Elisha Dayton
Elisha Dayton (1817-1884) was born in Riverhead, New York, and died in
Marengo, Illinois. Dayton was a Universalist minister and, for many years, the Overseer
of the Poor, an elected official who administered aid to the poor, in Huntley and
Grafton, Illinois. At the time he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy, he was retired and living in
Marengo, Illinois, with his daughter and son-in-law, Josephine D. and Ira R. Curtiss.
There is no record of Dayton studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with the Church of
Christ (Scientist).
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Elisha Dayton
Elisha Dayton (1817-1884) was born in Riverhead, New York, and died in
Marengo, Illinois. Dayton was a Universalist minister and, for many years, the Overseer
of the Poor, an elected official who administered aid to the poor, in Huntley and
Grafton, Illinois. At the time he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy, he was retired and living in
Marengo, Illinois, with his daughter and son-in-law, Josephine D. and Ira R. Curtiss.
There is no record of Dayton studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with the Church of
Christ (Scientist).
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