Born: February 9, 1854, Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois.
Died: January 5, 1892, on a ship near Sierra Leone.
Buried: At sea.
Vivian was the son of Jonathan Woodcock Dake and Athelia M. Merrill. He married twice, to Lenna B. Bailey (1876) and Ida Mae Dake (1878).
He was the founder of the Pentacost Bands (not Pentecostal) that evangelized Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio.
He was on a missionary trip at the time of his death.