Background
Weston, John Burns was born on July 6, 1821 in Madison, Maine, United States. Son of Stephen and Rebecca (Webb) Weston.
Weston, John Burns was born on July 6, 1821 in Madison, Maine, United States. Son of Stephen and Rebecca (Webb) Weston.
Bachelor of Arts, Antioch College, Ohio, 1857, Master of Arts, 1860 (Doctor of Divinity, 1884. Doctor of Divinity, Union Christian College, 1884. Doctor of Laws, same, and Defiance College, Ohio, 1906).
2d, Achsah East. Waite, June 11, 1860. Entered ministry (Christians—not Disciples) as pastor, West. Newbury, Massachusetts, 1843. Managing editor Herald of Gospel Liberty (then Christian Herald), Exeter, New Hampshire (U.S.), and Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1847-1848.
Member of faculty Antioch College (with Horace Mann as president), 1857.
Acting president, same, through war period, 1862-1865. Remained till 1881; meantime associate editor Herald of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, O.
President and professor Biblical literature, theology, psychology and ethics, Christian Biblical Institute, Defiance, O., 1882-1910. Chancellor of Defiance College and Christian Biblical Institute, June since 1910.
Director Francis A. Palmer Fund.
Home: Defiance, O.
Member of faculty Antioch College (with Horace Mann as president), 1857.
Married Nancy M. McDonald, March 18, 1849.