Educated at Tabor, IA. Graduated from the University of IA in 1875. Later received a M.A. degree in journalism. The first home of Minnie & Charles was at Farragut, IA In 1881 they moved to Shenandoah, IA where he published The Post.
They became active members of the First Congregational Church, both singing in the choir. They loved to sing old hymns & did so all their lives. In later years they sang over the Henry Fields Radio station where they organized the Golden Rule Circle. The members, covering a wide area, showed their love & appreciation by surpprizing the Hanley's with a gift of a new Ford car. Charles & Minnie became interested in evangelistic work. Giving up secular pursuits, they became ordained ministers & entered a career of religious labors, pastoral & evangelistic. They had a deep interest in both Home & Foriegn missionary
endeavors. The scope of their work broadened until it included the maintenance of a training school for christian workers, an elementary school for children,
a publishing house for gospel literature, a home of refuge for the needy & the organization & incorporation of a ministerial & missionary association. It was called "A CHRISTIAN UNION INSTITUTION, for the Development of christian Character & Usefullness". It included the Christian Workers Home & a building that held the office, chapel, & printing department, from which the paper, "The
Missionary World" was sent. He was wholly devoted to his grandchildren in a loud & demonstrative way. He would pile them in his old Ford that had solid tires & a bulb like horn that you squeezed to make it honk. He used this horn
unsparingly & while turning a corner, he would yell "lean". Leading the way, they would all lean with him to help balance the precarious turn, going much too fast, or so it seemed. At the missionary home everyone was called "Sister" or "Brother". The long tables in the big dining room were laden with good food that all had helped grow or prepare. Before eating, all bowed on their knees by
their chairs on the bare floor while he prayed. Sometimes it seemed that he was especially "long winded" or "full of the spirit' & the floor got harder. He had thick, wavy iron gray hair. He had beautiful teeth & never had a single
filling. He was color blind, which sometimes got him into trouble. He was sentimental, somewhat impulsive & at times perhaps overly enthusiastic, a real extrovert. He was interested in everyone & everything.
They became active members of the First Congregational Church, both singing in the choir. They loved to sing old hymns & did so all their lives. In later years they sang over the Henry Fields Radio station where they organized the Golden Rule Circle. The members, covering a wide area, showed their love & appreciation by surpprizing the Hanley's with a gift of a new Ford car. Charles & Minnie became interested in evangelistic work. Giving up secular pursuits, they became ordained ministers & entered a career of religious labors, pastoral & evangelistic. They had a deep interest in both Home & Foriegn missionary
endeavors. The scope of their work broadened until it included the maintenance of a training school for christian workers, an elementary school for children,
a publishing house for gospel literature, a home of refuge for the needy & the organization & incorporation of a ministerial & missionary association. It was called "A CHRISTIAN UNION INSTITUTION, for the Development of christian Character & Usefullness". It included the Christian Workers Home & a building that held the office, chapel, & printing department, from which the paper, "The
Missionary World" was sent. He was wholly devoted to his grandchildren in a loud & demonstrative way. He would pile them in his old Ford that had solid tires & a bulb like horn that you squeezed to make it honk. He used this horn
unsparingly & while turning a corner, he would yell "lean". Leading the way, they would all lean with him to help balance the precarious turn, going much too fast, or so it seemed. At the missionary home everyone was called "Sister" or "Brother". The long tables in the big dining room were laden with good food that all had helped grow or prepare. Before eating, all bowed on their knees by
their chairs on the bare floor while he prayed. Sometimes it seemed that he was especially "long winded" or "full of the spirit' & the floor got harder. He had thick, wavy iron gray hair. He had beautiful teeth & never had a single
filling. He was color blind, which sometimes got him into trouble. He was sentimental, somewhat impulsive & at times perhaps overly enthusiastic, a real extrovert. He was interested in everyone & everything.
Educated at Tabor, IA. Graduated from the University of IA in 1875. Later received a M.A. degree in journalism. The first home of Minnie & Charles was at Farragut, IA In 1881 they moved to Shenandoah, IA where he published The Post.
They became active members of the First Congregational Church, both singing in the choir. They loved to sing old hymns & did so all their lives. In later years they sang over the Henry Fields Radio station where they organized the Golden Rule Circle. The members, covering a wide area, showed their love & appreciation by surpprizing the Hanley's with a gift of a new Ford car. Charles & Minnie became interested in evangelistic work. Giving up secular pursuits, they became ordained ministers & entered a career of religious labors, pastoral & evangelistic. They had a deep interest in both Home & Foriegn missionary
endeavors. The scope of their work broadened until it included the maintenance of a training school for christian workers, an elementary school for children,
a publishing house for gospel literature, a home of refuge for the needy & the organization & incorporation of a ministerial & missionary association. It was called "A CHRISTIAN UNION INSTITUTION, for the Development of christian Character & Usefullness". It included the Christian Workers Home & a building that held the office, chapel, & printing department, from which the paper, "The
Missionary World" was sent. He was wholly devoted to his grandchildren in a loud & demonstrative way. He would pile them in his old Ford that had solid tires & a bulb like horn that you squeezed to make it honk. He used this horn
unsparingly & while turning a corner, he would yell "lean". Leading the way, they would all lean with him to help balance the precarious turn, going much too fast, or so it seemed. At the missionary home everyone was called "Sister" or "Brother". The long tables in the big dining room were laden with good food that all had helped grow or prepare. Before eating, all bowed on their knees by
their chairs on the bare floor while he prayed. Sometimes it seemed that he was especially "long winded" or "full of the spirit' & the floor got harder. He had thick, wavy iron gray hair. He had beautiful teeth & never had a single
filling. He was color blind, which sometimes got him into trouble. He was sentimental, somewhat impulsive & at times perhaps overly enthusiastic, a real extrovert. He was interested in everyone & everything.
They became active members of the First Congregational Church, both singing in the choir. They loved to sing old hymns & did so all their lives. In later years they sang over the Henry Fields Radio station where they organized the Golden Rule Circle. The members, covering a wide area, showed their love & appreciation by surpprizing the Hanley's with a gift of a new Ford car. Charles & Minnie became interested in evangelistic work. Giving up secular pursuits, they became ordained ministers & entered a career of religious labors, pastoral & evangelistic. They had a deep interest in both Home & Foriegn missionary
endeavors. The scope of their work broadened until it included the maintenance of a training school for christian workers, an elementary school for children,
a publishing house for gospel literature, a home of refuge for the needy & the organization & incorporation of a ministerial & missionary association. It was called "A CHRISTIAN UNION INSTITUTION, for the Development of christian Character & Usefullness". It included the Christian Workers Home & a building that held the office, chapel, & printing department, from which the paper, "The
Missionary World" was sent. He was wholly devoted to his grandchildren in a loud & demonstrative way. He would pile them in his old Ford that had solid tires & a bulb like horn that you squeezed to make it honk. He used this horn
unsparingly & while turning a corner, he would yell "lean". Leading the way, they would all lean with him to help balance the precarious turn, going much too fast, or so it seemed. At the missionary home everyone was called "Sister" or "Brother". The long tables in the big dining room were laden with good food that all had helped grow or prepare. Before eating, all bowed on their knees by
their chairs on the bare floor while he prayed. Sometimes it seemed that he was especially "long winded" or "full of the spirit' & the floor got harder. He had thick, wavy iron gray hair. He had beautiful teeth & never had a single
filling. He was color blind, which sometimes got him into trouble. He was sentimental, somewhat impulsive & at times perhaps overly enthusiastic, a real extrovert. He was interested in everyone & everything.
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