D. Elton Trueblood, 94, a Quaker scholar, teacher and author, died Tuesday at the Meadowood Retirement Community near Lansdale, Pa. Dr. Trueblood had lived on the campus of Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., until 1988. He had been professor of philosophy there from 1946 to 1966. Among his best-known books was "Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish" (Harper, 1973).
Solomon Gaon, 82, a world leader of Sephardic Jews and professor of Sephardic studies at Yeshiva University, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. The Manhattan resident was chief rabbi of congregations affiliated with the World Sephardi Federation. He had been a professor at Yeshiva since 1976 and had founded and directed its Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies.