Biographical Sketch of Rev. E.S. Dulin, D.D. LL.D, St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Rev. E. S. Dulin, D.D. LL.D., was born near the banks of the Potomac,
about five miles from Mt. Vernon, in Fairfax County, Virginia, on
January 18, 1821.  On his father's side he is descended from the
Huguenot family of Dulon, which in the latter part of the seventeenth
century, settled in Maryland.  His mother belonged to the English
Quaker family of Shelton, which settled in Loudon County, Virginia.
In 1823, his father moved to Washington, D.C., where he died when the
subject of this sketch was nine years old, leaving his family in 
limited circumstances.  Thus early the battle of life began.  Hard
work during the day, diligent study far into the night and at all
leisure hours, was the rule and practice of his early days.  He en-
joyed the blessing of a Christian mother, and in 1839 united with 
the Calvert St. Baptist Church, Baltimore, and soon after determined
to go as a missionary to Burmah.  He entered Richmond College in 1841
where he remained four years, earning each vacation the money to pay
the expenses of the following term.  Upon his graduation, he was 
recommended by Dr. Ryland, and elected principal of St. Bride's 
Academy.  Here, from overwork, etc., his health gave way, and he
accepted the professorship of ancient languages in the Hollin's
Institute.  A year in the institute found his healt improved, but 
his hope of going to Burmah was abandoned.  He spent the next year
in taking a special course at the University of Virginia.  He was
ordained as a minister in Baltimore, in August, 1848, and came to
Missouri in the following October, settling as pastor of the Baptist
Church in Lexington, March, 1849.  On August 28, 1849, he married
Miss Sarah R. Gilkey.  He was a member of the convention at Boone-
ville, which in 1849, located William Jewell College at Liberty; was
elected its president the following October, and January 1, 1850,
he organized the college.  In the spring of 1856, he was recalled to
the pastorate of the Lexington Church.  Two months later, the Baptists
of Lexington bought the Female College property, and in the following
September he became its president.  The previous session had closed
with about thirty pupils.  At the expiration of the second year Dr.
Dulin had two hundred and eighty-six, but the labor was too great
for his health and he resigned his position.  He became pastor of the
Baptist Church in Kansas City in 1858, and, in 1859, was called to
the First Baptist Church in St. Joseph.  He remained here for six 
years, and again accepted the management of the Female College at
Lexington.  The college building had been destroyed during the war
and the school closed.  He soon restored the college to its former
prosperity.  In 1870, he founded Stephens College at Columbia, which
flourished with increasing patronage during his six years' manage-
ment.  Dr. Dulin removed to St. Joseph in 1876, and became the founder
of St. Joseph Female College, intending to make this the crowning
effort of his life work.  Dr. Dulin ranks among the ablest preachers
in the State.  His sermons are carefully prepared, with sufficient
rhetorical ornament to interest and please, and delivered with im-
passioned earnestness.  He makes everything subserve in enforcing the
sweet truths of the Gospel, as they affect the hearts and lives of men.
These truths he enforces with keenest logic, and a fervid and fearless
eloquence that makes no compromise with error.  His literary and theo-
logical abilities have been fittingly acknowledged by the proper 
scholastic institutions, conferring upon him the degrees of A.M., D.D.,
and LL.D.

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