Career Summary - (1865-1949). Dudley Upton Hale was one of the pioneer
SDA workers on the west coast of Africa and in British Guiana, South
America. He became an SDA at the age of 23 and shortly afterward
entered the ministry in Texas. He was ordained in 1895. On Oct. 4,
1895, he lad a party of SDA missionaries ashore at Cape Coast Castle,
Gold Coast (Cape Coast in what is now Ghana), and established the first
SDA mission in West Africa.
In 1897 repeated attacks of malaria drove him out of the country and
after a brief stay in Texas he went to superintend the work in British
Guiana (1897-1900). From 1900 to the end of 1902 he was an
evangelist in Texas. In 1903 he returned to West Africa, but was
again forced by malaria to leave almost immediately.
Afterward he served as a minister and evangelist in the Texas Conference
(1903-1907), and as president in the Missouri (1907-1908), Southern
Missouri (1908-1911), Wyoming (1911-1914), Nebraska (1914-1916), and
Northern New England (1920-1926) conferences.
SDA Encyclopedia p. 553
Obituary - Dudley U. Hale was born March 4, 1865, at Ladonia, Tex., and
died
March 5, 1949, in Corpus Christi. His wife, Ida L. Smith, preceded him
in death
nine years. To this couple were born three sons and one daughter.
Elder Hale was baptized into this message at the age of twenty-three,
and shortly afterward began his work in the ministry, to which he gave
his whole life. Three years were spent in British Guiana, South America,
and three years in Gold Coast, West Africa. He served five full terms as
president in different conferences of the North American Division,
beginning his executive work in 1907. One daughter, two sons, one
sister, and two grandchildren are left to mourn.
The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
1949
