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Ancestry: of German Mennonite stock; on the paternal side, the first Eisenhowers (who spelled it "Eisenhauer") settled in Pennsylvania between 1730 and 1740; the general's grandfather, Jacob Eisenhower, a leader of the River Brethren sect of Mennonites, moved his family to Kansas in 1878. On the maternal side, the general's forebears (named Stover or Stoewer) were also German immigrants who prospered in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley until the Civil War brought hardship and destruction...
...Other candidates (or presumed" candidates): Dwight Eisenhower (brought up in the Brethren in Christ church, now an "intensely religious" nonsectarian), Robert Taft (Episcopalian), Douglas MacArthur (Episcopalian), Adlai Stevenson (Unitarian...
Like their brethren in the corporate world from San Francisco to Boston, they incline toward the Brooks Brothers sack suit-and wouldn't be caught dead in an open-necked, flowered aloha shirt during business hours. Shares of all but one of the Big Five are traded on the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Between stockholders' meetings, the corporate executives manage sugar and pineapple plantations, and manage them with great skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else...
...Olympic team, at 16 he fell for a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After he was named second-team all-state quarterback and steered Champaign High School to the Illinois football championship, he spent 2½ years at Bridgewater College, a Church of the Brethren school in Virginia. Ordained a Brethren minister in 1946, he got married to another girl, now has two children, Carol Anne, 3, and Bobby, 21 months...
...Roman Catholic Church . . ." It is, to be sure, a distinct challenge to be "faced" with the growth of any religious body. Even though quantity does not prove the point, the Protestant faith is not only outstripping the population growth by a great deal, but growing more rapidly than our brethren of the Roman Church-and we do not bring members into our fellowship (or count them) until they are approximately twelve years...