Sam Shoemaker

@Princeton University, Birthday and Personal Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Samuel Moor Shoemaker was a renowned American priest who co-founded the non-profit organization ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’ American Princeton University Miscellaneous Priests Samuel Moor Shoemaker was a renowned priest who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A rector of the Episcopal Church, Samuel’s sermon were relayed through the electronic media such as radio and tape. As a graduate student he had a keen interest in the political scenario which probably stemmed from his admiration of President Woodrow Wilson and was against brainwashing students with righteousness of war and military training in educational institutes. A sensitive individual, he rather preferred being involved in missionary work. He started his evangelistic career in China where he went as a part of the Princeton in China Program. He was later taken under the guidance of Frank Buchman, who was associated with the Oxford Group. His association of the Episcopal Church began when he was ordained as deacon of the institution. He then reinvented the Calvary Church of Manhattan where he served as the rector for a span of eleven years. The ‘Faith at Work’ movement later emerged as the Moral Re-Armament movement. Samuel’s ideas later laid the foundation of ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’. He also authored several books on religion and philosophy throughout his life and many of them became followers of the Oxford Group and New York. Read on to know more about his life and works.

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Birthday: 1893 Died on: January 1, 19631893 Nationality: American Famous: Princeton University, Miscellaneous, Priests Known as: Samuel M. Shoemaker Universities: Princeton University Princeton University Notable Alumnis: Princeton University Information Detail Birthday 1893 Died on January 1, 19631893 Nationality American Famous Princeton University, Miscellaneous, Priests Known as Samuel M. Shoemaker Universities Princeton University Princeton University Notable Alumnis Princeton University Birth Place Maryland Religion Episcopal Church Gender Male Born in Maryland Famous as Priest Died at Age 70

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Samuel was married to Helen Smith Shoemaker, in 1925, and they had two daughters. The couple met each other while studying at the ‘Princeton University’. Unsplash Personal Life

The eminent evangelist breathed his last on October 31, 1963. After his demise he was laid to rest in the ‘St. Thomas Churchyard’ in Baltimore. Unsplash Personal Life

Born to parents of Protestant faith, on December 27, 1893, Shoemaker spent the first two years of his life in Baltimore Maryland. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1895, the family left their rented apartment and shifted to their ancestral home ‘Burnside’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He attended the ‘St. George’s prep school’ in Rhode Island. Away from family, he was forlorn and home sick in the initial days and faced problems adjusting with the students. Falling in line with his father’s footsteps he joined the ‘Princeton University’ in 1912. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Following his undergrad year he embarked on a tour of the European continent. This was the time when he was introduced to the concept of Ecumenism through ‘World Student Christian Federation’. The organisation worked to propagate the idea of a unified church among students. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

By 1917, he had turned out to be a firm believer of the concept of Ecumenism and as a part of the student exchange program of the ‘Princeton University’ he went to China. Apart from imparting lectures on business to pupils he also made efforts to establish a wing of the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association). Unsplash Career

During his stay in China, though he failed to garner any significant converts, he made acquaintance with Frank Buchman, founder of the ‘Oxford Group’. It was under his able guidance that Sam followed the path of the almighty. Upon his return to Princeton in 1919, he took the post of leader of the ‘Philadelphian Society’. Unsplash Career

He was nominated into the ‘Episcopal Church’, in 1920, as a deacon, under the guidance of Bishop Murray, a post he held for the next two years. Unsplash Career

Throughout the academic year 1922-23, he resumed his position as the head of ‘Philadelphian Society’, in Princeton. All this while, he maintained extensive correspondence with Buchman, who paid several visits to the university. By this time the ‘Oxford Group’ had gathered a faithful group of patrons as well as opposition. Unsplash Career

After completing his education from Princeton he went to New York. There he enrolled at the ‘General Theological Seminary’. During the final year at the theological school, he worked part-time under bishop Charles Louis Slattery, in the Manhattan based ‘Grace Church’. Unsplash Career

His ideas laid the founding stone for development of ‘Alcoholic Anonymous’, which eventually became a world renowned organisation for counselling and treatment of alcohol addicts and their families. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	1893
Died on	January 1, 19631893
Nationality	American
Famous	Princeton University, Miscellaneous, Priests
Known as	Samuel M. Shoemaker
Universities	Princeton University Princeton University
Notable Alumnis	Princeton University
Birth Place	Maryland
Religion	Episcopal Church
Gender	Male
Born in	Maryland
Famous as	Priest
Died at Age	70

Sam Shoemaker

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1893

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