Free Baptist Cyclopaedia (1889) by G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, p. 59-60:
"Blake, Rev. Franklin, son of Israel and Ann Hazelton (Boothby) Blake, was born in Limington Me., April 12, 1855. He became a Christian at the age of fourteen. He graduated from Nichol's Latin School, Lewiston, Me., in 1881, and from Bates Theological School in 1883. During his course, he supplied at Green and South Lewiston. He received license to preach in 1882, and was ordained Sep. 22, 1886, by Rev. W. J. Twort, and others. After his graduation he preached at Canton, Me. He is now (1887) pastor of the First Brunswick church."
The Rev. Mr. Blake was called as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT on 4 Apr 1908 coming from Sutton VT where he served from 1903-08. His salary was $10 a week, 2 weeks vacation and the parsonage. Of his years at Starksboro which lasted until 1914, the Rev. Buell W. Mansfield said: "Exceedingly earnest, humble, cautious, tactful, widely known and respected. He was very strict in morals and ethics, but he never made his horse mind, and at times in making his many and frequent pastoral calls, 'Clover' would turn around and start for home before he could get out of his clerical chariot (old top buggy), at which times he would call out in parting words, 'Clover doesn't want to stop today, I'll be back some other day.' It was customary for the village residents to go to the local store and post office after the night stage came in from Bristol to get their mail. On such trips Mr. Blake, to the curiosity of others, was the only one to ever carry a lighted lantern, until someone blurted out, 'Elder, why do you carry a lantern, can't you see your way in the dark?' Whereon the good Mr. Blake replied, 'Oh yes, I can see, but I carry a lantern so no one will run into me.' Mrs. Blake always meant well and was good hearted but lacked tact, and her zeal in correcting us of our shortcomings helped to shorten the length of his valued pastorate. It may seem unimportant, but Mr. Blake was the last minister to wear a mustache, which was standard equipment in those days. Like all ministers, before he went into the pulpit, he wet and spread his mustache right and left to the widest spread, and just before he started his sermon he gave it a final set to 180 degrees. We were used to such preacher proceedings and assumed that was the way it had to be."
Following his years at Starksboro, he ministered in East Hardwick Vt 1914-19.
He married 10 Apr 1889 in Canton ME Lydia F. Wait.
"Blake, Rev. Franklin, son of Israel and Ann Hazelton (Boothby) Blake, was born in Limington Me., April 12, 1855. He became a Christian at the age of fourteen. He graduated from Nichol's Latin School, Lewiston, Me., in 1881, and from Bates Theological School in 1883. During his course, he supplied at Green and South Lewiston. He received license to preach in 1882, and was ordained Sep. 22, 1886, by Rev. W. J. Twort, and others. After his graduation he preached at Canton, Me. He is now (1887) pastor of the First Brunswick church."
The Rev. Mr. Blake was called as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT on 4 Apr 1908 coming from Sutton VT where he served from 1903-08. His salary was $10 a week, 2 weeks vacation and the parsonage. Of his years at Starksboro which lasted until 1914, the Rev. Buell W. Mansfield said: "Exceedingly earnest, humble, cautious, tactful, widely known and respected. He was very strict in morals and ethics, but he never made his horse mind, and at times in making his many and frequent pastoral calls, 'Clover' would turn around and start for home before he could get out of his clerical chariot (old top buggy), at which times he would call out in parting words, 'Clover doesn't want to stop today, I'll be back some other day.' It was customary for the village residents to go to the local store and post office after the night stage came in from Bristol to get their mail. On such trips Mr. Blake, to the curiosity of others, was the only one to ever carry a lighted lantern, until someone blurted out, 'Elder, why do you carry a lantern, can't you see your way in the dark?' Whereon the good Mr. Blake replied, 'Oh yes, I can see, but I carry a lantern so no one will run into me.' Mrs. Blake always meant well and was good hearted but lacked tact, and her zeal in correcting us of our shortcomings helped to shorten the length of his valued pastorate. It may seem unimportant, but Mr. Blake was the last minister to wear a mustache, which was standard equipment in those days. Like all ministers, before he went into the pulpit, he wet and spread his mustache right and left to the widest spread, and just before he started his sermon he gave it a final set to 180 degrees. We were used to such preacher proceedings and assumed that was the way it had to be."
Following his years at Starksboro, he ministered in East Hardwick Vt 1914-19.
He married 10 Apr 1889 in Canton ME Lydia F. Wait.
Free Baptist Cyclopaedia (1889) by G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, p. 59-60:
"Blake, Rev. Franklin, son of Israel and Ann Hazelton (Boothby) Blake, was born in Limington Me., April 12, 1855. He became a Christian at the age of fourteen. He graduated from Nichol's Latin School, Lewiston, Me., in 1881, and from Bates Theological School in 1883. During his course, he supplied at Green and South Lewiston. He received license to preach in 1882, and was ordained Sep. 22, 1886, by Rev. W. J. Twort, and others. After his graduation he preached at Canton, Me. He is now (1887) pastor of the First Brunswick church."
The Rev. Mr. Blake was called as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT on 4 Apr 1908 coming from Sutton VT where he served from 1903-08. His salary was $10 a week, 2 weeks vacation and the parsonage. Of his years at Starksboro which lasted until 1914, the Rev. Buell W. Mansfield said: "Exceedingly earnest, humble, cautious, tactful, widely known and respected. He was very strict in morals and ethics, but he never made his horse mind, and at times in making his many and frequent pastoral calls, 'Clover' would turn around and start for home before he could get out of his clerical chariot (old top buggy), at which times he would call out in parting words, 'Clover doesn't want to stop today, I'll be back some other day.' It was customary for the village residents to go to the local store and post office after the night stage came in from Bristol to get their mail. On such trips Mr. Blake, to the curiosity of others, was the only one to ever carry a lighted lantern, until someone blurted out, 'Elder, why do you carry a lantern, can't you see your way in the dark?' Whereon the good Mr. Blake replied, 'Oh yes, I can see, but I carry a lantern so no one will run into me.' Mrs. Blake always meant well and was good hearted but lacked tact, and her zeal in correcting us of our shortcomings helped to shorten the length of his valued pastorate. It may seem unimportant, but Mr. Blake was the last minister to wear a mustache, which was standard equipment in those days. Like all ministers, before he went into the pulpit, he wet and spread his mustache right and left to the widest spread, and just before he started his sermon he gave it a final set to 180 degrees. We were used to such preacher proceedings and assumed that was the way it had to be."
Following his years at Starksboro, he ministered in East Hardwick Vt 1914-19.
He married 10 Apr 1889 in Canton ME Lydia F. Wait.
"Blake, Rev. Franklin, son of Israel and Ann Hazelton (Boothby) Blake, was born in Limington Me., April 12, 1855. He became a Christian at the age of fourteen. He graduated from Nichol's Latin School, Lewiston, Me., in 1881, and from Bates Theological School in 1883. During his course, he supplied at Green and South Lewiston. He received license to preach in 1882, and was ordained Sep. 22, 1886, by Rev. W. J. Twort, and others. After his graduation he preached at Canton, Me. He is now (1887) pastor of the First Brunswick church."
The Rev. Mr. Blake was called as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT on 4 Apr 1908 coming from Sutton VT where he served from 1903-08. His salary was $10 a week, 2 weeks vacation and the parsonage. Of his years at Starksboro which lasted until 1914, the Rev. Buell W. Mansfield said: "Exceedingly earnest, humble, cautious, tactful, widely known and respected. He was very strict in morals and ethics, but he never made his horse mind, and at times in making his many and frequent pastoral calls, 'Clover' would turn around and start for home before he could get out of his clerical chariot (old top buggy), at which times he would call out in parting words, 'Clover doesn't want to stop today, I'll be back some other day.' It was customary for the village residents to go to the local store and post office after the night stage came in from Bristol to get their mail. On such trips Mr. Blake, to the curiosity of others, was the only one to ever carry a lighted lantern, until someone blurted out, 'Elder, why do you carry a lantern, can't you see your way in the dark?' Whereon the good Mr. Blake replied, 'Oh yes, I can see, but I carry a lantern so no one will run into me.' Mrs. Blake always meant well and was good hearted but lacked tact, and her zeal in correcting us of our shortcomings helped to shorten the length of his valued pastorate. It may seem unimportant, but Mr. Blake was the last minister to wear a mustache, which was standard equipment in those days. Like all ministers, before he went into the pulpit, he wet and spread his mustache right and left to the widest spread, and just before he started his sermon he gave it a final set to 180 degrees. We were used to such preacher proceedings and assumed that was the way it had to be."
Following his years at Starksboro, he ministered in East Hardwick Vt 1914-19.
He married 10 Apr 1889 in Canton ME Lydia F. Wait.
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