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EVA E. BROYLES. JULIA A. BENDER.
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VIRGINIA RIDER. GEORGE W. BROYLES, Treasurer.
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History of the Seminary. THE educational institution at Buckhannon, maintained by West Virginia Conference ,of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is one of the finest educational institutions of our state. The Methodist Church has always been a great friend to education, especially in its more popular forms. The Methodist Episcopal Church alone is at present con- ducting 166 schools with about 3,000 teachers and 47,000 students of all grades. In Western Virginia many years ago the Methodists supported an academy at Clarksburg. The unhappy misunderstanding and division of 1844 proved fatal to this school and for over forty years the Methodists of the state were without a school of their own. After the Civil War was over and the new state firmly established American Methodism cele- brated its centennial in 1866. At this time much work for education was done in the country and West Virginia Methodists began the effort for a school which never entirely ceased until after years of waiting it it was rewarded with great success. In 1876 Buckhannon presented to a committee of the West Virginia Conference a subscription of $6,750 for the location of a seminary in the town, but the conference did not accept the offer then. In 1883 the conference appointed a committee on the centennial observance of the formal organization in 1784 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This committee recommended the establishment of a seminary as an import- ant object for the gifts of the people. In 1884 the conference was held at Buckhannon, and it appointed a Board of Trustees for the proposed seminary. This consisted of A. J. Lyda, Chairman ; L. L. Stewart, Secre- tary ; D. H. K. Dix, Treasurer; T. B. Hughes and Samuel Steele. This board received contributions during the year and in 1885, the conference elected a board of eight ministers and eight laymen whose duty it was to receive proposals for the erection and endowment of a seminary, the conference to decide where it should be located. The ministers were A. J. Lyda, L. H. Jordan, J. A. Fullerton, Samuel Steele, E. H. Orwen, L. L. Stewart, H. J. Boatman, and A. B. Rohrbough. The laymen were H. C. McWhorter, H. K. List, J. C. McGrew, A. M. 24
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