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Pella wins support for Iowa Baptist college location
Grinnell and Des Moines debates over the Des Moines College fight end with Iowa Baptists backing a single Central College aligned with Pella. The convention favors Pella as the site for the state Baptist university, pledging funding and urging Des Moines College to merge or dissolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist State Convention
THE
Pella College
Commercial Association
Pella
Register
Convention Hall
Des Moines
A. P. Barker
Preslowe Baptist State Convention
Des Moines College
Central College
State of
Iowa
Cedar Valley Seminary
Sac City Institute
Cedar Falls
Ames
Iowa City
Garrison
Baptists of Iowa
State University
Rockefeller
Hollander
Theodore Roosevelt
Richmond College
Virginia
National Baptist University
Columbian University
Washington, D. C
Colgate University
Colby
Colgate and Coby
Towns
Town Baptists
William Jewell College
Baptist College of Missouri
Grand Island College
Baptist College of Nebraska
Holland
England
France
Germany
John Smythe
Thomas Helwys
Leyden
One Baptist College of
Iowa Baptist
Dean Currier
Dartmouth
New Haven
Yale University
Cambridge
Harvard
C. E. Tingley
H. M. Remley
Z. W. Hutchinson
Saunders
Baptists of
L. A. Garrison
Central University of Iowa
N. B
Central Univ
Baptist College
Ministerial Association of
Des Moines Papers
Committee of Seven
State Baptist College
Grinnell
Des Mines
Pelia
E. H. Keables Prés
H. Rhynsburger