Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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CHARLES CAMPBELL HERSMAN, D. D., LL. D. DR. CHARLES CAMPBELL HERSDIAN was born in Lexington, Kentucky, June 16, 1838. His parents moved to Missouri and settled in Monroe county when he was a boy, His father was a- prosperous farmer and successful business man, and although he died when I-Iersman was young he had accumulated. suihcient property to liberally educate his children. In the beginning of his education, he was fortunate in having excellent teachers. When he had outgrown the home school he was sent away to Van Rensselaer Academy to prepare for college. Thence to VVestminster, where he spent four or five years and secured the degree of A. B., graduating in 1866 with the high- est honors of his class, which was a large and brilliant one. h ' YVhile in college he manifested the greatest enthusiasm in the performance of all duties, whether in class room or in the societies. He belonged to the Philologic and Religious Inquiry Societies. He was a favorite both with faculty and students, for he had those fine qualities of mind and character that still commend him wherever he is known. The year following his graduation, Dr. Hersman went to Princeton Theological Seminary where he attracted the attention of his professors and class by his remarkable recitations, especially when it was known that he came from a western college. He returned home in 1863 and was married to Miss Machette and accepted a chair in Carroll College, VViscon- sin, the same year, where he remained a short time, returning to take the chair of Greek in VVestminster, to which he had been elected. This chair he occupied continuously for the nearly twenty-five years of his connection with the college, adding during the last ten years the duties and office of president. In September, 1887, he became pro- fessor of New Testament Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Columbia Theological Seminary. In 1888 was elected chancellor of the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tennessee, from which place three years after, he was called to the chair of New Testament Exegesis in Union Theological Seminary, Hampden Sidney, Virginia. Dr. Hersman is a man of gentle, almost diiiident, disposition, a thoughtful and powerful preacher, and a superbly clear and able teacher. ' He certainly has no superior, and it is doubtful if he has an equal as a teacher in his d'epartment. His cordial and warm manner attaches his students to him in a way that few men can. He is, in point of service, next to the senior professor in Union Seminary. Among the many distinguished alumni of Westminster' College, none has brought more honor to his alma mater than Dr. Hersman. Two of the best institutions in this country have honored themselves by conferring upon him the degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws. . I 23

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