TINGLEY, Joseph - Putnam

The telegraph on Tuesday announced the death of Dr. Joseph S. Tingley which occurred on Monday at the family home in Holton, Kansas. His illness had been known to relatives here but the death was not expected.  The remains will arrive here today for interment. Dr. Tingley had many friends here who will be pained to learn of his death. Joseph Tingley was born in Cadiz, Ohio, March 5, 1822. He entered Asbury University as a student during the presidency of the late Bishop Simpson and was graduated at that institution with the class of 1846.  Three years later he was elected to the chair of natural science which he filled with marked ability for 30 years, serving several years as vice president of the university. He served one or more years as president of the State Teachers’ Association during the formative period of that body which has become such a power in the educational work of Indiana. His standing as a scientist and lecturer was shown in his election as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as a lecturer at Chautauqua and other education assemblies.  The esteem in which he was held as a teacher at Asbury was attested by the naming of one of the halls of the new building the Joseph Tingley Hall, which was fitted up and furnished by CW Smith of Indianapolis and dedicated to the professor. The degree of PhD was conferred upon him by his alma mater at the commencement of 1871.  He was married May 16, 1853 to Miss Ellen Webb, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas S. Webb of the Northwest Indiana Conference

Source: Same paper p 4 – Jeremiah Tingley, of Pittsburg, PA arrived in the city last night to attend the funeral of Dr. Joseph Tingley.

Source: Greencastle Banner-Times 28 Jan 1892 p 1

The burial of the remains of the late Dr. Joseph Tingley in this city recently brought forcibly to mind my first experience with a telephone. A wire had been suspended between the residences of Dr. Tinley on College Ave and Prof. JR DeMotte on Bloomington street. Dr. Tingley was at one end of this sire and Prof. DeMotte at the other.  The apparatus employed was of rather a rude character yet the experiment was a complete success. This, I think was the first effort of the kind made here and was wholly at the expense of the parties concerned. We who were looking on, I think, were, if possible as much astonished and more delighted than the professors themselves. Talking on wire was possible at least on short range.

Source: Greencastle Star Press 23 Jan 1892 p 1