The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-03-08
REV.L.P. TETER DEAD
Expires Very Suddenly at New
Sharon.

New Sharon, March Rev. /. P.
Teter dropped dead in the law Office
of j. w. Carr yesterday afternoon.
Heart failure was the cause of his
death. He was well known Method
list minister and was at one time
prominent in politics, having been a
state senator from Des Moines county.
He was also a prominent Odd Fellow
having held the Office of grand chap
lain. His death came without warn
ing, as he had been in the best of
health up to the moment of the at
tack which killed him.
Rev. Isaac Pearl Teter was born in
Lewis County, Virginia, (now West
Virginia) in 1929, and died at New
Sharon, Iowa, March 8, 1900, aged II
years. He was converted and joined
the M E. church in his 10th year and
when p was licensed to preach. Re-
moving to Burlington, Iowa, he was
admitted on trial in the Iowa con-
ference in 1853, and was ordained
deacon by Bishop Simpson in 1855,
and elder by Bishop Ames in 1857. His
early appointments were at Troy,
Montrose, Winchester, TT. Madison,
Drakeville, Abba, East Des Moines
and Sigourney. While there in the
fall of 1861 he was elected to the state
senate from Des Moines county on
the Republican ticket, and was an in
| fiuential member of that body during
his senatorial term. In the fall of
1868 he was appointed to the Oska-
loosa station, which he filed with
great acceptance until his election
and commission as chaplain of the
7th Iowa Infantry, when he resigned
the station and went with the regi-
ment to the war. Sometime in 1864
he resigned his place as chaplain and
returned to Iowa. But in the fall of
that year he was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln Post Chaplain to the
Military hospitals at Keokuk, Iowa,
where he remained until the close of
the war. In this position his active
energies We're employed continually
in ministering to those under his care.
The next two years he was pastor at
Keosauqua, Iowa; and from 1868 to
1871 was presiding elder of the Bur-
iington district. After his service
there he was appointed successfully
to Mt. Pleasant circuit. Danville,
Main ST., Ottumwa, Kirkville, Center
vile and Abba again. From 1884 to
1887 he was on the Ottumwa district
The following five years, 1882 he
was pastor of the Simpson church,
Oskaloosa; from 1898 to 1896 he was
in South Ottumwa, and in 1897 he was
appointed to New Sharon, where he
closed his long and active career.
Thus it appears that he was for AZ
years an effective preacher of the
Iowa conference, and at the time of
his death he was the oldest active
minister in the body. Mr.. Teter had
qualities that rendered him exceed
ingly popular as minister, and he
was everywhere regarded as an
eloquent preacher, whose services
were often in requisition upon public
occasions, and he never failed to
draw and entertain the crowd. His
preaching was clear and convincing,
and delivered with force and junction.
In 1896 he represented his conference
in the general conference which met
that year at Cleveland, Ohio Per-
haps no man in the country had a
more general acquaintance than Mr..
Teter; he seemed to remember every
one with whom he was ever ac-
quainted, and his association and in |
fluence extended far beyond the |
limits of his own church The list of |
his appointments which we have |
given tells of history extended in
its range, full of earnest and faithful |
work, and crowned with large sue
cess. No man in the conference will |
be missed more than he, and numer-
Gus friends wherever he was known
will sympathize with his bereaved
companion in her sudden affection.
His family have all preceded him in
death, except his wife, son and his
family in Ottumwa, and two grand
children, the children of his older son,
who died few years since. One of
his children, who died while he was
pastor here, is buried in Forest
cemetery.
The funeral of the late I. p. Teter
will be held from the Methodist church
in New Sharon, Thursday afternoon
at one o'clock.
The body will be shipped to OF
tumwa taking the evening train on
the Iowa Central and transferring to
The Rock Island in this city at 9:15
o'clock, P. NJ. Interment win be made
N Ottumwa Friday afternoon by the
side of relatives. There will be a
prayer service in Ottumwa.
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