User talk:Ben Pilcher

Leander William Pilcher, a Methodist Episcopal missionary in China from 1870 to 1893 was also an educator. In 1884, he was made principal of the Wiley Institute, later reorganized as the Peking University. He was the first president. In "A Surgical Pilgrim's Progress" by Lewis Stephen Pilcher, the above is reported. Other documents of the ME Church support this. At one time, a building had the title PILCHER HALL on it.