The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-26

tutions, the Fort Wayne Female College
and the Whitewater College at
Centervillo enjoyed his services
temporarily. Bat education and its labors
did not bound the field of his usefulness.
His work as a leading minister OF the gos-
pei, was also extensive and effective. AS
pastor OF the church he served with marked
ability and devotion in Bloomington, Salem,
and as presiding elder on the Richmond
District. Dr. Mutt was born in 1874, Septem-
Der II, in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was
one OF those boys who. faithful in labor on
the farm, as pioneer lite required, also had
nralns, and by persistent use OF
the most meager facilities
worked his mental way through
the rudiments OF learning, and so on and
on till he graduated al Meadville College.
Pa, in 1885. With his diploma and the In
sPlrstion Of cultured and pious mind, he
came Immediately to Indiana, ana in June,
1887, began work at the very foundations OF
the Asbury University, beginning the pre-
paratory department in a small building of
two rooms, in one of which the public
school was kept. His room was the smaller
OF the two, and a very humble Begin
ming OF the present
MAGNIFICENT INSTITUTION.
In September of the same year he was
elected professor of languages, and in 1s4l
professor of Greek and Hebrew. This po-
sition he held two years and resigned to
give his exclusive time to the ministry.
This was in 1913. In 1876 he returned to
the chair of Gresk instruction. In ls4e
took charge of the Fort Wayne female co..
lege. In 1850 accepted the presidency of
whitewater College, which he held five
years, all the time holding the position of
trustee to Asbury University. In 1855
he resigned and served as presiding elder two
N q fall nf
came once more to Asbury as professor of
mathematics and vice-president of the fac
ulty. For two years he was acting president
in the vacancy OF that Office. He received
the degrees SUCCESSFULLY of A. NJ, ID. D.,
and L. l.. ID. rom different colleges of the
country. In 1860 he was elected delegate to
the General Conference of his church from
the Northern Indiana Conferences, and the
same year was chosen to his final and high
est position of public honor, the presi-
dency OF the State University. This
place he filled and honored with
the most indefatigable labors and solicitude
Tor the last fifteen years of his life. He was
elected, in 1912, president OF the Iowa State
University, but declined to leave the field
of his lifework in Indiana. Such is the
briefest and meager outline of a life that was
devoted to the earnest service of God and
man and adorned by the noblest virtues. In
some fields of learning DIR. Mutt was apro-
found scholar. he was a well quail
fed student of moral anG
theological philosophy, deeply read and
strong thinker. OF his personal qualities,
the sentiment is unanimous and emphatic,
testifying to his modesty, his great kindness
of heart and tender Affections. Among the
officers and membership of the Methodist
church, he was the object of universal and
devoted esteem, and outside of the church
his friends were an army of Indians's oldest
and best citizens. His funeral takes place at
Greencastle to-day, where he will be buried
upon the field of his faithful labors and most
honorable achievements.