Rare Antique American Professor Thomas Kirby Davis Wooster, Ohio Cabinet Photo for Sale

Rare Antique American Professor Thomas Kirby Davis Wooster, Ohio Cabinet Photo For Sale

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Rare Antique American Professor Thomas Kirby Davis Wooster, Ohio Cabinet Photo:
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UP FOR SALE:Rare Antique American Professor Thomas Kirby Davis Wooster, Ohio Cabinet Photo!
Fantastic Antique Victorian American Cabinet Card Photograph!
Wonderful Portrait of \"Prof. Rev. Thomas Kirby Davis\"
Photographer: TeepleLocation: Wooster, Ohio (OH)Date: C.1870\'s - 1880\'s
INFO:
\"The Herald and Presbyter Jan 15, 1919
DAVIS-Rev. Thomas Kirby Davis, D.D. died at his home in Wooster, O., Dec. 24, 1918, in his ninety-third year. Dr. Davis has been ill but two weeks and his sudden death from heart failure was unexpected. He preserved all his faculties to the end and his interest in church problems and public affairs. He was born Feb. 11, 1826, in Chambersburg, Pa., was educated at the academy in that place and at Yale College, graduating in 1845, being the youngest in a class of seventy-four members, but being class orator and secretary of Phi Beta. After teaching for a year he entered Princeton Theological Seminary. A tutorship at Yale was offered him in 1848 but he preferred to continue his theological studies. Ordained in 1850, he spent five years as pastor of Bedford Springs, Pa. During this period he married Mary Hays Proctor, of Carlisle, Pa. The health of Mrs. Davis declining and the call for ministers on the Pacific coast being very urgent, he went to California for home missionary work. He preached in San Francisco in the absence of the pastor, then organized a Presbyterian church in Los Angeles. At that time he and two others were the only Protestant ministers in the southern half of California. In 1856, “civil commotion” arising between the “native” Mexicans and the “foreign” Americans, he fled to Stockton, where he labored. But on account of the health of Mrs. Davis he returned to the East, where he became pastor in Middletown, Pa., During the darkest days of the Civil War he accepted a call to Mansfield, O. The influence of this church was very helpful to the national cause in this region. A sermon preached on a fast day in 1864 greatly encouraged the hearts of multitudes and its publication was requested by Senator Sherman and others. This pamphlet was used as a campaign document in the most critical and decisive election ever held in the state. Christian education held a warm place in his heart, and ever since 1867 he has been connected with educational institutions. He worked for the endowment of the projected University of Wooster and for its establishment at that place. He filled the chair of languages in Vermilion Institute in Hayesville for the sake of educating his children, and was also pastor of the Presbyterian church there. From the early seventies he resided in Wooster, being connected with the college he loved so much and for which he labored so long, first as financial secretary, then as librarian, since 1877, being in his latter years librarian-emeritus. During a long period he was a member of the board, and its secretary for many years. During these strenuous years he also supplied many pulpits in various places. Latterly he has written for periodicals and published a family history and a volume entitled “Mind and Spirit.” For over fifty years he was a member of the presbytery in which he died, and for many years was its oldest member. :Last May he received quite an ovation when he was commissioner to the General Assembly, meeting in Columbus, O. The Church at large has lost a wise and faithful minister, the College of Wooster, with which he had always been identified, has lost a faithful counselor and a loyal friend. A very large circle of friends mourn his departure and feel that they have lost a strong, true friend, “over eighty summers young, without a single winter in his heart.” His brother, Mr. Robert S. Davis, of Pittsburgh, his three daughters and two sons, and all who knew him, will miss his winning smile, his gentle ways and his genial presence. The world will be the poorer without his helpful prayers. In thinking of the Christlike character of Dr. Davis and of his unusual spirituality we are reminded of the Psalmist’s words, “Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.”
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