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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Charles H. Strickland, Daniel Vanderpool, Donald Owens, Edgar Ellyson, Edward F. Walker, Edward Lawlor, Eugene Stowe, Eugenio Duarte, General Superintendent (Church of the Nazarene), George Coulter, Gideon B. Williamson, Hardy Powers, Hiram F. Reynolds, Howard Miller (minister), Hugh C. Benner, J. B. Chapman, J. K. Warrick, James Diehl, Jerald Johnson, Jerry D. Porter, Jesse Middendorf, Jim Bond, John A. Knight, John W. Goodwin, Joseph G. Morrison, Joseph Widney, Nina Gunter, Orval J. Nease, Orville Jenkins, Paul Cunningham (minister), Raymond Hurn, Roy T. Williams, Samuel Young (General Superintendent), Stan Toler, Talmadge Johnson, V. H. Lewis, William C. Wilson, William J. Prince, William M. Greathouse. Excerpt: Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 - July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, clergyman, entrepreneur-philanthropist, proto-environmentalist, prohibitionist, racial theorist, and prolific author. He was the second President of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the founding dean of the USC School of Medicine. He was one of the founders and first general superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene, and primary founder of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. One of the "most conspicuous Southern Californians of his generation," Widney was a cultural leader in Los Angeles for nearly seventy years, Joseph Pomeroy Widney was born on December 26, 1841 in his grandfather's log cabin in Piqua, Ohio in the forests of Miami County, Ohio. He was the third son of John Wilson Widney (born December 4, 1809; died 1852) and Arabella Maclay Widney (born 1811; died February 15, 1880). He was the nephew of Robert Samuel Maclay, a pioneer missionary to China; and of Charles Maclay, later a state senator of California. At the age of fifteen, Joseph became head of the family after his father died of pneumonia at the age of 42, as his two older brothers John Widney (born March 14, 1837; died 1925) and Robert Maclay Widney (1838-1929) had migrated west to California. He had to provide for his mother, two younger brothers: William Wilson Widney (born December 25, 1850) and Samuel Alexander Widney (born November 15, 1852), and two younger sisters: Arabella Erwin Widney (born 1843; died 1917) and Elizabeth Widney (born 1848) (latter married to Joseph Leggett). After graduating from Piqua High School, Widney entered as a sophomore at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. Widney studied Latin, Greek, and the classics during his five months there. In 1907, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree for his Race Life of the Aryan Peoples. The poet-preacher David Swing was one of his instructors. In 1861 he enlisted i
