Whitwan, Edward A
soldier, clergyman, college president, poet, was born July 9, 1845, in Flint, Mich. He served as a private soldier until the close of the war in the fourth regiment Michigan cavalry. He subsequently became an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and in 1884 was elected president of the Western Reserve seminary of east Ohio. In 1886 he was elected to the chair of physics and chemistry in McKendree college of Illinois, and later to the presidency. In 1887 he became president of the North Nebraska Normal college.