Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Morehead, John Alfred

MOREHEAD, JOHN ALFRED, American clergyman and educator; born in Pulaski co., Va., Feb. 4, 1867. Educated at Roanoke College and graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 1892. Studied at Berlin and Leipsic, 1901–1902. (D. D., Roanoke College, 1902.) Ordained to the Lutheran ministry 1892; Burke's Garden pastorate, Va., 1892; First English Lutheran Church, Richmond, Va., 1894–1898; president, and professor of systematic theology Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1898–1908; president of Roanoke College, 1903; president of the United Synod of the South, 1910-1914.