'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 136, No 22, p 350, May 29, 1944.
Morton Smith Wardner, son of Elder Nathan and Mrs. Olive Forbes Wardner, was born January 14, 1850, in Shanghai, China, and died at the home of his daughter in Chicago, December 20, 1943, being nearly ninety-four years of age.
His parents, with Elder and Mrs. Solomon Carpenter, were the first Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in China, going to Shanghai in 1847. Because of the failing health of Mrs. Wardner, she returned to America with her children in 1856, her husband returning the next year.
After attending Alfred Academy, Morton Wardner went to Williams College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1873, with election to Phi Beta Kappa, and later a master's degree. Having decided to prepare for the ministry, he took the theological course at Alfred, receiving the B. D. degree in 1876. He also taught Latin and operated a shirt factory at Alfred while a student there. For some years prior to his death, he was Alfred University's oldest living alumnus.
His father being then in Scotland in the employ of the Tract Society, he assisted him in the work there, and in the establishment of the Mission in Holland, returning to America in 1877.
He received a call to go as a missionary to China, but arrangements were not immediately made, and he did missionary work in the Western Association, and in 1878 was employed as a preacher in tent work for the Tract Society. In 1879 the call to China was renewed, but was finally declined, and he accepted the pastorate at Little Genesee, N. Y., where he was ordained to the gospel ministry and served from 1880 to 1881. Although never afterward engaged in the full-time ministry, he continued to lecture on the Sabbath and other Biblical topics, and was a life member of the American Sabbath Tract Society.
The field of medicine appealed to him, and after running a drug store in Chicago, and studying medicine with his cousin, Dr. Horace Wardner, he entered Rush Medical College, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He continued to practice medicine until his ninety-second year, delivering a child on his ninety-first birthday, thereby missing a neighborhood gathering in his honor at Genoa, Ark.
For about fifty years he made his home at or near Fouke, Ark., and was a member of the Fouke Seventh Day Baptist Church; but he spent his last two years at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Doctor Wardner married Sarah Summerbell in Plainfield, N. J., in 1873, and had four children: Nathan (deceased); Dr. James Forbes of Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas of Plainfield, N. J.; Rachel (Mrs. P. Caris) of Trenton, N. J.
In 1887, he married Evelyn G. Anderson, and by this marriage had three children: Olive (Mrs. M. S. Campagna) of Chicago; Horace (deceased); and Vera (Mrs. Ronald Dougan) of Beloit, Wis. He had twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, two of his grandsons being now naval officers on duty in the South Pacific. His widow, Mrs. Ruth Wardner, survives.
He died in complete trust in the merits of the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. C. A. B.
Morton Smith Wardner, son of Elder Nathan and Mrs. Olive Forbes Wardner, was born January 14, 1850, in Shanghai, China, and died at the home of his daughter in Chicago, December 20, 1943, being nearly ninety-four years of age.
His parents, with Elder and Mrs. Solomon Carpenter, were the first Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in China, going to Shanghai in 1847. Because of the failing health of Mrs. Wardner, she returned to America with her children in 1856, her husband returning the next year.
After attending Alfred Academy, Morton Wardner went to Williams College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1873, with election to Phi Beta Kappa, and later a master's degree. Having decided to prepare for the ministry, he took the theological course at Alfred, receiving the B. D. degree in 1876. He also taught Latin and operated a shirt factory at Alfred while a student there. For some years prior to his death, he was Alfred University's oldest living alumnus.
His father being then in Scotland in the employ of the Tract Society, he assisted him in the work there, and in the establishment of the Mission in Holland, returning to America in 1877.
He received a call to go as a missionary to China, but arrangements were not immediately made, and he did missionary work in the Western Association, and in 1878 was employed as a preacher in tent work for the Tract Society. In 1879 the call to China was renewed, but was finally declined, and he accepted the pastorate at Little Genesee, N. Y., where he was ordained to the gospel ministry and served from 1880 to 1881. Although never afterward engaged in the full-time ministry, he continued to lecture on the Sabbath and other Biblical topics, and was a life member of the American Sabbath Tract Society.
The field of medicine appealed to him, and after running a drug store in Chicago, and studying medicine with his cousin, Dr. Horace Wardner, he entered Rush Medical College, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He continued to practice medicine until his ninety-second year, delivering a child on his ninety-first birthday, thereby missing a neighborhood gathering in his honor at Genoa, Ark.
For about fifty years he made his home at or near Fouke, Ark., and was a member of the Fouke Seventh Day Baptist Church; but he spent his last two years at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Doctor Wardner married Sarah Summerbell in Plainfield, N. J., in 1873, and had four children: Nathan (deceased); Dr. James Forbes of Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas of Plainfield, N. J.; Rachel (Mrs. P. Caris) of Trenton, N. J.
In 1887, he married Evelyn G. Anderson, and by this marriage had three children: Olive (Mrs. M. S. Campagna) of Chicago; Horace (deceased); and Vera (Mrs. Ronald Dougan) of Beloit, Wis. He had twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, two of his grandsons being now naval officers on duty in the South Pacific. His widow, Mrs. Ruth Wardner, survives.
He died in complete trust in the merits of the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. C. A. B.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 136, No 22, p 350, May 29, 1944.
Morton Smith Wardner, son of Elder Nathan and Mrs. Olive Forbes Wardner, was born January 14, 1850, in Shanghai, China, and died at the home of his daughter in Chicago, December 20, 1943, being nearly ninety-four years of age.
His parents, with Elder and Mrs. Solomon Carpenter, were the first Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in China, going to Shanghai in 1847. Because of the failing health of Mrs. Wardner, she returned to America with her children in 1856, her husband returning the next year.
After attending Alfred Academy, Morton Wardner went to Williams College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1873, with election to Phi Beta Kappa, and later a master's degree. Having decided to prepare for the ministry, he took the theological course at Alfred, receiving the B. D. degree in 1876. He also taught Latin and operated a shirt factory at Alfred while a student there. For some years prior to his death, he was Alfred University's oldest living alumnus.
His father being then in Scotland in the employ of the Tract Society, he assisted him in the work there, and in the establishment of the Mission in Holland, returning to America in 1877.
He received a call to go as a missionary to China, but arrangements were not immediately made, and he did missionary work in the Western Association, and in 1878 was employed as a preacher in tent work for the Tract Society. In 1879 the call to China was renewed, but was finally declined, and he accepted the pastorate at Little Genesee, N. Y., where he was ordained to the gospel ministry and served from 1880 to 1881. Although never afterward engaged in the full-time ministry, he continued to lecture on the Sabbath and other Biblical topics, and was a life member of the American Sabbath Tract Society.
The field of medicine appealed to him, and after running a drug store in Chicago, and studying medicine with his cousin, Dr. Horace Wardner, he entered Rush Medical College, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He continued to practice medicine until his ninety-second year, delivering a child on his ninety-first birthday, thereby missing a neighborhood gathering in his honor at Genoa, Ark.
For about fifty years he made his home at or near Fouke, Ark., and was a member of the Fouke Seventh Day Baptist Church; but he spent his last two years at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Doctor Wardner married Sarah Summerbell in Plainfield, N. J., in 1873, and had four children: Nathan (deceased); Dr. James Forbes of Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas of Plainfield, N. J.; Rachel (Mrs. P. Caris) of Trenton, N. J.
In 1887, he married Evelyn G. Anderson, and by this marriage had three children: Olive (Mrs. M. S. Campagna) of Chicago; Horace (deceased); and Vera (Mrs. Ronald Dougan) of Beloit, Wis. He had twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, two of his grandsons being now naval officers on duty in the South Pacific. His widow, Mrs. Ruth Wardner, survives.
He died in complete trust in the merits of the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. C. A. B.
Morton Smith Wardner, son of Elder Nathan and Mrs. Olive Forbes Wardner, was born January 14, 1850, in Shanghai, China, and died at the home of his daughter in Chicago, December 20, 1943, being nearly ninety-four years of age.
His parents, with Elder and Mrs. Solomon Carpenter, were the first Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in China, going to Shanghai in 1847. Because of the failing health of Mrs. Wardner, she returned to America with her children in 1856, her husband returning the next year.
After attending Alfred Academy, Morton Wardner went to Williams College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1873, with election to Phi Beta Kappa, and later a master's degree. Having decided to prepare for the ministry, he took the theological course at Alfred, receiving the B. D. degree in 1876. He also taught Latin and operated a shirt factory at Alfred while a student there. For some years prior to his death, he was Alfred University's oldest living alumnus.
His father being then in Scotland in the employ of the Tract Society, he assisted him in the work there, and in the establishment of the Mission in Holland, returning to America in 1877.
He received a call to go as a missionary to China, but arrangements were not immediately made, and he did missionary work in the Western Association, and in 1878 was employed as a preacher in tent work for the Tract Society. In 1879 the call to China was renewed, but was finally declined, and he accepted the pastorate at Little Genesee, N. Y., where he was ordained to the gospel ministry and served from 1880 to 1881. Although never afterward engaged in the full-time ministry, he continued to lecture on the Sabbath and other Biblical topics, and was a life member of the American Sabbath Tract Society.
The field of medicine appealed to him, and after running a drug store in Chicago, and studying medicine with his cousin, Dr. Horace Wardner, he entered Rush Medical College, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He continued to practice medicine until his ninety-second year, delivering a child on his ninety-first birthday, thereby missing a neighborhood gathering in his honor at Genoa, Ark.
For about fifty years he made his home at or near Fouke, Ark., and was a member of the Fouke Seventh Day Baptist Church; but he spent his last two years at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Doctor Wardner married Sarah Summerbell in Plainfield, N. J., in 1873, and had four children: Nathan (deceased); Dr. James Forbes of Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas of Plainfield, N. J.; Rachel (Mrs. P. Caris) of Trenton, N. J.
In 1887, he married Evelyn G. Anderson, and by this marriage had three children: Olive (Mrs. M. S. Campagna) of Chicago; Horace (deceased); and Vera (Mrs. Ronald Dougan) of Beloit, Wis. He had twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, two of his grandsons being now naval officers on duty in the South Pacific. His widow, Mrs. Ruth Wardner, survives.
He died in complete trust in the merits of the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. C. A. B.
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