West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Biography of Rev. B. W. Hutchinson. EV. B. W. Hutchinson, the first President of the West Virginia [pJO Conference Seminary, was born near Scottdale, Pa., in the year 1859- He received his early training in the public schools, and then prepared for college at Mt. Pleasant Institute, Mt. Pleasant being then his home. In 1879, he entered Ohio Wesleyan University, where, in the year 1883 he graduated with the degree of A. B. In his Senior year he was President of the Young Men ' s Christian Association, when, during a great revival in the school, two hundred students were converted. Dur- ing his Senior year he was also private secretary to Pres. C. H. Payne. After his graduation Mr. Hutchinson taught awhile in Augusta Col- legiate Institute, Augusta, Ky. Leaving this work he entered Boston University and graduated in the school of Theology. Following his graduation in Theology Mr. Hutchinson was pastor of the following Churches: West Duxbury, Mansfield, and Central Church, Brocton, Mass., then at St. Pauls Church, Providence, R. I. From the last named place in the year 1890 Pres. Hutchinson was called to Buckhannon to open the new West Virginia Conference Sem- inary. The school was then under a debt of twenty thousand dollars. In 1893 the debt was raised and in the year 1895 the new Hall, The Girls ' Dormitory, was erected. Pres. Hutchinson continued his work in and for the Seminary till February, 1898, when he resigned to accept the Presidency of Genessee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. In the year of 1901, received his Doctor ' s degree from Syracuse University, and in 1903 he resigned the Presidency of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary to become pastor of the First M. E. Church, Gowanda, N. Y. He is at present a member of the Genesee Conference. Since he resigned his last educational post, Doctor Hutchinson has declined to consider or to accept the Presidency of two instiutions. He has thus served persistent notice, that for the present at least, his chosen field, the ministry, shall have his attention. During the years from 1893 to 1898 Pres. Hutchinson was a member of the Board of Trustees of his Alma Mater — this in addition to his duties here; and we venture now to predict that one with such educational ideals as his, cannot fail to touch and influence the educational world, even though the main channel of his energies lead now to other activities. 11

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REV. B. W. HUTCHINSON.

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REV. S. L. BOYERS.