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Wheat Farm, 1941
華盛頓州瓦拉瓦拉地區的一座麥田,在惠特曼大學附近 (攝於1941年)

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庫興‧愛爾斯 (Cushing Eells) 生於1810216

位在華盛頓州瓦拉瓦拉 (Walla Walla) 地區的惠特曼大學 (Whitman College) ,乃是該州最古老的教育機構。一個叫做庫興‧愛爾斯的傳教士 (生於1810216日) 建立了這所學校,並且以他兩位在1847年被「凱爾斯鬥士」 (Cayuse Warrior) 謀殺的傳教士朋友馬可仕與娜西莎‧惠特曼夫婦 (Marcus and Narcissa Whitman) 的名字為學校命名。


Whitman College, located in Walla Walla, Washington, is the oldest educational institution in Washington state. A missionary by the name of Cushing Eells, who was born on this day in 1810, founded the college and named it for Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, fellow missionaries, who were massacred by Cayuse warriors in 1847.
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