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way to the comfort and encouragement 

 of the boys who went to the front. He 

 was their financial asent at home, car- 

 ing for their business, and receiving 

 their money sent home on pay-days, and 

 looking after all their affairs without 

 remuneration. His leiters to the boys 

 were full of encouragement and cheer. 

 Anything needed for the comfort of the 

 soldiers was freely given. Whenever 

 the news of a great battle was received 



popularity nor position, but he had a 

 keen sense of honor and of right, and 

 when convinced of duty, he was im- 

 movable and unswerving in its perform- 

 ance. Of large heart and generous im- 

 pulses, he stood firmly for what he be- 

 lieved to be right. 



But this sketch would be incomplete 

 without a few words in regard to Mr. 

 Park's Christian character. He was 

 converted in the spring of 1858, and 



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DANA F. PARK. 



he was one of the first to go to the front 

 and care for the wounded, and send 

 home the dead. When the confederates 

 moved to Maryland, he enlisted in the 

 13th Pennsylvania piiHtia, and served 

 in the Antietam campaign. He was a 

 member of Perkins Post, G. A. E,., and 

 for the last number of years its chaplain. 

 Mr. Park was a man of very strong 

 and positive convictions. Of a modest 

 and retiring nature, he never sought 



united with the Baptist church, of which 

 his wife was a member. His conversion 

 was a marked one. It changed the 

 whole tenor of his life. He immediately 

 threw the whole power of his positive 

 nature on the side of the Christian re- 

 ligion. His life became imbued with 

 the spirit of Christianity. For years he 

 was actively engaged in revival work in 

 outlying neighborhoods. In Wolcott 

 Hollow, he maintained religious meet- 



