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Title: Experiences and observation by the way;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Davenport, John Gaylord. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston Chicago,: The Pilgrim press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y hour wasspent. John M. Burrall, the veteranbusiness man, was immeasurably kind.Many a drive he gave me behind hisrather skittish horse. He was the oldestman that I ever married (seventy-seven),but he seemed to have found the fountainof perpetual youth, certainly of per-petual cheerfulness. Willard P. Abernethy, one of theyounger men of the church, was one ofits brightest and best. He said he wasgoing to take two Sundays before mak-ing up his mind regarding the new pas-tor. On the evening of the second, hesaid, Well, Ill risk him! He provedto be a very dear and helpful friend.Business interests, however, called himto Bridgeport, and he left us for thatcity, becoming a deacon in its FirstChurch. In that office he died severalyears ago. Wallace H. Camp was an-other of the younger and more usefulmen. He was superintendent of the Sun-day School for thirteen years, managingit with great success. In 1894 he waselected deacon and now for some eightyears has been the senior deacon of the 102
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zou PS p W ON > COP^ CO 5 o I O m My Waterbury Pastorate church. Theophilus R. Hyde, Jr., wasstill another of the young men prominentamong us in 1881, a man of somewhatunusual intelligence who used his giftsfor the uplift of humanity. He becamedeacon in 1901, and died Dec. 14, 1907.Burton Gr. Bryan was for many yearsthe efficient treasurer of the church, andhelpful to it in many ways. He died in1911. Lewis J. Atwood, one of our citysprominent manufacturers, a man of greatbusiness ability, who had come into thechurch during Dr. Beckwiths pastorate,was one of its efficient members in 1881.Although exceedingly devoted to the manwho received him into the church, hegave a somewhat hesitating hand of wel-come to his successor. But as time wenton that hand became warmer and gavea closer grasp. I came to lean upon himas a wise and gracious friend. In 1892he was elected deacon and served forseventeen years, dying in 1909, eightdays before Dr. Beckwith passed awayamong the Sandwich Islands.

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