Notes for: Peter Donaldson ("Don") Bodine
The study by E. P. Bodine says he died leaving no descendants.
I wondered if the following from Jan Bodine might be this Donaldson Bodine. After getting Ronny Bodine's information (see below), it looks like it is.
Donaldson Bodine
Professor at Wabash College
died at Douglas Lake, Michigan
listed in the South Bend Tribune - date published 08 - 28 - 1915 - p. 4, col. 3
From Ronny Bodine:
From Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Richboro, Bucks County, Penn.
Peter Donaldson, son of G. W. Bodine & Jennie Bodine, born 12 Dec 1866, bapt. 9 Nov 1867.
In 1900, Donaldson Bodine, 34 and single, lived with his sister, Georgianna, in Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania engaged as a teacher. In 1910, aged 43 and single, Donaldson now taught at Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He still lived with his sister Georgianna. Donaldson Bodine, Ph.D., a 1887 graduate of Cornell University, was professor of Zoology at Wabash College. His death was reported at the Thirty-Fourth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists Union in 1917. His wife, Emma, was living 1930, aged 63 and widowed, with her sister Anna Thatcher, in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey and in April 1940 in Crawfordville, Montgomery County, Indiana.
From The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Ind.) of Tuesday, 30 June 1914.
Crawfordsville, Ind., June 30.--Crawfordsville friends of Professor Donaldson Bodine, head of the department of geology and zoology in Wabash college, and Mrs. Emma Clugston, of this city, were surprised today to receive announcement that Professor Bodine and Mrs. Clugston were married Saturday at Brookston, N.J. Mrs. Clugston came to Crawfordsville three years ago from Columbia City to place her son, Phil Clugston, in Wabash college. The boy will be a senior next year. Mrs. Clugstonalso has a daughter, who was graduated this month from an eastern college. Mr. Bodine has been a professor in Wabash college for the last eighteen years. They will return to Crawfordsville to live, following a wedding journey in the east. [Note: Brookston or Brookstone cannot be identified as a community in New Jersey.]
Newspaper Obituary, The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Ind.) of Saturday, 28 Aug 1915.
Crawfordsville, Ind., August 28.--Professor Donaldson Bodine, age forty-eight, who died at Douglass Lake, Mich., Thursday night, had been head of the department of geology and zoology in Wabash college for twenty years. His death is a great loss to the university, for when, with Mrs. Bodine, he left for Michigan to spend the summer, he was in perfect health, apparently. The body will arrive in Crawfordsville tomorrow and funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the Bodine home, in the charge of Dr. George Mackintosh, president of Wabash college. Professor Bodine was born in Richboro, Pa., the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was graduated from Cornell university in 1887, after leaving received his preparatory training at Ovid academy, in New York. He was superintendent and principal of the Seminary of Gouverneur, in New York for six years. Later, he took two years' post graduate work in Cornell, which he completed in 1895. He came to Wabash college in the fall of 1895 as professor of geology and zoology, and continued as head of that department until his death. He was a member of the Indiana Academy of Science and at one time was president of the society. He also held a fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in the American Entomological Society. He was a member of the American Microscopical Society. Professor Bodine was well known throughout the college scientific world as one of the leading authorities on geology and zoology. His widow, his sister and a stepson, Phil Clugston, a Wabash college student, survive. Professor Bodine was a lifelong Presbyterian and for many years had been a elder in the Center Presbyterian church of this city. He was a talented singer.
Obituary, Crawfordsville (Ind.) Journal Review of 5 Jan 1954.
(Abstract) Emma Bodine, nee Thatcher, married 1st Philemon Clugston, 2nd Don Bodine.
From Indiana Death Certificate of Emma Thatcher Bodine, widow, born 2 Aug 1866 in Trenton, NJ, dau. of Wilson & Hulda (Lair) Thatcher, died 4 Jan 1954 in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County.