Dr. John Willis Baer (March 2, 1861 – February 8, 1931) was an American official of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. President of

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...

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(then a Presbyterian school) from 1906 to 1916. In 1919 was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the

Presbyterian Church Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

in the United States of America.Proceedings of the 218th (2008) General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), p. 1484

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