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- Word has come to R. H. SAUNDERS of the death of his
brother, Alban G.
- SAUNDERS, at his late home at Redlands, Calif., who
was born at Milton and was once a student at the college. The
Redlands paper says of the deceased,
- "Alban Gardner SAUNDERS was born at Milton, Wisconsin,
May 2, 1849, where
- he grew to manhood and received his education, being graduated
from Milton college. When a boy he became a member of the Seventh
Day Baptist church wherein he lived consistently until his study
of the Bible, of which he was a zealous student all his life,
led him to unite himself with the Advent Christian people.
- "He taught school for several years in Wisconsin and
Iowa, and was reading law
- expecting to follow the legal profession when the failing
health of his wife led him to abandon his study and come to California.
He was one of the earliest settlers in Redlands, buying his
land from the original company, and being one of two such buyers
whose land has never changed hands.
- "Here he buried the wife of his youth, and here he brought
the wife of his mature
- manhood, who lives to mourn the loss of a faithful and devoted
husband.
- "Of their four children, Mrs. Elaine SAUNDERS RODRIGUES
lives in Tacoma,
- Wash.; Mrs. Ruth Millard BOSTWICK in Portland, Oregon;
Augustus Millard in Chico, and Inez SAUNDERS is at home.
- "Besides these he leaves one brother, Russell SAUNDERS,
of Milton, Wis., and a
- sister, Mrs. Alvira CLARK, of Portland, Oregon.
- "Mr. SAUNDERS was a man of firm convictions,
a clear logical mind and a quick
- conscience. He never compromised what he believed to be
wrong." [p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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