Rev. Albert C. McCauley Biography


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				REV. ALBERT C. McCAULEY. 

	Rev. Albert C. McCauley is pastor of the Presbyterian churches at 
Bridgewater and Canastota and in the interests of his denomination has 
done effective work leading to moral progress in the districts in which 
he has labored. He was born near Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of 
February, 1858, and is a son of Thomas and Ann (Ramey) McCauley. His 
father was a lumberman and was engaged in the operation of sawmills and 
the manufacture as well as the sale of lumber. Both he and his wife 
have passed away. 

	Albert C. McCauley, pursued his preliminary education in the 
public schools of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and afterward took a two 
years, classical course at the Chambersburg (Pa.) Academy. He next 
spent four years in mastering the classical course in LaFayette College 
at Easton, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1881 Later he 
devoted three years to study in the Union Theological Seminary of New 
York in preparation for the ministry and was graduated d from that 
institution, after which he came to the west upon a visit. He then 
returned and devoted another year to study in the theological seminary. 

	His first work in the ministry was in connection with a small 
church in New Jersey. In 1885, however, he came to South Dakota, 
arriving at Bridgewater on the 5th of September of that year. There was 
little here save land and sky. The town was small and the farmers of 
the surrounding country were poor. His people' however, gave him a 
hearty welcome and the bond of love and sympathy has drawn them closer 
together in all the thirty years of his pastorate, in which he has 
labored among his people with unremitting zeal and devotion. 
Opportunities have been offered him to accept more remunerative charges 
but he has elected to remain with the people of Bridgewater. He has 
tried to retire from his pastorate, but his parishioners will not hear 
of this, demanding that he give them his service in the pulpit and as a 
pastor. Three years after coming to Bridgewater he succeeded in 
building the parsonage, which he continues to occupy with his sister as 
his housekeeper. His life has been actuated by the most exalted 
principles and has been filled with noble. deeds-the expression of a 
kindly spirit. 

	In politics Mr. McCauley is a progressive republican and keeps 
informed upon the questions and issues of the day, believing it to be 
the duty as well as the privilege of every true American citizen to 
exercise his right of franchise He is one of those exceptional 
characters found in the ministry, loved not only by his own people but 
by the entire community for his upright Christian life, which finds 
expression in every relation with his fellow men. He is the oldest 
member of the headquarters committee of the Anti-Saloon League, is a 
trustee of Huron College, is chairman of home missions of the 
Presbyterian Synod of South Dakota and was elected by the synod as a 
member of the Home Missions Council of America. He has been a student 
not only of theology but of life and it has ever been his belief that 
religion, to be of value, must have to do with the everyday experiences 
and acts of men. It has never been his habit to enter into attacks upon 
those holding different views; to build up rather than to destroy has 
ever been his broad policy and his methods of teaching have been along 
constructive lines. He believes in holding before man high ideals that 
will encourage and inspire him and his own life has been the expression 
of a Christian faith that has had much to do with shaping the lives of 
those around him.