St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-04-01
REV. DR.. GEORGE ii. IDE.
A sketch of His Useful Life and N Ota bI e
Tributes to His Memory.

Rev. DR., George H. Ide of Milwaukee
died of apoplexy at sanitorium in Ke
nosha, Wis, on March %.
DR.. Ide was born in st. Johnsbury
Jan. 81, 1889. in the old homestead or
the road that comes up from Homorient
farm in Passumpsic towards Barker
mountain.
He was directly descended from one oil
the towns first settlers and was born on
that settlers farm. He was grandson
of Rev. Drury Fairbanks Of Littleton
and his mother, Lucretia Ann Fairbanks
was a remarkable woman whose inf1u-
ence must have been felt in the develop
ment of her sons character. When a
mere boy his parents moved to Newport
where he attended school. He prepared
for college at Derby and St. Johnsbury
academies He entered Dartmouth Col
lege in 1861, but the country's call for
arms fired his patriotism and he enlisted
IN the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment for
one year. He served out his term, was
made orderly sergeant Of his company,
and participated in the battle Of Gettys-
burg, besides number of minor engage
ments. He returned to Dartmouth in
1868 and was graduated in the class of
1865. For the next year he was princi-
pal of the St Johnsbury high school after
which he decided to enter the Congrega-
tional ministry and entered Andover
Theological Seminary. He was gradu.
ated in the class of 1869 with the degree
of D, D. He Immediately accepted a call
to the Congregational church in Hop |
kington, Mass. where he remained seven |
years. For the next five years he was
pastor OF the Central Congregational |
church at Lawrence, Mass. He accepted |
the call to the Grand Avenue Congrega. |
tional church in Milwaukee in 1880 and |
for over % years has been not only a
beloved and energetic PASTOR but one of
the leading citizens of Milwaukee, OF his
work there the Milwaukee Free Press
says: He became known through other
than the ministry, for he was
always ready to deal with subjects OF
other than a religious character. He
took up the practical questions of the
day, and it is this alertness combined
with exceptional judgment and schol-
arIy education which has made him a
force in the religious lite Of Milwaukee
for nearly quarter OF a century.
DR.. Ide was married in 1872 to Miss
Mary J. Sanborn of Newport, N. H., who
died N 1875, leaving two children.
April q, 1876, he married Miss Kate E.
Bowles of Vermont. He is survived by
her and the two children, DR.. Charles E.
lde OF Redlands Cal, and Mrs. Robert
l.. Cooley, wife of Principal Cooley of
the Milwaukee public schools. The fam
lily have the deep sympathy of large cir
Gle OF friends throughout northeastern
Vermont in their sudden Bereavement.
DR.. lde was frequent and always well
come visitor to his boyhood home. His
genial ways, his ready wit and his great
hearted manner won him a host of
friends. Three years ago he gave the
Memorial address before Chamberlin
Post, and no one who heard him again
i'll Intervening call the roll of the company
will ever forget that dramatic occasion.
The iuceral service was held at Mil
waukee, Thursday, and the final service
at the North church, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. lde was unable to come east, as she |
is recovering from pneumonia, but the
ba
and daughter, DR.. Ide and Mrs. Cooley.
Others from out of town were Mr.. and |
Mrs d. M. Camp, Homer Thrasher and |
I. {. Camp OF Newport, Mrs. Miller of
Lttleton, Rev. Edward D. Mason of |
Boston, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Gould |
and Frank W. Mason of Passumpsic.
The scriptures were read by Rev. DR.. |
S, 6. Barnes of the South church. and |
music was furnished by quartette con-
sisting of William c. Tyler p. F. Hazen,
E. A. Silsby and Harold O. French.
Rev. DR.. Edward T. Fairbanks then
gave the following "reminiscences of DR..
lde's early life
Forty-three years ago, during the
year following my college course, I was
teaching in st. Johnsbury Academy.
'AHiOHtS hhN BHplS bSlOIC NE lDdt year L |
recall two very distinctly One was
straight and slender, rather dignihed in
bearing. He was exact in scholarship |
and correct in department. You wouldn't |
at hrstsuspect the fine vein OF humor that |
was under his grave aspect. The other
was o. different type He was plump
and rudy; you would think of him as a
rolIlcking boy Of the best sort, bubbling
over with fun and vitality,--a very good |
scholar withal
These lads were cousins, of the same
family name. If you had been casting
horoscopes, or guessing at their future,
you might have carved out a minister
from the first one have spoken of. The
idea OF his presiding over government
affairs IN the Philippines would have
been great stretch of the imagination;
at that date no such islands had risen
above our political horizon. Perhaps it
wouldn t have occurred to you, certainly
1t did not to me, that the other frolicsome
boy scanning Virgil, somtimes with an
lmprovised canter of his own, was on the |
way to become a doctor in divinity, a |
stalwart leader OF men in great western
city. But the years have brought these
very things to pass.
Owing TO my absence abroad for two
or three years, and the fact that our