Henry A. Stimson

Few of us who listened to Henry Albert Stimson when (as he usually did) he rose to discuss a pending resolution at the Club’s monthly meeting, were aware that this dignified and stalwart clergyman, who was even then approaching his ninetieth year, had an adventurous past behind him. Dr. Stimson was one of the pioneers in exploring the Indian trails of the Sixties. He climbed Pike’s Peak when the achievement was much like the ascent of Everest, and enjoyed the added pleasure of intermittent fighting with the Indians. Absorbed in later life with work on church extension, Dr. Stimson did not often recall those earlier frontier days, but perhaps his long-past experience with an America in the making colored his later view of things. There was much truth, but perhaps exaggerated judgment, in his prediction to his church, when this country declared war on Germany. “We are on the eve of a new world,” Dr. Stimson told his parishioners. “The great war across the water will alter all human thought and action.”

Alexander Dana Noyes
1937 Century Association Yearbook