Cook County IL Archives Obituaries.....Gunsaulus, Dr Frank W  March 17, 1921
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Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus

Born Jan. 1, 1856.  Died March 17, 1921.

Gunsaulus, Noted Educator, Dies Suddenly at Home

(By Associated Press)

Chicago, March 17 – Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, noted educator and writer and 
since 1892 president of the Armour institute of technology, died here suddenly 
at his home early today, following a severe heart attack this morning. 
Physicians were hastily summoned, but were unable to give relief to the 
patient who died two hours later.

Dr. Gunsaulus was born January 1, 1856, at Chesterville, Ohio, and attended 
Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio. He entered the ministry at 
Columbus at the age of nineteen and later held pastorates at Baltimore and 
Chicago. Then followed a series of professorships at Yale, University of 
Chicago, Ohio.

Dr. Gunsaulus

(New York Evening Post)

Among the men who just before and after the World’s Fair gave Chicago her 
place in American culture two ministers were prominent.  They were Jenkin 
Lloyd Jones, the quiet, scholarly Welshman who organized All Souls church in 
1882, and Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, who came to Plymouth church in 1887.  The death 
of Dr. Gunsaulus, following upon that of Jenkin Lloyd Jones, removes an 
influence felt throughout the whole upper Mississippi valley. Dr. Gunsaulus 
was an orator whose powers recalled even Brooks and Beecher. Sunday after 
Sunday he would fill the Auditorium with crowds made up in part of visitors 
from every state of the northwest. His eloquence and learning made him a 
lecturer and occasional speaker who could not begin to meet the demands on his 
time. Like Dr. Washington Galdden and Jones, he was an apostle of social 
Christianity.  Both he and Jones lectured at Chicago university. Jones headed 
the Tower Hill school and Gunsaulus for two decades was president of Armour 
institute. Both were keenly interested in social settlements and civic 
improvement.  Chicago with her suburb Evanston can claim to be one of the 
three greatest theological centers in America, but such men as Gunsaulus are 
not easily replaced.

Noted Educator Will Be Buried Saturday.

Public honors will be paid tomorrow to Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, noted educator, 
clergyman, lecturer, and bibliophile, who died early yesterday morning at his 
home at 2919 Prairie avenue. For two hours – from 10 a. m. until noon – his 
body will lie in state in the New England Congregational church, Delaware 
place and Dearborn street, to give those who knew and admired him an 
opportunity of paying a last tribute. The funeral services will be held in the 
afternoon and will be public. Interment will be private.

Dr. Frederick Shannon, rector of Central church, will conduct the funeral 
services, assisted by Dr. Charles W. Gilkey of the Hyde Park Baptist church 
and Dr. Clarence T. Brown of the Austin Congregational church. The active 
pallbearers will be Philip Armour, Eugene Thomas, Charles Stridiron, Alfred 
Hodge, George Allison, and Raymond Thornberg.

Honorary Pallbearers

Among the list of honorary pallbearers were the following names:

J. Ogden Armour, B.E. Sunny, Frank C. Logan, Stanley Field, Martin A. Ryerson, 
Harry Pratt Judson, Charles L. Hutchison, Julius Rosenwald, John Miller, 
Edward B. Butler, W.H. Miner, A.C. Bartlet, John S. Field, William C. Smith, 
R.H. Parkinson, Berthold Laufer, George M. Reynolds, Lester Armour, Dr. H.B. 
Thomas, David R. Forgan, Bishop Samuel Fallows, Dean H.M. Raymond, Dean Louis 
C. Monin, Dr. Graham Taylor, Dr. J.C.K. McClure, Dr. Frank Billings, Ex-Gov. 
Frank O. Lowden, Cyrus H. McCormick, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, Victor F. 
Lawson, O. B. Taft, O.W. Wright, Bion J. Arnold, Rensselaer W. Cox, Dr. O.S. 
Davis, E.A. Bancroft, Frederick U. Smith, E.D. Hulbert.

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