Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. 1884, Charles Blanchard, F. A.
Battey & Co., Publishers
WILLIAM R. ASHER is a native of Johnson County, Ind., and was born on the
30th of November, 1861. When he had reached the age of eight years, he was
removed by his parents to this town, where he was reared, attended and
graduated from the Martinsville High School, and afterward became a student
of the State University in September, 1878, in a course of four years' study.
In the month of March, 1883, he entered into the oratorical contest, with
four contestants, for the privilege of representing the University in the
State contest, and which privilege he won; consequently, he represented the
University of Indiana in the State oratorical exhibition, which took place at
Indianapolis April 17, 1883, in which effort he was successful, coming out
number one from a list of six, each representing a college, and also winning
the prize, $50. This success at the State capital bestowed upon him the right
of contending in the inter-State contest of oratory, held at Minneapolis May
2, 1883, from which engagement he came forth third in honor.
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