N.Y. Herald Tribune 1954

Dr. Halsey, 71 Dies; Teacher of Theology
New York Herald Tribune
Jan. 12, 1954

SOUTHAMPTON, L.I.- The Rev. Jesse Halsey, seventy-one, retired professor of practical theology at the McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, died today at Southampton Hospital. Since his retirement in 1952, he lived here on North Main St.

Born in Southampton, Dr. Halsey was educated at Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary and Wooster College. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1910, and for the next three years was a member of Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell's Labrador Medical Mission.

In World War I, he was sent to Murmansk, Russia, by the Y.M.C.A. and he remained as consular agent in that city during the Bolshevik Revolution representing the United States and British governments.

After the war he returned to his pastorate at the Seventh Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, a post he held until 1940. In 1953, the church dedicated a chapel to him.

In 1941, he joined the faculty at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Isham Halsey; a son, Charles Henry Halsey, of Westhampton, L.I., and two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Haroutunian, of Chicago, and Mrs. James Van Allen, of Princeton.