Edward A Mirick
| Date of Interment or Death | 12/07/1927 |
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| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 11-6-1s |
Obituary
FUNERAL IS HELD FOR REV. MIRICK HERE WEDNESDAY Services Conducted at Congregational Church for Pioneer Home Missionary. MINISTER SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS Was Graduate of Amherst College and Chicago Theological Seminary. Funeral services for Rev. E. A. Mirick, 87, who died Monday at his home, were held Wednesday at the First Congregational church Rev. C. F. Dunham officiating. Death followed a long illness.
Rev. Edward Augustus Mirick was born March 16, 1840, at West Brookfield, Mass. He spent his boyhood and
early manhood at Garfiled Mass. He attended Amherst college, graduating in 1867, and was graduated from the Chicago Congregational Theological Seminary in 1869. He married Bertha Himrod at Neosha Falls, Kansas, in 1873. He was in the employ of the Congregational Home Missionary located in Kansas and New York from 1877 from which time until 1904 when he was in the employ of the Bible society in fifteen years for New York state. From 1904-1912 Mr. Mirk was at the Home Missionary station of the Congregational church in Minnesota. He has resided in Wahpeton since 1912.
Surviving him are his wife and three children, Lillian, of Wahpeton, Edward H., of Minneapolis, and Grace, of Duluth, Minn., and one grand child, Robert B Mirk, of Minneapolis. He is also survived by one brother, Fred L. Mirk, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and one sister, Mrs. Herbert Sack, of Wakefield, Mass. His children were here during past week and Mrs. E. H. Mirk of Minneapolis came Wednesday to attend the funeral services. Pallbearers were Messrs. E. T. Barber, W. R. Burnell, A. H. Burton, G. R. Rounsvell, T. J. Thorson, George Van Arnam. Rev. Mirk was one of the oldest graduates of the Chicago Teleological Seminary. He was a scholar and a reader with wide range of interests. Wahpeton friends greatly regret his passing.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.