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says, look like grandfather, father and son. A Dutch province was the original home of the Anglo-Saxons. Puritanism in England came from countries where a hundred thousand Dutch Protestants had settled during the Inquisition. Cromwell's military instructor came from Holland. The Pilgrim Fathers of America went to school under the same republic. Thomas Hooker went from there to Connecticut, Roger Williams taught Milton Dutch. William Penn's mother was a Hollander, and Penn himself preached many sermons in her language. New York, the most influential state in the Union, has a substantial Dutch basis. But these things have been enumerated by others, who have directed the thought of the world to Holland as the source of much that is most distinctly republican and American. I have only cited this much to show that the people who came to Pella in 1847 came to their own. The country was strange to them, but not the country's institutions, for these were theirs from "beyond any assignable date."
Thus for the eloquent pen of our old schoolmate and former townsman. Cyrenus Cole, has brought the narrative of the early history of the founding of Pella and of the fundamental conditions that led up to it.
We feel confident that all our readers will agree that we have been exceptionally fortunate in securing this able and eloquent account, from the pen of one of our sons who years ago went out from Pella into the great world of opportunity, carrying with him those. sturdy principles of thrift, industry and hard endeavor, that have blazed for him a successful career on the larger stage of life. A career that has added luster to his alma mater, and to the City of Refuge, which he still loves to call home.
NOTE.--The beautiful tribute of Mr. Cole was written in 1895 and some of the men recorded as living have since passed to their reward. These things will be automatically corrected as we endeavor to bring this history up to the present time.
Before resuming the history of the Hollanders who founded Pella, we consider it fitting to refer briefly to a number of American pioneers who settled in this locality several years before the Hollanders arrived.
Mr. Cole's article, "A Bit of Holland," was written for a magazine. This required brevity, and for that reason could only touch on many incidents which we have repeated in more elaborate form in the chapters which follow. The same thing applies to the two accounts of Central College.