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H. O. Newcomb
Henry Obediah Newcomb was born January 5, 1838, at Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio. His parents were of English descent and his paternal grandfather was one of the first Disciple preachers of the Western Reserve.
His early education was obtained at the Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio. He afterwards entered the Junior class, Michigan University, from which university he graduated at twenty-three, having completed the required curriculum and also the usual course in French and German literature. Soon after he was called to a professorship in Eureka College, where he taught Greek, modern languages and history during the last seven years of his life. After a thorough course of law reading he was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, and later he organized and carried on the Law department at Eureka College.
His health failing, he returned to Hiram, where he died, at his father's home, September 16, 1870, at the age of thirty-two.
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As a scholar he was accurate and profound; as a teacher, popular and successful, having at all times the full appreciation and respect of both faculty and students.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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