in consequence of theological animosities excited by his book, 'Is Eternal Punishment Endless?'". From 1879 to 1885 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newark, NJ. In 1886 he was installed as pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in New York City, which he helped to organize and where he remained for five years. During this period he was instrumental in forming two other new churches in the section of the city now known as the Bronx. Owing to poor health he retired from pastoral work in 1891, and engaged in teaching, writing, and occasional preaching. During 1893-94 he was acting professor of ethics and economics in the Meadville (Pa) Theological School. For a number of years he spent his summers in New England, where he had regular engagements in Congregational pulpits. In the summer of 1884 he preached in Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, England, and this was the first of a series of similar engagements during the next twenty years. Since 1896 Dr Whiton had devoted his time mainly to literary work as a member of the staff of the Outlook, literary adviser to a large publishing house, and contributing editor of the Homiletic Review. From 1898 to 1901 he also ministered every Sunday to a small congregation in Haworth, NJ. In 1899 he took an active part in promoting the organization of the New York State Conference of Religion, formed of members of some fourteen denominations, and until his death was chairman of the executive committee of the conference. He was the editor, and one of the authors of a unique volume of essays, "Getting Together" (1913), by " members of communions once estranged" - an "exposition of the fundamentals of theology believed by them all". His unusual attainments as a classical scholar appeared in several textbooks, but he was more widely known as a writer on theological and ethical themes, and as a preacher of a social gospel. Besides countless magazine and newspaper articles he wrote many books, of which some of the best known are: "Is Eternal Punishment Endless" (1876), "The Gospel of the Resurrection" (1881); "The Evolution of Revelation" (1885); "The Divine Satisfaction", a critique of theories of the Atonement (1886); " Turning Points of Thought and Conduct" (1887); "New Points to Old Texts" (1889); "Gloria Patri" (1892); "Interludes in a Time of Change, Ethical, Social, and Theological" (1909), and "The Life of God in the Life of His World" (1918), his latest published work. He served as Secretary of the Class of 1853 from 1903 until his death, and in 1903 published "The Class of Fifty-Three in Yale College: a Supplementary History, including the Fifth Decade". On June 17, 1917, he delivered the Founders' Day address at Williston Seminary.
James received his AB degree from Yale College in 1843, and his PhD in 1861. He was one of three awarded the PhD degree at Yale that year, and those three were the first doctoral degrees awarded by any university in America. (Source: The Whiton Family Bulletin, Fall 1963 edition, page 4.)
His death occurred at his home in New York City on January 25, 1920, after an illness of three days due to acute bronchitis. Burial was in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, June 2, 1920.
Dr Whiton was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 1, 1855, to Mary Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bartlett, and a sister of his classmate, Dr William V F Bartlett. Mrs Whiton died September 27, 1917. Their oldest son, James Morris, born February 10, 1856, died on May 4, 1862. A son and two daughters survive their father; James Bartlett (BA Williams 1884), who is connected with the New England Life Insurance Company of New York City; Mary Bartlett (BA Smith 1879), one of the organizers of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington DC; and Helen Isabel (BA Smith 1894; MA Columbia 1897; PhD Columbia 1898). He is also survived by a brother, John Milton Whiton, ex-'63S, and two sisters, Mary Elizabeth, widow of Charles F. Washburn, and Charlotte Grosvenor, wife of Wolcott Calkins, '56. His two grandsons volunteered in the World War. The elder was in service from May, 1917, to August, 1919, becoming aide to General Alexander, with the rank of Captain of Infantry. The younger served from May, 1918, to July, 1919, as a Corporal in the Motor Transport Corps.
Source: Yale University Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1920.
- Thank you to volunteer "Lara" for taking the time to share this sketch of his life.
James Morris Whiton, son of James Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Knowlton) Whiton, was born April 11, 1833, in Boston, Mass. His grandfather, John Milton Whiton (B.A. Yale 1805, D D Princeton, 1848), was pastor for almost fifty years of the Presbyterian Church at Antrim, N.H. The first member of the family in America was James Whiton, of Hingham, England, who settled at Hingham, Mass, in 1647. James Morris Whiton's maternal grandparents were Ebenezer and Margaret (Bass) Knowlton. The latter was a fifth generation descendant of John Alden, whose daughter married John Bass. Other ancestors included Capt. William Knowlton, who moved from Nova Scotia to Ipswich, Mass, early in the seventeenth century, and James Morris (B.A. Yale 1775), a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, who was present at the siege of Yorktown, and who subsequently founded an academy at Litchfield South Farms (now Morris), Conn.
He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, graduating as a valedictorian. At Yale he received a second prize in Freshman year for the translation of Latin into English, in Sophomore year won two prizes in English composition, and in Senior year was awarded a Townsend Premium. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ranked as a salutatorian at graduation. He rowed boat oar in the Undine Crew in 1852.
He taught in the high school at Worcester, Mass., the first year after graduation and from 1854 to 1864 was the rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. The degree of PhD was conferred upon him by Yale in 1861. He was licensed to preach November 25, 1859, and on May 10, 1865, was ordained and installed minister of the First Congregational Church in Lynn, Mass, having studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary for a year, supplementing his reading and study with Professors Noah Porter and George P Fisher of Yale. In April, 1869, the North Congregational Church of Lynn was established as a colony of the First Church, and he became its pastor. He continued in this connection until 1875. He became principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass, in 1876, but resigned at the end of two years " largely in consequence of theological animosities excited by his book, 'Is Eternal Punishment Endless?'". From 1879 to 1885 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newark, NJ. In 1886 he was installed as pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in New York City, which he helped to organize and where he remained for five years. During this period he was instrumental in forming two other new churches in the section of the city now known as the Bronx. Owing to poor health he retired from pastoral work in 1891, and engaged in teaching, writing, and occasional preaching. During 1893-94 he was acting professor of ethics and economics in the Meadville (Pa) Theological School. For a number of years he spent his summers in New England, where he had regular engagements in Congregational pulpits. In the summer of 1884 he preached in Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, England, and this was the first of a series of similar engagements during the next twenty years. Since 1896 Dr Whiton had devoted his time mainly to literary work as a member of the staff of the Outlook, literary adviser to a large publishing house, and contributing editor of the Homiletic Review. From 1898 to 1901 he also ministered every Sunday to a small congregation in Haworth, NJ. In 1899 he took an active part in promoting the organization of the New York State Conference of Religion, formed of members of some fourteen denominations, and until his death was chairman of the executive committee of the conference. He was the editor, and one of the authors of a unique volume of essays, "Getting Together" (1913), by " members of communions once estranged" - an "exposition of the fundamentals of theology believed by them all". His unusual attainments as a classical scholar appeared in several textbooks, but he was more widely known as a writer on theological and ethical themes, and as a preacher of a social gospel. Besides countless magazine and newspaper articles he wrote many books, of which some of the best known are: "Is Eternal Punishment Endless" (1876), "The Gospel of the Resurrection" (1881); "The Evolution of Revelation" (1885); "The Divine Satisfaction", a critique of theories of the Atonement (1886); " Turning Points of Thought and Conduct" (1887); "New Points to Old Texts" (1889); "Gloria Patri" (1892); "Interludes in a Time of Change, Ethical, Social, and Theological" (1909), and "The Life of God in the Life of His World" (1918), his latest published work. He served as Secretary of the Class of 1853 from 1903 until his death, and in 1903 published "The Class of Fifty-Three in Yale College: a Supplementary History, including the Fifth Decade". On June 17, 1917, he delivered the Founders' Day address at Williston Seminary.
James received his AB degree from Yale College in 1843, and his PhD in 1861. He was one of three awarded the PhD degree at Yale that year, and those three were the first doctoral degrees awarded by any university in America. (Source: The Whiton Family Bulletin, Fall 1963 edition, page 4.)
His death occurred at his home in New York City on January 25, 1920, after an illness of three days due to acute bronchitis. Burial was in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, June 2, 1920.
Dr Whiton was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 1, 1855, to Mary Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bartlett, and a sister of his classmate, Dr William V F Bartlett. Mrs Whiton died September 27, 1917. Their oldest son, James Morris, born February 10, 1856, died on May 4, 1862. A son and two daughters survive their father; James Bartlett (BA Williams 1884), who is connected with the New England Life Insurance Company of New York City; Mary Bartlett (BA Smith 1879), one of the organizers of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington DC; and Helen Isabel (BA Smith 1894; MA Columbia 1897; PhD Columbia 1898). He is also survived by a brother, John Milton Whiton, ex-'63S, and two sisters, Mary Elizabeth, widow of Charles F. Washburn, and Charlotte Grosvenor, wife of Wolcott Calkins, '56. His two grandsons volunteered in the World War. The elder was in service from May, 1917, to August, 1919, becoming aide to General Alexander, with the rank of Captain of Infantry. The younger served from May, 1918, to July, 1919, as a Corporal in the Motor Transport Corps.
Source: Yale University Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1920.
- Thank you to volunteer "Lara" for taking the time to share this sketch of his life.
He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, graduating as a valedictorian. At Yale he received a second prize in Freshman year for the translation of Latin into English, in Sophomore year won two prizes in English composition, and in Senior year was awarded a Townsend Premium. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ranked as a salutatorian at graduation. He rowed boat oar in the Undine Crew in 1852.
He taught in the high school at Worcester, Mass., the first year after graduation and from 1854 to 1864 was the rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. The degree of PhD was conferred upon him by Yale in 1861. He was licensed to preach November 25, 1859, and on May 10, 1865, was ordained and installed minister of the First Congregational Church in Lynn, Mass, having studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary for a year, supplementing his reading and study with Professors Noah Porter and George P Fisher of Yale. In April, 1869, the North Congregational Church of Lynn was established as a colony of the First Church, and he became its pastor. He continued in this connection until 1875. He became principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass, in 1876, but resigned at the end of two years " largely in consequence of theological animosities excited by his book, 'Is Eternal Punishment Endless?'". From 1879 to 1885 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newark, NJ. In 1886 he was installed as pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in New York City, which he helped to organize and where he remained for five years. During this period he was instrumental in forming two other new churches in the section of the city now known as the Bronx. Owing to poor health he retired from pastoral work in 1891, and engaged in teaching, writing, and occasional preaching. During 1893-94 he was acting professor of ethics and economics in the Meadville (Pa) Theological School. For a number of years he spent his summers in New England, where he had regular engagements in Congregational pulpits. In the summer of 1884 he preached in Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, England, and this was the first of a series of similar engagements during the next twenty years. Since 1896 Dr Whiton had devoted his time mainly to literary work as a member of the staff of the Outlook, literary adviser to a large publishing house, and contributing editor of the Homiletic Review. From 1898 to 1901 he also ministered every Sunday to a small congregation in Haworth, NJ. In 1899 he took an active part in promoting the organization of the New York State Conference of Religion, formed of members of some fourteen denominations, and until his death was chairman of the executive committee of the conference. He was the editor, and one of the authors of a unique volume of essays, "Getting Together" (1913), by " members of communions once estranged" - an "exposition of the fundamentals of theology believed by them all". His unusual attainments as a classical scholar appeared in several textbooks, but he was more widely known as a writer on theological and ethical themes, and as a preacher of a social gospel. Besides countless magazine and newspaper articles he wrote many books, of which some of the best known are: "Is Eternal Punishment Endless" (1876), "The Gospel of the Resurrection" (1881); "The Evolution of Revelation" (1885); "The Divine Satisfaction", a critique of theories of the Atonement (1886); " Turning Points of Thought and Conduct" (1887); "New Points to Old Texts" (1889); "Gloria Patri" (1892); "Interludes in a Time of Change, Ethical, Social, and Theological" (1909), and "The Life of God in the Life of His World" (1918), his latest published work. He served as Secretary of the Class of 1853 from 1903 until his death, and in 1903 published "The Class of Fifty-Three in Yale College: a Supplementary History, including the Fifth Decade". On June 17, 1917, he delivered the Founders' Day address at Williston Seminary.
James received his AB degree from Yale College in 1843, and his PhD in 1861. He was one of three awarded the PhD degree at Yale that year, and those three were the first doctoral degrees awarded by any university in America. (Source: The Whiton Family Bulletin, Fall 1963 edition, page 4.)
His death occurred at his home in New York City on January 25, 1920, after an illness of three days due to acute bronchitis. Burial was in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, June 2, 1920.
Dr Whiton was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 1, 1855, to Mary Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bartlett, and a sister of his classmate, Dr William V F Bartlett. Mrs Whiton died September 27, 1917. Their oldest son, James Morris, born February 10, 1856, died on May 4, 1862. A son and two daughters survive their father; James Bartlett (BA Williams 1884), who is connected with the New England Life Insurance Company of New York City; Mary Bartlett (BA Smith 1879), one of the organizers of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington DC; and Helen Isabel (BA Smith 1894; MA Columbia 1897; PhD Columbia 1898). He is also survived by a brother, John Milton Whiton, ex-'63S, and two sisters, Mary Elizabeth, widow of Charles F. Washburn, and Charlotte Grosvenor, wife of Wolcott Calkins, '56. His two grandsons volunteered in the World War. The elder was in service from May, 1917, to August, 1919, becoming aide to General Alexander, with the rank of Captain of Infantry. The younger served from May, 1918, to July, 1919, as a Corporal in the Motor Transport Corps.
Source: Yale University Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1920.
- Thank you to volunteer "Lara" for taking the time to share this sketch of his life.
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