”Professor John B. Kieffer, for many years teacher of the Greek language and literature in Franklin and Marshall College, Rev. Augustus R. Kieffer. D. D., and Rev. Dr. Samuel Z. Beam, the efficient and esteemed clerk of the Ohio Synod, when students at Heidelberg College, occupied the southeast corner room, on the second floor. It is indeed an historic room in the student life of Heidelberg. It was occupied also by…Rev. Freeman Ware,… When Rev. Freeman Ware occupied the room, the Madder-Bernard tragedy occurred just across the way, and Mr. Ware, E. G. Rust, and Miss Rust were the first persons who saw the body of the murdered Phoebe Bernard.”

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History of Seneca County, Ohio, Vol. 1, by Abraham J. Baughman, 1911, page 393