omrade Pabody was married in Oxford, Ohio, October 10th, 1866,
to Emma A. Brown.

[Illustration: Portrait of the late Ezra F. Pabody, from a photograph
taken ten years ago.]

His education was acquired by attending, first, the common schools at
Vernon, Indiana, until he was sixteen years of age; and in September,
1854, he entered Hanover College, where he spent five years. In 1859, he
entered Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and graduated from that
University in June, 1860. In September of that same year he entered
Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied for one year with a
view to entering the ministry, but the condition of his health
interfered with his carrying out this purpose.

In 1861, having come to Minnesota, and as volunteers were being enlisted
to crush the rebellion, which threatened our country with destruction,
his spirit of patriotism impelled him to offer his services to aid in
maintaining the government. Accordingly he enlisted at Fort Snelling,
September 25th, 1861, and was enrolled in Company "A," Third Minnesota
Volunteers. In November of that year he was appointed Hospital Steward
of the Regiment, but he was unable long to endure the activities of the
service, and on July 9th, 1862, was discharged on account of
disability. However, his loyal spirit would not allow him to rest if
there was a place where he might serve effectively, and accordingly, on
August 24th, 1862, he enlisted again,--this time in the 79th Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to duty as Hospital Steward, in
which office he continued until discharged for disability December 18th,
1862.

After his army service, he engaged in the drug business at Vernon,
Indiana. In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis and here followed the same
line of business until 1888.

In August, 1890, he was prevailed upon to take up City Mission work in
connection with Westminster Church, and was ordained to the Gospel
ministry in 1900.

Retiring from the active work of the ministry in 1903, he passed the
remaining years of his life in his quiet home at Zumbra Heights, Lake
Minnetonka, where the death angel found him September 21st, 1915, after
a long period of illness.

His memory will be lastingly perpetuated by the development of his city
mission work, known as "Riverside Mission," a neglected portion of
Minneapolis, embracing what is known as "The River Flats," where the
inhabitants, mostly foreigners, and in need of religious instructi