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The Reverend J.B. Weston, a member of Antioch's first
graduating class in 1857, remained in Yellow Springs at the request of Horace
Mann to be the Principal of its Preparatory Department. He was a scholar of
Greek, a subject he taught in the college until 1881, when he left to become president of
the Christian Biblical Institute in Stanfordville, NY. He returned to Ohio when that
institution became affiliated with Defiance College
in 1902, and he served as president there until his death in 1912. Weston held three
interim presidencies at Antioch (two while its operations were suspended, leaving him
little more than a caretaker), earning him the nickname "Old Interregnum." |
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