History of Westport, (Jackson County) Missouri United States of America

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Elijah Shelton Dulin, educator, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Jan. 18, 1821. On his father's side he was descended from the Huguenot family of Dulon and on his mother's from the English Quaker family Shelton. On his graduation from Richmond college in 1845 he was elected principal of St. Brides academy, Va. Subsequently he was elected professor of ancient languages in Hollins institute, Va. He spent a year in the study of theology at the University of Virginia, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in August, 1848, and in 1849 became pastor at Lexington, Mo. He was a member of the convention which in 1850 located the William Jewell college at Liberty, Clay county, Mo., and was made its first president. He was also professor of ancient languages, 1850-52, and professor of intellectual philosophy and English, 1857-60. He was recalled to the charge at Lexington, Mo., in 1856, and accepted also the presidency of the female college there. In 1858 he became pastor of the Kansas City Baptist church, and in 1859, of the Baptist church in St. Joseph, Mo., where he remained six years. After the war he reorganized the school at Lexington and developed the plan for a beard of ministerial education for Missouri in connection with the school at Liberty. In 1870 he founded the female college at Columbia, Mo., and in 1876 removed to one at St. Joseph, where in 1878 he rounded another female college. He was married to Sarah R. Gilkey, Aug. 28, 1849. He received the degree of D.D. from William Jewell college in 1870. He died at Westport, Mo., Jan. 9, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Westport, (Jackson County) Missouri

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