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About Rev. Harry Sumner Templeton
From his Find A Grave page:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=80238655
Harry was a Presbyterian minister. He married Anna B. ? in 1906. In 1910 his church was in Vancouver, WA. In 1920 he was in Bellingham, WA. In 1930 he was in Seattle, WA. Harry died of suicide, shotgun, in Los Angeles, CA.
Harry often jousted politics with his grandfather Ezra Meeker. Following is a letter from Harry to Ezra.
Dupont, Wash., March 11th, 1919
Ezra Meeker, 812 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
Dear Grandfather:-
Your three page typewritten, interested me very much. My people told me on Sunday that they had seen the same in the Sunday P. I. I shall not undertake to answer all your questions, nor reply through the columns of the newspaper. I will say however, that I am certainly in favor of a League of Nations, not being ready, however, to endorse all the articles of the proposed League. However, I make you a proposition. I am mailing you President Wilson's New York address and ask you to mail me in return Senator Lodge's famous speech on the League, and here's a bargain, I will read every word of Lodge's speech, if you will read the President's address.
Where can I get a draft of the constitution of the League? Please send me a copy if you have one.
We are not able to get to Seattle this week as scheduled and may not be able to come next week. I am sorry to miss the visit we planned.
I hope you are well and not too worried over your liberal and progressive grandson. You may be somewhat responsible for my liberality in theology, so you will have to take the consequences if it carries over into politics. Grandpa, let me state a proposition I made in last Sunday morning's sermon: A stand patter is a man who says, "Whatever is, is right." A Bolshevik is a man who says, "Whatever is, is wrong." The truth is between. A true citizen says, "Whatever is right lets maintain, and what is wrong lets fix."
We are not a perfect country, nor a pure democracy. I am for making more real the ideal of democracy for which the boys fought and cannot say that my thoughts for mankind are limited to the U. S. or the Western Hemisphere. But I don't want to argue, but I just want to have a good exchange of views.
Anna joins with lots of love,
Harry
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Rev. Harry Sumner Templeton's Timeline
| 1874 |
April 23, 1874
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Halsey, Linn County, Oregon, United States
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| 1934 |
February 22, 1934
Age 59
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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