Wood County OhArchives Biographies.....Orville Gilbert Brim  August 18 1883 - 

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Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 2:28 pm

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Orville Gilbert Brim was born , August 18, 1883, in Latcha, Wood County, Ohio.
His parents were Gilbert Birchall Brim and Elizabeth Hahn.   His birth place of 
Latcha, Ohio is a small rural community which is southwest of Toledo, Ohio,   
About twenty miles, as the crow flies..   He was the fourth child born to his 
parents 
with siblings being, George, Clara, Otto, James and Edna.

He was educated at Tri-State University in Indiana, and Valparaiso 
University.   
He taught in a one room school house for two years before attending Valparaiaso 
where he earned his Bachelors degree in Education.   He taught in Ohio 
schools.   
In the early twenties he became principal of Byrne High School, in Byrne, 
Indiana.   
He mentioned that was the first high school he was ever in.

He did graduate study in Harvard and Columbia University.   Married Helen 
Whittier 
of Elmira, New York, in June of 1912.   Continued his career as a pioneer in 
rural 
education and teacher training at Hattiesburg State Normal College (now 
Mississippi 
Southern University) and later at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

In 1918, following the entry of the United States into World War I, he joined 
the 
YMCA Service in the Supplies Corps and served overseas in France and Italy.
 
In 1919, after completion of his PHD at Columbia, he joined the faculty at 
Cornell, 
then spent a brief summer at the University of Michigan before settling at Ohio 
State 
University, where he taught Philosophy of Education for 18 years.

In 1941, he retired to Lakeville, Connecticut farm home where he and Helen 
together 
created a place of beauty. A haven for family and friends, far and near.   
Though Helen 
died in 1975, the Lakeville home continued to be the family center with his 
loved 
presence to be welcome there.

He was a family man.   The father of three daughters and two sons; beloved also 
by 
seventeen grandchildren, twenty-eight great grand-children and five great great 
grandchildren.

He was a farmer, gardener, seeker, teacher, counselor and friend.   Scholar and 
author-genealogist and patriarch-world traveler who loved best his own 
hearthside, and view 
of fields and hills from his easy chair.   He passed through the veil at 103 
years of age.   
His body rests under the "Family Tree", a River Beech tree, planted on their 
50th Wedding 
Anniversary, along side his wife, Helen.
 


Additional Comments:
Information submitted by Patrick McVicker (Great-great grandson) 17 April 2003


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