“The Reverend Mr. E.H. Orwen (1835-92) was a native of Delhi, New York. After a brief career as a teacher, he entered the ministry and from 1852 served churches in New York and West Virginia. On two occasions during his ministry he was forced by ill health to take the supernumerary relation. He engaged in editorial work during one of these periods. At the time of the founding of the seminary he was engaged in assisting his son in establishing a newspaper at Aberdeen, Maryland. He was secretary of the Board of Trustees until his death. He was also a trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University.”
Plummer, K.M. (1965) A history of West Virginia Wesleyan College 1890-1965. [electronic] Retrieved from Internet Archive. Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College.
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