Earhart, Robert Nixon

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Class of 1858
    Full name
    Robert Nixon Earhart
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    David Earhart (father), Catharine Altman (mother), Frances Fidlar (wife), Robert Earhart (son)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Other
    Other Education
    Alexander College, IA; B.D. Garrett Biblical Institute, IL
    Occupation
    Clergy

    Robert Nixon Earhart (Dickinson Chronicles)

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    Robert N. Earhart was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1833 to merchant David Earhart and his wife, Catharine Altman Earhart.  His father took his large family, of which Robert was the youngest, to Pleasant Valley, Iowa during the 1840s.  The younger Earhart received his preparatory education at Alexander College, a Presbyterian institution in Dubuque, Iowa that closed in 1857.  He then returned to his native state for his undergraduate degree, enrolling at Dickinson College in Carlisle in the autumn of 1854.  Earhart was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in 1858.

    Earhart then attended the B.D. Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois and qualified in 1860 as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He returned to his home area in Iowa and joined the Upper Iowa Conference of that church, where he served congregations for the remainder of his active life.  His pastorates included churches at Toledo in Tuma County, at Osage in Mitchell County, and at the First Methodist of Manchester in Delaware County.  After forty-one years of service to northern Iowa, he retired from the pulpit in 1901.

    Earhart married Frances Fidlar, a native of Columbus, Ohio who had grown up in Davenport, Iowa.  They had one child, Robert, who later graduated from Northwestern and became a college professor.  Robert Nixon Earhart died in Davenport, Iowa on August 29, 1907 and was buried in the Oakdale Cemetery there.  He was seventy years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Robert Nixon Earhart,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/e/ed_earhartRN.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Earhart, Robert Nixon," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5605.