The Rev. Leon Hudson Austin, 82, pastor-emeritus of the Second Congregational Church, died early Monday at Manchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
A minister for 51 years, he retired from the pulpit in 1941 and served two terms as Coventry's representative in the General Assembly, in 1943 and 1945.
Born in Coventry, Aug. 30 1870, son of Hudson and Mary Bartlett Austin, he attended local schools, Monson Academy, Monson, Mass., Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1898, and Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1901.
He was ordained in the Washington St. Congregational Church, Quincy, Mass., Oct. 23, 1901 and served as pastor there and in Boston.
He then served churches in Imperial Valley, Los Angeles and Burbank, Calif., and served ten years with the Southern California Congregational Conference, starting new parishes and building churches. For five years he headed the California State Conference.
He returned to Coventry in 1931 to accept the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church. Named pastor-emeritus in 1941, he substituted many times in that church and in the First Church after that. He donated an organ to the Second Church in memory of his wife, Bessie Carter Austin, who died in 1950.
He was a trustee of the Hale Donation Fund, named in honor of Nathan Hale and designed to aid worthy young men to enter the ministry. The bulk of his estate is being left to the Hartford Theological Seminary to establish a fund for similar purposes.
The Rev. Mr. Austin leaves several nieces and nephews, including Robert Griggs of New Jersey, Daniel Scouler, Jr., Mary J. Scouler and Charlotte Germain (Scouler) Currie, all of Halifax, N.S.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Second Church. The Rev. Dr. James F. English, superintendent of the Congregational Christian Churches of Connecticut will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Reginald A. Merrifield, pastor of the church, and by the Rev. John E. Kingsbury Jr. of Toledo, Ohio, a former Coventry resident. Burial will be in Center Cemetery.
Obituary published in The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1953.
A minister for 51 years, he retired from the pulpit in 1941 and served two terms as Coventry's representative in the General Assembly, in 1943 and 1945.
Born in Coventry, Aug. 30 1870, son of Hudson and Mary Bartlett Austin, he attended local schools, Monson Academy, Monson, Mass., Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1898, and Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1901.
He was ordained in the Washington St. Congregational Church, Quincy, Mass., Oct. 23, 1901 and served as pastor there and in Boston.
He then served churches in Imperial Valley, Los Angeles and Burbank, Calif., and served ten years with the Southern California Congregational Conference, starting new parishes and building churches. For five years he headed the California State Conference.
He returned to Coventry in 1931 to accept the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church. Named pastor-emeritus in 1941, he substituted many times in that church and in the First Church after that. He donated an organ to the Second Church in memory of his wife, Bessie Carter Austin, who died in 1950.
He was a trustee of the Hale Donation Fund, named in honor of Nathan Hale and designed to aid worthy young men to enter the ministry. The bulk of his estate is being left to the Hartford Theological Seminary to establish a fund for similar purposes.
The Rev. Mr. Austin leaves several nieces and nephews, including Robert Griggs of New Jersey, Daniel Scouler, Jr., Mary J. Scouler and Charlotte Germain (Scouler) Currie, all of Halifax, N.S.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Second Church. The Rev. Dr. James F. English, superintendent of the Congregational Christian Churches of Connecticut will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Reginald A. Merrifield, pastor of the church, and by the Rev. John E. Kingsbury Jr. of Toledo, Ohio, a former Coventry resident. Burial will be in Center Cemetery.
Obituary published in The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1953.
The Rev. Leon Hudson Austin, 82, pastor-emeritus of the Second Congregational Church, died early Monday at Manchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
A minister for 51 years, he retired from the pulpit in 1941 and served two terms as Coventry's representative in the General Assembly, in 1943 and 1945.
Born in Coventry, Aug. 30 1870, son of Hudson and Mary Bartlett Austin, he attended local schools, Monson Academy, Monson, Mass., Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1898, and Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1901.
He was ordained in the Washington St. Congregational Church, Quincy, Mass., Oct. 23, 1901 and served as pastor there and in Boston.
He then served churches in Imperial Valley, Los Angeles and Burbank, Calif., and served ten years with the Southern California Congregational Conference, starting new parishes and building churches. For five years he headed the California State Conference.
He returned to Coventry in 1931 to accept the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church. Named pastor-emeritus in 1941, he substituted many times in that church and in the First Church after that. He donated an organ to the Second Church in memory of his wife, Bessie Carter Austin, who died in 1950.
He was a trustee of the Hale Donation Fund, named in honor of Nathan Hale and designed to aid worthy young men to enter the ministry. The bulk of his estate is being left to the Hartford Theological Seminary to establish a fund for similar purposes.
The Rev. Mr. Austin leaves several nieces and nephews, including Robert Griggs of New Jersey, Daniel Scouler, Jr., Mary J. Scouler and Charlotte Germain (Scouler) Currie, all of Halifax, N.S.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Second Church. The Rev. Dr. James F. English, superintendent of the Congregational Christian Churches of Connecticut will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Reginald A. Merrifield, pastor of the church, and by the Rev. John E. Kingsbury Jr. of Toledo, Ohio, a former Coventry resident. Burial will be in Center Cemetery.
Obituary published in The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1953.
A minister for 51 years, he retired from the pulpit in 1941 and served two terms as Coventry's representative in the General Assembly, in 1943 and 1945.
Born in Coventry, Aug. 30 1870, son of Hudson and Mary Bartlett Austin, he attended local schools, Monson Academy, Monson, Mass., Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1898, and Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1901.
He was ordained in the Washington St. Congregational Church, Quincy, Mass., Oct. 23, 1901 and served as pastor there and in Boston.
He then served churches in Imperial Valley, Los Angeles and Burbank, Calif., and served ten years with the Southern California Congregational Conference, starting new parishes and building churches. For five years he headed the California State Conference.
He returned to Coventry in 1931 to accept the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church. Named pastor-emeritus in 1941, he substituted many times in that church and in the First Church after that. He donated an organ to the Second Church in memory of his wife, Bessie Carter Austin, who died in 1950.
He was a trustee of the Hale Donation Fund, named in honor of Nathan Hale and designed to aid worthy young men to enter the ministry. The bulk of his estate is being left to the Hartford Theological Seminary to establish a fund for similar purposes.
The Rev. Mr. Austin leaves several nieces and nephews, including Robert Griggs of New Jersey, Daniel Scouler, Jr., Mary J. Scouler and Charlotte Germain (Scouler) Currie, all of Halifax, N.S.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Second Church. The Rev. Dr. James F. English, superintendent of the Congregational Christian Churches of Connecticut will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Reginald A. Merrifield, pastor of the church, and by the Rev. John E. Kingsbury Jr. of Toledo, Ohio, a former Coventry resident. Burial will be in Center Cemetery.
Obituary published in The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1953.
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