McIntire, Carl, 1906-

Carl McIntire was born May 17, l906 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where his father, Charles Curtis McIntire, was pastor of First Presbyterian Church. By 1908, however, the family had moved west, and McIntire spent his early years in Oklahoma. Originally aiming for a career in international law, McIntire spent three years at Southeastern State College in Durant, Oklahoma. However, possibly influenced by his missionary parents, McIntire spent his senior year at Park College, a Presbyterian school in Parksville, Missouri. Here McIntire made the decision to enter the ministry. After graduation from Park College in 1927, McIntire entered Princeton Seminary to continue his theological training.

McIntire arrived at Princeton in the midst of the modernist-fundamentalist struggle. When Princeton reorganized in 1929, McIntire, already a staunch fundamentalist, followed New Testament scholar J. Gresham Machen to Philadelphia, where Machen and other former Princeton faculty established Westminster Theological Seminary. McIntire graduated from Westminster in 1931 and in that same year married Fairy Eunice Davis, whom he had met while a student in Oklahoma. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA), McIntire became pastor of Chelsea Presbyterian Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1933, however, McIntire was called to the pastorate of Collingswood Presbyterian Church in Collingswood, New Jersey, where he would spend the remainder of his professional life.

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