Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — HALE’S ASSISTANT DEAD [ARTICLE]

HALE’S ASSISTANT DEAD

Passes Away About Same Time as His Former Leader. Oakland, Cal., June 11.—Coincidentally with the death of Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Rev. Dr. Charles Ephriam Rich, who was assistant pastor under Dr. Hale in the latter’s first pastorate, died here within a few minutes of the time when his former leader breathed his last. Dr. Rich was born In Boston seven-ty-five years ago. In 1862 Dr. Hale sent him to San Francisco to carry on the work of the church in that city under Dr. Starr King, the famous divine.