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Marriage: Children:
  1. Homer Gladstone Rosenberger: Birth: 17 JAN 1880 in Westfield, IN. Death: 13 AUG 1940 in Whittier, CA

  2. Ethel Clare Rosenberger: Birth: 8 JUL 1882 in Thorntown, Boone Co., IN.

  3. Lucile Rosenberger: Birth: 10 MAR 1885 in Westfield, IN. Death: 2 JUL 1931 in Whittier, CA

  4. Frank Kendall Rosenberger: Birth: 18 SEP 1890 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., IA. Death: 24 MAY 1891 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., IA

  5. Helen Rosenberger: Birth: 23 JUN 1895 in Oskaloosa, IA. Death: in Mills College, Oakland, CA


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Sources
1. Title:   1172787.ged
2. Title:   1880 Federal Census

Notes
a. Note:   Read Absalom's story of his early childhood in the Biographies section. -RDR 12/02
  Prof. Harry Emerson Rosenberger, New Market, VA wrote the following to Francis Coleman Rosenberger: "When I was a young man in college, I heard Absalom deliver the commencement address in the auditorium at William Penn College . . . He was considered the ablest of the Presidents of Penn College, And quite a teacher as well. His training was for the law, and not for the ministry, as is the case (unfortunately, I think) with so many presidents of church colleges.
  THE QUAKER AND THE WEST
 the first sixty years of Whittier College
 by Herbert Harris
 copyright, 1948 by Whittier College
 1915-1918 THE FRIEND
  "Crisis confronted Whittier College in the tragic years 1915-1918. Internally, under war pressure, the registration decreased by half, and a bitter faction challenged college policies. Externally, suspicion and criticism were pointed against the college because it was under the auspices of Friends with their emphasis on peace. A tactless leader would have provoked disaster.
  Absalom Rosenberger held profound convictions. He dared to draw a tight rein on internal dissension and, unafraid, to face criticism from without. But he was pre-eminently a friendly man. His hand clasp, the tones of his voice, the warmth of his glance won the absolute trust of students and the public.
  He had been President of Penn College for almost two decades, he was widely travelled, he knew and liked people. Combining tact and firmness, understanding and goodwill, he was supremely fitted to pilot Whittier through the perils of the storm.


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