Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 17.
 
CARL GREGG DONEY
 
     Carl Gregg Doney, whose efforts have constituted a potent factor in the
intellectual and moral advancement of the various communities in which he has
lived and labored, has served as president of Willamette University in Salem,
Oregon, since 1915.   A native of Columbus, Ohio, he was born on the 24th of
July, 1867, his parents being Abram Covert and Emily Victoria (Brock) Doney.
His early intellectual training was supplemented by study in the Ohio State
University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science
in 1891, while two years later the same institution conferred upon him the
degree of Bachelor of Laws and in 1902 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
During the years 1891 and 1892 he pursued postgraduate work in philosophy in
Harvard University.   He was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the
degree of Master of Arts in 1899, received the degree of Doctor of Laws from
Howard University in 1912 and six years later, in 1918, received the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Willamette University.
 
     It was in October, 1893, when a young man of twenty-six, that Dr. Doney
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church as pastor of a church at
Bainbridge, Ohio, where he remained for two years. Subsequently he filled the
pulpit of Centenary church at Granville, Ohio, from 1895 until 1898 and then
accepted the pastorate of St. Paul's church in Delaware, Ohio, where he preached
until 1900. During the succeeding five years he was at the head of the King
Avenue church in Columbus, Ohio, and then from March, 1905, until September,
1907, occupied the pastorate of Hamline church in Washington, D. C. From the
latter elate until 1915 he served as president of the West Virginia Wesleyan
College at Buckhannon, West Virginia, and then assumed the presidency of
Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he has thus remained to the
present time.
 
     Dr. Doney has labored untiringly for the mental and moral uplift of
humanity. He served as president of the District of Columbia Anti-Saloon League
during the years 1906 and 1907 and was formerly a director of the West Virginia
State Young Men's Christian Association and trustee of; the West Virginia State
Society of Hygiene. The years 1913 and 1914 were spent in European study and
travel. He rendered patriotic service to the government as a member of the War
Work Council in 1917 and in the following year was in France in connection with
liaison work and as Y, M. C. A. lecturer. Since 1919 he has been a member of the
executive committee of the Oregon and Idaho Young Men's Christian Association.
In the year 1921, Dr. Doney was named as delegate to the ecumenical conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church in London, but was prevented from attending.
He has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and
also belongs to three Greek letter fraternities—Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi
and Phi Delta Phi. He is likewise an honorary member of the Rotary Club.
 
     Dr. Doney has gained more than local renown as a writer, having made
numerous contributions to leading magazines and periodicals and being the author
of the following widely read works: The Throne Room of the Soul, which was
published in 1906; An Efficient Church, 1907; and God Answers Prayer, 1923.
 
     On the 6th of September, 1893, Dr. Doney married Jennie Anna Evans, of
Columbus, Ohio. They are the parents of two sons, Paul Herbert and Hugh Abram.

     
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