President of Tabor College; born in LaPorte, Ohio, March 5, 1835. Graduated at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1857. In October of the same year came to Tabor to assume the principalship of Tabor Literary Institute, an academy opened at that time. He has been at the head of Tabor College since its organization. He was for several years county superintendent of common schools in Fremont county. In 1868 he was chosen president of the Iowa State Teachers' Association. He served as representative in the sixteenth general assembly, and was chosen presidential elector from the eighth district of Iowa, in 1876. The success of Tabor College has been his success, and to it he has devoted the best energies of a long and successful life.