Word: everson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
Conscious of an incongruity, Preacher-General Everson explained...
Ohio-born 50 years ago, General Everson was ordained a Baptist minister in 1901 after service as a private in the Spanish-American War. He held pastor-ates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky. In the World War he was a colonel of infantry on the Italian front; in 1923-24 he was the American Legion's chaplain. In 1921 he went to the First Church of Muncie, raised $350,000 for a new building, highly organized his flock, even down to an emergency blood transfusion corps. When he left Muncie, his church refused his resignation, made him pastor emeritus...
...sample Everson day: Flew from Indianapolis to Muncie (54 miles), performed a wedding and a funeral, visited five sick parishioners, gave a pint of blood to a dying boy, witnessed a major operation of a friend, edited the church's weekly bulletin, wrote a Sunday sermon, returned to Indianapolis before 8 a.m. next...
...Raymond Wagner, Chairman, Miss Nancy Grier; Ruckman Grier, Miss Anita Ward; G. W. Huth, Miss L. M. Everson; Curthis Thomas, Miss Eleanor Wells; Mannix Walker, Miss Sylvia Shippen; Robert Davis, Miss Frances Burnham...