Hayes, Paul G.

  1. Hayes, Paul G.
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Chronology of Paul G. Hayes

1890 Sep 1 Born at 558 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA. Son of Zachariah T. Hayes (1849 Sep 17-1901 Apr 1) and Emma Amelia (Goodman) Hayes (1857 Mar 17-1919 Oct 23). One sister, Rhoda Amelia Hayes (1892 Sep 7-1973 Sep 25, never married) 1904 1910 Dropped out of public school to help support mother and sister. Worked as office boy, then bookkeeper, Lebzelter Bending Works, Lancaster, PA 1907 First attended the Gospel Mission in Lancaster (predecessor to Union Gospel Mission and Water St. Mission); made decision to dedicate his life to Christ 1910 1911 Union Missionary Training Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1911 1913 Franklin Marshall Academy, Lancaster, PA 1913 1917 Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster, PA: B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Marshall oration (highest honor) 1915 1917 Superintendent, Water Street Mission, Lancaster (reorganized, with others, 1915; started rescue services with Herman Molin, 1917) 1916 1917 Student pastor, Ross Street Methodist Church, Lancaster (founded, with others, 1916) 1917 Sep 8 Married Mary Elizabeth Zwally (died 1918, 'flu epidemic) 1917 1918 Student Pastor, Linden Methodist Church, Malden, MA 1917 1920 Boston University School of Theology, S.T.B. 1919 1920 Student Pastor, Fremont Congregational Church, Fremont, NH 1920 1921 B.U.S.T. graduate studies toward Ph D. 1921 Aug 10 Sailed for China on the Korea Maru from San Francisco, under the auspices of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Met Helen Mae Wolf, Reformed Church missionary, aboard ship 1921 1922 Nanking Language School at the University of Nanking 1922 Jun 13 Married Helen Mae Wolf (1896 Nov 8-1988 Jul 19). Children: Elsie Rhoda, born 1923 Jun 22 at Kuling, on Lushan, Kiangsi, China and Lois Anne, born 1931 Nov 8 at Wuhu, China. 1921 1926 First term in Wuhu, Anhwei, China 1926 1928 Furlough 1926 Union Theological Seminary grad. studies 1927 Hartford Seminary Foundation, cont. studies toward Ph.D.; completed all but dissertation; took materials to China to write dissertation, but never had the time. Summer pastor at Clinton (CT) Methodist Episcopal Church 1927 28 Served at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Windsor Locks, CT 1929 1935 Second Term in China 1929 30 in Chinkiang 1930 35 in Wuhu 1935 1936 Associate Pastor, Simpson Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN 1936 1941 Pastor, Calvary Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN 1941 1949 Pastor, McCabe Methodist Church, Bismarck, ND; Member Board of Ministerial Training, Board of Missions, North Dakota Conference, Dean Summer School Ministerial Training, 1947, 1948 1949 Honorary Doctor of Divinity, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, with which Wesley College, Fargo, affiliated 1949 1955 Pastor, First Methodist Church, Albert Lea, MN 1955 1961 District Superintendent, Minnesota Southeast District 1955 1966 Directorates of Rochester Methodist Hospital, Rochester, MN; Paul Watkins Memorial Methodist Home, Winona, MN (founded, with others, 1958); Old Frontenac Point Camp, Frontenac, MN; Fellowship Methodist Church, Austin, MN (founded, with others, 1958); Methodist Hospital, Minneapolis (1963-1966) 1961 1970 Associate Pastor, Lake Harriet Methodist Church, Minnneapolis 1970 1977 Associate Pastor, Hamline United Methodist Church, St. Paul, MN. Retired to work on memoirs (1977) 1987 Feb 11 Entered Walker Methodist Residence Health Care Center 1994 Mar 1 Died at Walker Methodist Health Care Center

Consolidated from a chronology compiled by Elsie H. Landstrom, 1987 Oct 30. (See: Box 33, Folder 429)

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