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J.
M. Atwater
John Milton Atwater was born June 3, 1837, at Mantua, Portage county, Ohio. His four grandparents were all New England people.
His early life was spent on the farm, where milking cows, handling horses, chopping wood, hauling logs, building fences, breaking steers, running sugar camp in spring, haying and harvesting in summer, gathering apples and husking corn in fall, and going to school in winter, made every year a busy one, and developed brain and brawn for the work of life.
The religious influence under which he grew up was earnest and devout. His father, Darwin Atwater, was a charter member and officer of the first church of Disciples organized in northern Ohio, at Mantua. His mother, Harriet Clapp, was a charter member of the church at Mentor, formed a little later.
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At the age of fourteen he entered what is now Hiram College. At twenty-one he was made a
member of the faculty, Mr. Garfield being at that time President of the school, and continued there three years. He began preaching in 1859 at Hiram. In 1861 he entered Oberlin College, graduated in 1863, and then took a two years' post-graduate course there.
In 1866 he was called back to Hiram to be the head of the school there, and continued in that position till 1870. From that time till 1887 he gave his time almost entirely to preaching, holding pastorates in Syracuse, N. Y., Worcester, Mass., Springfield, Ill., and Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1887 he was chosen a professor in Garfield University, Wichita, Kansas, and later was made Dean of the College of the Bible in that institution. After the suspension of that school, he was elected, in 1891, Professor of Latin and History in Eureka College, Illinois. From there he was called in 1892 to be President of Oskaloosa College, Iowa, where he is now engaged.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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