Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-10
FOUNDING OF oRlNNELL.
All Homer Due to the Brave Founders
Of That City.

| [By d. w. Norris, of Grinnen, Iowa. ]
| Today, June 10. is the fiftieth an
niversary of the founding of the VIII
iage OF GrinreH. The good people OF
that thriving little city propose. in 4
! fitting way, to honor the little band of
noble men and women, who, fifty years
ago. on bright day in June, kneit
where the city Of Grinnell now stands
and offered thanks to God for preserv-
| ing them thru a long and tedious jour
ney, and for the unknown opportu aitiea
| that were opening before them. Here.
upon the rolling pillows of a grassy sea,
! stretching on and on and on, amid the
solitudes of nature, broken only by the
| twittering of birds and the cooling OF
the prairie hen, these refined and cul-
tured and religious young people built
| their fires and set UP their Penates.
| And now Grinnell's distinguished sons
have come from all parts of America
| 10 d, honor 20 the Ten and women who
set them such an example of consecra-
| ton. And right well have they deserved
and richly merited all the encomiums
| that will be said of them today.
| Most of them sleep in Hardwood, end
| if they cannot hear the grateful express
| sion Of grateful hearts. as the history
OF their unselfish lives, their struggles,
/; and their deeds, are recited above thei.
| graves. there is possibly n great beyond
! where the rewards Of such right ltviila
| such devotion will be rich and album
| dant. For these men and women
| builded better than they knew. They
not only made homes for themselves
a mere incident in the lives of men and
| women of heroic mold--they not only
| earned by honest toll a competence.
! which descended to educate and bless
/ their children, but they founded com
munity grounded on the highest prin-
! ciples of right, principles that recoS
nized the right of all men to be free
| and to the extent of their natural o.
acquired abilities, equal; principles that
recognized the right of men to possess
| only that which they could acquire by
honest toll or by honest achievement;
principles that taught them to answer
the question Am / my brothers keep.
err In the affirmative; principles thai
recognized service to man as service &c
God, both commensurate. and they We're
profoundly convinced that education
was necessary to human uplifting.
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worship and to plan, for the old frame
church was as much a place for the
| town meeting as for praise; then a
school where every boy and girl. BLACK
! or white, was expected to attend; and
last college. And thus the laying OF
| the corner stone of the magnificent
| library building of Iowa College, made
| possible by the munificence of Andrew
| Carnegie and by the loyalty of ID,
| Shaw to his alma mater becomes a
proper part OF the ceremonies today.
! The Times Republican of this date
will be preserved among the
| archives of that corner stone, and this
| tribute has been prepared by one whose
| privilege and pleasure it was to know
| the founders of Grinnell intimately, ana
| he considers ii "A heritage of such value
| that he has endeayored to hand ii down
| to his children with the injunction to
keep it, study it and cherish it.
The scene enacted on those Iowa
praires fifty years ago must have been
a strange one. These people came from
/ the rugged hills of New England They
We're educated and refined. They had
had the advants ges OF the rest New
England schools and colleges and yet
/ they had the courage to brave the hard
ships of that journey, the privations of
| that life, in order to lay the foundations
of learning and righteousness for future
generations. J. b. Grinnell and julia
| Chaplin, his wife. DR.. Thomas Holyoke
| and Nancy Clarke. his Wife, Homer
Hamlin and Amelia Perry, his wife, ana
Henry NJ. Hamilton were the advance
| guard: they were the forest runners; "
they "blazed the way" Then followed
| Henry Lawrence, the Morrisons. the
Parkers, the Coopers. the Whitcombs
the Phelps the Marshes. the Suther-
lands, the eartletts. the Bixbys The
Herricks, the Kelloggs. the Leisnres
I the Wyatts. the Wallaces and others
Tney constituted community in which
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