| 词条 | Robert Morrison (Phi Delta Theta) |
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Morrison grew up in Ohio and entered Ohio University in 1839 as a scholarship student. He attended Ohio University for two years, returning home to help on the family farm and to teach school. He entered Miami University in 1846 and conceived the idea for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which he founded with five other students on December 26, 1848. He later attended McCormick Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary.[2] Morrison's career as a minister, editor of religious publications and teacher took him to Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Missouri. He edited the Louisville Presbyterian Herald from 1854 to 1860.[3] He was also co-editor of the Louisville True Presbyterian,[4] which was suppressed by Union military authorities in 1863, during the American Civil War.[2] In September 1869, Morrison established Westminster Academy, a co-educational school in Waterford, Ohio, where he was principal for six years.[5] He was also the principal of Poplar Grove Academy in Rutherford County, Tennessee.[2][5] He combined his teaching duties with regular preaching.[5] From 1879 to 1881 he worked as financial agent to eliminate the debts of Westminster College and established the Phi Delta Theta Missouri Beta Chapter, in Fulton, Missouri.[5][6] After this he preached at various locations around Missouri, and founded churches in towns such as Gravois Mills and Tuscumbia.[5] Miami University conferred a Doctor of Divinity on him in 1897.[6] Morrison died at his home near Fulton, Missouri in 1902, second to last survivor of the six founders of Phi Delta Theta. The fraternity paid off Morrison's mortgage and provided an endowment to his widow.[7] References1. ^Phi Delta Theta: History 2. ^1 2 Boston Evening Transcript, 1 Aug 1902, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020801&id=1JE-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=U1oMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6469,105510 Rev. Robert Morrison] 3. ^The New York Times, 29 July 1902, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60914FF3B5412738DDDA00A94DF405B828CF1D3 The Rev. Robert Morrison] 4. ^Preston D. Graham, A kingdom not of this world: Stuart Robinson's struggle to distinguish the sacred from the secular during the Civil War, Mercer University Press, 2002, {{ISBN|0-86554-757-2}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wbhVxLWpySMC&pg=PP16 frontispiece.] 5. ^1 2 3 4 The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, Volume 27, 1903, pp. 20–31. 6. ^1 Walter Benjamin Palmer, The Olympian of Phi Delta Theta, George Banta Publishing Company, 1912, p. 22. 7. ^The New York Times, 30 November 1902, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40614FD3B5A16738DDDA90B94D9415B828CF1D3 Tribute to Founder of a Fraternity] External links
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