The Ohio Connection

Born in the southwestern Ohio village of Bowersville, Norman Vincent Peale lived in Highland, Cincinnati, Norwood, Westwood, Greenville and Bellefontaine over the course of his father’s career in Christian ministry.
Norman’s father, Charles Clifford Peale, was pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus from 1930 to 1936.
A 1920 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Peale became a trustee and lived to see the university build a chapel in his name.
Peale worked briefly as a reporter for the Morning Republican in Findlay while contemplating a career in the ministry.

Peale wrote the Columbus Dispatch column, “Confident Living.”