Wakefield, E. B. (Edmund Burritt)

Wakefield was born in Greensburg, Ohio on August 27, 1846. He was the son of Edwin and Mary Payne (Churchill) Wakefield. His father was an early Disciples of Christ minister. Wakefield entered the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (as Hiram College was then known) in 1863 where he studied under Harvey W. Everest, J. H. Rhodes and Almeda Booth. At the close of the 1863-1864 school year, 18 year old E. B. Wakefield enlisted in the Army as a private in Co. G 177th Ohio Infantry and served with the 23rd Army Corps in Tennessee and North Carolina until the end of the Civil War.

After the Civil War, he attended Bethany College in West Virginia in 1868-1869. He returned to Hiram College to graduate in 1870 with an A. B. degree. With further studies, he earned an A. M. degree in 1873.

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