college president, b. near Manchester, Iowa. He moved to northern Wisconsin to work as a lumberjack in the 1890's. After graduating from Northland Academy, Ashland (1904), he was an instructor in English there for one year. From 1905 to 1908 he attended Ripon College, and in 1909 was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Westfield, Mass. He graduated from Amherst College, Mass. (B.A., 1910). In 1910 he returned to Northland College as professor of English, and was made president in 1914. During his tenure as president, he was responsible for greatly increasing the enrollment, reconstructing several buildings, and adding a girls' dormitory and a library. He retired from the presidency in 1942, and moved to Florida. Ashland Daily Press, May 14, 1949; Northern Light, May-June, 1949; N. B. Dexter, Hist. of Northland College [Ashland, 1944].Learn More
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