Voigt, Edwin E.

VOIGT

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/23/2021 at 14:11:01

Source: History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard Schultz and Don L. Berry, The Record and Tribune Co., Indianola, Iowa, 1953, p.352

EDWIN EDGAR VOIGT
Edwin Edgar Voigt, president of Simpson College 1942-1952, was born on a farm near Kankakee, Illinois, Feb. 13, 1892, the son of Theodore G. and Dorothea (Kukuck) Voigt. Graduate Kankakee high school and Northwestern university, B.S., 1917; bachelor of divinity Garrett Biblical institute, 1921; M.A. Northwestern, 1922; Ph.D. Yale, 1924; D.D. Garrett Biblical institute, 1942. Student American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, 1922-1923.
Aug. 27, 1921, married Eleanor (Hemsted) Dodge, daughter of William Henry and Sarah (Dungan) Hemsted. Mrs. Voigt was born Aug. 27, 1894, at Willow Creek, Calif. She graduated from Mills college, Oakland, Calif., in 1915. Children are Paul Stuart, born Oct. 20, 1927, and Nancy, born June 19, 1929. During World War I Dr. Voigt served as second lieutenant in the U. S. army air corps.
He was admitted to the Rock River annual conference on trial in 1920 and to full connection in 1924. Instructor in Biblical literature Northwestern university 1920-21. Assistant professor Garrett Biblical Institute 1924-28; associate professor 1928-32; Associate pastor First Methodist church, Evanston, Ill., 1932-36. Pastor First Methodist church and director Wesley Foundation, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1936-42. President Simpson college, 1942-52. Bishop North and South Dakota area, Methodist church 1952 to present..
As president of Simpson, Dr. Voigt was elected as a delegate to the general and jurisdictional conferences of the Methodist Church in 1952. The latter conference meeting at Milwaukee elected him to the episcopacy. He held memberships of trust on numerous committees of the Rock River, Upper Iowa and Iowa-Des Moines conferences of the church, to which conferences he belonged as appropriate to his location.
While at Simpson Bishop Voigt was a member of the Biblical Literature society; the Commission on Christian Education of the American Association of Colleges; National Geographic society; Delta Sigma Rho; Des Moines club; Rotary; Masons (32d); Indianola Country club; Tall Corn council, Boy Scouts of America; University Senate of the Methodist church; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Mu Sinfonia.
Mrs. Voigt was active in the women's work of the Indianola Methodist Church, besides attending well to the social duties devolving on the wife of a college president. She was successively vice-president of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the local church, then vice-president and president of the W.S.C.S. of the Iowa-Des Moines conference. She was elected as lay delegate to the general and jurisdictional conferences of the Methodist Church in both 1948 and 1952. The present home of the Voigts is at 11 Ninth avenue Northeast, Aberdeen, South Dakota.