REV. SUMNER ABRAHAM IVES
THOMPSON: Pastor Baptist Church
The subject of this sketch was born in Suffield, Conn., Oct. 21, 1839. When he was five years of age his father, Dr. Sumner Ives, (a brother of Rev. Dwight Ives, D.D., pastor of the Suffield Baptist Church,) died, leaving him the only son in a family of five children. Soon after this, his mother, Sarah Humeston Ives, removed to Holyoke, Mass., and this place continued to be his home until manhood. After attending the district schools and academy of Holyoke, he became a student successively of Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., Bridgewater Normal School and Newton Theological Seminary, from which latter he was graduated in 1875. Eleven years previous to this date, on July 30, 1864, he had received an unsolicited license to preach from the First Baptist Church of Holyoke, of which he had been a member for some years. This same church also ordained him after graduation. His first pastorate was at Alfred, Maine, where he remained from Sept., 1875, to June, 1884. On Sept. 19, 1881, he was united in marriage to Alice Dunbar, daughter and youngest child of Rev. A. Dunbar of Alfred. Two sons, now living, were born there. From Alfred he removed to Barnston, P.Q., Canada, where he remained nearly four years, and was instrumental in much good. His third and present pastorate is at Thompson, Windham County, Conn.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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