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G.
W. Hootman
G. W. Hootman is the fifth son of Christopher and Sarah Ann (Winbigler) Hootman. Born July
29, 1861, in a log cabin near Hicksville, Ohio, his advent into the world at that time, in the northwestern part of the State, started him in the experiences of the early pioneer life of that region. He grew to young manhood among the deprivations incident to farm life in a new country.
| His ancestors are, for the most part, of German-English descent, with a marked tinge of Scotch blood, and have transmitted, as a rich inheritance to their children, the hardy physical constitution of the former, coupled with the more active and vigorous mentality of the latter.
When old enough he began to attend the country school and, of course, to help in the work of the farm. This he continued to do until he had reached his twentieth year. His time in school had been so well employed, that, with the addition of a few weeks of special preparation at the Newville Academy, Newville, Indiana, he was granted a permit to teach, and taught his first school, near his home, during the winter of 1880-1.
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When old enough he began to attend the country school and, of course, to help in the work of the farm. This he continued to do until he had reached his twentieth year. His time in school had been so well employed, that, with the addition of a few weeks of special preparation at the Newville Academy, Newville, Indiana, he was granted a permit to teach, and taught his first school, near his home, during the winter of 1880-1.
After this he immediately began his work as a student in the Northern Indiana Normal School
and Business Institute, Valparaiso, Indiana, and continued to attend school and teach until five years later, when he was employed as principal and instructor of the Commercial department in the Defiance Normal College, Defiance, Ohio. The management of this institution not proving satisfactory, he resigned his position, and after two months of work in the office of the Defiance Machine Works, entered upon the organization of a Summer
Normal at St. Joe, Indiana. Before his term had closed he was engaged as manager and Principal of the Business Department of Eureka College, a place he has now creditably filled for seven years.
His preparation for the special work in which he is now engaged, has been thorough, and is further supplemented by a careful study of numerous cognate branches.
At the age of twenty-five years he was married to Miss Clara E. Richardson of Farmer, Ohio, who has proven a true help-mate to him in their eight years of wedded life. To them have been born three loving children, Beulah Alice, Helen Mabel, and Hugh Donald.
With these extra gifts of God's sunshine to cheer him, and the consciousness that the success of the past may only foreshadow the possibility of still higher achievements and greater usefulness in the future, he can hopefully anticipate the brighter days of the years that are before him.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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