Herb, our lifelong pastor and professor, died July 24, 2013. His life was celebrated at North Salem Presbyterian Church in Kimbolton, Ohio, which he served “in his retirement” from age 66 to 93.
Herb taught economics at Muskingum College from 1961 to 1992. He earlier taught at Berea College (1951 to 1966) and Dickinson (1957 to 1961). He received divinity degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary, and doctorates from Columbia (in religion) and the University of Colorado (economics). He published work on U.S. economic development and a biography of “frontier economist” Charles Nisbet, who received an honorary doctorate from Princeton in 1783, as well as a bibliographical guide to Christianity in Southeast Asia.
Herb’s unpublished works include his two Ph.D. theses, the first about ’Isa Ibn Zu’ra, a 10th-century Persian Christian and martyr, and the second about how the study of economics grew out of the “moral philosophy” taught in 18th-century Scotland. Herb always hoped to publish a study of the early Scottish economist James Maitland, Eighth Earl of Lauderdale.
Herb was born in China to missionary parents (and grandparents). He had a special interest in international students. He loved travel, hiking, reading, tennis, and family history. The class shares in his loss with his siblings and his many nieces and nephews.