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- WILLIAM CLIFTON DALAND, who since the summer of 1902
- has been at the head of Milton College, was born in New York,
October 25, 1860. He is the son of William B. DALAND, of Elizabeth,
N.J., and Elexina Janet KENWORTHY. His paternal ancestry runs
back to the French Huguenots, while on the maternal side he is
of English and Scotch lineage. He received his preliminary educating
at the "Pearl Cottage Seminary," a private school at
Elizabeth, N.J., and in 1875 entered Brooklyn Collegiate and
Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1879 with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He studied three years at the
Union Theological Seminary of New York city and was gradated
in 1886, and while a student there became an adherent to the
Seventh-Day Baptist faith.
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- From June, 1886, till October, 1891, he served the Seventh-Day
Baptist Church at Leonardsville, N.Y., as pastor; then had charge
of the church at Westerly, R.I., till May, 1896, then preached
in London, England, till June, 1900, when he returned to the
church at Leonardsville and there remained till called to the
presidency of Milton College in 1902. While a pastor in London,
Mr. DALAND spent some months studying in Germany, and also visited
the west coast of Africa in the interest of missions. He became
a student of music early in life and when fifteen years old was
organist at the Second Presbyterian Church at Elizabeth, N.J.,
where he continued six years and then took a similar position
with the First Baptist Church at Brooklyn, N.Y., which he held
till he went to Leonardsville in 1886.
- Mr. DALAND is the author of "Song of Songs," translated
from the Hebrew with notes, a work
- which secured high praise form the late Prof. Franz Delitzeh,
of Peipsie, and which was recommended to his classes in Hebrew
poetry by the late President William R. Harper, of the University
of Chicago.
- In June, 1887, Mr. DALAND received from the Alfred University
the degree of Master of Arts,
- and in June, 1896, Milton College conferred on him the degree
of Doctor of Divinity. Alfred University also honored him with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1903.
- In September, 1884, Mr. DALAND married Miss Agnes B. NORTON,
of Elizabeth, N.J.
- They have four children, viz.: John, Clifton, Stephanie and
Alexander.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 860-861; lithograph p. 632.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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