The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-07-19
THE LIVING AND DEAD.
Remembered by Former Resi-
dent of Crawford
ALETTER OF APPRECIATION
For the Great and Good of Denison
who are Gone and Words of En-
enlargement for the Living.
DURHAM, Mo IuLY, IA, zoe

DURHAM, Mo July, 10. 1905.
EDITOR RevIEw.
Thanks for the fine picture of the late
Cyrus Sprecher and the good words spok-
en- OF him Having beer acquainted with
Mr.. Sprecher from the centennial year of
10 until coming to Missouri two years
ago we know your statements were trne.
With him honesty was 'bred in the bone
He won and retained the unlimited con-
hdence of all who made his acquaintance.
Quite large number of men who were
citizens OF Denison from twenty to thirty
years ago were men Of prominence and
influence, leaders in social, business, and
political circles and have like Mr.. SPEECH
er passed over the river with unclou led
character. We. recall Andy Malonsy,
Claus SEWERS, ]. Fred Meyers. Judge
Bassett, Messers Stone, Shillington Will
son, NJ. Smith and others All men of in
telligence and integ rity each doing nobly
their part to make Denison and Crawford
county what they now are. Perhaps to
WI r1c5ci , WAS given Tue uSSt IulPOIt.
ant work and the largest sphere of in
huence. Down among the fundamentals
of society and the foundation of enter
prises and springing up he labo1ed faith
fully to impress upon every member Of
the growing community that growth in in
telligence and morals should keep pace
with material progress We We're proud
of the REVIEW in those days (have no reas-
on to be ashamed of it; since. We sent
many copies TO people in the east who
from reading its columns were convinced
that the West though in some sense wild
was not woody" but healthy country
with fertile soil and vast resources to be
to be developed. Some of them came to
Crawford and adjoining counties bought
land at and 10 dollars per acre upon
| whichgthey built substantial and really
beautiful homes in which they have rear
ed families under advantages they never
could have attained in tbs east. -
Many of those old settlers have passed
to the grert unknown. AS one after
another have fallen the REVIEW has come
to US with obituaries of as true, worthy,
and noble man and women as have liv, d
In this great country Of ours. When read
ing eulogies,. OF our honored dead we
sometimes wonder why more is not said
in commentator of our honorable living,
could not the, workers of today do better
work if given assurance Of generous ap-
probation? In this connection we men,
ton pr, j. NJ, P. Smith of Chicago In
iversity, who began in, Denison q career
that will not end until he reaches. the top
round of the scholastic ladder he has been
climbing for the past seventeen years.
In 1856 John, lean, lanky, red-faced
youth of sixteen, came from England at
the invitation of his uncle. Charles Pow
is, then farming in Paradise township.
The lad was almost penniless but full of
grit. and bound to make the most of his
opportunities. In 1888 he worked for me
as a farm hand. Finding he had gathered
up the rudiments of'common school edu-
cation. we encouraged him to study up
and attend the teachers institute in
i'Denison. He, came through with second
grade teachers certificate, After teach.
ing and farming two OF three years he
stook full course at Des Moines college,
then taught Greek a year or soat Cedar
Valley and moved in TO Chicago Univer-
sity.
Immediately after graduating there he
was employed by President Harper at
renumerative wages. Mr.. Smith has now
been elected to an important professor
ship in the University
In the preface of book on the Hebrew
! Prophets, recently written by DR.. Har-