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Ballantine, William Gay

educator, college president, was born Dec. 7, 1848, in Washington, D. C. In 1875 he was appointed professor of Greek in the university of Indiana; and in 1891 was elected president of Oberlin coliege BALLANTYNE, REV. MARLIN J., educator, clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 30, 1852, near Brookville, Pa. He received his education in the public schools and at Dayton Union academy. For seven years he taught school, and for nearly twenty years has been engaged in the ministry. He is now presiding elder of the Oregon Conference of the United Evangelical Church, president of the La Fayette seminary, and teacher of political economy and ethics in the same institution. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the religious press.