Title	Mr.
Last Name	Bunker
First Name	Edwin
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Place of Birth	Athens, ME
Date of Birth	1863?
Place of Death	Cambridge, ME
Date of Death	1931-03-18
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 3-19-1931, p.5
Obituary	Edwin Bunker The many Dexter friends of Edwin Bunker are sorry to learn of his death, which occurred at his home in Cambridge yesterday morning. Mr. Bunker was for many years a resident of Dexter, coming here in 1888 from Fairfield, where be learned the printer's trade, and with Holman Day, purchasing the Dexter Gazette from M. F. Herring and with Day as a partner, conducting the paper four years, during which time they made the Gazette one of the outstanding eeklies of Maine. With the Gazette was combined the Monson Weekly Slate, which established by the late J. F. Sprague, and, later, the Eastern State, a weekly publication, that had been established in 1882 by Dr. Orin Fitzgerald. The name of the Dexter Gazette was changed by them to The Eastern Gazette. When Holman Day retired from the firm to take a position with the Lewiston Journal, Ernest Warren became associated with Mr. Bunker under the name of Bunker & Warren. When the paper passed into the hands of the Ladd Bros. in 1895, Mr. Bunker became associated with the Bangor Commercial as its Dexter representative and special writer, a position which he held for a number of years. In 1908 he went to Boston, where he was engaged in the Job printing business until about seven years ago, when upon the death of his brother he returned to his boyhood home in Cambridge and has been carrying on the farm since that time. Mr. Bunker was born in Athens about 68 years ago. When four years of age his parents moved to Parkman and later to Cambridge. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Marian Bunker, and a sister, Mrs. Ella Chadbourne, of Harmony. A son, by a former marriage, Vaughn Bunker, died some 20 years ago as the result of a railroad accident. Mr. Bunker was a member of Penobscot Lodge, F. &, A. M., of Dexter and of Cambridgc Grange, P. of H. Funeral services will be held at the Baptist church in Cambridge Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.