sentences:  As a boy he selected for himself the middle name “Howard.” In his adult years he was most often known simply as “P.H.”
  
  Welshimer graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1894.In his final year of school there, university president Henry Lehr pulled Welshimer aside and urged him to abandon the study of law for the ministry.As a result, Welshimer attended Hiram College to study preaching.