Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ears. Al-though his business affairs became exceedinglyprosperous, thereby enabling him to accumulateconsiderable property, he found himself dissatisfiedwith his profession, and at length abandoned thelaw, disposed of his newspaper interest and publiclydeclared his determination to enter the ministry. Atthe age of twenty-eight he was ordained a Baptistminister at the church in which he was baptized some fifteen yea
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ears. Al-though his business affairs became exceedinglyprosperous, thereby enabling him to accumulateconsiderable property, he found himself dissatisfiedwith his profession, and at length abandoned thelaw, disposed of his newspaper interest and publiclydeclared his determination to enter the ministry. Atthe age of twenty-eight he was ordained a Baptistminister at the church in which he was baptized some fifteen years before, and the succeeding yearwas devoted to missionary work in Missouri, wherehe founded a Baptist College which was afterwardmoved from its original seat in Lebanon to Bolivar,and set in motion influences that resulted in estab-lishing another College at Pierce City in the samestate. A number of flourishing churches date theirorigin from the period of his labors in to the Pastorate of his old home church inSalem, he resigned two years later in order toaccept the Pastorship of the church at Bunker Hill,Illinois, the close jiroximity of which to Shurtleff. JOSEPH G. LEMEN College would enable him to pursue a divinitycourse without suspending his pastoral labors. Hewas graduated from the Theological Department ofthat institution with the degree of Bachelor ofDivinity. Accepting shortly afterward the Pastor-ship of the First Baptist Church, Council Bluffs,Iowa, he occupied that pul]Mt for four years, and atthe expiration of that time he withdrew from regularpastoral work in order to devote his entire time andenergies to the management of the Christian HomeOrphanage, which he had founded some two yearsprevious. Mr. Lemen preaches occasionally but ischiefly devoted to his philanthropic work, the bene-ficial results of which have extended to every state ofthe Lnion. May 2, 1871, he married Florence Jane lO UNIVERSITIES AND rHEIR SONS Hagee, of Carlyk-, Illinois,
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