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116 HISTORY OF THE VA CONFERENCE, E.U.B. CHURCH—D.F. GLOVIER

HOTT:—John Moses Hott was born in Frederick County, Virginia in
1835. He was for a short while in Mt. Pleasant College in Pennsylvania
which later transferred to Ohio and became Otterbein University.

Prior to being licensed, he held revival meetings and established some
churches. He was received into the Conference in 1877 and ordained in
1883. He served the following charges: Bloomery, Elkton, Madison,
Mission, Augusta, Rockbridge, Franklin, South Branch and Blue Ridge.

He died at his home in Augusta County, Virginia, on December 22,
1916, and was buried at Mt. Pisgah, Va.

FUNKHOUSER:—Abraham Paul Funkhouser was born December 10,
1853, in Rockingham County, Virginia.

He joined the Virginia Conference in 1872 and after graduating from
Otterbein University, he had charge of several circuits.

He was elected Presiding Elder of the South Branch District, and
served several terms as delegate to the General Conference.

He founded Shenandoah Institute at Dayton and was its president for
several years. He had important connection with the Leander Clark College
in Iowa as well as with Lebanon Valley College. He was chosen in 1897 as
an Associate Editor of the Religious Telescope. He served also as a trustee
of the U. B. Printing Establishment.

He was superintendent of Rockingham County public schools for four
years and postmaster at Harrisonburg for eight years.

He studied at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University
and would have received his Ph.D. degree in another year.

He died on July 6, 1917, at his home at “Assembly Park” near
Harrisonburg, where he had built a tabernacle and cottages for a
Chautauqua. Interment was made in Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg,
Va.

MCMULLEN:—Edgar William McMullen was born near Singers Glen,
Virginia on February 5, 1861. He was ordained in 1889. He graduated from
Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and later earned both the A.B. and M.A.
degrees from Otterbein College.

He taught in the public schools of Rockingham county and at
Shenandoah Collegiate Institute.

He died at his home in Dayton on December 11, 1917, and was buried
at Singers Glen, Va.

BRILL:—L. E. Brill was born at LaFollettesville, Hampshire
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