Son of Elias & Mary Whitlock.
Urbana Daily Citizen
December 23, 1913
Dr Elias D Whitlock of Toledo died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at St Lukes Hospital in Cleveland. His last illness was very short and while a telegram received by Urbana relatives last evening announced his critical condition, the news of his death came as a great shock. Dr and Mrs Whitlock spent Thanksgiving in Urbana and he seemed in unusually good health and spirits at that time.
At their return to Toledo, they went over to Cleveland to spend the Christmas season with their son William G Whitlock and his family. Last Friday, Dr Whitlock suffered a general breakdown and was taken to St Lukes Hospital. There was a complete collapse yesterday and last evening, Urbana relatives were notified that there was no hope for recovery. Dr Whitlocks wife and children were all at his bedside when death came to him this morning. The body will be brought to Urbana Christmas evening at nine o'clock and the funeral will be held from the home of Mr and Mrs CA Ross on Friday.
Elias D Whitlock was born November 12, 1842 in Preble County, Ohio, and received his early education in the schools of Piqua and later became a student at Ohio Wesleyan University and a graduate of that institution. He came to Urbana in 1866, as principal of the Urbana High School and ever since that time this city has been home to him. His work as a teacher was in Barnesville, Canal Dover, and St Paris, after he left Urbana, and in 1872, he entered the ministry, becoming a member of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr Whitlock has been a leader in that Conference; he has had the best appointments, including those at Bellefontaine, Delaware, Kenton, Toledo, Fremont and Lima, and he has served as presiding elder over three districts - the Bellefontaine, Toledo and Findlay districts. Dr Whitlock was elected to the General Conference four times, and took a pominent part in the legislation, having a very keen and logical mind and a masterly command of language. He was a forceful preacher, his religious experience being clear, his thought deep and clothed in most beautiful English; his manner, emotional at times, but always dignified and convincing.
He was married in 1868 to Mary Brand and to them were born four children, Brand Whitlock mayor of Toledo; Mary Whitlock, deceased; William G Whitlock of Cleveland; and Francis E Whitlock of Toledo. He was a man of deep and constant affection, and he has friends all over the state of Ohio and especially among his brethren of the ministry, who will mourn his death.
Dr Whitlock was given the superannuated relation with the West Ohio Conference this last fall, at his own request. He has not had robust health for several years just past, but accepted work the this winter and had been preaching at the Toledo Spring Street Church.
He was active in the recent coalition of the Central Ohio and Cincinnati Conferences of Methodism, being a member of the adjusting committee. During the last years of his life, he was busy collaborating with Dr Love in the writing of a history of the Central Ohio Conference and that history will be in some part personal, for he was one of the men to helped make that great conference of Methodism - the old Central, Ohio.
Urbana Daily Citizen
December 23, 1913
Dr Elias D Whitlock of Toledo died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at St Lukes Hospital in Cleveland. His last illness was very short and while a telegram received by Urbana relatives last evening announced his critical condition, the news of his death came as a great shock. Dr and Mrs Whitlock spent Thanksgiving in Urbana and he seemed in unusually good health and spirits at that time.
At their return to Toledo, they went over to Cleveland to spend the Christmas season with their son William G Whitlock and his family. Last Friday, Dr Whitlock suffered a general breakdown and was taken to St Lukes Hospital. There was a complete collapse yesterday and last evening, Urbana relatives were notified that there was no hope for recovery. Dr Whitlocks wife and children were all at his bedside when death came to him this morning. The body will be brought to Urbana Christmas evening at nine o'clock and the funeral will be held from the home of Mr and Mrs CA Ross on Friday.
Elias D Whitlock was born November 12, 1842 in Preble County, Ohio, and received his early education in the schools of Piqua and later became a student at Ohio Wesleyan University and a graduate of that institution. He came to Urbana in 1866, as principal of the Urbana High School and ever since that time this city has been home to him. His work as a teacher was in Barnesville, Canal Dover, and St Paris, after he left Urbana, and in 1872, he entered the ministry, becoming a member of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr Whitlock has been a leader in that Conference; he has had the best appointments, including those at Bellefontaine, Delaware, Kenton, Toledo, Fremont and Lima, and he has served as presiding elder over three districts - the Bellefontaine, Toledo and Findlay districts. Dr Whitlock was elected to the General Conference four times, and took a pominent part in the legislation, having a very keen and logical mind and a masterly command of language. He was a forceful preacher, his religious experience being clear, his thought deep and clothed in most beautiful English; his manner, emotional at times, but always dignified and convincing.
He was married in 1868 to Mary Brand and to them were born four children, Brand Whitlock mayor of Toledo; Mary Whitlock, deceased; William G Whitlock of Cleveland; and Francis E Whitlock of Toledo. He was a man of deep and constant affection, and he has friends all over the state of Ohio and especially among his brethren of the ministry, who will mourn his death.
Dr Whitlock was given the superannuated relation with the West Ohio Conference this last fall, at his own request. He has not had robust health for several years just past, but accepted work the this winter and had been preaching at the Toledo Spring Street Church.
He was active in the recent coalition of the Central Ohio and Cincinnati Conferences of Methodism, being a member of the adjusting committee. During the last years of his life, he was busy collaborating with Dr Love in the writing of a history of the Central Ohio Conference and that history will be in some part personal, for he was one of the men to helped make that great conference of Methodism - the old Central, Ohio.
Son of Elias & Mary Whitlock.
Urbana Daily Citizen
December 23, 1913
Dr Elias D Whitlock of Toledo died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at St Lukes Hospital in Cleveland. His last illness was very short and while a telegram received by Urbana relatives last evening announced his critical condition, the news of his death came as a great shock. Dr and Mrs Whitlock spent Thanksgiving in Urbana and he seemed in unusually good health and spirits at that time.
At their return to Toledo, they went over to Cleveland to spend the Christmas season with their son William G Whitlock and his family. Last Friday, Dr Whitlock suffered a general breakdown and was taken to St Lukes Hospital. There was a complete collapse yesterday and last evening, Urbana relatives were notified that there was no hope for recovery. Dr Whitlocks wife and children were all at his bedside when death came to him this morning. The body will be brought to Urbana Christmas evening at nine o'clock and the funeral will be held from the home of Mr and Mrs CA Ross on Friday.
Elias D Whitlock was born November 12, 1842 in Preble County, Ohio, and received his early education in the schools of Piqua and later became a student at Ohio Wesleyan University and a graduate of that institution. He came to Urbana in 1866, as principal of the Urbana High School and ever since that time this city has been home to him. His work as a teacher was in Barnesville, Canal Dover, and St Paris, after he left Urbana, and in 1872, he entered the ministry, becoming a member of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr Whitlock has been a leader in that Conference; he has had the best appointments, including those at Bellefontaine, Delaware, Kenton, Toledo, Fremont and Lima, and he has served as presiding elder over three districts - the Bellefontaine, Toledo and Findlay districts. Dr Whitlock was elected to the General Conference four times, and took a pominent part in the legislation, having a very keen and logical mind and a masterly command of language. He was a forceful preacher, his religious experience being clear, his thought deep and clothed in most beautiful English; his manner, emotional at times, but always dignified and convincing.
He was married in 1868 to Mary Brand and to them were born four children, Brand Whitlock mayor of Toledo; Mary Whitlock, deceased; William G Whitlock of Cleveland; and Francis E Whitlock of Toledo. He was a man of deep and constant affection, and he has friends all over the state of Ohio and especially among his brethren of the ministry, who will mourn his death.
Dr Whitlock was given the superannuated relation with the West Ohio Conference this last fall, at his own request. He has not had robust health for several years just past, but accepted work the this winter and had been preaching at the Toledo Spring Street Church.
He was active in the recent coalition of the Central Ohio and Cincinnati Conferences of Methodism, being a member of the adjusting committee. During the last years of his life, he was busy collaborating with Dr Love in the writing of a history of the Central Ohio Conference and that history will be in some part personal, for he was one of the men to helped make that great conference of Methodism - the old Central, Ohio.
Urbana Daily Citizen
December 23, 1913
Dr Elias D Whitlock of Toledo died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at St Lukes Hospital in Cleveland. His last illness was very short and while a telegram received by Urbana relatives last evening announced his critical condition, the news of his death came as a great shock. Dr and Mrs Whitlock spent Thanksgiving in Urbana and he seemed in unusually good health and spirits at that time.
At their return to Toledo, they went over to Cleveland to spend the Christmas season with their son William G Whitlock and his family. Last Friday, Dr Whitlock suffered a general breakdown and was taken to St Lukes Hospital. There was a complete collapse yesterday and last evening, Urbana relatives were notified that there was no hope for recovery. Dr Whitlocks wife and children were all at his bedside when death came to him this morning. The body will be brought to Urbana Christmas evening at nine o'clock and the funeral will be held from the home of Mr and Mrs CA Ross on Friday.
Elias D Whitlock was born November 12, 1842 in Preble County, Ohio, and received his early education in the schools of Piqua and later became a student at Ohio Wesleyan University and a graduate of that institution. He came to Urbana in 1866, as principal of the Urbana High School and ever since that time this city has been home to him. His work as a teacher was in Barnesville, Canal Dover, and St Paris, after he left Urbana, and in 1872, he entered the ministry, becoming a member of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr Whitlock has been a leader in that Conference; he has had the best appointments, including those at Bellefontaine, Delaware, Kenton, Toledo, Fremont and Lima, and he has served as presiding elder over three districts - the Bellefontaine, Toledo and Findlay districts. Dr Whitlock was elected to the General Conference four times, and took a pominent part in the legislation, having a very keen and logical mind and a masterly command of language. He was a forceful preacher, his religious experience being clear, his thought deep and clothed in most beautiful English; his manner, emotional at times, but always dignified and convincing.
He was married in 1868 to Mary Brand and to them were born four children, Brand Whitlock mayor of Toledo; Mary Whitlock, deceased; William G Whitlock of Cleveland; and Francis E Whitlock of Toledo. He was a man of deep and constant affection, and he has friends all over the state of Ohio and especially among his brethren of the ministry, who will mourn his death.
Dr Whitlock was given the superannuated relation with the West Ohio Conference this last fall, at his own request. He has not had robust health for several years just past, but accepted work the this winter and had been preaching at the Toledo Spring Street Church.
He was active in the recent coalition of the Central Ohio and Cincinnati Conferences of Methodism, being a member of the adjusting committee. During the last years of his life, he was busy collaborating with Dr Love in the writing of a history of the Central Ohio Conference and that history will be in some part personal, for he was one of the men to helped make that great conference of Methodism - the old Central, Ohio.
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