BISHOP E. O. HAVEN

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1881

BISHOP E. O. HAVEN.

If usefulness indicates the measure of one’s days Bishop Haven had lived a long life. No one could be more universally regretted than he, for all were united in their high estimate of his great abilities and his excellent Christian spirit. The following brief record of leading events of his life we copy from the obituary in the Methodist:—

“He was born in Boston, November 1, 1820, graduated at Middletown in 1842, taught in Sudbury, Mass., and Amenia Seminary, N. Y., up to 1848, when he entered upon regular pastoral work. In 1853, he became a professor in Michigan University; in 1856, editor of Zion’s Herald; in 1863, Chancellor of Michigan University; in 1869, President of the Northwestern University; in 1872, Corresponding Secretary of the M. E. Board of Education; in 1874, Chancellor of Syracuse University; in 1880, a bishop of the M. E. Church. While editor of Zion’s Herald, he was twice elected to the State Senate, and also served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He adorned every station to which he was called. In Michigan University, he overcame a bitter opposition by the sweetness of his manners and the excellence of his judgment, and left the chancellorship more deeply regretted by all parties than any other man will ever probably be.”