Died on this Date: REV. J. T. WEBSTER. This gentleman was born in Bensalem, PA on May 26, 1846. His early days were spent on a farm. He graduated from Andalusia College, Philadelphia, and Racine College, Wisconsin. He taught school for two years in New Jersey, and subsequently was Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Racine College. He graduated in theology from Nashotah Theological Seminary in Wisconsin and was ordained Deacon in New Jersey, in May 1869. He was pastor of Trinity Church in Hudson, MI for five years and of Emanuel Church in Detroit for five years. During six years of his Michigan pastorate he was editor of the Michigan Diocesan paper. He became pastor of Christs Church in Dayton, Ohio on January 1, 1880. He was married in June 1870, to a sister of Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, by whom he had two children. He was a man of sterling qualities and fully appreciated by the congregation to which he administered. Jesse T. Webster passed away on May 12, 1886 at the age of 39. He is located in Section 103 Lot 2357.
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