Church Pastor Removed to Asylum, 1873

Gone to the Asylum

Chenango Union, Dec. 4, 1873

 

We are pained to learn that Rev. D.R. Carrier, pastor of the M.E. Church in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], has at last been pronounced insane, and was on Monday removed to the Lunatic Asylum in Utica [Oneida Co., NY].  He has been an inmate of the Asylum before, we are informed; and his present trouble was undoubtedly brought upon him by a severe attack of typhoid fever, through which he has recently passed, together with sickness and death in his family.  In another column will be found a notice for a Donation Visit, for the benefit of his afflicted family, which is to be held at the M.E. Church in Guilford, on Wednesday of next week.  This appeal to the sympathies of a generous people will not be in vain.

 

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Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 7, 1881

 

At Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], The Rev. D.R. Carrier, of the Methodist church, recently became violently insane.  A commission in lunacy has sent him to the Middletown Asylum.  He was one of the best linguists and scholars in the Wyoming Conference.