Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)

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Joseph Newton to Jane Addams, February 26, 1906

National Committee on Rauschenbusch Lectureship Foundation proposed list, ca. January 1929

Clarence Augustus Barbour to Jane Addams, February 4, 1929

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Birth Date

1876-07-21

Death Date

1950-01-24

Birthplace

Decatur, TX

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Joseph Newton attended Southern Baptist Seminary and Harvard University and became ordained as a Baptist minister in 1895. He was a minister at the First Baptist Church in Paris, Texas; the People's Church in Dixon, Illinois; the Universalist Liberal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; the City Temple in London, England; the Church of the Divine Paternity in New York City; and the Memorial Church of St. Paul, St. James Church, and the Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany, all in Philadelphia. While in Iowa, he also taught English literature at the extension campus of the University of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, and many of his sermons were published. While in New York, Newton also worked as an editor of the Christian Century and edited the Best Sermons of the Year. He was ranked as one of the top 5 Protestant Clergyman in the United States in 1939. From 1944 to his death he wrote a Sunday sermon column in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. He also wrote over thirty books on Freemasonry.

Newton married Jennie Mai Deatherage in 1900. They had two children together: Joseph Emerson and Josephine. Newton died in 1950.