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Huntington (WILLIAM ED- WARDS an American)

WILLIAM ED- WARDS, an American educator, born in Hillsboro, Ill., in 1844. He served throughout the Civil War and in 1870 graduated the University of Wisconsin.

He took post-graduate courses at other colleges. In 1868 he was ordained as a Methodist minister. After serving as pastor in several churches in Massachusetts he was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University. From 1904 to 1911 he was president of that institution, and from 1911 to 1917 was dean of the Graduate Department.