Excerpt from Life and Labors of Rev. Wm. A. (Billy) Sunday, the Great Modern Evangelist: With Selected Sermons Rev. William A. Sunday, or Billy Sunday, as he is more commonly and familiarly known, was born at Storey, Iowa, in November, 1863, to a widowed mother; his. Father, a Union soldier of the Twenty third Iowa Regiment, having been offered as a patri otic sacrifice to his country on the battle field a short time before the subject of this. Sketch first saw the light of day. The patriotism of the surviving heroes of the Great Civil War which cost the life of the heroic father provided the posthumous son with shelter and nurture in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home. He was then a rugged, hale and hearty little fellow, the undisputed heir to his heroic father's patriotism and manly qualities and virtues. We must presume that at an early age, with unforgetting regret, he learned of his first great early loss, a father's touch and smile, a father's love and sympathy and care, unknown to him. This great sorrow pressed hard upon his childish heart for that father whom never having seen he loved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.