Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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EGWQV w. EVQYQSI. The subject of this sketch came to Hiram as a student in I852 and re- mained as student, teacher and principal, with brief absences, until 1864. His longest period of absence was when he was a student of Qberlin College, from which he graduated in 1863. He was born at North Hudson, New York, May IO, 1831, and died at Des Moines, Iowa, May 21, 1900. His education began in the public schools of his native state, and at the age of sixteen he was a teacher in the common schools at North Hudson. He afterward attended in succession Geauga Sem- inary at Chester, Ohio, The Wfestern Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Qhiog Bethany College, 'West Virginia, for a short time: and Oberlin. Ohio, wherc he graduated receiving the degree of A. B. In 1864 he was elected to the presi- flency of Eureka College, Eureka, lllinois. In 1872 he became pastor of the Christian Church at Springfield, Illinois. In 1874 he was professor in Kentucky University at Lexington. In 1877 a second time president of Eureka College. In 1881 he was elected president of Butler College, Irvington, Ind., where he remained until 1886. In 1886 he was elected chancellor of Garfield University, Wfichita, Kansas, where he remained three years. He then became president of the Southern Illinois State Normal 'University at Carbondale, where he remained until elected dean of the College of the Bible in Drake University, a position he held at the time of his death. He was a Uborn teacher and in the class room had few superiors. On the public platform either as preacher or lecturer, though modest he was grace- ful in gesture, felicitous in speech, and brilliant in thought. I He was the author of two books which have had a deservedly wide patron- age: The Divine Demonstration, a work on Christian Evidences, and Sci- ence and Pedagogy of Ethics. His literary style was clear and strong and often elegant. I-Ie had a sensitive nature, a social temperament, and was a delightful com- panion for the fireside circle. He bore au unstained character through his long life, in public and in private, for nearly seventy years: and when he died there was no flaw found in his armor or stain on his shield. He was one of the makers of Hirarn's high character, both as a student and teacher, and in her annals his name deserves to be written large. Ken-r, O. E. M. GREEN. 2 I '

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Benrv Gerould. God's best gift to a cause or a people is a great and consecrated soul. Such a gift was the subject of this memorial. Henry Gerould was born at East Smithfield, Pa. The Cweroulds were pio- neers of the pioneers in the town. ln their cabin the first Christian service was held, the first sermon preached and the first communion celebrated. The family grew to be one of the most numerous and influential in the community, pillars in church and leaders in song. 'While Henry C-rerould's immediate an- cestors were from New England, his remote ancestry were Huguenots. He was fifth in direct descent from Dr. Jabez Ierauld, who fied from France upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1830 under the preaching of Silas E. Shepard at East Smithfield thirty- nine men and women accepted the Bible as their only rule of faith and practice. Among the number was Jabez Lawrence Gerould, father of Henry Gerould. Thus Henry Cwerould, whose ancestors suffered for the reformed faith in France, was nurtured in the still purer faith of the primitive gospel. Tn the autumn of 1848 he confessed his faith in Christ and entered upon a service that never faltered to the end. Dr. Cwerould's early education was that of the country school. Later he attended medical college at Geneva, N. Y., and Hudson, Ohio, graduating from the latter in 1864. He also spent three years in the hospitals of Boston. After several years in medical practice at Bedford and Massillon, G., he came in 1874 to Cleveland, where he resided till November 10, 1900, when he fell asleep. Tn 1870 he married Miss Julia Clapp of Mentor, an early Hiram student. This proved a most congenial union. In all their plans and purposes Mr. and Mrs. Gerould were of one heart and one soul. In looking back over the life of Henry Gerould what most impresses one is a certain large manliness, a breadth of human interest and human sympathy, all too rare in this world. Too often the man is lost in the lawyer, the merchant, the school-master. Henry Gerould was a successful physiciang but to his honor be it said that he was greater as a man than as a physician. His activities could no more be limited to his profession than could the sun's light to a single continent. Wherever he lived his presence was felt as a regenerative influence. He set forces at work that did not cease when he went away. He never could be luke- warm in a cause he had espoused. The fervor of his Huguenot blood and the vigor of his Christian faith forbade that. This interest in human life took on successive forms. In his earlier years it ran in Sunday School lines. The records and traditions of the Smithfield church bear witness to his early zeal in Sunday School work. The boy was 23