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

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REV. S. L. BOYERS.

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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. S. L. Beyers. Wi here present to our readers the likeness of the Rev. S. L Boyers, a former President of the West Virginia Confer- ence Seminary. His entire youth was spent in acquiring an education. Many obstacles confronted him in his en- deavo r to obtain a thorough educational training, but with an indomitable will be pushed steadily onward, and overcame them one by one. Not being satisfied with the training received in the public schools, he resolved to enter college. True to his resolve he entered and completed a course of study in each of the following: Ohio Wesleyan, Vanderbilt and Boston Universities from which he received the degrees — A. B., A. M., B. D., and D. D. He then returned to Boston where he spent a year in the School of All Sciences taking Philosophy, Metaphysics, etc. Nine years were then spent in school work — four in the public schools, two as superintendent of the Richwood schools, one as Professor of Latin and Greek in Nappa College, Cal. and two as President of the West Virginia Conference Seminary. Rev. Boyers has been in the regular pastorate of the Methodist Episco- pal Church — Central and East Ohio Conferences, eight years, during which time he has served some of the most important charges in those conferences. He has received into the church over eight hundred per- sons — a lasting monument to his faithful labors. He is a scholarly, re- fined, genial and thorough Christian gentlemen, worthy of the confidence and fellowship of all good people. 13