Background
Ketcham, Heber Dwight was born on December 29, 1858 in Kenton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Wesley and Mary Dyer (Parkison) Ketcham.
Ketcham, Heber Dwight was born on December 29, 1858 in Kenton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Wesley and Mary Dyer (Parkison) Ketcham.
Bachelor of Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1881, Master of Arts, 1887. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1884. Doctor of Divinity, Miami University, Oxrord, O., 1903.
Ordained to ministry of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1884. Pastor Blanchester (O.) circuit, 1884-1886, Mount Washington and Red Bank, Cincinnati, 1886-1889, Wilmington, 1889-1892, Clifton Church, Cincinnati, 1892-1895, Hillsboro, 1895-1897, Piqua, 1897-1901. Presiding elder Dayton District, 1901-1906.
Pastor Trinity Church, Cincinnait, 1906-1909.
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1909-1911, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Kankakee, Illinois, 1911-1915, State Saint Methodist Episcopal Church, Trenton, New Jersey, 1915-1920, High Saint Methodist Episcopal Church, Muncie, Indiana, 1920-1924, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Fairmont, West Virginia, 1924-1930, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Parkersburg, West Virginia, since 1930. President Epworth League of Ohio and Kentucky, 1893-1896.
Secretary Ohio Methodist Centennial, 1898. Member General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, 1904.
Author: Certainty of the Kingdom, 1905. Contributor to church publications.
Member Delta Tau Delta. Chaplain West Virginia Chapter South.R. Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Scottish Rite).
Married Bertha McVay, October 14, 1890. Children: Maria (Mistress Harry L. Heinzman), Bertha L. (Mistress O. Otis Bowman), Emily Livingston (Mistress Harold Stamm).