Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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Newton County, Ind., in May, 1874. Early in 1875, moved by his intense interest in the educational progress of his native state he gave up the cherished purpose of years, that of the -J ' 9 '1 itation to teach. in lfranklin pastorate, and accepted an iiv it College. In June, 1875, he was married to Theodosia Parks, and in September of the same year he began his service in the college. He taught in turn Greek, Science and Latin, but was permanently placed at the head of the Greek depart- ment in 1879. In 1885 he Was made vice-president of the college. In 1894 he spent several months traveling in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land. In addition to his college Work he has continued to do some service as a pastor. He is now completing the nine- teenth year of his half-time pastorate of the Hurricane Baptist Church. He is alike enthusiastic both as preacher and as teacher, but the Work of his life, to which he has already devotednalmost a quarter of a century's toil, and the entire energies of his being, has been the service of Christian education as represented by our own Franklin College. . 3- N C- X. :G f A .

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1 i ...v--0-1. --u-1-1-.4-W -. Rev. C. 15. Dall, H. M., B. D. PRo1EEssoR OF GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. EP' ' CLUMBUS HCRATIC HALL was born in Chili, J Miami county, Indiana, November 17, 1846. X His parents, Nelson C. and Letitia Griswold We Hall, the one from New York, the other from Vermont, both of sterling character, had come out to the New West, of which Indiana was then a part, allured by its enterprises and business opportunities. 'With the exception of seven years, which were spent by the family at Akron, Ind., the village of Chili remained the home of Prof. Hall in boyhood and early manhood. His father was the village merchant, and the 4' store,77 where he mingled with men, together with the banks of the beautiful Eel river, where he made acquaintance with nature, were his favorite haunts. . ln the year 1862 he was converted in the M. E. Church at Akron, and about two years later joined a Baptist church in the country. I . His early education was obtained in the village schools near his home and in the Peru High School. In the fall of 1866 he entered Ladoga Seminary. One year later he fol- lowed Prof. Wm. Hill from Ladoga to Franklin, where Prof. Hill was re-opening Franklin College. Here he remained until the .middle of his Senior year, February, 1872, when the college suspended. He, at once, with his fellow-classmen entered Chicago University, graduating in the following J une. In the autumn of the same year he entered the Bap- tist Union Theological Seminary of Chicago, and graduated therefrom. in April, 1875. The same year he received the degree A. M.-from the University of Chicago and Franklin College. He was ordained in the Prairie Vine Church in

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francis KI. Brown, H. M., Ph. D. PROFESSOR OF LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 5 EAR Cleveland Ohio 111 1838 was bo111 F1 '1,nc1s WV. Brown. About -1839 l1is father, Laba11 ' E' Brown, moved to Indiana and purchased a farm near Seymour. Here on the farm and in the country schools tl1e boyhood of F. W.. Brown was spent. The home was a model of piety and fllial affection. Among his early teachers were some of superior scholarship. These did much toward kindling to a flame an ambition for higher attainments in the realm of knowledge. Wliile yet a youth hexaccepted a position as clerk i11 the leading store of Seymour, and here during spare hours he pursued the study of Latin, Greek and German. All oppor- tunities were improved with a view to a mastery of these. A position as teacher in the Seymour Academy was given him, and the success of this first effort proved the beginning of a life work. He neXt taught mathematics in Bryantls Commercial College, at Indianapolis. This was a very pleas- ant position, yet the impulse to complete his literary studies brought him to Franklin College in 1858. Here he pursued his course until the college suspended work at the beginning of the war. Then, nearly through, and lacking means to go elsewhere he finished his work alone. But since his student life the purpose to master things undertaken has been intensified and has led him into broader fields of thought, especially of language, philosophy alld ethnology. In 1863 he married Miss S. J. McCoy, whose family has given more than 813,- 000 to Franklin College in time of greatest need. In 1865 he publically professed his faith in Christ and united with the .Baptist church at Seymour. 1 The same .year a position agfs-uperintendent of White River Academy, at Brownstown,