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3Ststurg of 3Br. jSmtth IR. Albert Edwin Smith, D. D., Ph. D., the present head of the Ohio Northern University was bom TO in New Richmond, Clairmont County, Ohio, December 16, 1860, and is therefore in the fiftieth year ( ' ■£ ' I) year of his age. His ancestrey on his paternal side were pure German, while on his maternal side side they were Scotch Irish, and Virginian. Dr. Smith was born in poverty and at an early age was thrust out upon the world. After fighting the severe battle until his 19th year, he re-entered the public school and then attended Clairmont Academy, a celebrated institution in that section of the state from which he gradu¬ ated with high honor after three years of study. He then entered the Christian ministry in the Methodist Episco¬ pal church and preached for two years in his native county. After this period of work he resumed his educational work at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, from which he was graduated in the Classical course in the year 1887. In this same year he joined the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church and for eighteen years served some of the best pastorates in the conference, namely, at Celina, Toledo, Defiance and Marion, Ohio. During this year he pursued post graduate work at the Ohio Wesleyan University, adding’his Ph. D., and was honorded by being elected a trustee of that institution. In the year 1905,by unanamous choice of the trustees of the Ohio Northern University, he was chosen to be president of this institution in the room of Dr. L. A. Belt, resigned. For five years he has been the administra¬ tive head of this great school, and under his hand it has flourished and prospered exceedingly. Dr. Smith is in the prime of his manhood and gives promise of still larger service to the 0. N. U. in the real¬ ization of his views of buildings, equipment, and efficiency. The president is blessed with a devoted wife,.Mrs. Harriet Vergon Smith, and a family of five children: three sons and two daughters.
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DR. ALBERT EDWIN SMITH, D. D„ Ph. B. President Ohio Northern University
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PRESIDENT WIT I JAM HOWARD TAFT Commencement Orator 1910
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