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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X WILLIAM Hoon MARQUESS, D. D. WILLIAM HOGE MARQUESS was born in Tennessee, February 22, 1854. He is the second son of Anne Lacy Hoge and William Henry Marquess. He belongs to a Virginia family which is not only Presbyterian, but has produced in its various branches many noted Presbyterian preachers, as the Hoges, Lacys, Brooks, Marquesses, and Smiths. His boyhood life was spentin Mississippi. He entered Westminster College, and took the A. B. degree in 1873. Pursuing privately his studies for the ministry, he was ordained November 25, 1875, in Keytesville, Mis- souri, where, in connection with Brunswick, he preached two years. In 1877 he was called to the pastorate of the church in Fulton, Missouri, he being then only twenty-four years old. This position he held for sixteen years. Under his ministry the church grew in numbers and into a breadth of work and inHuence far beyond anything in its previous history. He himself grew into a preacher of wonderful spiritual richness which grew out of an extraordi- nary knowledge of the Wo1'd of God and power to interpret it. In 1887 he was made president of Westminster' College, a position which he held till Iune, 1893. His man- agement of the College was attended with energy and success. This double work, however, in connection with his incessant private studies in several directions, specially in the line of languages, ancient and modern, was too much even for his vigorous constitution, and warned by persistent attacks of insomnia, he resigned. He was then called to the chairmanship of the faculty of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, where he is still doing double work as professor of Old Testament Exegesis and professor of the English Bible and Bib- lical Theology, besides supplying the Crescent Hill church. ' Dr. Marquess received his Doctor's degree from Central College, Kentucky. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Mar- quess, is the daughter of the late Judge A. H. Buckner, of Mexico, Missouri. 1 25