Edwin S. Havighorst (1890)
HAVIGHORST, EDWIN STANTON (1865-1952), German-American minister and educator, was born at Springfield, Ill., Nov. 7, 1865. He was graduated from both the Mount Pleasant German College, founded in 1873 by his father, Rudolph Havighorst, and from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1887, and from the School of Theology, Boston University in 1890. Iowa Wesleyan University conferred an honorary D.D. upon him in 1899. Although he was English-trained, he devoted his life with fervent loyalty to German-American Methodism until it became absorbed in the American conferences. Admitted to the St. Louis German Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, he served pastorates at Moberly, Mo.; Bloomington, Ill. and Burlington, Iowa (1890-97). In 1898 he was elected president of the Mount Pleasant German College, Iowa, and held this office for ten years. He brought the school to a peak of academic achievement, gathered a strong faculty, and edited a college magazine. In 1908 he became president for two years of German Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. Following a six-year pastorate (1910-16) at First German, Kansas City, Mo., he became pastor of the German Methodist Church and principal of the Enterprise Normal Academy, Enterprise, Kan. From 1917-27, he was professor and dean of the German Theological Department, Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton. Mo. Pastorates at Warrenton, La Plata and Weston, Mo. occupied him until 1948, when he retired at the age of eighty-two. He died in Moberly, Mo., on Dec. 11, 1952.
Louis A. Haselmayer, The History and Alumni List of the Mt. Pleasant German College. N.d.
Jubiläumsbuch der St. Louis Deutschen Konferenz.