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A.
M. Weston
Asa Minor Weston was born September 24, 1836, at Cleveland, Ohio, and reared on a small farm
six miles east of that city. His ancestors were among the first settlers of Massachusetts. His preparatory education was at Shaw Academy, Colamer, Ohio. Then he spent several years in
Oberlin College, completing the Sophomore year, when, attracted by the fame of Horace Mann, he, with seven of his class-mates, went to Antioch College, where he graduated in 1857. From a child he was very fond of books, and apt in studies of all kinds.
He taught during his college course, in part paying his own way. After graduation he taught in a select Normal School in Clinton county, Ohio. In 1860-1 was local editor of the Cincinnati Press, a daily paper of wide circulation in the city and vicinity. Gave up the paper to enter the army in August, 1862. Was first private in Co. K, 50th Reg. Ohio Vol. Inf. Promoted at various times, he became Sergeant-major of the regiment and second Lieutenant Co. E. Served till the close of the war without absence or wounds. Was in the Atlanta Campaign, also in the engagements at Perryville, Franklin, Nashville and other places.
After the war was Superintendent of Schools and Principal of Jennings Academy, Vernon, Indiana, two years. Then Professor of Mathematics in Hiram College, Ohio, the first two years of its existence as a college. Declined to remain longer when the responsibility and management were placed in the hands of one man. Married Miss Julia E.
Pardee, one of the teachers in the college. This union was blessed with one child, a daughter, now Mrs.
Rowlison, of Troy, Pennsylvania. Then after one year in charge of Major College, a school for young ladies, in Bloomington, Illinois, he came to Eureka in 1870, remaining six years, three years as professor and three as president, succeeding President Everest. During his presidency there was a good increase each year in the number of students.
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In 1876 removed to Indiana, and has greatly enjoyed fitting up a home and preaching according to occasion. Three years, from 1888 to 1891, had a delightful service as pastor of the church at Troy, Penn. Since then has been living on his farm near Mount Summit, Indiana.
He considers that his forte was undoubtedly teaching, and was always exceedingly popular in
school work, but never so anywhere else. All his life he has been subject to severe headache, and, as a teacher, worked too hard, and for this cause felt constrained to abandon this calling, declining some lucrative offers to take charge of schools.
In politics he has been independent.
Was reared in the influence of the Presbyterian Church, in which his father was a deacon. When a young man he fell into skepticism, caused by the unreasonableness of certain dogmas which he had been taught. After his graduation he heard preaching by ministers of the Church of Christ, which in time so disabused his mind of false impressions, and gave him keys to an understanding of the Bible, that he determined to obey the Gospel at the very time that he decided to enlist in the service of his country. He was baptized by David S. Burnett in Cincinnati, and the next morning found him on his way to camp Denison. Never since has
he lacked faith in or enthusiasm for the cause of the ever blessed Son of God.
His life has been a busy one, but he has found time to write a book entitled, " Evolution of a Shadow." The point of view is the Sabbath as a type (or "Shadow"); hence the name. It is an interesting work and has been very generally commended by those who have read it.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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