fifteen founders who signed the articles of association, eleven were themselves educated in New England. The first dollar for the college was given by James J. Hill, a member of the Band who organized a new church on an average of once every twelve months during his first five years in Iowa. There was at that time no settled minister north of him nor west of him in this country.

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In 1858 the college was removed to Grinnell, absorbing the institution there known as Grinnell University, which then had two professors, fifty preparatory students and property valued at $55,000. Three years later came a testing time in connection with the Civil War, when the college was represented in fifteen Iowa regiments, one professor enlisting with twenty-six of his boys in one company. 1865 Dr. George F. Magoun, born in Bath, Me., and a man of large caliber, took the helm, raised money in its behalf East and West, helped rebuild it when it was nearly swept off the face of the earth by a cyclone in June, 1882, and left it, when he felt called upon to retire, firmly reconstructed. From that time to this, it has moved forward strongly, having sent forth its students to do good work in many fields of activity in this country and overseas. It has always stood for the New England cultural and

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JAMES WILSON GRIMES

Born in Deering, N. H., Oct. 20, 1816

NOVERNOR of Iowa during the turbulent years before the Civil War, a Senator of the United States in the critical years of the war he stood firmly for liberty and good government.

Christian ideals, and is today one of the leading colleges of the West.

Two New England laymen left the mark of their strong personalities upon Iowa during its formative years. One was James Wilson Grimes, born in Deering, N. H., and a graduate of Dartmouth, who began practicing law in Iowa in 1836, and who was elected governor in 1854. Father Turner, at the time when the nominating convention was held, showed that he could take an influential part in practical politics as well as found churches and schools. He it was who drafted on the back of a letter in pencil the platform which, after exciting scenes, the convention adopted and on which Mr. Grimes ran and was elected. In an address delivered in 1863 to the Congregational Association, Mr. Grimes, then serving as United States Senator, said, "I am myself the foster-son of him whom you call Father Turner.'

Mr. Grimes was a strong and wise administrator, always unflinching in his opposition to slavery and in his active support of every enterprise that had to do with the upbuilding of the state. He represented Iowa in the United States Senate at the time when Andrew Johnson was impeached, and raised his cool, calm voice in favor of orderly methods of procedure

when other leaders in the Senate would override the law and evidence in order to compass their ends.

Mr. Grimes knew how, when governor, to avail himself of expert counsel and brought on from the East Horace Mann and Amos Dean to help frame an educational system for the young commonwealth. When border ruffians were keeping up a reign of terror in Kansas, he wrote to his old New Hampshire neighbor in the White House, Franklin Pierce, "If the people of Iowa are not permitted to enjoy the rights of citizenship in that territory, they retain their former citizenship in this state and are as much entitled to protection from the state while on the public domain as they would be if the general government failed to protect them in a foreign country." When the first case under the Fugitive Slave Law came on at Burlington, he took pains that the friends of freedom should be in court.

More impetuous in spirit but no less devoted to humanitarian enterprises was Josiah B. Grinnell, born in New Haven, Vt., in 1822. He had the temerity to start an anti-slavery church in Washington in 1851, which resulted in his being run out of the city. Taking the advice of Horace Greeley, whom he knew personally, he went West, and in May, 1854, with three other far-sighted Yankees, Dr. Thomas Holyoke, Homer Hamlin and H. M. Hamil