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REV. DR. BRUDNDAGE DIES OF PARALYSIS
Pastor-Emeritus of Unity Unitarian Church Was Long Ill.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Pg. 3, 15 Aug 1921.
The Rev. William Milton Brundage, 64 year old, pastor-emeritus of Unity Unitarian Church, Gates Ave. and Irving Place, Brooklyn, died here on Sunday afternoon of a second stroke of paralysis, at his residence, 652 Fairfield Circle. He was stricken last Thursday and remained unconscious most of the time until the end. His funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in All Souls Unitarian Church, on Park Ave., Westfield. N. J., where he had often delivered sermons since making his home in Westfield two and a half years ago.
The Rev. A. H. Robinson, pastor of that church, will conduct the funeral services, and the interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, at Troy, N. Y.
The Rev. William M. Brundage is survived by his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Flack Brundage; a son, Percival Flack Brundage, and a grandson, Robert Percival Brundage, all of Westfield.
Rev. Brundage was born In Sullivan County, NY on Jan. 12, 1857, the son of the Rev. Abram Brundage and Melissa Royce Brundage. His father was a Methodist minister, and William was his oldest son.
Dr. Brundage was educated at Wilbraham Preparatory School, Wilbraham, Mass., and at Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in the Class of 1880. He then taught for two years in the Troy Conference Academy, at Poultney, N. Y. In 1882 he became a member of the Troy M. K. Conference and became pastor of the Ames M. K. Church, later going to Trinity M. E. Church in Amsterdam, N. Y. In 1893 he joined the Unitarian Church and started to reorganize the First Unitarian Church Albany, N. Y., where he was pastor for 10 years, and built up a large congregation. Dr. Brundage was called to the pastorate of Unity Unitarian Church in Brooklyn in December 1904 and was its active and greatly beloved pastor until his health broke in 1917 when he was stricken with paralysis and was granted a year's leave of absence. He came back to his work in that church later with the aid of an assistant in October 1918. Failing health made it imperative for him to resign and he was made pastor-emeritus of Unity Antioch.
Since living at Westfield he had preached whenever his health permitted and opportunity offered in All Souls Unitarian Church at Westfield, and had twice preached sermons to his beloved congregation in Brooklyn. During the years that he lived in Brooklyn, he was known as one of the leading clergymen of the Unitarian faith in that town, and had done much to build Trinity Church up to its present, high standards. He was a scholarly minister and philosopher, and his sermons often attracted wide attention.
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1857 - 1921 (64 years)
