Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877 - 1951) Clergyman and novelist; ordained as a Lutheran minister; served as a Lutheran pastor in Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, DC, 1903-11; Education: Wittenburg College and Seminary (now the Hamma School of Theology of Wittenberg University), Springfield, B.A., 1900, M.A., 1903, B.D., 1903; graduated at the University of Illinois; director of religious work for the YMCA, 1911-15; LL.D., Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, 1935; D. Litt., Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1936. Became a Congregational pastor in 1911; served at Congregational churches in Ann Arbor, Los Angeles, and Montreal, 1915-33; retired in 1933 to become a full-time writer; began publishing religious studies in 1920, but later began to fiction and essays.

b. 27 Aug 1877, in Columbia City, Indiana; d. 13 February 13, 1951, in Los Angeles,

Parents: Alexander Jackson Douglas and Sarah Jane (Cassel) Douglas; m. Bessie L. Porch in 1904; 2 children.
His father was minister of Hopeful Lutheran Church in Boone County, Ky., when Lloyd was a child.

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References:

Lloyd C. Douglas, Time to Remember, New York: Houghton, 1951.
Virginia Douglas Dawson and Betty Douglas Wilson, The Shape of Sunday: An Intimate Biography of Lloyd C. Douglas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. (biography written by his daughters)