| We walked along Alum Creek. We studied hard and cheered for the Cardinals. We discovered the Internet! | |||
Taking a look at the history of Otterbein College - in Westerville, Ohio, USA URL: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~vlwest/otterbein2/index.html (10-12-12) | |||
  | Official Site: Otterbein University with * Student Life * Alumni Directory * Alumni | Westerville, OH * Short history * Historic homes & places * The Dry Capital of the World (WPL) | |
| Otterbein College History founded in 1847 in Westerville, OH | |||
| 1700s | OTTERBEIN | 1847: | DAVIS, HANBY |
| Philip William Otterbein
| William Hanby, a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, and Lewis Davis were co-founders of Otterbein College on April 26, 1847. * Explore the Hanby House through OhioHistory.org and General Commission on Archives & History. William Hanby's son, Benjamin, wrote such songs as "Darling Nellie Gray" (words and melody) and "Up On A Housetop" | ||
| 1892-1894: | BATES, DUNCAN, GEORGE, KING, ??? | 1895-1896: | DUNCAN, LONGMAN |
 Six Otterbein University students. More details Left: Fred and Maybelle (Duncan) George |  Leoti Duncan Longman (right) was the president of the Freshman Class at Otterbein University for the 1895-96 school year. (More pictures and her biography) Leoti's cousin, Maybelle Duncan George, had preceded her to Otterbein. | ||
| 1903-1907: | ALSPAUGH, BARNS, ESTERLINE, WELLS, ZIMMERMAN | ||||||||||||||
My husband's grandmother, Edna Adah Wells, was a freshman in 1903. She was a graduate, therefore, she would have been in the "Class of a 1907". She was a music major. Her home was Silver Lake, Indiana. Among her pictures are studio portraits of "Otterbein Friends". If the surnames: BARNS, ESTERLINE (Shelby, OH), ALSPAUGH, or ZIMMERMAN have any meaning to you, please let me know. If you can establish a relationship to any of these people, I would be very happy to send the pictures to you. | |||||||||||||||
| 1936-1965: | SHACKSON | 1942: | BRADY |
| Living and teaching at Otterbein in the mid-1900s: a biography of Prof. and Mrs. Lee Shackson, by their son C.W. "Gus" Shackson |  Troy R. Brady was a student pastor while he attended Otterbein College. Included in this site is a history of United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH. | ||
| 1955: | JUMP | 1978: | JANSING |
| Gordon Jump died, September 22, 2003 Gordon Jump, OC class of 1955, was the recipient of the 1995 Alumni Special Acievement Award from Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio. He is an actor, especially recognized as the lonely Maytag repairman and Mr. Carlson on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. | Chris Jansing, MSNBC anchor, graduated from Otterbein in 1978 and went on to report from Washington DC. | ||
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* Otterbein place names * Otterbein Home, Lebanon, OH (retirement centers) * Thomas Otterbein, Babenhausen * Otterbein United Methodist Church, Mount Wolf, PA * Old Otterbein, a United Methodis Church, Baltimore, MD * Otterbein at Google * Otterbein pictures (Google) | | Otterbein On-Line, created and maintained by Nancy Sween, 1995-current, [email protected]. from GeoCities - Rootsweb Freepages History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~vlwest/otterbein2/index.html 10-12-12 |