Milford chronicle., 1912-04-26
MEMOIR OF PROF. DANIEL S. ELLIS.


Daniel Swain ELS was born in Med
ford, Mass, April %, 1S45, and died i'll
Lincoln, Del, April Il, 1912, being al
most 81 years of age. His mother died
when he was a child.
From his childhood he was religiously
inclined. His father proposed for him
the career of minister of the gospel.
Accordingly he was sent to school; first
to Phillips AndOver Academy, from which
he graduated. He then attended Am
herst College, which he left in his Soph-
omore year to enlist in the Seventh Mas
sachusetts Regiment. After the war he
was clerk for his father who was an in
spector of timber in the Charlestown,
Mass, navy yard. This position of a
clerk was too conhning for him. In 1872
he moved to Delaware for his health and
purchased a farm in Kent county. He
remained on the farm about five years,
after which he followed the vocation of
a school teacher in Wyoming, Camden,
Frederi :, Keriton and Milford. At Mil
ford he was principal of the High School
for twelve years He resigned from this
position on account of i'll health.
About twelve years ago he suffered
from stroke of paralysis, which affected
his voice and throat. He was a Baptist
in his denominational belief, his father
and grandfather being deacons in the
Baptist Church. First of all, Mr.. Els
was christian, and secondly, a sectar-
ian. While residing in Milford, he with
his family attended the Presbyterian
Church. Since residing in Lincoln
for about ten years-he has been a devout
and loyal attendant at the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He was a teacher in
the Sunday School, regular attendant
at the preaching services, and found de-
light in attending and participating in
the regular prayer and class meeting SER
vices while in Lincoln,
At all places where he resided he was
an active worker in the church services,
believing in the promise that they who
hunger and thirst after righteousness for
they shall be filled. AS we contem-
plate the consecrated life of this man, we
are reminded of the Scripture, Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord yea,
saith the Spirit, for they rest from their
labor and their works do follow them.
Work not only of a mental character,
as he taught so successfully the minds
of the children in the public schools for
thirty-five years. but works of a relig
ious and spiritual character in his inhu-
ence on the heart and lives of his schol- |
ars, and of all who knew him in church
work as well.
The familiar form of our neighbor and
friend, as he walked up and down our
streets to the stores and pOstoflce, and |
his visit to our homes and his regular |
attendance at the church services, will be |
seen no more here; but we believe he is |
walking the streets of gold to-day, and is |
meeting and greeting the friends of yore, |
who waited his coming on the shining |
shore To adopt the language of the .
poet Charles Wesley
Servant of God, well done,
Thy glorious warfare's past
The battles fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last.
Of all thy hearts desire
Triumphantly possessed
Lodged by the ministerial choir,
In thy Redeemer's breast.
In eondeseending love,
Thy ceaseless prayer he heard
And bade thee suddenly remove
To thy complete reward.
With saints enthroned on high,
Thou dost thy Lord proclaim
And still to God salvation cry
Salvation to the Lamb.
OH happy, happy soul,
In ecstacies of praise,
Long as eternal ages roll
Thou seest thy Saviour's face.
Redeemed from earth and pain.
All when shall we ascend,
And all in Jesus presence reign
With our translated friend.
Prof. ELS leaves a widow and four chill
dren to mourn their loss. Mrs. Els and
Robert, who reside in Lincoln, Mrs.
Knight, resident of Dover, Mrs. Purdy, 4
Of Jersey City, N. J., and Mr.. A. E Els,
who is Head Master of the Middlesex
School, Concord Mass.
Funeral services were held at his late
in Lincoln, Sunday l4th inst,
at $50 D. m, and were conducted by
Rev. Nv. P. Taylor, of Lincoln, and DR..
Bunstein, of Milford. Interment in Lin
,oln Cemetery. There were beautiful
floral tributes from a friend in Boston,
frcm graduates of the Milford High
school, former pupils of Prof. Ellis, from
he W. c. T. U. of Lincoln, and from the
lincoln Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School.