Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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prof. Glouzo Skibmore, G. 211. LONZO SKIDMORE was born on a farm, situated near the line between the counties of Union and Logan, Ohio, in 1841. His boyhood was spent in working O11 the farm during the summer and attending the district school in winter. When seventeen years old he went to Marysville, Ohio, and obtained a certificate to teach for eight months. He spent the next three years in teaching, and at the age of 21 enlisted in Co. A, Izlst O.V. I. He marched with Sherman to the sea and back again, to the battle of Ben- tonville and on to Riclnnond. After the war, he resumed the work of teach- ing. On December 7th, 1865, he married Miss S. J. Morse. On June 7th, 1868, Mr. Skidmore preached his first sermon. After teaching in winter and farming in summer for nine years, and preaching frequently, he went to Bethany College. He graduated in 1878, receiving the highest grade in a class of twenty. Two months later, Mr. Skidmore became a professor in Bethany College and pastor of the church at that place. At the end of two years he became pastor of the church at South Butler, New York. There he remained one year, after which he spent one year teaching in the Kentucky Classical and Business College, with E. V. Zollars as President. He resigned his position there to found the Central Ohio College, at East Liberty, O. He conducted the school for six years. He then became Principal of the Department of Ancient Languages in Add-Ran Christian University, Texas. After spending two successful years in that institution, he became a professor in Hiram College, beginning his work at the opening of the present year. 19

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prof. Sou E. Scott, 23. S. OA ERMINA SCOTT was born April 28th, 1868, in Chester, Geauga County, Ghio, and in that little town spent the first five years of her life, when with her parents she moved to Chagrin Falls. In that picturesque town her home is still situated. There, also, in the public schools, she prepared herself to enter Hiram College. She first came to Hiram in the Fall of '85, when Prof. Laughlin was President. Since then the college has been remodeled, also the Ladies' Hall, and the Boys' Hall built, and many of the private dwellings. So that now, the town but little resembles the one Miss Scott first knew. On coming to Hiram, she developed a natural liking for practical studies, as the sciences, and always strove for a good understanding of her work. All through her course she was known for the active interest she manifested in the progress of everything pertaining to the college, whether literary, social, or religious. Great indeed must seem to her the change which a few short years have wrought on this historic hill. Now all is bright and encouraging for the college, and a future of still broader culture and attainment is assured. W'hen Miss Scott first entered, all seemed dark and discouraging. Miss Scott graduated in june, 1892, having been here in all, seventeen terms. In the fall of the same year, she accepted a professorship in her Alma Mater, and, although having held this position so short a time, it has been filled very satisfactorily, and measuring the future by the past, we predict for Miss Scott-success. 18

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1. Glyroniclcs 2? : H 1 56. EHOLD, it came to pass in the days of Ely the Zollarsite, king over Hiram, that a certain man looked upon Helen, the chief ruler of the daughters of the land fthe same was from the land of Solon 5, and saw that she was fair. And it was so that when she knew that the man desired in his heart to take her to wife, that she departed and went forth from the land of Hiram and from the ruling of the daughters of the land, and returned unto her own land and her own people. W'herefore the king of Hiram did call together his chief counselors, and did say unto them 1 Look ye out from among all the honorable women of the land one which I may cause to rule over the daughters of my kingdom. Then one of the chief men answered and said: O king, live forever. There is known unto me a certain woman which will please thee well. And lo, it is so that when the sons of thy people, or the stranger sojourning' in thy land shall see her, their hearts will go not out to her: therefore will they not take her away from the ruling of thy people. Then said Ely the Zollarsite: Cause her to come to the land of Hiram, and make her to dwell in the house of Bowler that she may go out and in,before the daughters of my people, and keep them in subjection. And all the words of the king were obeyed. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Ely the Zollarsite, king over Hiram, in the ninth month and on the seven and twentieth day of the month, when the daughters of Hiram gathered together in the house of Bowler and beheld the woman which was to rule over them, they were greatly 20