The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-27
. ANoTED MINISTER DEAD.
The Rev. Or. Elias Lyman Magoon
60 Passes Away. &S

The Rev. DR.. Elias Lyman Magoon, until recent
ly pastor of the Broad street Baptist church rhil-
adelphia, died early Thursday morning at the
home OF his son. in-law, John Y. Huber, in Phila-
delphia. He had been confined ohis bed for
some time but his death was due to old age rather
than to any specific disease. .-'--
DR.. Magoon was a native of Lebanon, n. Ii.
where he was born, Oct. 20, 1910. At sixteen
years of age he was apprenticed to the bricklay-
ers trade which he followed for four years, work
ing hard during the day and studying by night, to
prepare himself for college. When he became
iourneyman he went to work In Lowell Mass,
where by great self-denial he managed 70 save
$40, with which sum to begin life he entered Wa
teryille College, now Colby University. All his
spare time was devoted TO his trade, upon which
he relied to meet his expenses, and his struggle
for an education was hard one The New YORK
Times says that while at Lowell he boarded with
poor widow, who was anxious to have her son
enter college, and when young Magoon was IN his
Junior year she requested him to start her son In
college, and look after him while there. He con-
sented but being unable to go to Watervllle with
the boy at the time, ne wrote letter 70 tne pres-
Producing his charge and concluding with this as
surance: Master Butler will make good schol-
Young Mag0on csIelay ioohea d hte, s,rtar .ne
vised his education. "He needed" according to
DR.. Magoon, careful looking after, for the posi-
| al legislator Union General. Governor of Massa-
| chusetts, and Presidential candidate were quite
| as strong then as they have been developed be-
| fore the world since" The youth educated under
| the watchful eye of Young Magoon was Benjamin
| Il. Butler.
In 1886, DR.. Magoon entered Newton Universi-
| ty, near Boston, and in 1889 was ordained Bap-
| tist minister. He settled at Richmond, Va, as
/ pastor of the Second Baptist church, where ne re-
| mained six years. During his absence in Europe
a.diyIsion arose among his people on the question
| Of slavery, and he speedily returned and quietly
/ resigned He was at once called TO the Ninth
street church In Cincinnati, where he served four
years. and then accepted call TO the Oliver street
church in New York, going there IN ls49. and re,
| manning until 1857, when he took charge OF the
| First Baptist church in Albany. After serving
| ten years there he removed TO the Broad street
| church in Pr iladelphia, where he continued L
preach until April, 1884, when he resigned and
| preached his farewell sermon. Since then he had
delivered lectures In various parts Of the country
DIR. Magoon was very eloquent and impressive
in his sermons and lectures, but simple in his hab
| its and utterly without Ostentation. Among thu
| works OF his pen the best known are "PrOyerb:
\ for the People," "Orators of the American Rev0
| lution,n "Republcan Christianity" and West
| ward Empire" DR.. Mag0on was an ardent ad
mirer and friend of Edwin Forrest, and at on,
tim9 thought seriously OF adopting the stage him
| self as q profession