The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-04
His Death Expected During
Past Several Days.
Career of Promint mt Member
of Methodist Clergy.
His Has Been a Great Work
For the Church.

Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church
died this morning at :l5 o'clock in Min
neapolis The end came after success
sive DAYS of Inconsistencies, and was
peaceful and quiet. All the members
OF the family were at the bedside. Dr..
2. A. Cool, d. d., pastor of the Fow-
Ter Methodist Episcopal church; DIR.
Marx b. Smith, the physician who at
tended the bishop during his last illness,
and the attendants also were present
when life departed.
Bichop Joyce was stricken with par
alysis at Red Rock on July 2, when ad-
dressing congregation. He was re-
moved to Minneapolis and for time
there was some slight hope that he
might recover. His vitality was re-
markable, and despite many alarming
sinking spells the patient chung bravely
to life. However, it soon became appar-
ent that the bishop could not survive
Such change as had taken place in the
patient's condition in the last day or
two had been so gradual as to be almost
imperceptible, but always for the worse
The physicians wondered at the wonder
ful vitality that had sustained the bish-
CD and said that death, if necessary,
must come SOON
Under the date of Oct. %, Bishop
,Jovce wrote, with his own hand certain
facts which he plainly intended to be
available for his biography. From that
document the following are the most
important quotations:
Isaac Wilson Joyce was born in Cole
rain township, Hamilton county, Ohio,
Oct. IL, 1886, son of James w. and
Mary Ann Joyce, and grandson of Will
lam and Margaret Wilson Joyce, and a
descendant of William and Hannah
joyce of Dublin, Ireland
with his parents he removed to Tip
pecanoe county, Indiana, in April, 1850.
lie WIS euucdteu III Ilail ihe SoipSc'
a school belonging to the Church of the
United Brethren in Christ but he re-
now De Paw university. He was con-
verified and united with the church in the
year 1852 In the year 1858 he was re-
ceived into the ministry of the Method
list Episcopal church by the Northwest
Indiana conference, and filled several of
the most prominent pulpits in that con-
ference for several years. He received
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Dickinson college and that of Doctor of
Laws from the University of the Pa
ciic.
when thirty three years of age
Bishop Clark appointed him presiding
elder of the East Lafayette district in
the Northwest Indiana conference, winch
he served for four years. He represent
ed his church in the general conference
of 1880, which met in Cincinnati. In
September of that year he was trans
ferred to the Cincinnati conference and
appointed to st. Paul's church. Cincin-
natl. After serving that church a full
term of three years he was appointed
to Trinity, Cincinnati. and after a full
three-yea term there was reappointed
to st. Pauls from which. in 1885, he
was elected to the episcopacy. In 1886
he was appointed by the bishop to rep
resent the church at the general confer
ence of the Methodist church of Can
ada, which met in Toronto. After his
election to the episcopacy he spent two
quadreniums in Chattanooga, where, in
addition to his supervision of his confer
ences. he was the chancellor of the
Grant uni, ersty, located at Athens and
Chattanooga. In 1892 he visited and
presided over the five conferences of the
church in Europe. In 1894 he had
charge of the church in Mexico.
I'm 1896 his episcopal residence was
cHaHgcu W MliinedpOllS, DuI loI the HIS
two years of that time he was in charge
of the church in Eastern Asia, making
two tours through Japan, Korea and
China, presiding twice over the sessions
of the conferences, returning to the
United States in 1893 via Malaysia anC
India. He has presided over nearly al
the conferences in the United States
In March, 1861, he was married to Miss
Caroline Walker Bosserman of La Porte
Ind"
Here the record ends as far as thu
autograph is concerned. He evidently
expected to add to it, but in his busy
life the time never came, and now the
pen has fallen forever from his helpless:
fingers.
In 1902 and 1903 he visited the mis-
sions in South America and gave t.
them unusually painstaking and faith