David Schley Schaff, B.A. 1873. Born October 17, 1852, in Mercersburg, Pa. Died March 2, 1941, at Winter Park, FL. Father, Rev. Philip Schaff, D D., LL D. (attended universities of Tubingen, Halle, and Berlin 1837-40), author and teacher; professor Union Theological Seminary 1870-93, son of Philip and Anna (Schindler)Schaf of Chur Coire, Switzerland. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Schley) Schaff, daughter of David and Anna Mary (Hoke) Schley of Frederick, Md. Prepared at gymnasium, Kornthal, Germany, and Phillips-Andover; attended New York University 1869-70. Entered Yale College beginning of Sophomore year, in Senior year president of Yale's first football club and coach and member of her first football team, generally regarded as originator of intercollegiate football in America, member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, Alpha Sigma Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Attended Union Theological Seminary 1873-76 (diploma 1876),supply minister Lafayette Square Presbyterian Church, Baltimore,1876; ordained in Presbyterian church 1877, minister Hastings, Nebr,1877-81, First Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Mo, 1883-88, and Westminster Church, Jacksonville, 111, 1890-97, associate editor Schaff Herzog Encyclopaedia 1881-94; traveled in Europe and the Near East and studied at University of Berlin 1888-89, professor of church history Lane12 Yale University Obituary Record Theological Seminary 1897-1903; professor of ecclesiastical history and history of doctrine Western Theological Seminary 1903-26; lecturer on church history Union Theological Seminary 1926-27 and on American church history 1927-30, resided in Washington, D C, 1925-41; author :A Commentary on Acts (1882), The Life of Philip Schaff (1897), History of the Christian Church, Vol V, parts I and II (1907, 1910), John Huss's Treatise on the Church (1914), John Huss... (1915), Our Fathers' Faith and Ours (1928), and many articles in religious publications; contributed to:A Select Library of the Ntcene and Post-Ntcene Fathers of the Christian Church, edited by Philp Schaff; revised his father's edition of Christ m Song. Hymns of Immanuel (1895), D D Illinois College 1891 and universities of Geneva and Prague 1909, moderator Synod of Missouri 1887;represented Presbyterian General Assembly at celebration of 400th anniversary of Calvin's birth (1909), delegate to Tenth Council of Presbyterian Alliance, Aberdeen, 1913, chairman committee appointed by General Assembly to prepare a new catechism 1908-13 and committee to arrange for celebration of 400th anniversary of Protestant Reformation 1917, president American Society of Church History 1916-17, member Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D C. Married (1) June 25, 1885, in Richmond, Ind., Luella Mar, daughter of Moses Harnman Haynes (M D Miami Medical Coll. 1856) and Sarah (Hunter) Haynes Children* Philip Haynes (B A. Princeton 1906),Walter (B A. Princeton 1909), Paul Edwin (died September 8, 1938),Norman, '14 (died July 18, 1933), Mary Louise (B A. Radcliff 1929), Harold Hunter, ex-21, and David Schley, Jr. Mrs. Schaff died February 12, 1908 Married (2) June 5, 1912, in Pittsburgh, Ella, daughter of James and Maria (Carson) Andrews No children. *Death due to coronary thrombosis. Buried in Sewickley (Pa ) Cemetery.