sentences:  His family moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1864, and he attended its high school and then Iowa Wesleyan College.He moved to Missouri in 1872, where he began a career teaching music at Mount Pleasant College in Huntsville from 1872 to 1875.In 1875, he moved to Mexico, Missouri, where he became professor of music at Hardin College, and also taught at the Synodical Female College in nearby Fulton and in the local public schools.