The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-10-25
DR.. John Sinclair
Passes Away At
Local Hospital
Heart Trouble Results in Death
of Former Pastor of Pres
byterian Church
ILL MANY YEARS
Friends And Acquaintance
Unite to Commemorate City's
FarOvite Friend

DIR. John Sinclair, the beloved
former pastor of the Redwood
Falls Presbyterian Church and
the warm personal friend of ev-
cry Redwood Falls resident, died
last Sunday evening at the hos
pital where he was taken sew
eral weeks ago. His death is
ascribed to heart troubles from
which he had suffered for many
years, and was not entirely un-
expected although his friends
had hoped he might be spared
to them for several months yet.
Since the death DR.. Sinclair's
body has lain at the home of his
good friends, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
P. Cooper.
Funeral services will be held
at the Presbyterian Church this
afternoon at two o'clock, Rev.
B. P. Holt, pastor of the church,
taking charge of the service, at
the request of DR.. Sinclair. DR..
C. P. Gibson, one of DR.. Sin
clair's closest friends, will also
make a short address at the SER
vice. This also is in response
to a request made by DR.. Sim
clair in a letter written to Mrs.
Cooper just a week before his
death. The service will be en-
tirely in the hands of the Doc
tors tried and true friends;
Mrs. J. P. Cooper, who was the
organist during his pastorate
here, will preside at the organ
and the singers will be Mrs. w.
Rosendahl, Mrs. Dougal Tiffany,
VIM. M. Smith and Roy Bunce.
The hymns selected are the Doc
tors favorites Jesus Savior,
Pilot Me-" and The Christians
Good Night.
Interment will be made in the
Redwood Falls cemetery in ac-
cordance with an old wish of
DIR. Sinclair's that he might rest
there. The active pallbearers
will be J. B. Philbrick, R. A.
Cooper, w. M. Smith, R. Bunce,
A. Schmahl and E. Kuenzli. The
honorary pallbearers will be F.
w. Philbrick, O. B. Turrell, D.
Mclean, D. L. Bigham, R. Stew
art, A. D. Stewart, DR.. Gibson,
J. A. Schmahl, Chas. Tiffany,
DR.. Pease and J. P. Cooper.
John Sinclair, the Earl of
Caithness, was born in 1849, at
Dunblane, Scotland, spending
there his youth and early man.
hood, and taking his degree at
the University of Edinburgh.
Upon leaving Scotland for Amer
lea as young man DR.. Sinclair
abandoned claim to the title and
the Caithness estate because to
continue as a member of the
Scottish nobility meant to live
on the estate, thereby limiting
the field of his chosen work.
Coming directly from Scotland
to Redwood Falls DIR. Sinclair
took up his work as pastor, max
ing himself one of the best
known ministers of this section
of the state, beloved alike by
members of his church and those
outside it, by the rich to whom
he was a councillor and compan-
ion and by the poor to whom he
was friend in the hour of need
and a source of never failing
charity, by the old whom he COM
forted and by the young whom
he loved.
From Redwood Falls DR.. Sim
clair went to st. Paul to take
charge of the First Presbyter-
ian Church. Here, as in Red
wood Falls, his friends were leg
ion, and in spite of the lapse Of
years, are still loving and loyal.
After the ST. Paul pastorate,
and a charge at Brookline, Mass,
DR.. Sinclair took trip round
the world, visiting first his sis
ter and brother in the old home
in Scotland, and then in the
course of his journeying, reach
ing Durham, Africa, the home
of another sister. Here he was
persuaded to take charge of a
large church and remained there
for five years. There, also, was
done some of the grandest work
of all his splendid life; the mis-
sionary work with the black
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