Editing Simpson College (section)

==History==
'''Indianola Male and Female Seminary''' was opened on September 24, 1860, and the name was changed to the '''Des Moines Conference Seminary''' in September 1865. On September 21, 1867, the school was upgraded to a [[college]] and renamed '''Simpson Centenary College''' to honor Methodism's most renowned living bishop, Bishop Matthew Simpson (1811–1884), and to celebrate the centennial of American Methodism. (Simpson is best known as the minister who spoke a eulogy at [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Lincoln's Tomb|funeral]] in [[Springfield, Illinois]], in 1865; he was known as a great pulpit preacher.) Simpson himself gave the commencement address at Simpson in 1882. In June 1885, "Centenary" was dropped from the name, becoming simply Simpson College.

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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; {{CollegePrimaryStyle|Simpson College|color=black}};"| '''Naming History'''
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! Years !! Name
|- style="text-align:center; background:silver;"
| 1860{{en dash}}1865 || Indianola Male and Female Seminary
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1865{{en dash}}1867 || Des Moines Conference Seminary 
|- style="text-align:center; background:silver;"
| 1867{{en dash}}1885 || Simpson Centenary College 
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1885{{en dash}}present || Simpson College
|}

===Presidents===
* Jay Byers (2023–2025)
* Marsha Kelliher (2020–2023)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.simpson.edu/president/about | title=About }}</ref>
* Jay Simmons (2013–2019)<ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://www.simpson.edu/about-simpson-college/president/past-presidents | title=Past Presidents }}</ref>
* John Byrd (2005–2013)<ref name="auto1"/>
* Kevin LaGree (1999–2005)<ref name="auto1"/>
* Stephen G. Jennings (1987–1998)<ref name="auto1"/>
* Robert Edward McBride (1979–1987)<ref name="auto1"/>
* Richard Bailey Lancaster (1972–1979)<ref name="auto1"/>
* Ralph Candler John (1963–1972)
* William Edward Kerstetter (1953–1963)
* Edwin Edgar Voigt (1942–1952)
* Earl Enyeart Harper (1936–1938)
* John Linnaeus Hillman (1919–1936)
* James Watson Campbell (1916–1919)
* William Ennis Hamilton (1915–1916)
* Charles Eldred Shelton (1899–1910)
* Joseph Benton Harris (1898–1899)
* Another Simpson (1892–1898)
* Edmund Meek Holmes (1889–1892)
* William Ennis Hamilton (1886–1889)
* Edward Lamay Parks (1880–1886)
* Thomas S. Berry (1878–1880)
* Alexander Burns (1868–1878)
* Samuel Milton Vernon (1866–1868)