Ellis Ransom Baber was born at Polk City, Polk county, Iowa, March 30, 1859, and died in the home of his son, Carroll, at Norman, Okla., aged 63 years, 8 months and 13 days. On December 31, 1882, he married Sarah Ellen Perkins, who was born at Sumner, Bremer county, Iowa, July 5, 1862. The following children were born to them: Mrs. S. C. Sarensen of Netawaka, Kan.; Carroll P. Baber, on the faculty of the State University of Oklahoma; Ernest M., on the Y.M.C.E. secretarial staff at Lincoln, Neb; Ray E., on the instructorial staff of the University of Wisconsin; Mrs. Lee Fletcher of Monroe Center, Illinois; Harold E. Baber of Concordia.
Mr. Baber was granted a license to preach in 1890 at Hill City, Kan., under Presiding Elder Myers. He joined the Northwest Kansas Conference at Concordia, Kan., September 1892, Bishop J. Dickson presiding, and at the annual conference held at Cawker City, Kan., he was ordained October 3, 1897, by Bishop J. S. Mills.
His first regular pastorate beginning in 1892 was at Woodston, Kan., where he remained two years. Following this he served at Beloit for two years, and at Republic three years. At the end of this time he was elected Presiding Elder over what was then the Northwest Kansas Conference. He served in this capacity for ten consecutive years, during the first two years of which he resided at Solomon, Kan., and the last eight years at Cawker City.
At the close of this decade of continuous service as presiding elder, he requested the conference to allow him to again take up a regular pastorate in order that he might be with his family, having necessarily been separated from them a great deal during the years he was traveling over the conference. He accordingly, in 1909, accepted the college pastorate at Holton, Kan. One motive for this change in harmony with his characteristic thoughtfulness for his family, was that he might better help the older children to a college education. He served at Holton three years, followed by one year at Topeka.
In 1913 he fulfilled a desire long cherished by transferring to the Iowa Conference where he served for three years on the same ground where his father had served before him. He then accepted the pastorate at Geneva, Nebr., near York College, in the hopes of helping the younger children through college. After two years at Geneva, where he built a church, he moved to Concordia in 1918. Here he finished his work after having completed a four year pastorate.
In the fall of 1921, in the midst of his activities, he was stricken with the illness which ultimately resulted in his death. Although never regaining his former health, he was able, thru short periods, to take up his work in some measure. After being returned to the work by 1922 annual conference, he was generously granted an indefinite leave of absence with the hope that within a few months he would again be able to take up the work he loved, among a people for whom he had an abiding love matched only by the tenderness of their love and loyalty to him. He had builded better than he knew; the Master counted the work as finished and called him home.
The Holton Recorder, Holton, Kansas
Thursday, January 4, 1923
Note: bio info provided by dschumaker24 (#48351918)
Mr. Baber was granted a license to preach in 1890 at Hill City, Kan., under Presiding Elder Myers. He joined the Northwest Kansas Conference at Concordia, Kan., September 1892, Bishop J. Dickson presiding, and at the annual conference held at Cawker City, Kan., he was ordained October 3, 1897, by Bishop J. S. Mills.
His first regular pastorate beginning in 1892 was at Woodston, Kan., where he remained two years. Following this he served at Beloit for two years, and at Republic three years. At the end of this time he was elected Presiding Elder over what was then the Northwest Kansas Conference. He served in this capacity for ten consecutive years, during the first two years of which he resided at Solomon, Kan., and the last eight years at Cawker City.
At the close of this decade of continuous service as presiding elder, he requested the conference to allow him to again take up a regular pastorate in order that he might be with his family, having necessarily been separated from them a great deal during the years he was traveling over the conference. He accordingly, in 1909, accepted the college pastorate at Holton, Kan. One motive for this change in harmony with his characteristic thoughtfulness for his family, was that he might better help the older children to a college education. He served at Holton three years, followed by one year at Topeka.
In 1913 he fulfilled a desire long cherished by transferring to the Iowa Conference where he served for three years on the same ground where his father had served before him. He then accepted the pastorate at Geneva, Nebr., near York College, in the hopes of helping the younger children through college. After two years at Geneva, where he built a church, he moved to Concordia in 1918. Here he finished his work after having completed a four year pastorate.
In the fall of 1921, in the midst of his activities, he was stricken with the illness which ultimately resulted in his death. Although never regaining his former health, he was able, thru short periods, to take up his work in some measure. After being returned to the work by 1922 annual conference, he was generously granted an indefinite leave of absence with the hope that within a few months he would again be able to take up the work he loved, among a people for whom he had an abiding love matched only by the tenderness of their love and loyalty to him. He had builded better than he knew; the Master counted the work as finished and called him home.
The Holton Recorder, Holton, Kansas
Thursday, January 4, 1923
Note: bio info provided by dschumaker24 (#48351918)
Ellis Ransom Baber was born at Polk City, Polk county, Iowa, March 30, 1859, and died in the home of his son, Carroll, at Norman, Okla., aged 63 years, 8 months and 13 days. On December 31, 1882, he married Sarah Ellen Perkins, who was born at Sumner, Bremer county, Iowa, July 5, 1862. The following children were born to them: Mrs. S. C. Sarensen of Netawaka, Kan.; Carroll P. Baber, on the faculty of the State University of Oklahoma; Ernest M., on the Y.M.C.E. secretarial staff at Lincoln, Neb; Ray E., on the instructorial staff of the University of Wisconsin; Mrs. Lee Fletcher of Monroe Center, Illinois; Harold E. Baber of Concordia.
Mr. Baber was granted a license to preach in 1890 at Hill City, Kan., under Presiding Elder Myers. He joined the Northwest Kansas Conference at Concordia, Kan., September 1892, Bishop J. Dickson presiding, and at the annual conference held at Cawker City, Kan., he was ordained October 3, 1897, by Bishop J. S. Mills.
His first regular pastorate beginning in 1892 was at Woodston, Kan., where he remained two years. Following this he served at Beloit for two years, and at Republic three years. At the end of this time he was elected Presiding Elder over what was then the Northwest Kansas Conference. He served in this capacity for ten consecutive years, during the first two years of which he resided at Solomon, Kan., and the last eight years at Cawker City.
At the close of this decade of continuous service as presiding elder, he requested the conference to allow him to again take up a regular pastorate in order that he might be with his family, having necessarily been separated from them a great deal during the years he was traveling over the conference. He accordingly, in 1909, accepted the college pastorate at Holton, Kan. One motive for this change in harmony with his characteristic thoughtfulness for his family, was that he might better help the older children to a college education. He served at Holton three years, followed by one year at Topeka.
In 1913 he fulfilled a desire long cherished by transferring to the Iowa Conference where he served for three years on the same ground where his father had served before him. He then accepted the pastorate at Geneva, Nebr., near York College, in the hopes of helping the younger children through college. After two years at Geneva, where he built a church, he moved to Concordia in 1918. Here he finished his work after having completed a four year pastorate.
In the fall of 1921, in the midst of his activities, he was stricken with the illness which ultimately resulted in his death. Although never regaining his former health, he was able, thru short periods, to take up his work in some measure. After being returned to the work by 1922 annual conference, he was generously granted an indefinite leave of absence with the hope that within a few months he would again be able to take up the work he loved, among a people for whom he had an abiding love matched only by the tenderness of their love and loyalty to him. He had builded better than he knew; the Master counted the work as finished and called him home.
The Holton Recorder, Holton, Kansas
Thursday, January 4, 1923
Note: bio info provided by dschumaker24 (#48351918)
Mr. Baber was granted a license to preach in 1890 at Hill City, Kan., under Presiding Elder Myers. He joined the Northwest Kansas Conference at Concordia, Kan., September 1892, Bishop J. Dickson presiding, and at the annual conference held at Cawker City, Kan., he was ordained October 3, 1897, by Bishop J. S. Mills.
His first regular pastorate beginning in 1892 was at Woodston, Kan., where he remained two years. Following this he served at Beloit for two years, and at Republic three years. At the end of this time he was elected Presiding Elder over what was then the Northwest Kansas Conference. He served in this capacity for ten consecutive years, during the first two years of which he resided at Solomon, Kan., and the last eight years at Cawker City.
At the close of this decade of continuous service as presiding elder, he requested the conference to allow him to again take up a regular pastorate in order that he might be with his family, having necessarily been separated from them a great deal during the years he was traveling over the conference. He accordingly, in 1909, accepted the college pastorate at Holton, Kan. One motive for this change in harmony with his characteristic thoughtfulness for his family, was that he might better help the older children to a college education. He served at Holton three years, followed by one year at Topeka.
In 1913 he fulfilled a desire long cherished by transferring to the Iowa Conference where he served for three years on the same ground where his father had served before him. He then accepted the pastorate at Geneva, Nebr., near York College, in the hopes of helping the younger children through college. After two years at Geneva, where he built a church, he moved to Concordia in 1918. Here he finished his work after having completed a four year pastorate.
In the fall of 1921, in the midst of his activities, he was stricken with the illness which ultimately resulted in his death. Although never regaining his former health, he was able, thru short periods, to take up his work in some measure. After being returned to the work by 1922 annual conference, he was generously granted an indefinite leave of absence with the hope that within a few months he would again be able to take up the work he loved, among a people for whom he had an abiding love matched only by the tenderness of their love and loyalty to him. He had builded better than he knew; the Master counted the work as finished and called him home.
The Holton Recorder, Holton, Kansas
Thursday, January 4, 1923
Note: bio info provided by dschumaker24 (#48351918)
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