Cary, Norman White, 1849-1928.

Norman White Cary was born in New York City, New York, on October 29, 1849. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1870 and received an A.M. from Yale in 1873. That same year, he also graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church and was pastor over numerous churches along the east coast and in the northern Midwest. Around 1885, he had the desire to teach and began a school in North Dakota, then moved to Baltimore to learn chemistry and physics at Johns Hopkins University. He quickly returned to the ministry, though, and eventually also began selling life insurance. He and his wife, Hannah S. Craig, had three children. He died on May 11, 1928.

From the description of Norman White Cary papers, 1866-1870 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168292

Norman White Cary was born in New York City, New York, on October 29, 1849. He graduated from Yale with the class of 1870 and received an A.M. from Yale in 1873. That same year, he also graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church and was pastor over numerous churches along the east coast and in the northern Midwest. Around 1885, he had the desire to teach and began a school in North Dakota, then moved to Baltimore to learn chemistry and physics at Johns Hopkins University. He quickly returned to the ministry, though, and eventually also began selling life insurance. He and his wife, Hannah S. Craig had three children. He died on May 11, 1928.

(Detroit, Michigan), son of Rev. Josiah Addison and Gertrude (Jenkins) Cary, was born in New York City October 29, 1849. He was prepared for college at the Rev. Dr. J. W. Faire's Classical Institute, Philadelphia, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.

He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary April 29, 1873, and edited the "Commencement Record" of the seminary for that year. He received his degree as A.M. at Yale at the June Commencement of the same year. He had been licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia April 2, 1872, and was ordained by the same body in Calvary Presbyterian Church May 8, 1873. Some six weeks before he had been appointed by the session of this Presbyterian church to the care of Hope Mission. They had just adopted this enterprise. He built it up with great success.

At Decennial he writes: "After two years at Hope Chapel I spent the winter of 1875-76 at Union Theological Seminary, New York; preached at Noroton, Connecticut, in spring of 1876; was invited to St. Paul, Minnesota, and six months later was installed over the First Presbyterian Church; from February to April, 1878, supplied the Presbyterian church in Bismarck, Dakota, during the absence of the pastor; returned May, 1878, to the East, and in November began preaching at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where I acted as stated supply of that church until May, 1880."

In June, 1890, he writes your Historian from Baltimore: "Since 1880 I have been in the Presbyterian ministry at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota. About 1885 the desire to teach seized me so forcibly, while preaching at Moorhead, that I started a school at Fargo, North Dakota, which, owing to several years of poor crops and the sudden rise of some ten state and religious educational institutions within one hundred miles, forced me to drift toward a commercial college, a grade I felt unfitted for, and so concluded to go to Johns Hopkins University, where for a year and a half I have been specially studying physics and chemistry, and am now fitted to teach the same in some high school or college."

In June, 1895, he writes from the pastor's study, Evangelical Church, Grosse Pointe, Michigan: "To the Class of Seventy-Accept my cordial greetings with a photograph of my family, as we shall not be present. As I am located here near Detroit, which is one of the centers through which travel passes to the West, it awakens the hope that I may have a visit from any of my classmates or their families who pass through Detroit."

He left the Grosse Pointe church in October, 1898, quite overworked, and took up the sale of life insurance with the agency of the Provident Life and Trust Company, of Philadelphia. He supplies pulpits, serves on committees, moderates sessions of the presbytery, is serving his third year as secretary of the Presbyterian Alliance of Detroit churches that supports mission charges, and is for the sixth year secretary of the Wayne County Sunday School Association.

He was married, July 20, 1885, to Miss Hannah S. Craig, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Children

Addison Reading, b. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1886

Medora Alice, b. at Moorhead, Minnesota, January 19, 1888

Norman Leroy, b. at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1892.

(Taken from The Biographical Record of the Class of 1870 ).

From the guide to the Norman White Cary papers, 1866-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives)