"Des Moines" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said to me the general superintendent of one of the most extensive railroad systems in the world as we rode from Des Moines, Iowa, to Chicago. "I am greatly troubled," said he, "to find an assistant superintendent. There are now under me seven young engineers, every man a graduate of a college; four of them with uncommon ability, and all of them relatives of men ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge
... Yale and Union theological seminaries. He was ordained in New Haven, August 2, 1863, and served as chaplain in the Eleventh Connecticut Volunteers during the civil war. He was called to the pastorate of Plymouth Congregational Church, Des Moines, Iowa., October 17, 1866, where he remained until October, 1879, when he accepted the call to the Presidency of Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., a position he has filled with great acceptance to the day of his death. He was married August 25th, 1869, to Miss Anna M. Robbins, daughter ...
— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 • Various |
