Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 27, b NJ

Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 30, teaching
Note: Admitted 1863 - Alfred, New York.
Dismissed 1878

Taught Latin at Milton College for some years, approx 1881-1889
Later became a Unitariam Minister
Pastor in Francestown N. H. in 1898.

Admitted 1863 - Alfred, New York. Dismissed 1878 Taught Latin at Milton College for some years, approx 1881-1889 Later became a Unitarian Minister Pastor in Francestown N. H. in 1898.

William Francis Place 1844-1899
Categories: Janesville Gazette Obituary, Later Arrivals, Milton College Staff
"The Janesville Daily Gazette", Janesville, Wisconsin, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1899, p 2.
MILTON - T. I. Place received the sad news Friday of the death of his brother, Prof. Frank Place, at his home in Francestown, New Hampshire, where for several years he has been pastor of a church. Prof. Place was for many years a member of the faculty of Milton college and had an extensive acquaintance in this state. The bereaved wife and children have the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends here in their great loss.

"The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1899, p 1.
Mark H. Place writes the 15th inst. from Francestown, N. H., as follows: "Father passed away last evening a little before seven o'clock, after a most pathetic sickness. Since Thursday noon, when he had a slight shock of paralysis affecting the upper throat, he has not been able to talk plainly enough so that we could understand him fully. He was also troubled in swallowing. The funeral will be held Friday and he will be buried here. Mother has been a most devoted woman and has had nearly the sole care of him. She has stood it all very well. Father was fifty-five years, six months and eight days of age. He was greatly reduced in flesh."
The decease of Prof. Place was not altogether unexpected by his friends in Milton. It was known to them for some months that he was slowly but surely drawing towards the close of his life. Of this he seemed to be also aware. In the Sabbath Recorder for August 7th last, he supplied an article referring to the scenes of his childhood and youth, and introduced it with this affecting quotation:
"As beside the silent sea,
I wait the muffled oar."
For several years he had been a partial invalid; and for about twelve months before his death he was compelled on account of bodily weakness to omit all work in the pastorate of the church he was serving. He was able up to the first of September last to contribute very interesting articles for newspapers. In the latest before our eyes occur expressions that seem to be descriptive of his inmost experiences at the time of writing. He speaks of forms of disease more terrible than any destructive inventions of man; under them of "a father with family dependent on him crushed inch by inch;" and of the suffering and bravery of friends "who see fate they can not avert." Truly his family, consisting of seven children, of whom the author of the above letter is the eldest, and the faithful and care-worn wife, have the sympathy of a wide circle of acquaintances and sincere friends.
The subject of this brief sketch was born May 6, 1844, in the town of Alfred, N. Y., the eldest child of Philip and Emma Place, both of whom are not living. He has a brother T. I. Place, a jeweler, now residing in the village of Milton. Other members of the family have their homes in Allegany county, N. Y. He was reared on a farm, attended Alfred University at different times, entered Williams College, Mass., when he was twenty-fife years of age, and was graduated in the Ancient Classical course there, four years afterwards in 1873. From early life he desired to enter the ministry of the gospel and at [line of text obliterated] began the pursuit of studies lasting three years in the Theological Department of the University where he was first enrolled as a student.
He was married August 28, 1877, to Miss Alice A. Dunham, at Shiloh, N. J. About this time he turned aside from his chosen vocation, and was employed in teaching for the next twenty-four years, first at Farina, Ill., next in the Big Foot Academy at Walworth, Wis., and finally in the college at Milton. In the last named institution he remained eleven years, having in charge at the beginning the classes in the natural sciences, and shortly afterwards those reciting in the Latin in connection with others studying Physics and Chemistry. Prof. Albert Whitford, who was associated with him all the time he taught in Milton College, writes: "The students of those years bear testimony to the ripeness of his scholarship, his clear and incisive address, and his efficiency as an instructor." It is true that those who knew him best "can justify his popularity as a scholar and a teacher."
In 1890, immediately after resigning his professorship at Milton, he took up the calling for which he had first qualified himself, and became after ordination the pastor of the Unitarian church at Arcadia, Wis., performing with acceptance the duties of the office for the next two years. He then removed to New England, filling the pastorate of a church of the same faith in Francestown, N. H., where he resided until his death, beloved and lamented by the people of his charge.