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FINDLEY, William Thornton, clergyman, born in West Middletown, Pennsylvania, 2 June 1814. He removed with his parents to Ohio in 1824, was graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1839, and was licensed to preach in the Associate Reformed Church on 12 June of that year. He has held pastorates at Chillicothe, Springfield, and Xenia, Ohio, and Newark, New Jersey, and in 1867'8 edited the "Family Treasure," published in Cincinnati. He has published about twenty sermons.
His brother, Samuel Findley, educator, born in West Middletown, Pennsylvania, 26 October 1818, was graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1839, studied at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, theological seminary, and on 12 October 1842, was ordained as a clergyman of the Associate Reformed Church. He was principal of Edinburg academy, Wooster, Ohio, in 1846'8, of Chillicothe female College in 1850'3, president of Madison College, Antrim, Ohio, in 1853'6, and pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1857'61, editing at the same time, for two years, the "Pennsylvania Teacher." He was professor of logic and rhetoric in the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1861'3, taught in 1863'5, was professor in the Western military academy, Dayton, Ohio, in 1865'70, and has held various pastorates. Dr. Findley is a corresponding" member of the American entomological society, and has published "Rambles among the Insects" (Philadelphia, 1878).
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