"A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota" by Alvin H. Wilcox (1907), Chapter XXI, History of Detroit Township, pages 349-350. The Rev. H. C. Hamilton Dudley The Rev. H. C. Hamilton Dudley was born February 18th, 1821, at Verhire, Orange County, Vermont. In the spring of 1873 he came to Detroit [Detroit Township, Becker County, Minnesota] as a missionary of the Protestant Episcopal church for the northwest part of the state. He was sent by Bishop Whipple and sustained by the American Church Missionary Society. Mr. Dudley had formerly been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Johnstown, New York. Mr. Dudley moved to Detroit, May 2nd, 1873, and held his first service May 25th, in the Bapist Church. Soon after this he leased the property known as the Tyler's Hotel intending to hold services in one of the large rooms until the church was built. A room was fitted up for a mission chapel. He afterwards held services in Peake Hall, and occasionally in the Baptist and Congregational churches. Much of his work was outside of Detroit, preaching at various towns along the line of the Northern Pacific almost daily. His last sermon was preached at Wadena while suffering from a severe cold resulting in pneumonia from which he died at Detroit, May 5th, 1875. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. Frank R. Millspaugh, ten rector at Brainerd, and the Rev. James Gurley, on the 8th of May, when there was a terrific rain storm. For some time previous to his death, public speaking had been a painful task. He writes, "My lungs are bleeding every day. Like my old valise, I am simply a wreck." A few hours before his decease he said, "I have fallen with my armor on." He was buried at Detroit, but his remains were afterwards taken East by his wife. One who knew him in the mission work at Moorhead writes, "His death was a great blow to us all. He was a broad-minded, whole-souled Christian gentleman." Submitted by Dick Campbell