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Our Founders

Thomas Cowan Bell
"The qualities of learning"

  • County superintendent, public schools, Minnesota, 1872-77
  • Publisher, Journal (Worthington, Minn.), 1878-85
  • President, Philamath College, Philomath, Oregon, 1885-86
  • Principal, La Creole Academy, Dalls, Ore., 1887-92
  • President, Central Oregon State Normal School, 1892-96
  • Captain, major and lieutenant colonel, 74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army, 1861-63

James Parks Caldwell
"True to principle"

  • Teacher, Mississippi, 1858-59
  • Principal, Palmetto Academy, Panola County, Miss., 1860, 1865-66
  • Admitted to the bar, Mississippi, 1866
  • Attorney, Los Angeles and San Bernardino, Calif., 1867-75
  • Edited newspapers in Ohio
  • Practiced law in Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., 1887-1912
 
 
 

Daniel william cooper
"Ruler of the spirit"

  • Pastor, Presbyterian churches in Ohio and Indiana, 1859-91
  • Delegate, Presbyterian General Assembly, 1872 and 1885
 
 
 

Issac M. Jordan
"Energetic and faithful to every task"

  • Admitted to bar, Columbus, Ohio, 1858
  • Attorney, 1858-90
  • Congressman, first district of Ohio, 1883-85

William Lewis Lockwood
"Honest and trustworthy through life"

  • Admitted to the bar, 1860
  • Manufacturing, 1864
  • Company H, 48th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army
  • First lieutenant, 1861
  • A.A.G., Second Division, Tenth Army Corps, U.S. Army, 1864

Benjamin Piatt Runkle
"Courageous in spirit and idealism"

  • Professor of military science and tactics, Miami 1899-1901; University of Maine, 1902-03; Peekskill Military Academy, 1903-04
  • Captain, major, and lieutenant colonel, 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army
  • Colonel, 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army

Franklin Howard Scobey
"Courteous and loyal in his friendship"

  • Editor, Telegraph, Hamilton, Ohio, 1867-79
  • Cattleman, Kansas, 1879-82
  • Farmer, Woods Station, Ohio, 1882-1888
  • Private, Fifth Ohio Cavalry, U.S. Army, 1861