Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — NATIVE ARMENIAN. [ARTICLE]

NATIVE ARMENIAN.

Rev. William J. Ohan is a native Armenian, was born within a few miles of Mt. Ararat. ' His father was a minister and suffered great persecution at the hands of the Turks. It was his unfortunate lot to have been incarcerated in thirty-five prisons of Turkey, because of his steadfastness to his religion, and as well &s because he was an Ar?, menian. . Dr. Ohan’s sister was a victim of the great massacre of 1898. His mother, his brother and a sister are now in Syria, and through them and out of the fund of his own knowledge and experiences, Rev. Ohan draws tM material for his address which he will deliver at the Christian church Wednesday evening, January 29th. —Campaign Committee.