1845-1919 

Adoniram Judson Titsworth

Congregational Pastor               NJ/WI

Adoniram Judson Titsworth was born the year that Adoniram Judson, Jr., came to the States for his only time away from Burma. Young Titsworth was the son of Dunham Titsworth and Hannah A. Sheppard and was born on October 23, 1845, in Shiloh, Cumberland County, New Jersey, where he grew up with eight siblings. He earned an A.B. in 1870 from Amherst College, Amherst, M.A., and B.D. from Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, NY, three years later. He eventually received honorary doctorates from Beloit College in 1885 and from Amherst, his alma mater, in 1908.

In 1873 he married Julie E. Van Duzer and they eventually had two children. That same year, Rev. Titsworth was ordained into the ministry of the Congregational Church. He served three churches in Massachusetts before moving to Wisconsin in 1883.

After serving as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Milwaukee, 1883-1909, he became chaplain for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee. This program, started by Abraham Lincoln for Civil War veterans, established this home as its northwestern facility.  In 1899 Titsworth wrote The Moral Evolution: Lenten Sermons on Sin and its Remedy. Later in life, for two years, 1917-18, he pastored the First Congregational Church, Eau Claire, WI.

Adoniram Judson Titsworth died on April 9, 1919, and is buried in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI.

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