. The Iowa band. coxTixriin 191 iiitendent, he l)uill liiiiiSL-lf into the rising founda-tions of that new state. He sleeps on the banks ofthe Missouri. Four years later, on Xoveniber 10,1883, Rev. Oliver Emerson was called. He was bornin Lynnfield, Alassachusetts. Alarch 26, 1813, makingfiim at death seventy years of age. Of a weak body,one-half of which w-as paralyzed at birth, one foot de-formed, never taking a step without pain, never seeinga well day, with little prospect that the days of manhood would ever be reached, at the age of fifteen he\\as a student at Phillips Aca

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. The Iowa band. coxTixriin 191 iiitendent, he l)uill liiiiiSL-lf into the rising founda-tions of that new state. He sleeps on the banks ofthe Missouri. Four years later, on Xoveniber 10,1883, Rev. Oliver Emerson was called. He was bornin Lynnfield, Alassachusetts. Alarch 26, 1813, makingfiim at death seventy years of age. Of a weak body,one-half of which w-as paralyzed at birth, one foot de-formed, never taking a step without pain, never seeinga well day, with little prospect that the days of manhood would ever be reached, at the age of fifteen he\\as a student at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas-sachusetts. In 1835 he graduated at Waterville,Maine. Then came two years of sickness. For a sec-ond time he had sought his home, probably to die,with great sorrow that he might never be able topreach. For three days he fasted and prayed thatGod w^ould in some way show^ if it could be. Hisconvictions w^ere such that he soon started for LaneSeminary, where he graduated June 10, 1840. On thesame

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