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...might go to Hell for it, admitted Major General William Graham Everson, husky, square-jawed Baptist preacher, when he took the job two years ago of Chief of the Militia Bureau of the War Department. But, said he, "I won't be traveling a lonesome road...
Engaged. Richard Washburn Child, author (Jim Hands, A Diplomat Looks at Europe), onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy; and Mrs. Dorothy Gallagher Everson, manager of his Newport home. Divorced by Mrs. Elizabeth Scott Child in 1916, he married Authoress Maude Parker, was divorced by her in 1926; in 1927 he married his literary secretary, Miss Eva Sanderson, who divorced him last year...
...Park Avenue Baptist Church of Paterson, N. J., another to the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind. Last week he chose Muncie, where he will, due to the church's size, automatically acquire prominence among Indiana Baptists. Pastor emeritus of the Muncie First Baptist is soldierly William Graham Everson. last November appointed by President Hoover to be Chief of the War Department's Militia Bureau (TIME...
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...