Francis John McConnell (August 18, 1871 – August 18, 1953) was an American social reformer and a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912.
Biography
Francis John McConnell was born in Trinway, Ohio on August 18, 1871. He married Eva H. Thomas on March 11, 1897.[1]
Before election to the episcopacy, McConnell served as the president of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1909–1912. During his presidency he led the university's first major fund drive, the Campaign for the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Fund, which produced a total subscription of $550,546.
Francis John McConnell was a major second-generation advocate of Boston personalism who sought to apply the philosophy to social problems of his time.[2]
Mcconnell, Bishop Francis; Report On The Steel Strike Of 1919OnlineArchived February 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
McConnell, Bishop Francis John, "The Christlike God", A survey of the Divine Attributes from the Christian Point of View, copyright 1927 by the author, first edition printed March 1927, The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati.
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