Lives of Franklin Plato Eller and John Carlton Eller (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHetcb John Carlton Eller. Like his older brother, John Carlton Eller (named Carlton for his mother, Mary Ann Carlton) received his preparatory training at the Moravian Falls Academy. In a local paper describing the Commencement he is mentioned as one of the six speakers who debated the question of Foreign Immigration. The correspondent adds: The boys did very well, Mr. Eller deserving special mention for his concise and well expressed argument. In August, 1892, John entered the Freshman Class of the University of North Carolina. This class was an unusually large and brilliant one; it numbered at this time one hundred and fifteen members, and it furnished more men to the Alpha Theta Phi Society than any other class up to '98, if not later. On January 19, 1893, John was elected president of his class, an honor which, like his brother Plato, he was to hold each succeeding year of his stay at the University. Although John must have thought many times of the brother who had longed for his companionship at school, and who would have been his guide and counselor in everything, he never allowed his personal sorrows to cast a gloom over his relations with his fellows. Once in a letter to his parents in which he mentions very briefly and modestly his election to the class presidency, he writes thus: I long to get home again and see the last tributes that have been paid to Plato. I know they are appropriate and give you all a greatdeal of satisfaction. Yet it is such a grief to know that we must be without his presence on earth. Let us be content. The feeble eye of mortals cannot pierce the veil of eternity. One day that veil will be withdrawn, and we shall see the splendor of Heaven with the dear boy in its midst. Unlike Plato, John was ambitious to distinguish himself a...