Daniel A. Poling

Dr. Daniel A. Poling was the son of an Evangelical clergyman. As a boy, he moved with his family to Dallas, Oregon, where his father became head of the newly-formed Dallas Academy. At age sixteen he began writing for the Portland Oregonian. He was a passionate prohibitionist, and began campaigning for it at age eighteen. He attended Dallas Academy, where he was captain of the football team and known as "the fullback preacher," and graduated in 1905. In 1911 he …