1934 Cedrus Yearbook

DR. McCHESNEY The history of the forty years of Cedarville College is also the history of forty years of faithful service of one who was the first elected teacher in the college, and who has been our beloved president in the past nineteen years. Wilbur Renwick McChesney was born July 7, 1871, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch Covenanter parentage. He had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and re- fused to allow anything to prevent his attaining the best education available. He studied at Franklin College where he received his A.B. degree in 1892, and his M. A. in 1894. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Franklin College in 1906, and was honored with the degree of D.D. by Tarkio College in 1915. Dr. McChesney was ordained as a minister of the gospel by the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1900. In 1894 Dr. McChesney was called to Cedarville College as the first professor of an cient languages, and was chosen to succeed Dr. McKinney as president in 1915. Page Seventeen