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Frazier, Samuel Robinson

educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Feb. 23, 1846, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Before graduation he enlisted three times in the union army, and each time was sent back as too young; and finally he went into the service of the Christian commission, and was with Sherman's army on the march to Atlanta. He then became a successful clergyman, and filled pastorates in Monroe, near Cincinnati; and six years later became pastor of the Third United Presbyterian church of Pittsburg. In 1879 he resigned and went to Japan. He there became acting secretary and interpreter in the American legation, and taught in the Osaka school and Imperial university at Tokio. In 1883 he became pastor of the First United Presbyterian church of Youngstown, Ohio, and is still its pastor. In 1896 he was a delegate to the panpresbyterian council, which met at Glasgow, Scotland; and subsequently made his second tour of the world.