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Shaw (JOHN BALCOM an American)

JOHN BALCOM, an American educator, born at Bellport, N. Y., in 1860, SHAW He graduated from Lafayette College in 1885, and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1888. In the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and was pastor of the West End Church, from 1888 to 1904, and of the Second Church of Chicago, from 1904 to 1913. From the latter year to 1915 he was pastor of Immanuel Church, Los Angeles. In 1915 he was elected president of Elmira College for Women, serving until 1917. He contributed extensively to magazines and religious papers, and wrote "Four Great Questions" (1898); "One Step at a Time" (1904); "The Work That Wins" (1905); "The Angel in the Sun." He was a delegate to many international meetings and conventions.