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Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 80-81, photo Vol I, inside cover REV. MARION D. SHUTTER, D.D., LL.D. Rev. Marion D. Shutter, D.D., LL.D., pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Minneapolis, was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio. His father was a minister of the Baptist church, who held various changes in Ohio and Michigan, and in that faith his son was brought up. When sixteen years of age he entered the preparatory department of Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, and attended that institution until the close of the sophomore year. Mr. Shutter's junior and senior years were spent at the University of Wooster, Ohio, where he graduated in 1876, and from which three years later he received his Master's degree. Without funds to go further, immediately after graduation he began to preach at a crossroads on the Western Reserve, Ohio, at the rate of two hundred dollars a year. Soon he added another preaching station, twelve miles distant. At the end of two years he left two flourishing churches, each supplied with a pastor, and went to Oberlin to begin his theological course, preaching every Sunday to support himself, receiving about six hundred dollars a year. He remained there nearly two years, and then com­pleted his studies at the Baptist Seminary in Morgan Park, Chicago, supporting himself there, as at Oberlin, by preaching every Sunday. On the day of his gradu­ation in 1881, he was called to the Olivet Baptist church of Minneapolis, where during his five years' pastorate the church erected and paid for the finest church building up to that time, on the east side of the river. In the meantime Mr. Shut­ter's theological views had been changing. But he remained until the new church was built and out of debt. He then notified his people of his change of views, and • withdrew from the denomination, having nothing in sight as to his future course. Immediately after the publication of his letter of resignation he received a kind note from Dr. James H. Tuttle, of the Church of the Redeemer, inviting him to call. Dr. Tuttle expressed a belief that Mr. Shutter could work with the Universal-ists. He therefore became Dr. Tuttle's assistant, with the understanding that either party might, at the end of six months, withdraw from the arrangement. For five years he was Dr. Tuttle's assistant, and on the completion of the pastor's twenty-fifth year of service, in 1891, succeeded to the position which he still holds. In June of this same year he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from St. Law­rence University, New York. Dr. Shutter was married June 30, 1887, at Madison, Wisconsin, to Miss Mary E. Wilkinson. Dr. and Mrs. Shutter have one son, Arnold Wilkinson Shutter (Yale '14), who served with distinction in France during the World war, and who is still a captain of Field Artillery in the regular army. As a citizen Dr. Shutter is interested in every movement for the public wel­fare. The Minneapolis Kindergarten Association was organized in his study, and he drafted its constitution. In 1897 he founded the Unity House Social Settlement and is at present chairman of the board managing the work. Beginning in a tumble-down frame tenement, the movement was appropriately housed in 1912, at an expense of seventy-five thousand dollars. Mr. Shutter was one of a committee with Dr. C. M. Jordan and ex-Mayor Gray to establish public playgrounds in the city. He succeeded, a few years later, in getting the Board of Education to take over the Vacation Schools which had been established in connection with the Playgrounds. He is a director of the Board of Associated Charities. In addition to his church work Dr. Shutter is the author of six books, whose titles are: "Wit and Humor of the Bible," "Justice and Mercy," "A Child of Nature," "Applied Evolution," "How the Preachers Pray," and a "Life of Dr. Tuttle," his predecessor. His work on "Applied Evolution" attempts to interpret modern thought in terms of religion, and won the praise of such a scientific authority as the late John Fiske, who accepted the dedication. Dr. Shutter edited, in 1897, jointly with J. S. McLain, "Progressive Men of Minnesota," contributing the article entitled "Minnesota; Its History and Resources." In 1911 he was made chairman of the Minneapolis Vice Commission, appointed by Mayor J. C. Haynes, and wrote the Report. Subsequently he was for about a year chairman of the Morals Com­mission, which was established upon his recommendation. In 1911 he was elected president of the Universalist General convention at Springfield, Massachusetts, and was reelected two years later at Chicago. Dr. Shutter is a member of the board of trustees of Lombard College, at Galesburg, Illinois, and president of the Cobb Hospital Association, St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also president of the Charter Com­mission of Minneapolis, which successfully carried through the principle of Home Rule, and several subsequent amendments, and which is still at work upon the charter. In 1921, Fargo College conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. Dr. Shutter is a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Skylight, Six O'clock, and North Side and Calhoun Commercial Clubs.