The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-03-26
BEREA TRUSTEES


Board Of Trustees in the country. Our
readers will be interested in knowing
just who they are.
Perhaps the most distinctly public
man on the board is Ex-Governor
Augustus +. Wilson. Gov. Wilson is
native Kentuckian, graduate of
Harvard, and the man who carried
the Commonwealth through the trying
period Of "night-riders."
The oldest member Of the board is
Samuel Hanson Of Berea, who has
known the Institution from its very
beginning, and was one of the six
hundred Kentuckians who voted for
Abraham Lincoln.
Almost as distinguished as Gov.
Wilson in Republican circles is Hon.
Guy Ward Mallon as a Democrat.
Mallon is a native of Cincinnati,
graduate of Yale, trustee of the Ohio
State University, and was the man
selected to meet the serious difficulties
of the strikers and the Elephants in
Cincinnati last summer.
Another distinguished lawyer is
VIM. ID. Embree, Assistant Prosecu-
ting Attorney of New York. Mr..
Embree is a graduate of Berea Col
lege and Yale Law School and has
risen very rapidly to first rank in his
profession.
Prof. Elmer A. Lyman of Ypsilanti,
Mich, is the author of a series of
mathematical textbooks and one of
the great practical mathematicians of
the world whose advice is sought by
great investment and insurance COM
panies.
The leading religious bodies of the
country are represented by several
clergymen, who are also men of prac-
teal affairs. Rev. Percy S. Grant, ID,
of the Episcopal Church Of the Assem-
sion of New York City, who will be
remembered as Bishop Potter's COM
panion in visiting the Philippine Is
lands a few years ago. Bishop Nc
Dowell Of the Methodist Church, who
has been himself President of State
University Rev. Herbert S. johnson,
DID,. of Boston, a distinguished Bap-
fist divine, whose father laid the
educational foundation of the state of
Oregon. DIR. johnson is a graduate
of Harvard. And Rev. VIM. f. Barton,
DID,, of Chicago, one of the leading
Congregationalists of the country;
editor of the Advance, and member of
the recent commission for the revis-
ion of Congregational standards. DIR.
Barton is one of the distinguished
graduates Of Berea.
We should not forget Rev. Carl T.
Michel Of Harlan, KY, one of the ac-
tive spirses in the Presbyterian de-
nomination, and himself a pioneer
worker in the mountains.
Mr.. Herbert A. Wilder of Boston,
Mass, is a retired manufacturer with
large business interests, who has for
many years been almost an expert on
education in the South.
Hon. Thompson S. Burnam of
Richmond, KY, brother of our recent
Chief Justice of the State, is prom
inent banker and farmer in our own
county. His father, once a member
of Grants Cabinet, was a trustee be-
fore him.
Mr.. Phillip E. Howard is a pub
Usher of wide influence and acquain-
lance in Philadelphia.
Rev. James Bond, DID,, a graduate
of Berea and Financial Agent of Lin
coin Institute.
j. Cleveland Cady, LID, is dis
tinguished architect in New York
City and trustee of the Presbyterian
Hospital.
Mr.. VIM. r. Belknap of Louisville
is graduate of Yale and head of the
Belknap Hardware Company. He
has long been recognized as one of
the first citizens of the Common
wealth.
Rev. A. Eugene Thomson, DID,,
former pastor of the Union Church
in Berea is now Principal of Lincoln
Institute.
Mr., John r. Rogers of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is graduate of Berea and
chief inventor of the Linotype, a type
setting machine now used in all parts
of the world. Mr.. Rogers finds time
for frequent visits in Berea, and was
in his earlier years engaged in edu-
cational work.
William c. Proctor of Cincinnati is
a graduate of Princeton, where his
are well known, and a
leading member of the business firm
of Proctor & Gamble.
Major William Herndon of Lam
caster, KY, is Union veteran and
prominent lawyer of our own state.
Mr.. Edwin X. Stearns Of Cincin-
natl is graduate of Yale, an active
business man, bank director, and trus-
tee of several charitable institutions.