Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-08-07
Recollections of vermillion In.
70 stitute. 1o49AS0.
l proceed with brief sketches of stu
dents who wers in attendance during
the time specified above.

| proceed with brief sketches OF stu
dents who wers in attendance during
the time specified above.
Andrew Lar;more began his studies
intending to become preacher. He re-
ceived aid from the Board of Education
but for want of talent or steady appliea-
ton or for some other reason, Andy
could not hold his own and finally gave
up his studies altogether. For music he
had a talent, and was the first one to
give an impulse to the school in that dr.
rection, an impulse which was felt years
after he had left. He was the musician
of Vermilion Institute in his day.
Albert McComb, whose father lost ten
thousand dollars by the failure of the
old Wooster bank, was seized with an ep-
ileptic fit one day at his boarding house,
the house in which Mr.. Kinney now lives
He was taken home but there was re-
turn of the malady so that the fits in
creased in violence and frequentey until
at length he became idiotic and died
some years afterwards, sad spectacle
to his parents and friends. .... 9dJ
John 1. KILN, hair whitish,cut short
and brushed back, was a good-looking
young man and stood we'll in all his
classes. He was Democrat of the ST.
mon Pure Order. He is now minister
in Rochester Wisconsin. stra os u
F.. W. Merrin came in company with
Cooper and KILN, and l think all three
roomed together. Merrin was a fine
student. In 1851 and 50 employed him
to sell Scots commentaries for me. /
furnished him with horse and wagon,
paid his travelling expenses, gave him a
salary of $25 n month and after sale of
three thousand dollars worth, lost about
three hundred dollars i'm the business.
L have however never regretted it for
my object was not speculation but TO do
good, and 1 know that good was done
by circulating that valuable exposition
of Gods word aai1ub fr e5
John HI. Harris was as strait as bean
pole and no wire in his joints. He was
an old young man, when first brought to
Hayesyille by his father who hoped his
Johnny would be good boy and mind
his studies. And Johnny wasZa good
boy and did mind his studies.--Never
was even trace of a trick about him.
He was one of four students who went
with me to Athens in 1852 and stied
year in my family. While there he fell
in love with jewelers. daughter, was
engaged to be married to her, but for
some reason, though not his fault the
engagement was broken of. He was
very thorough and accurate in his stand
ing as well as very precise in his habits
Mr.. Harris has made a useful minister.
John J. Glenn, now the Hon J. J
Glenn, Of Monmouth, Illinois, was one
of the four that went with me to Athens
and staid year. If ever there. was a
whole souled laundering
rollickinf, fun-loving young fellow, it
was John Glenn. 1t was no hard matter
for the girls to fail in love with him.
John had pair of very sharp eyes, but
they looked asquinr and can still hear
his loud haws-haws,a ,as used to twit him
on the way he was always looking at his
nose. Mr.. Glenn is prominent lawyer
and a gentleman of deservedly wide in
fiuence, in the State of his adoption.
James Glenn, cousin of Johns was
never distinguished by close applica-
tion to study. His fort lay in another
Some of the active young
labors were put forth dur
ing the late hours of the night. One
night he managed to abstract crock of
milk from neighboring cellar, all for
fun OF course, though that little item of
fun cost him ten dollars. Glenn was a
handsome young man and might have
made good student had he applied
himself to his books as he ought to have
done.
Thomas Keir was among the very first
In all his classes, and was therefore not !
quite so well liked as he might other
wise have been. He had however ALT
tie too much grit to be popular. His
health was seriously damaged in conse-
luence of going out of school into the
harvest field determined to do the work
ofa full hand at once. Keir was a
young man of devoted piety, and died
very suddenly while member of the
Theological Seminary at Allegheny in
February 1857. His death produced
deep sensation among the students OF his
Several conversions were
lated back to that event as the starting
point of interest in the great matter of
salvation. tsG3 ss7slH- 80 hgei ~ ~ |
David A. Cunningham had mind of
line texture susceptible of very high
polish, Imagination was largely devel-
,ped in him. In fact his earlier days
where continued string of flowers and
gems, just that kind of style that boys
and girls admire. Exuberance of fancy
however is no fault in boy if he has
intellect sufficient to act as counter
pose. And Cunningham had this. He
has now for some years been Pastor of
one ofthe leading churches in Philadel-
phia, where l have occasionally heard
him preach. A few months ago 1 had
the pleasure of listening to discourse
Of his. 1t was delivered in what struck
me as a most admirable taste, gems and
towers had mostly disappeared and in
their room were dignified elegance, SEN
tences of Pure ungarnished English.
Mr.. Cunningham is an able minister of
the Gospel, and God has greatly blessed
his labors. 1t is however, no disparage-
nent to him to say that no small meas
IRE of his eminent success is due, under
God to the admirable woman who one
might suppose was created on purpose
to be at once the wife of his bosom and
his help-meet in the ministry.
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