Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-02-27
DEATH OF REV. 7. DoUGAN
Pioneer Presbyterian Divine of North Dakota
Died In His Lanedon Home After Brief
Illness Saturday Mornino

T. ~ Wv NOooAi VI GuO IecS. L uoudS d.
/ Dougan, Ph. D.. D. D whose death oc.
Cured last Saturday morning at half
past eight o'clock in this city, in the
SEVENTEEN year of his age Langdon
mourns the loss of good man and the /
Presbyterian church one of the solid
pillars of its support. The public an.
nouncement of his passing away coming
as great shock and surprise to our peo
Pile, who up to the last had hopedand
prayed for his ultimate recovery.
Thomas Boyd Drugan was born at
Castleblaneys in ireland, on January 81,
l843, and continued TO make that coun.
try his home until at the age of thirty
one he came to this country in the fall of
1874, having been ordained minister of
the Presbyterian church after taking
university course atthe Royal university
in Dublin and advanced work in the
ology at the Free. Church college in Edin-
borough, Scotland. He also had the ad-
ditional degrees of Phi. D.. and D. D.,
conferred upon him after coming to the
United States. His first charge as pas
tor in this country was the Presbyterian
church at Westfield, Wis, from which
place he served the outside appointment
at the nearby town of Oxford. Later be
accepted calls from churches at North
Bend, Ashland and Brodhead in Wiscon-
sin. In 1887 he was married at Bangor
Wis. TO Miss Abbie Helena Sawyer, who
passed from this life four years later on
December 20, 1891. Following his be-
reavement Rev. Dougan came to North
Dakota and before accepting the pas.
torate of the Langdon church was loca,-
ed for two years at Hllsboro. ae was
pastor of the Presby church of this
city for nine years, from 1893 to 1902
when he retired from the ministry, but
ater accepted call that came from the
Roseland church Of Chicago and two
years afterwards was induced by his old
parishioners at Brodhead, Wis, to again
return to the pastorate of their church
after an absence of some fifteen years.
Some three years age Rev. Dougan
and histneice, Miss Tessie Jackson, re-
turned to their Langdon home. the ad-
vance of years, and the needed attention
demanded by his private interests max
ing him decide to bring to a close his
long and honorable ministerial career,
Sometime in November last year, about
three months ago the charge at Inkster,
which includes outside appointments at
Lankin and Fordville became vacant
with the prospect of those churches hay
ing to close their doors until a pastor
could be secured in the spring. Urged
by the state synodical m ;ssion board
Rev. Dougan consented to take tempor-
ary charge of the churches on that field
through the rigors of North Dakota
winter, despite having reached the al
lotted three score years and ten, the last
forty years of which bad been spent in
ministerial work. Only two weeks before
his death Rev. Dougan addressed the
people from the pulpit at each of those
places. Returning home from the trip
I. the condition of his health alarmed those
about HIM, appearances continued to
grow worse, although it was not until a
day or two of the end that the patient
took to his bed. A chronic affection of
the throat and an abscess in the middle
ear followed by septic infection of the
brain, an extension of the middle ear
disease, being the cause of death
Rev Dougan parents passed away
number of years ago. He is survived
by an older brother residing in Toronto,
Ont, and also has number of nephews
and neices in the United States and
Canada, including the jackson girls.
) whose mother is daughter of the oldest
ster of the deceased one of them, MISS
Tessie, having made her home here with
her uncle for number of years, ore be-
ing IN Chicago, came here to attend
the funeral, and another at the old home
, in Ireland with her mother. He was a
leader among those in his chosen profes
sion and held many important positions
within the gift of the church being sy-
nodical moderator and chairman of the
board of home missions in this state for
number of years.
NJ onday, at three o'clock in the after.
noon the funeral was held from the
= Presbyterian church and. the immense
throng attending together with the
bank of wreathes of flowers gave silent
testimony to the extent to which the de.
ceased was beloved by the people to
whom he was known and had minstered
for so many years, The remains found
a temporary resting place in the receiv-
ing vault at Lebanon cemetery
The ministers of the Pembina presby-
terry here and taking part in the service
at the church and the last sad rites at
cemetery included Rev Donald Flnlay-
! son, of Park River, Rey. d. j. Mckay,
of Park River, Rev. X j. Innes. oi