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general assembly of 1901, which adopted the revision of the Westminister Confession of Faith. In 1885, married to Miss Ida Worline, Sidney, Ohio; has two daughters. Member since 1891 of The Ohio State Arch- æological and Historical Society ; twice elected trustee by the Society ; and is now trustee by appointment by Governor Nash.
HOPLEY, ELIZABETH SHEPPARD, (MRS. JAMES R. HOPLEY) ; born Gran- ville, Ohio, December 11, 1870; daughter of Thomas J. and Margaret (Collins) Sheppard; descendant of Huguenot and revolutionary ancentry ; father Baptist clergyman well-known as the "Andersonville chaplain;" -educated at Shepardson College, Granville, and graduated later in Bucy- rus, where her father was then pastor; graduated Armour Institute, Chi- cago, and studied under Wm. L. Tomlins, Central Music Hall, Chicago, and Edmund Russell; post-graduate in kindergarten system, Armour In- stitute; taught in Chicago Mission kindergartens two and a half years; married, Granville, Ohio, November 15, 1893, James R. Hopley, manager of the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph and the Bucyrus Journal; president (1900-2) Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs; member from Ohio of Library Committee, General Federation of Women's Clubs; chairman ·Conference Committee, Ohio College Alumnæ; only woman speaker at the Ohio Centennial Celebration at Chillicothe.
HUNTER, WILLIAM H .; born at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, May 26, 1852; son of Joseph R. and Letitia McFadden Hunter ; grandfathers, James Hunter and John Sloan, Scotch Presbyterians in Pennsylvania, and soldiers in the American Revolution; a great-grandfather (Thomas Hunter), equipped and led a company in the French-English War; his father, Joseph R., emigrated from Pennsylvania to Cadiz in 1830 and .studied law in the office with Edwin M. Stanton. William H. Hunter was educated in the public and private schools of Cadiz, and engaged in wood carving and the production of artistic pottery, originating the ware known as "Lonhuda." Mr. Hunter early entered the office of the Cadiz Sentinel, and before the age of eighteen was in charge of the editorial department. In 1874 with H. H. McFadden, purchased the Steubenville Daily Gazette. Mr. Hunter became a widely-known writer on historical art, literary and economic subjects ; author of "The Pathfinders of Jeffer- son County." Some years ago, with his brother, George F. Hunter, purchased the Chillicothe Advertiser and Chillicothe News, moving to Chillicothe to conduct the paper resulting from the merger. Married to Harriet Rosemond Brown; two sons, Philip C. and W. J .; historian of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution; vice-president of the Scotch-Irish Society of America; and life member and trustee of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
KEIFER, JOSEPH WARREN; born in Clark county, Ohio, January 30, 1836; son of Joseph Keifer; educated Antioch College; since 1858 in law
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practice at Springfield, Ohio; married, 1860, Eliza Stout. Served in Ohio Volunteers in field, 1861-5, as major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier and major-general; four times wounded; declined ap- pointment as lieutenant-colonel 26th United States Infantry in 1866; member of the Ohio Senate in 1868-9; department commander Ohio G. A. R., 1868-70; vice-commander-in-chief, G. A. R., 1871-2; delegate to Republican National convention, 1876; member of con- gress, 1877-85 (Speaker, 1881-5), Republican. President of the La- gonda National Bank, Springfield, Ohio, since 1873. Appointed and served, 1898-9 as major- general volunteers in war against Spain. Au- thor : "Slavery and Four Years of War," 1900; life member and trustee Ohio State Archæological Society ; appointed by Gov. Nash member Ohio Centennial Commission.
KILBOURNE, JAMES; born, Columbus, Ohio, October 9, 1842; son of Lincoln Kilbourne, grandson of Col. James Kilbourne, one of pioneer settlers of Ohio; graduate Columbus high school in 1857; Kenyon Col- lege, 1862 (A. M.); entered army as private 84th Ohio Volunteers; served in Maryland and West Virginia until August, 1862; discharged to accept commission as 2d lieutenant, 95th O. V. I .; promoted 1st lieutenant and captain ; served till close of war. On staff of Gen. J. M. Tuttle, com- manding 3d division 15th army corps; later on staff of Gen. John McAr- thur, commanding 1st division 16th army corps, army of the Tennessee ; breveted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel of U. S. Volunteers. Mustered out at close of Civil War. Graduate of Harvard law school, 1868; ad- mitted Ohio Bar. Founded (president and manager) Kilbourne & Jacobs Manfg. Co .; president Columbus Board of Trade 1891-2. One of or- ganizers and directors Columbus Club (four times pres.) ; president Board Trustees Columbus Public Library and of Children's Hospital ; member G. A. R .; Soc., Army of the Tenn .; Union Vet. Legion; Loyal Legion ; president Ohio Soc. S. A. R., 1903. Chairman Ohio delegation, National Democratic Convention 1900; nominee for governor of Ohio, 1901; defeated by George K. Nash; married, October 5, 1869, to Anna B. Wright, daughter of Gen. Geo. B. Wright; life member and trustee Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
KNABENSCHUE, SAMUEL S .; born near Lancaster, Ohio, November 1, 1845; son of Joseph M. and Nancy (Prentice) Knabenschue educated com- mon schools, followed by private study; married 1871 Salome Matlack, Lancaster, Ohio; began learning printing trade in fourteenth year; worked at case at Cincinnati; health broke down from confinement; returned to · Lancaster, taught country school, then was for ten years principal of Grammar School; editor and part proprietor the Republican, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1876-78. Returned to school work as principal at Lancaster; night editor, Ohio State Journal, 1881-3; political writer, Toledo Blade since 1884; life member Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
B. F. PRINCE. C. L. MARTZOLFF. A. R. MCINTIRE.
G. FRED. WRIGHT.
B. W. ARNETT. H. A. THOMPSON. J. P. MACLEAN.
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LOVE, NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON ; born in Rushville, Ohio, Octo- ber 29, 1830; father, William Love, was Scotch-Irish; mother, Susannah Force, of English and Scotch-Irish descent. N. B. C. Love was educated in the common schools, and privately taught by his father; united with the Northern Ohio Annual Conference, M. E. Church, 1853; in 1856 transferred to the Central Ohio Conference. Has held pastorates in many of the leading cities of northern Ohio. For twenty-seven years lecturer at various Chautauqua assemblies in Ohio and other states. Author of a work on "Object Teaching," many articles in papers and leading magazines on church and secular history. Mr. Love is also an artist "con amore," and producer of many works upon the canvas; student and critic in art matters. Degree of Doctor of Divinity from Grant Uni- versity, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1892; member of Masons and Odd Fellows. Life member Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society and a trustee by appointment and re-appointment by Governor Nash.
MCCABE, CHARLES CALDWELL; born, Athens, Ohio, October 11, 1836; son of Robert and Sarah (Robinson) ' McCabe; educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; entered Ohio con- ference, M. E. Church, 1860. Pastor M. E. Church Putnam, Ohio. Became, in autumn of 1862, chaplain 122d Ohio Infantry; captured at battle of Winchester ; was in Libby prison four months; rejoined his reg- iment, but soon after went into the service of the Christian Commission eloquently pleading for the Union cause and raising large sums of money in aid of sick and wounded soldiers; after war, became pastor at Ports- mouth, Ohio, and financial agent, Ohio Wesleyan University; in 1868, agent and later assistant correspondent and secretary Board of Church extension, M. E. church; in 1884, secretary Missionary Society of the M. E. church. Elected chancellor of the American University, Washington, September 10, 1902; elected Bishop M. E. Church, at Cleveland, in 1896. Famous throughout the country for his power in song and speech, and for his lecture "The Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison."
MCCLINTICK, WILLIAM TRIMBLE; born in Chillicothe, February 20, 1819 ; educated in public schools and academy of native town; attended college at Ohio University, Athens, and later graduated from the college at Augusta, Ky., in 1837; received degree of M. A., 1840; studied law and admitted to the bar, 1843; practiced continuously in his county until near the time of his death, a period of over fifty years; prosecuting attorney of Ross county, 1849-50; a Whig and Republican in Politics; lieutenant- colonel of the fourth regiment of Ross County militia in the John Mor- gan raid. One of the organizers of the American Bar Association at Saratoga in 1878. Married at Howellsburg, Ky., October 11, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Mary Atwood; several children, two of whom are still living, Miss Mary Petrea and Mrs. Edward W. Strong. Life member 45 O. C.
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Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society. Mr. McClintick died at his home in Chillicothe, October 28, 1903.
McINTIRE, ALFRED R .; born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 14, 1840, of Scotch-Irish lineage; attended school at Fredericktown, and in the early years taught school; prepared himself for college, entering the Ohio Wes- leyan University at Delaware, from which he graduated in 1865. In August, 1862, enlisted in Company A, 96th O. V. I .; also served as first lieutenant of Company H, 142d, summer of 1864; began the study of law with Judge R. C. Hurd at Mt. Vernon, in April, 1867; ad- mitted to the bar in June, 1869; became a most successful prac- titioner in his profession; member of the city board of education; republican candidate for state Senator 1879; in 1896 became affiliated with the Union Reform movement, and was the candidate of that party for attorney general, and later for supreme judge. Married September 28, 1869, to Miss Helen Richards of Frederickstown; two sons, Rollin R. and Heber McIntire; member G. A. R. and K. of P. Mr. McIntire died on Monday, September 21, 1903, near North Platte, Nebraska, while en route from Idaho to his home at Mt. Vernon. He was a life member, and for the past six years was a trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
MACLEAN, JOHN P .; born in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio, March 12, 1848; descendant from Scotch-Irish ancestry; at the age of four with his parents settled upon a farm three miles south-east of Franklin, upon which he now resides. Early education in the country schools; in 1867 graduated from the National Normal University, receiving Ph. D. degree in 1894; graduated from the divinity department of St. Lawrence Uni- versity, 1869; completed a course in medicine and surgery in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1873; specialist in comparative anatomy ; student in archæology, and in 1886 had charge of the mound explorations in southwestern Ohio for the Government Bureau of Ethnology; in 1887 visited Scotland in search of material for his "History of the Clan Mc- Lean." Made an examination of Fingal's Cave by request of the Smith- sonian Institute, Washington, D. C .; under direction of Professor G. Frederick Wright made a glacial survey of Butler County, Ohio; for three years in charge of the Western Reserve Historical Society at Cleveland ; for fifteen years lecturer on archæology and kindred subjects, from Mainę to Minnesota; published books are: History of Clan McLean; Antiquity of Man; The Mound Builders; Mastodon; Mammoth and Man; Norse Discovery of America's Fingal Cave; Introduction Study St. John's Gos- pel; Jewish Nature Worship; The Scotch Highlanders in America; The Journal of Michael Walters. Contributor to leading historical and archæ- ological periodicals, American, English and Scotch, and government re- ports, and to official reports of Smithsonian Institution. In 1896 Repub- lican candidate for congress in the fourth district. Life member Gælic
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Society of Glasgow, and Clan Maclean Association of Glasgow; corre- sponding member Davenport Academy of Sciences, and Western Reserve Historical Society ; life member and trustee Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
MANLY, ROBERT WOOLF; son of Robert Woolf and Mary Cook Manly, and grandson of Governor Tiffin; born Portsmouth, Ohio, June 19, 1873; father, Robert Woolf, was a minister in the M. E. Church, and died in 1883 while stationed in Denver, Colo :; since the death of his father Rob- ert Manly has made his home with his mother in Chillicothe, Ohio; at- tended preparatory schools and college, and graduated from the law school of the University of Michigan in 1896; admitted to the bar of Ohio, 1897. Engaged in law practice in Chillicothe. Married at Chillicothe, April 22, 1902, to Miss Helen Entrekin, daughter of the Hon. John C. and Mary F. Entrekin. Appointed by Governor Nash member of the Ohio Centennial Commission.
MARTZOLFF, CLEMENT L .; born in Monday Creek Tp., Perry county, O., November 25, 1869; German descent, grandparents came from Alsace in 1834, and were among the pioneers of Perry county; spent his boyhood on the farm; attended district school till nineteen years of age. Engaged in the vocation of teaching from then until now, excepting one year, when he was a student at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. Has taught all grades of public school work; is now superintendent of schools at New Lexington, Ohio; lecturer at teachers' institutes, schools and col- leges ; author of a history of Perry county ; life member and trustee Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
MASSIE, DAVID MEADE; son of Henry Massie, the youngest child of General Nathaniel Massie, founder of Chillicothe; born in that city in 1859; graduated at Princeton and Cincinnati Law School; elected to the state senate of Ohio in 1887, and re-elected in 1889; trustee of the Ohio State University since 1888; delegate to the Republican National Conven- tion in 1896; since July 1, 1902 has been Commissioner to take testimony in Cuba, in causes pending before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission ; life member Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
MAYO, ARCHIBALD; born at Oxford, Ohio, June 11, 1839. Spent most of his youth at home of his grandparents in Philadelphia, where he prepared for college. Obtained college education at Miami University ; three months' service in company of college companions in Civil War; studied law and admitted to the bar; elected to Ohio State Legislature, 1864; prosecuting attorney of Vinton County and later of Ross County (1870-2) ; father was Herman Boseman Mayo, distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia, New Orleans, Cincinnati, and later resided with his son in Vinton County, of which he was the probate judge for six years.
CHAIRMEN OF CHILLICOTHE COMMITTEES OF ARRANGEMENTS.
W. D. YAPLE. A. R. WOLFE. W. H. HUNTER.
B. E. STEVENSON. RICHARD ENDERLIN.
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MILLS, WILLIAM C .; born in 1860, Pyrmont, Montgomery county Ohio; attended public schools of his native place; taught four years; entered Ohio State University in 1881; at the close of his junior year took the regular course in the Cincinnati College of Phar- macy and Cincinnati, Ohio Medical College; re- entered Ohio State University, 1897; graduated, 1898, degree of B. Sc .; in 1902 received degree of M. Sc .; appointed Curator of the Archeological Museum, Ohio State University, and elected Cura- tor and Librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1898. Lecturer on An- thropology. Librarian, Ohio Academy of Science ; WM. C. MILLS. president Wheaton Ornithological Club; associate editor Ohio Naturalist; member American Asso- ciation Advancement of Science and American Ornithologists' Union.
NASH, GEORGE KILBON; born York Township, Medina county, Ohio, August 14, 1842; parents, Asa Nash and Electa (Branch) Nash of New England stock; they came to Ohio from Massachusetts; educated Western Reserve University and Oberlin College; left latter institution as sophomore to enter army, enlisting as private in 150th O. V. I., served with honor till close of war; soon after discharge from army came to Columbus; taught school; studied law with Judge Robert B. Warden; ad- mitted to bar 1867; edited Ohio State Journal thirteen months; became chief clerk in office of Secretary of State of Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, 1871-5; in 1876 defeated for congress by Hon. Thomas Ewing; attorney general for state of Ohio, 1879-1883; member, Supreme Court Commission, 1883-5; chairman of the state Republican Committee several years; elected Governor of Ohio for terms 1900-2, defeating John R. McLean, and 1902-4, defeating James Kilbourne. Married, April, 1882, to Mrs. Wm. K. Deshler, who died October, 1886. Life member Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
PRINCE, BENJAMIN F .; born December, 1840, near Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio; descendant of first settlers in western Ohio; maternal grandparents settled in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1805, and his paternal grandparents in 1809; grandfather participated in the War of 1812. Ben- jamin was raised upon a farm, and received the usual education in the country schools ; in 1860 entered the preparatory department of Wittenberg College (Springfield) and graduated from that institution in 1865; entered upon the study of theology, but was appointed instructor in his alma mater in the spring of 1866; been connected with that institution since that date, serving for more than twenty years as professor of Greek and His- tory, and now occupying the professorship of History and Political Sci- ence ; ex-president Clark County Historical Society ; life member and
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trustee by appointment of Governor Bushnell and re-appointment by Gov- ernor Nash, of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
RANDALL, EMILIUS OVIATT; born Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, October 28, 1850; son of Rev. D. A. Randall, D. D., and Harriett, O. Ran- dall (three great-grandfathers fought in American Revolution) ; educated Columbus High School, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1869-70; grad- uated Cornell, Ph. B., 1874; graduate College of Law, Ohio State Univers- ity, LL. B., 1892, (LL. M., same, 1892) ; married, Ithaca, N. Y., October 28, 1874, Mary A. Coy. Admitted to the bar, Ohio Supreme Court, 1890; official reporter Ohio Supreme Court since 1895; Professor of Law Ohio State University since 1893; secretary Ohio State Archæological and His- torical Society since 1894; member American Bar Ass'n; American His- torical Ass'n; and American Library Ass'n; Society of American Authors and Sons American Revolution; member Columbus Board of Education, 1887-9 ; president Columbus Board of Trade, 1889; trustee Columbus Pub- lic Library since 1887. Author: History of Blennerhasset (1889) ; His- tory of the Separatist Society of Zoar (1899) ; associate editor "Bench and Bar" of Ohio, two vols. (Chicago, 1897) ; editor nine volumes historical publications Ohio State Historical Society. Edited seventeen volumes Ohio State Reports of Supreme Court Decisions. Editor Ohio Archæo- logical and Historical Society Quarterly, since 1897; life member Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society; appointed trustee of the society by Governors Mckinley, Bushnell and Nash.
RICKLY (RICKLI), SAMUEL STRASSER; born January 2, 1819, at Buetz- burg, Canton Berne, Switzerland; only survivor of family of eighteen children; parents emigrated to America in 1834, locating at Baltimore, Fairfield county, Ohio. Spent his boyhood as carpenter and clerk, de- pending entirely upon his own efforts. Entered Marshall College, Mer- cersburg, Pa., in 1839, graduated, 1843; studied theology and taught ; mar- ried in 1845; came to Columbus in 1847 as educator, and in 1848 was principal of the Columbus high school. In 1849 established an academy at Tarleton, Pickaway county, Ohio, which school was, in the spring of 1850, adopted by the synod of the Reformed Church as the nucleus of a church institution called Heidelberg College, of which Mr. Rickly was made president. The same year this institution was re-located at Tiffin, Ohio, where it now exists as one of the leading colleges of the state; superintendent of schools at Tiffin, Ohio, 1851, and professor of pedagogy in Heidelberg College; journal clerk Ohio House of Representatives 1854 ; member Columbus Board of Education, 1863 and City Council, 1874; organizer Franklin County Teachers' Association (1848) and Ohio Teach- ers' Association (1849) - of which he was secretary - and the National Teachers' Association at Cleveland in 1852; one of the organizers of the Ohio Sunday-school Teachers' Association at Cincinnati, 1858, and Na- tional Sunday-school Teachers' Association at Philadelphia, 1858. Mer-
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chant, manufacturer and banker until 1875, when he organized the Capital City Bank, of which he has since been president; January 6, 1885, sub- mitted to Board of Trade plan that the City of Columbus, in 1892, com- memorate the fourth centennial of the discovery of America by Christo- pher Columbus. This idea was subsequently carried out by the Colum- bian Exposition at Chicago. Trustee Columbus public library ; director Columbus Board of Trade and chief promoter in the erection of Board of Trade building. Regent of Heidelberg University, and regent of Otter- bein University, Westerville, Ohio; life member, trustee and treasurer of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
RYAN, DANIEL JOSEPH ; born, Cincinnati, January 1, 1855; son of John and Honora (Ryan) Ryan; graduated Portsmouth, Ohio high school; studied law, 1875-77; married, Delaware, Ohio, January 10, 1884, Myra L. Kerr. Admitted to bar of Ohio 1877; practiced at Portsmouth; City So- licitor of Portsmouth two terms; member of the sixty-sixth and sixty- seventh general assemblies of Ohio, (speaker pro tem, sixty-seventh) ; first president, the Ohio Republican League, two terms; temporary chair- man first National Convention of Republican Clubs, New York, 1887; Secretary of State of Ohio, 1888-91; executive commissioner of Ohio at World's Columbian Exposition, and organized Ohio exhibit; member ex- ecutive committee Association of American Exhibitors, 1893, and its com- missioner to Antwerp Exposition, 1893; delegate from Ohio to Western Water-ways convention at Vicksburg; president Columbus, New Albany & Johnstown Traction Co., Columbus Lithograph Co., Homeopathic Hos- pital Association; director and counsel Miami & Erie Canal Transporta- tion Co. Author: A History of Ohio; Arbitration between Capital and Labor; contributor to North American Review and other magazines; life member and trustee Ohio Archæological and Historical Society.
SLOANE, RUSH RICHARD; born Sandusky, Ohio, September 18, 1828; son of John Nelson and Cynthia (Strong) Sloane; grandfather, William Sloane who located at Lyme, N. H. in 1764 was an officer in the American revolution. Educated in private schools and at Wesleyan Academy, Nor- walk, Ohio; married, Elyria, Ohio, Helen F. Hall; City Clerk two terms ; Probate Judge two terms; appointed by President Lincoln as General Agent of the Postoffice Department, March, 1861; was delegate to Pitts- burg convention, 1856, which organized the republican party, and was an invited guest at Philadelphia National Republican Convention, June, 1900. Aided in organizing the "Cassius M. Clay brigade," April, 1861, to pro- tect city of Washington, was a member of the brigade; chairman, Republi- can State Committee of Ohio, 1865-6; candidate of Liberal (Greely) party for congress, 1872; mayor of Sandusky, 1879-81. In 1852 was sued for $6,000.00 damages in U. S. Court for professional services as a lawyer in defending six slaves, escaping to Canada, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; was mulcted in damages and paid the judgment. Was Railroad
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president ten years. President of the Firelands Historical Society ; mem- ber Sons of the American Revolution; life member and trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; appointed by Gov. Nash a member Ohio State Centennial Commission.
THOMPSON, HENRY ADAMS; born, Stormstown, Centre county, Penn- sylvania, March 23, 1837; son of John and Lydia Thompson ; graduate of Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., 1858; studied theology, Western The- ological Seminary, Allegheny City, Pa., (Hon. D. D., Jefferson College, 1873; LL. D. Westfield College, Il1., 1886) married Galena, Ohio, August 7, 1862, Harriet E. Copeland. Taught select school at Marion and Nobles- ville, Ind., 1861; professor of mathematics, Western College, Iowa, 1861-2; same, Otterbein University, Ohio, 1862-7; superintendent public schools, Troy, O., 1867-71 ; professor of mathematics, Westfield College, Ill., 1871-2; president Otterbein University Ohio, 1872-86; candidate for congress, prohibition ticket, 1874; for Lieutenant-governor of Ohio, 1875; for gov- ernor of Ohio, 1877; chairman, National Prohibition convention, 1876; nominated for vice-president on ticket with Neal Dow, 1880; delegate to Ecumenical conference, London, 1881; commissioner, department of sci- ence and education at Ohio Centennial Exposition at Columbus, 1889 ; associate editor, editor-in-chief Sunday-school literature, U. B. Church, 1893-1901; editor United Brethren Review since 1901. Author: Schools of the Prophets; Power of the Invisible; Our Bishops; Biography of Bishop J. Wearer. Life and charter member and trustee Ohio State Archeological and Historical Socitey.
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