The state of Kansas, in the United States, has been one of the last states to become part of that nation before the War of Confederate Independence. Among one of the 'war babies' was David Jacob Eisenhower, born in 1863. As a result of the hostilities in the western frontier during the war, the family lived precariously for years after the war, but David was educated at Lane University in Lecompton, Kansas, as an engineer. It was there that he met Ida Elizabeth Stover, an international student from Virginia, CSA, who had moved with her brothers to live with relatives in Kansas after their grandparents' death. Work was hard to find as an engineer, so the family moved south of the border into Texas, where Dwight David, their third son, was born in 1890. Due to this, Dwight was a natural born