Pastor Seattle 1st Presbyterian
The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, noted Presbyterian paster and vice-crusader, died of pneumonia and a paralytic stroke in the Seattle General Hospital at 7:40am today. He was 72 years old and paster of the largest Presbyterian congregation in the nation with a membership of 8,500.
Widow = the former Miss Grace Owen Jones∼Pastor. He pastored Seattle's First Presbyterian Church for 38 years, from 1902 to 1940. He built his congregation into the denomination's largest, with nearly 10,000 members at its height -- a remarkable accomplishment in the Pacific Northwest, which was then (and is today) the least-churched region of the country. He spearheaded social projects and helped create new institutions such as Seattle Day Nursery, which evolved into Childhaven, one of the state's most successful institutions to treat child abuse. He helped lead the effort to establish Harborview Hospital. But for the first four decades of the twentieth century the Presbyterian minister also played controversial roles. He was a bitter foe of mayor Hiram Gill (1866-1919) and Seattle Times editor Alden Blethen (1845-1915). He was the unlikely friend of labor leader Dave Beck (1894-1993) and a frequent correspondent with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during Wilson's presidency. Throughout Matthews's career he took controversial positions including support for Prohibition and opposition to woman suffrage. Filled with paradox and irony, his colorful career reflects many of the most important social, political, and religious forces at work in the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Born in Calhoun on September 24, 1867, he was the son of a carriage maker who experienced great hardships after the Civil War. Matthews's childhood poverty encouraged an ethical outlook that relied on hard work and traditional moral values. His moral orientation and piety were further influenced by the environment of Southern revivalism with its standard fare of itinerant preachers, tent meetings, and fiery sermons. He was exposed to radical agrarian politics of the post-Reconstruction period. He experienced religious conversion at age 13, and began to prepare for the ministry as a career. He never went to seminary, but received his theological education largely through efforts of a local pastor in his hometown.
The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, noted Presbyterian paster and vice-crusader, died of pneumonia and a paralytic stroke in the Seattle General Hospital at 7:40am today. He was 72 years old and paster of the largest Presbyterian congregation in the nation with a membership of 8,500.
Widow = the former Miss Grace Owen Jones∼Pastor. He pastored Seattle's First Presbyterian Church for 38 years, from 1902 to 1940. He built his congregation into the denomination's largest, with nearly 10,000 members at its height -- a remarkable accomplishment in the Pacific Northwest, which was then (and is today) the least-churched region of the country. He spearheaded social projects and helped create new institutions such as Seattle Day Nursery, which evolved into Childhaven, one of the state's most successful institutions to treat child abuse. He helped lead the effort to establish Harborview Hospital. But for the first four decades of the twentieth century the Presbyterian minister also played controversial roles. He was a bitter foe of mayor Hiram Gill (1866-1919) and Seattle Times editor Alden Blethen (1845-1915). He was the unlikely friend of labor leader Dave Beck (1894-1993) and a frequent correspondent with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during Wilson's presidency. Throughout Matthews's career he took controversial positions including support for Prohibition and opposition to woman suffrage. Filled with paradox and irony, his colorful career reflects many of the most important social, political, and religious forces at work in the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Born in Calhoun on September 24, 1867, he was the son of a carriage maker who experienced great hardships after the Civil War. Matthews's childhood poverty encouraged an ethical outlook that relied on hard work and traditional moral values. His moral orientation and piety were further influenced by the environment of Southern revivalism with its standard fare of itinerant preachers, tent meetings, and fiery sermons. He was exposed to radical agrarian politics of the post-Reconstruction period. He experienced religious conversion at age 13, and began to prepare for the ministry as a career. He never went to seminary, but received his theological education largely through efforts of a local pastor in his hometown.
Pastor Seattle 1st Presbyterian
The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, noted Presbyterian paster and vice-crusader, died of pneumonia and a paralytic stroke in the Seattle General Hospital at 7:40am today. He was 72 years old and paster of the largest Presbyterian congregation in the nation with a membership of 8,500.
Widow = the former Miss Grace Owen Jones∼Pastor. He pastored Seattle's First Presbyterian Church for 38 years, from 1902 to 1940. He built his congregation into the denomination's largest, with nearly 10,000 members at its height -- a remarkable accomplishment in the Pacific Northwest, which was then (and is today) the least-churched region of the country. He spearheaded social projects and helped create new institutions such as Seattle Day Nursery, which evolved into Childhaven, one of the state's most successful institutions to treat child abuse. He helped lead the effort to establish Harborview Hospital. But for the first four decades of the twentieth century the Presbyterian minister also played controversial roles. He was a bitter foe of mayor Hiram Gill (1866-1919) and Seattle Times editor Alden Blethen (1845-1915). He was the unlikely friend of labor leader Dave Beck (1894-1993) and a frequent correspondent with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during Wilson's presidency. Throughout Matthews's career he took controversial positions including support for Prohibition and opposition to woman suffrage. Filled with paradox and irony, his colorful career reflects many of the most important social, political, and religious forces at work in the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Born in Calhoun on September 24, 1867, he was the son of a carriage maker who experienced great hardships after the Civil War. Matthews's childhood poverty encouraged an ethical outlook that relied on hard work and traditional moral values. His moral orientation and piety were further influenced by the environment of Southern revivalism with its standard fare of itinerant preachers, tent meetings, and fiery sermons. He was exposed to radical agrarian politics of the post-Reconstruction period. He experienced religious conversion at age 13, and began to prepare for the ministry as a career. He never went to seminary, but received his theological education largely through efforts of a local pastor in his hometown.
The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, noted Presbyterian paster and vice-crusader, died of pneumonia and a paralytic stroke in the Seattle General Hospital at 7:40am today. He was 72 years old and paster of the largest Presbyterian congregation in the nation with a membership of 8,500.
Widow = the former Miss Grace Owen Jones∼Pastor. He pastored Seattle's First Presbyterian Church for 38 years, from 1902 to 1940. He built his congregation into the denomination's largest, with nearly 10,000 members at its height -- a remarkable accomplishment in the Pacific Northwest, which was then (and is today) the least-churched region of the country. He spearheaded social projects and helped create new institutions such as Seattle Day Nursery, which evolved into Childhaven, one of the state's most successful institutions to treat child abuse. He helped lead the effort to establish Harborview Hospital. But for the first four decades of the twentieth century the Presbyterian minister also played controversial roles. He was a bitter foe of mayor Hiram Gill (1866-1919) and Seattle Times editor Alden Blethen (1845-1915). He was the unlikely friend of labor leader Dave Beck (1894-1993) and a frequent correspondent with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during Wilson's presidency. Throughout Matthews's career he took controversial positions including support for Prohibition and opposition to woman suffrage. Filled with paradox and irony, his colorful career reflects many of the most important social, political, and religious forces at work in the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Born in Calhoun on September 24, 1867, he was the son of a carriage maker who experienced great hardships after the Civil War. Matthews's childhood poverty encouraged an ethical outlook that relied on hard work and traditional moral values. His moral orientation and piety were further influenced by the environment of Southern revivalism with its standard fare of itinerant preachers, tent meetings, and fiery sermons. He was exposed to radical agrarian politics of the post-Reconstruction period. He experienced religious conversion at age 13, and began to prepare for the ministry as a career. He never went to seminary, but received his theological education largely through efforts of a local pastor in his hometown.
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