Lloyd C. Douglas

Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas was born Doya Cassell Douglas in Columbia City, IN, in 1877. His father was a Lutheran minister. Young Lloyd attended Wittenberg Seminary in Springfield, OH, where he received his education as a minister. After graduating he served as a pastor in a church in Manchester, IN. In 1905--by now married and with two children--he moved to Lancaster, OH, then in 1908 to Washington, DC. From 1911-15 he was chaplain and director of religious work at the University of Illinois. He served as pastor of many churches all over the US over the next 20 years, but in 1933 he retired from the ministry and devoted all his time to writing.