STARK COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MCMASTER, William Henry (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 47

        WILLIAM HENRY McMASTER, president of Mount Union College at
Alliance, was born in Centerville, Ohio, September 17, 1875, son of Dr.
James Nelson and Susan Elizabeth (Neff) McMaster. He took his Bachelor of
Philosophy degree at Mount Union College in 1899, graduated Bachelor of
Divinity from the Drew Theological Seminary in 1902, was a student in the
United Free Church College at Glasgow, Scotland for a year, and in 1905
received the master of Arts degree from the New York University. Ohio
Wesleyan University, in recognition of his services through Methodism and
cause of education, gave him the Doctor of Divinity degree in 1911.
        He was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1889, and held
pastorates in New York City and Brooklyn for ten years. In 1909 he accepted
the post of president of Mount Union College. He is vice president of the
Ohio Council of Churches and was a member of the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1920 and 1924. He married Isabella Mills of
Cleveland May 8, 1907.

HISTORY OF OHIO
Volume 1, page 492 (Under Mount Union College the following paragraph appears)
        Following is a list of presidents of this institution, together
with the time each served: Rev. Orville Nelson Hartshorn, 1846-87; Rev.
Tamberlane Pliny Marsh, 1888-98; Rev. Albert Birdsall Ricker, 1898-1908;
Rev. William Henry McMaster, 1908, and still serving as president in 1925.
These presidents were all titled as A.M., D.D., except the first name who
was an A.M.LL.D.


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