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- Milton, March 27 - Last Wednesday morning, Rev. E[lston]
M[arsh] DUNN whose
- illness has been frequently noted in this column, passed
quietly to the better land. He was born in Plainfield, N.J.,
in 1832, and was educated at DeRuyter Academy, Alfred University,
and Union College, in the state of New York, receiving from the
latter the degree of A.M., and that of D.D. from Milton College.
For eight years he was postmaster of his native city, and thereafter
collector of internal revenue. In the seventies he entered the
Baptist Theological Seminary at Chicago, and after completing
his course was called to the pastorate of the Seventh-day Baptist
curch in this village, and for nearly twenty years has been its
pastor. His ministery has been a remarkably successful one, and
endeared him not only to his parishioners, but to the whole community,
and without regard to sect or creed, all mourn the loss of a
good man, affectionate friend, kind neighbor, and eloquent preacher.
For three years he was professor of Greek and mental and moral
philosophy at Milton College and up to the time of his death
an honored and useful member of its board of trustees. He leaves
a wife and three children, Alexander C., city passenger agent
of the Union Pacific railroad company at Omaha, Mrs. Clara M.
HUMPHREY, wife of Prof. J. N. HUMPHREY of the Whitewater
Normal school, and Mrs. H. L. BELKNAP of Chicago. The
funeral occurs today (Saturday) at 11 o'clock, in the Seventh
Day Baptist church. [Saturday edition, p. 2]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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