A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Braithwaite, Edward Ernest= (London, Ont.), President of Western
University, son of Mark Mell Braithwaite and Elizabeth Eckardt; born at
Unionville, Ont., March 14, 1865. Educated at Markham High School and
Toronto University, McGill University, B.A. (with first class honors in
Philosophy, ’86), Oberlin College, Ohio, (B.D., ’90), University of
Chicago, and Harvard University, where he obtained the degree of M.A.,
1901, and Ph.D., 1904. Married, November 10, 1892, to Ida Minnie Van
Camp, daughter of Rev. Albert and Isabella Van Camp, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Is the father of the following children: Harold Albert, born August 28,
1893; Lloyd Mell, born October 22, 1896; Ernest Scott, born December 8,
1899; Percy Bryant, born March 9, 1905; Carol Isabel, born December 25,
1906. Dr. Braithwaite is a noted educationalist, and has occupied many
important positions in the prominent seats of learning in Canada and the
United States, and has also filled many pastorates, among which may be
mentioned the following: 1890-95, Pastor St. Louis, Mo. (Fountain Park
Congregational Church); 1896-97, Graduate Student University of Chicago
(working mainly with that eminent teacher, the late President Harper in
the Department of Oriental Languages); 1897-1900, Pastor Tabernacle
Church, Yarmouth, N.S., and Chairman of the Congregational Union of the
Maritime Provinces, also Missionary Superintendent for the Provinces of
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; 1900-1901, began Ph.D. course in the
Graduate Department of Harvard University, and at the end of the first
year was called to Oberlin owing to the illness of Hebrew Professor.
Returned to Harvard University the following year; 1901-02, Acting
Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, Oberlin College, Ohio;
1902-03, Graduate Student, Harvard University, from which he received
the degree of Ph.D. in 1904 and was appointed Williams Fellow; 1903-08,
Pastor of West Somerville, Mass.; 1908-11, Pastor of Northern Church,
Toronto; 1912-13, Dean of Calgary College, Calgary, Alberta; 1914, was
appointed President of the Western University of London, which position
he now holds. Dr. Braithwaite is a member of the Rotary and Canadian
Clubs, and has been a Liberal in politics although not especially
identified with any parties. He is Chairman of the Military Committee of
the C. O. T. C. of the Western University and takes great interest in
Military matters and all amateur sports. He is also one of the Board of
Directors of the London Chamber of Commerce and several other local
organizations.
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