“The Reverend Mr. A.B. Rohrbouth (1836-1901) was born near Buckhannon, West Virginia. He was admitted on trial to the West Virginia Annual Conference in 1857. During 1862-63 he lived in Illinois where he taught school. For the next ten years he was a resident of Buckhannon and engaged in newspaper work, teaching and temerance work. During two of these years he was superintendent of the public schools. He returned to the Southern Illinois Conference for another ten-year period during which he served as a pastor. In 1884 he returned to West Virginia as a pastor, and for a period of two years he again engaged in newspaper and temperance work at Buckhannon. In 1900 he was appointed editor of the Methodist Episcopal Times.”
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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