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W.
S. Errett
W. S. Errett was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1841. He is of English-Irish-Scotch descent. At the age of fourteen years his father removed with his family to Knox county, Ohio, where young Errett had seven years' experience in farm life.
| In the fall of 1862 he entered the army, serving as a private in the 65th Reg. Ohio Vol. Infantry. Soon after returning from this service he entered Bethany College, and was graduated from there with the degree A. B. in June, 1871. In September of the same year he began his chosen work of teaching, in charge of the public schools at Madison, Ohio. His father dying the next spring, he returned to Knox county. Was married to Selena H. Bakewell at Normal, Illinois, February 27, 1873. The same year was chosen elder of the church at
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and soon after began preaching at their instance.
Removed to Missouri in 1878; to Greenville, Illinois, in 1880; to the chair of Mathematics in Abingdon College in 1881; thence to the same work in Eureka in the fall of 1884. Since then has taught in Ash Grove, Missouri, and preached in Kansas and Illinois, and is now pastor of the church at Carbondale, Illinois. |
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Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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