Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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REV. S. H. WELLER, D. D. 
 
President of the Occidental University, was born September 9, 1833, in Dayton, 
Ohio. He received his elementary education in his native State, and graduated in 
1856 at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, taking the first honor of his 
class. For a term he had charge of the High School in Davenport, Iowa, and then 
pursued a theological course at a seminary, and for the succeeding twenty years 
he labored successfully in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. Then, after 
serving for a short time as president of the Kansas City Female College, he came 
to the Golden Coast, in 1885, since which time his efforts have been devoted to 
the establishment of the University above mentioned. He married Miss Ella 
Fraser, of Morrison, Illinois. They have a son, Harold Fraser by name.
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SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California - Chicago, The 
Lewis Publishing Co., 1889 - Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben.