ELMER ELLSWORTH SMILEY, son of Alpheus and Rosetta (Kathan) Smiley, was born August 6, 1862, at Syracuse, N Y. After a preparatory course at Onondaga Academy, Onondaga Valley, N. Y., he entered Syracuse University and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885. He then spent two years as principal of the Union School, East Bloomfield, N.Y.
After completing the three-year course in the Yale Divinity School [Class of 1890], he was a member of the Graduate School for a year.
As one of seven classmates in the Divinity School who formed the Washington Band for service in the then new state of Washington, he went to Vancouver, in that state, and was ordained there to the ministry, September 15, 1891. He was pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church until April, 1894, and the next four years of the First Congregational Church at Cheyenne, Wyo. While in Wyoming he was chairman of the state Congregational Home Missionary Society four years. In 1898 he was elected president of the State University of Wyoming, at Laramie, and filled
the office six years, until failing health compelled him to give up this work, and be returned to his native state. After a period of rest he became pastor of the First Congregational Church at Groton, N Y, serving until his death,
which occurred January 31, 1911, at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse, and was due to a hemorrhage caused by excessive blood pressure. He was in his 49th year.
He married at Baldwinsville, N Y, June 17 1891, Edith Constance, daughter of Abram and Sarah Samantha (Venton) House. She survives him with two sons.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Syracuse University in 1899, and the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1901.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
After completing the three-year course in the Yale Divinity School [Class of 1890], he was a member of the Graduate School for a year.
As one of seven classmates in the Divinity School who formed the Washington Band for service in the then new state of Washington, he went to Vancouver, in that state, and was ordained there to the ministry, September 15, 1891. He was pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church until April, 1894, and the next four years of the First Congregational Church at Cheyenne, Wyo. While in Wyoming he was chairman of the state Congregational Home Missionary Society four years. In 1898 he was elected president of the State University of Wyoming, at Laramie, and filled
the office six years, until failing health compelled him to give up this work, and be returned to his native state. After a period of rest he became pastor of the First Congregational Church at Groton, N Y, serving until his death,
which occurred January 31, 1911, at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse, and was due to a hemorrhage caused by excessive blood pressure. He was in his 49th year.
He married at Baldwinsville, N Y, June 17 1891, Edith Constance, daughter of Abram and Sarah Samantha (Venton) House. She survives him with two sons.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Syracuse University in 1899, and the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1901.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
ELMER ELLSWORTH SMILEY, son of Alpheus and Rosetta (Kathan) Smiley, was born August 6, 1862, at Syracuse, N Y. After a preparatory course at Onondaga Academy, Onondaga Valley, N. Y., he entered Syracuse University and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885. He then spent two years as principal of the Union School, East Bloomfield, N.Y.
After completing the three-year course in the Yale Divinity School [Class of 1890], he was a member of the Graduate School for a year.
As one of seven classmates in the Divinity School who formed the Washington Band for service in the then new state of Washington, he went to Vancouver, in that state, and was ordained there to the ministry, September 15, 1891. He was pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church until April, 1894, and the next four years of the First Congregational Church at Cheyenne, Wyo. While in Wyoming he was chairman of the state Congregational Home Missionary Society four years. In 1898 he was elected president of the State University of Wyoming, at Laramie, and filled
the office six years, until failing health compelled him to give up this work, and be returned to his native state. After a period of rest he became pastor of the First Congregational Church at Groton, N Y, serving until his death,
which occurred January 31, 1911, at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse, and was due to a hemorrhage caused by excessive blood pressure. He was in his 49th year.
He married at Baldwinsville, N Y, June 17 1891, Edith Constance, daughter of Abram and Sarah Samantha (Venton) House. She survives him with two sons.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Syracuse University in 1899, and the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1901.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
After completing the three-year course in the Yale Divinity School [Class of 1890], he was a member of the Graduate School for a year.
As one of seven classmates in the Divinity School who formed the Washington Band for service in the then new state of Washington, he went to Vancouver, in that state, and was ordained there to the ministry, September 15, 1891. He was pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church until April, 1894, and the next four years of the First Congregational Church at Cheyenne, Wyo. While in Wyoming he was chairman of the state Congregational Home Missionary Society four years. In 1898 he was elected president of the State University of Wyoming, at Laramie, and filled
the office six years, until failing health compelled him to give up this work, and be returned to his native state. After a period of rest he became pastor of the First Congregational Church at Groton, N Y, serving until his death,
which occurred January 31, 1911, at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse, and was due to a hemorrhage caused by excessive blood pressure. He was in his 49th year.
He married at Baldwinsville, N Y, June 17 1891, Edith Constance, daughter of Abram and Sarah Samantha (Venton) House. She survives him with two sons.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Syracuse University in 1899, and the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1901.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
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