The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-15

1oleSTdHs lTOu oil over In6 united
States are being received by the rela-
tives in expression of sympathy and
appreciation of the life of Prot. Den
mis-.
The pallbearers will all be former
students of Prof Dennis. They are
Prof. E. P. Trueblood, Prof. Raymond
Binford, Prof. M. S. Markle, Prof. Ar
thur M. Charles, Edgar Hiatt and DR..
Louis F. Ross.
Prof. Edwin Morrison and William
Cullen Dennis will accompany the
body to Cincinnati.
David Worth Dennis, A. B., A. NJ,
Ph. D., was numbered among the
most distinguished sons Of his native
county, Wayne, and as an educator,
botanist and student of bird life, had a
nationwide reputation. Also Prof.
Dennis was for years one of the most
prominent and Influential members OF
the Friends church of America His
ancestors were numbered among the
earlist settlers of America.
Prof. Dennis was born on a Dalton
township farm April IS, 1S49, sixty
seven years ago, his parents being
Nathan and Evelina Worth Dennis.
His mother was the sister of Governor
Jonathan Worth of North Carolina,
one of whose grandsons, Ensign
Worth Bagley, was the first Ameri-
can killed in the Spanish-American
war.
Prof. Dennis parents we're both ma
| tives Of North Carolina although their
| families we're New Englanders.
Nathan and Evelina Worth were mar
! ried in Wayne County, Indiana. She
| was his second wife and Prof. Den
mis- was the only child by this union.
| Until sixteen years of age Prof.
| Dennis remained on his fathers farm
in Dalton township attending the COM
! mon schools and those conducted un-
| der the auspices of the Friends
church.
When seventeen years old David
Dennis began teaching school, which
work he pursued for three years, at
| the end of that. time becoming a
| student at Earlham college. He was
graduated from Earlham in 1873 when
! twenty-four years old with the de-
gree of batchelor Of arts and since
! that time taught almost continuously
| in the Richmond high school and Earl
| ham college.
! While young man he went to Eu-
! rope and became student in the uni
| versities of Bonn, Germany, and Edin-
| burgh, Scotland, remaining in Europe
| fourteen months. The degree of mas
| ter Of arts was conferred upon him by
Earlham college in 1878. He received
the doctor of philosophy title in 1886
: from Syracuse university For thirty
| two years he occupied the chair of
biology at Earlham and was regarded
as one of the foremost of American bi-
| ologists.
| After graduating from Earlham
Prof. Dennis was an instructor at that
college for two years. Then for four
years he was a teacher In the Rich
mond high school. Then for two years,
! 1S79-18S1, he was president Of VII
mington college, Wilmington, o. After
year Of special study he became
teacher In Bloomingdale academy.
! Bloomingdale, Ind, where he remained
| two years. Prof. Dennis then return
! ed to Earlham and from that time
| on was continuously a member of
the faculty of that college.
! Prof Dennis was widely known as a
lecturer on educational topics. He
was also we'll known as writer on
| the same subject. his articles frequent
ly appearing in the leading education
al journals of the country
OF the Friends meetings he was an
| active member. In 1875 he was mar
ried to Miss Martha Curl. One son
was born to them-William Cullen
who graduated at Earlham college with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, when
seventeen years old
His first wife having died in Febru.
airy, 1897, In June 1900, Professor Den.
mis- was married to Miss Emma Eel
Ter of Richmond.
/ Prof Dennis was Fellow of the
Indiana Academy of Sciences and was
i its president IN 1900; Of the Indiana
Science Teachers association, and has
served as its president. He was an
active member of the Indiana Audu-
bon society and was its president In
1911, he has also held several other
offices in the Audubon society and at
the time of his death was first vice
nresident He was Fellow Of fho