Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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FACULTY IPreei ent lleaac IB. IRenball, ©. Was born in Utica, N. Y., September 30th, 1825. Graduated from Prince- ton College in 1852 and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1855. After a year’s travel in Europe he was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of Utica, N. Y., and became pastor of the Church at Oneida Valley, N. Y. From there he came to Pennsylvania and served the church at Emporium until called to the presidency of Knox College, Tenn., where he remained until 1865, when he was elected president of Lincoln University, then Ashman Institute. The clos2 of the war brought new responsibilities and a larger field, and sd both the name of the institution was changed and scope of its work was enlarged. To be at the head of an institution for thirty-five years of uninterrupted growth and prosperity is a distinction which is as honorable as it is rare. Dr. Kendall came to Lincoln at a time when radical changes were taking place and when men questioned the propriety of such institutions, yet, being endowed with tact, courage, patience and unbounded faith in God and the final triumph of the right, he has lived to see the University grow from one building, two or three teachers and a few students, to seventeen buildings, eleven professors and nearly two hundred students. • • • c professor 3obn JSallart IRenball, H. flD., Was born in Madura, Southern India, April 5th, 1847, his father being a missionary to that country. He came to America at the age of ten and graduated from Utica Academy and went to Princeton, where he received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1870 and Master of Arts in 1873. In 1875 he was elected Professor of Latin Language and Literature in Lincoln University. He was ordained by the Oxford Presbytery in 1876, and is Stated Clerk of that body. Professor “John” was a member of the General Assembly at Washing- 9

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Frcf. M. J. McLeod dr. R. l. Stewart prof. j. l. reed PROF. IV. L. WRIGHT PROF W. D. KERSWILL Dr. J. c. miller Dr. W. R. Bingham Dr. J. A. Hodge dr. c. B. Carr Dr. I. N. Rendall. Pres. Prof. J. B. rendall

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THE 1900 CLASS BOOK ton in which Dr. Briggs was tried, and he voted for the deposition of Rev. Briggs on account of his heresy against Presbyterianism, and in the Pennsyl- vania Legislature, of which he is at present a member, he voted against M. S. Quay on account of his heresy against Republicanism. If we had a man like John B. Rendall in every community in Pennsyl- vania there would be no grease with which to run “machines.” • » d • 2 r. 3. drrno flIMllcr (Son of Edward Miller, Civil Engineer and formerly Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad) was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 9th, 1848. His early life was spent at his home in Philadelphia. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania on the iotli of March, 1876. His health breaking down soon afterward he spent the next ten years build- ing it up in California and Colorado while practicing his profession. Re- turning to his native State, Pennsylvania, he was soon after elected to the chair of Natural Sciences. Dr. Miller has occupied this chair for thirteen years and has proven a very valuable addition to the Faculty of Lincoln University, and is held in very high esteem by all his classes. An example of this is seen by the fact that under the new elective open to seniors, the class, almost to a man,elected Dr. Miller’s subject. Dr. Miller holds the position of Surgeon on the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad systems. 9 o • • ■Rev. Robert Xairb Stewart, E . Professor of Pastoral Theology, Evidences of Christianity, and Biblical Archaeology, Dean of Faculty of the University, was born at Murrysville, Pa., member of 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-65; B. A., Washington and Jefferson College, 1866 ; Western Theological Seminary, 1869 ; Licensed Presbytery, of Blairsville in 1868 ; he was ordained by the Presbytery of Erie, 10