Daniel Faunce

Daniel Faunce
Daniel Faunce
Born	January 3, 1829; Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	January 3, 1911 (aged 82); Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Resting place	Pine Grove Cemetery; Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Amherst College
Occupation	Clergy

Daniel Worcester Faunce (January 3, 1829 – January 3, 1911) was an American clergyman and the father of William Faunce, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts to Peleg and Olive (Finney) Faunce.

Graduating from Amherst College in 1850, he then studied at the Newton Theological Institution, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1853, and thereafter held charges from 1853 to 1866 in Somerville, Worcester, and Malden — all in Massachusetts — in Concord, New Hampshire (1866–1875), Lynn, Massachusetts (1875–1881), Washington, D.C. (1881–1889), West Newton, Massachusetts (1889–1893), and Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1894–1899). He was a member of the board of managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union. His works include:

Words and Works of Jesus (1873)
Words and Acts of the Apostles (1874)
The Christian in the World (1875)
A Young Man's Difficulties with his Bible (1877)
The Christian Experience (1880)
Hours with a Sceptic (1889)
Prayer as a Theory and a Fact (1890)
Advent and Ascension (1893)
Shall We Believe in Divine Providence? (1900)
The Mature Man's Difficulties with his Bible (1908)

Faunce married Mary Parkhurst Perry, August 15, 1853.^[1] They had five children. After she died in 1888, he married a second time. He died on January 3, 1911, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 82.

References

^ Jewett, Frederic Clarke (1908). History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America: A Record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of His Two Emigrant Sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639; Also of Abraham and John Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts who Have Settled in the United States Since the Year 1800. New York: Grafton Press. pp. 656-660. William%20Herbert%20Perry%20Faunce%20genealogy.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Faunce, Daniel Worcester". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

[1] Jewett, Frederic Clarke (1908). History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America: A Record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of His Two Emigrant Sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639; Also of Abraham and John Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts who Have Settled in the United States Since the Year 1800. New York: Grafton Press. pp. 656-660. William%20Herbert%20Perry%20Faunce%20genealogy.

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