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Stevenson (JOSEPH ROSS an American)

(JOSEPH) ROSS, an American theologian, born at Ligonier, Pa., in 1866. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1886 and from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1889. After taking post-graduate studies in Berlin, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1890, and served as pastor for several years in Sedalia, Mo. From 1894 to 1897 he was adjutant professor of ecclesiastical history at McCormick Theological Seminary, and full professor from 1897 to 1902. In the latter year he became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York City, serving until 1909. From that year till 1914 he was pastor of the Brown Memorial Church, in Baltimore.

In 1914 he was elected president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. During the World War he was a member of the STEVENSON International Committee of the Y. M.

C. A., and of the War Work Council.

He served in France with the Y. M. C. A. and with the Army Educational Commission in 1918-19.