Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-08-20
Sudden Death Of Rev. Dr.. Bolster.
FALLS JUST BEFORE REACHING THE
HOME OF HIS BROTHER HERE.

| Rev. W. q. Bolster, D. D., who In,
just reached South Paris for q visit 6,
bis brother, N. Dayton Bolster, fell jus
before arriving ct bis brothers bonn
Tuesday afternoon, and died immediate
ly.
DR.. Bolster, accompanied BY Mrs
Bolster, had come on the afternoon
train from Portland. They we're met o
the station by Mr.. and Mrs. N. d. Boil
stsr. and the two ladies walked OIL
ahead TO the house, which 10 only ,
short distance, the two men following
When they we're In front of the house o.
w. Fl. Blake, and only few steps from
home, DIR. Bolster made . remark which
indicated that be was not feeling we'll
and fell over. His brother supported
him - we'll a. be WAS able, and eased
him down to the grass Of the lawn
Water was called for and brought, and
the stricken man seemed to take swal.
low Of II, but DR.. Stewart, who was sum.
moned, said that he was dead when he
fell. and that the apparent swallowing
was doubtless merely muscular con.
traction.
account Of his health resigned the
passionate he was then holding at Nashua
N. a., and had since held no passionate,
though he had supplied in q number OF
places. He had seemed to be feeling
very we'll of late, and on the day of his
death had made 70 complaint of any
trouble, except that it was very warm
on the train. Very few had had any
thought of such termination of life as
came.
William Henry Bolster was the son Of
Otis c. and Maria C. L. (VirgiD) Bolster.
and was born In Rumford, April II, 1874.
When he was ten or eleven years OF age
the family moved to South Paris, where
be attended school, and was for a while
clerk In his fathers store. Deciding
to enter the ministry, he fitted for COL
lege at the old Maine State Seminary In
Lewiston, and graduated from Bates
College in one Of its early classes, in
1869. Later he was for some years q
member of the board of overseers of the
college.
He then took the course In the Bangor
theological Seminary, and was ordained
as a minister of the Congregational de
nomination. He held pastorates in Wis
casset, Everett, Mass, South Weymouth,
Mass, Dorchester, Mass, and Nashua,
N. H., resigning at the last named place,
as stated above, about two years since.
During his college years he taught
school at South Paris, and some of his
old scholars are still residents here.
he was gifted in music, and while at
South Paris played the organ in the Con-
church, playing at the Court
Street Free Baptist Church in Auburn
during his college course.
DIR. Bolster married, June %. 1871,
Miss Marilla Noyes of Auburn. To them
have been born six children, all of whom
are living. They are: Mrs. Gertrude
Lynnfield, Mass; Mrs. Har-
riet Field, South Weymouth, Mass. Fred
r., Boston, Mass. Arthur S., Rochester,
N. H.; Mrs. Marion johnson, New York;
Charles Henry, Boston, Mass. There
are also six grandchildren. Two brothers
and two sisters of DR.. Bolster survive:
Mellen E. Bolster of Portland, n. Day
ton Bolster of South Paris, Mrs. Sarah
Jack of Woodfords and Mrs. Eta Gilbert
Of Canton.
DR.. Bolster was to have written the
history of the South Paris Congrega-
tional church for the centennial of that
church to be held in October, and one
purpose of his visit here at this time
was to gather his material for that
history.
The funeral was held at the home of
n. Dayton Bolster at 2 p. NJ, Thursday,
attended by Rev. A. T. McWhorter.
There we're present all but one of the
of DR.. Bolster, and large num-
Der of other relatives from this and other
towns, besides many friends who mourn
ed the loss of man universally respected
and most highly esteemed by those who
knew him best.
Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, DR..
Bolster having desired to be laid at rest
in his old home town, and making ar
to that end some years since.