Burtner, Elmer Edwin

Elmer Edwin Burtner (1881-1923) was a Church of the United Brethren in Christ minister. He attended Shenandoah Institute in Dayton, Virginia, and received a B.A. from Otterbein College in 1906. Burtner also received a B.D. (1909) and M.A. (1910) from Yale Divinity School. He earned a Ph.D. from Otterbein College in 1918. In 1910 he married Maude Truxall.

Burtner was ordained in 1909 by the Congregational Church, and during college he preached. After graduation he began a pastorate at the First Congregational Church in Missoula, Missouri. He later served the Congregational Church in Spokane, Washington. In September 1915 Burtner transferred his membership to the Southeast Ohio Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He served in Westerville, Ohio, from 1915-1923.