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Maude Truxal Burtner Scrapbook, Maude Truxal Burtner

Maude Truxal Burtner

Maude Zetta Burtner, née Truxal (1882-1962) was a graduate of Otterbein University in 1907. The daughter of Reverend J. P. and Sarah Truxal, she was born in Pennsylvania before coming to Westerville. After graduation she married Elmer E. Burtner in 1910, a minister for the United Brethren Church in Westerville. After his death in 1923, she became an elementary school teacher, and was the principal of the Longfellow School when she retired. She had two children, Edwin and Margaret.

This scrapbook was her creation in 1907 and contains photographs and names of many Otterbein students and includes the playbill and …

Otterbein University, 1847-1907, Rev. Henry Garst

University Publications - Historical

Otterbein University celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding in 1907. As part of the celebration alumnus, former president, and long-serving professor of languages and philosophy (1870-1904) Dr. Henry Garst published the first history of the school, simply titled History of Otterbein University. Drawing on both print resources and his own personal recollections, this book reviews the struggles in the United Brethren Church to establish the school, the hardship in the pioneer days including crushing debts and the destruction of the original main building, and the triumph of the students, alumni, and faculty and administration in bringing Otterbein out of …

Sibyl 1907 : A Yearbook Was Not Created For This Year, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

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