1879-1956

March 7, 1879, Bel­fast, Ire­land.

March 4, 1956, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts.

John E. Park (1879-1956)

Park stu­died at Queen’s Coll­ege, Bel­fast, Ire­land; Roy­al Un­i­ver­si­ty, Dub­lin; and in Ed­in­burgh, Leip­zig, and at Ox­ford. Af­ter grad­u­at­ing from Prince­ton The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, he was or­dained a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter in 1903. For a time he worked as a lum­ber­jack in the New York Ad­i­ron­dacks, then be­came a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter and pas­tored in An­do­ver, Mass­a­chu­setts, and at the Se­cond Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in West New­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. He served as pres­i­dent of Whea­ton Coll­ege, Nor­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts, 1926-1944. His works in­clude:

  1. O Christ, Whose Love Has Sought Us Ought © 1954
  2. We Would See Je­sus
Park’s bur­i­al place