William Ashley (Billy)
Sunday
(1862-1935)
 Born
at Ames, Iowa, and educated at Nevada, Iowa, and Northwestern University,
Billy Sunday played professional baseball with the Chicago, Pittsburg,
and Philadelphia teams in the National League from 1883-1890. For
the next five years he served as assistant secretary of the Chicago YMCA
and started his evangelistic work in 1896. Seven years later, in
1903, Billy Sunday was ordained into the ministry by the Chicago Presbytery
and later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Westminster College,
New Willington, Pennslyvania. An ardent supporter of Prohibition,
Billy Sunday was famous for his dynamic style of delivery in the evangelistic
field. In 1920, he took up residence at Winona Lake, Indiana, where
he conducted revivals in connection with summer Chautauqua programs.
Fifteen years later, in 1935, he died in Chicago.
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