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Daniel Faunce

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Daniel Faunce
Born(1829-01-03)January 3, 1829
DiedJanuary 3, 1911(1911-01-03) (aged 82)
Resting placePine Grove Cemetery
Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAmherst College
OccupationClergy

Daniel Worcester Faunce (January 3, 1829 – January 3, 1911) was an American clergyman and the father of William Faunce, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts to Peleg and Olive (Finney) Faunce.

Graduating from Amherst College in 1850, he then studied at the Newton Theological Institution, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1853, and thereafter held charges from 1853 to 1866 in Somerville, Worcester, and Malden — all in Massachusetts — in Concord, New Hampshire (1866–1875), Lynn, Massachusetts (1875–1881), Washington, D.C. (1881–1889), West Newton, Massachusetts (1889–1893), and Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1894–1899). He was a member of the board of managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union. His works include:

Faunce married Mary Parkhurst Perry, August 15, 1853.[1] They had five children. After she died in 1888, he married a second time. He died on January 3, 1911, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 82.

References

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  1. ^ Jewett, Frederic Clarke (1908). History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America: A Record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of His Two Emigrant Sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639; Also of Abraham and John Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts who Have Settled in the United States Since the Year 1800. New York: Grafton Press. pp. 656-660. William%20Herbert%20Perry%20Faunce%20genealogy.

Attribution

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wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Faunce, Daniel Worcester". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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