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- Milton - The Rev. M[azzini] G[avazzi] STILLMAN, 86,
retired teacher and minister,
- died at 5 p.m. Wednesday in his home near the Milton campus.
He taught several years before entering the ministry, being
principal of the Big Foot academy at the time it was taken over
as the Walworth high school.
- Mr. STILLMAN was born Feb. 6, 1854, in Independence,
N.Y., and was brought
- to Wisconsin as an infant. When about four years of age
he was taken to the Daniel R. BURDICK home, Albion, where
he grew to young manhood and graduated from Albion academy.
He then entered Milton college, from which he graduated with
his bachelor's degree in 1881, and nine years later received
his master of science degree.
- On March 12, 1878, he married Marcella CRANDALL of
Utica, Wis., who
- survives. Following his graduation from the local college,
he taught school for several years. He was principal and remained
head of the school for eight years after the Big Foot academy
was taken over by the Walworth high school. Following this
he taught for a year in the Winona, Minn., high school. It
was while teaching there that he preached his first sermon in
the Methodist Episcopal church.
- Then for two years he taught at Utica, Wis., and served as
pastor of the Seventh Day
- Baptist church there. The next fall, he entered the Seventh
Day Baptist Theological seminary in Alfred, N.Y., graduating
in 1893.
- His service in the ministry included pastorates at Richburg,
N.Y., eight years at
- Walworth, Wis., and 20 years in two different terms at Lost
Creek, W. Va. He retired from the ministry after serving 35
years, and built his home near the campus of the college.
- Until his last illness he led an active life and was keenly
interested in community and
- national affairs as well as the college. An important event
in his life in later years was the annual Albion Academy reunion,
and he had served as an officer of the academy alumni association
for many years.
- The Rev. and Mrs. STILLMAN celebrated their 62nd wedding
anniversary this
- March. The Milton Seventh Day Baptist church and society
gave them a public reception on their golden wedding anniversary
in 1928 and a special ceremony was arranged to celebrate the
60th anniversary two years ago.
- Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Lelia, at
home; a son, Harold C.
- STILLMAN, Pueblo, Colo.; four grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
- Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Milton
Seventh Day Baptist
- church, the Rev. Carroll L. Hill officiating. Burial will
be in the Milton S.D.B. cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 13]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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