Loughridge, Albert (1845-1923)

LOUGHRIDGE, GRIFFITH

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 3/21/2011 at 20:15:23

Spirit Lake Beacon
7-5-1923
Albert Loughridge died June ninth at his home in Salem. Oregon. He was born on a farm in Mahaska county near Oskaloosa, June 12, 1845. At the age of 16 he, enlisted in Co. F, Fourth Iowa Calvary and served throughout the war. Along with boys from neighboring farms he rode from Oskaloosa to Keokuk in a lumber wagon, where enlistment was made. His company was taken down the Mississippi riveron a steamboat to Memphis where horses were assigned. He entered the State University at Iowa City in 1867 and in 1871 graduated. His first educational work was at Newton Jasper county, where he served one year as city superintendent. He refused a re-election that he might take the chair of English and Latin at the old Central University of Iowa at Pella. In 1874 he married Miss Elizabeth Griffith, a graduate from the university at Iowa City, a member of his class and then a member of the faculty. The next year they sailed for India under the auspices of the Baptist denomination. Illness forced Mrs. Loughridge to return to America in 1881, but Mr Laughridge continued his missionary labor until 1885. Through the passing years he served in the faculty at the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, president of Bishop college at Marshall, Texas; member of the faculty of DesMoines college, and in recent years with Linfleld college, Oregon. He was a cousin of William Loughridge, representative in congress from the old Fourth district in the years following the war. Professor Loughridge filled large place in the educational and religious life of the state for many years.

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