Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
MAN PROMINENT IN METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURCH IN
IOWA DEAD.
MADE STATE EVANGELIST
AT RHODES CONFERENCE
Former Pastor at Both Rhodes and ST..
Anthony. and In Nineteen Years in
Ministry Held But Four Charges
End Due to Cancer Of the Kidney.
After Illness of Several Months.

!, death at l2:20 this Afternoon end e..
the life OF Rev james NJ. Plumb. VIII,
! passed away at his home, SO4 Yves
Main street, after an illness of severa
months due to cancer of the kidney
| Mr.. Plumb was widely known thruou
Protestant church. and at the last al
nual conference. held at Rhodes, he wa.
appointed state evangelist. owing t,
! his failing health. however, he had no
been able to fill the duties of this of.
| fee.
/ Just two months ago today Mr.
| Plumb left for Rochester. Mimi. in the
I hopes that an operation would result il
| overcoming his maady, the exac
nature of which was not then known
! An examination proved the trouble tc
| be malignant, and no operate was at
tempted. Mr.. Plumb has failed rap
/! idly in recent weeks, and his death had
! been expected for several days.
| Pastor Nineteen Years.
+! Mr.. Plumb had been a pastor in the
Methodist Protestant church for nine
teen years, and in that period had held
but four pastorates. Mr.. Plumb was
converted in 1889. united with the
church at once, and began preaching
He was ordained in 1891, and his first
charge was al Mapleton, where he re-
manned four years. He was then as
signed to Rhodes, in this county, Where
he remained for two years. and follow
ing his stay there went to ST. Anthony
where he remained four years. year
spent IN charge of the church at
Roughwood was followed by his re-
appointment to ST. Anthony. and after
two years more at that place he was
sent back 20 Rhodes. This was his
last charge, which he relinquished
owing to his failing health. Mr. Plumb
was appointed state evangelist of the
church five different times, the last
appointment having been made at the
Rhodes conference in September, 1909.
Mr. Plumb came to this city from ST.
Anthony three years ago During his
career in the ministry Mr.. Plumb had
founded several churches. and built
the parsonages at Rhodes, ST. Anthony.
and Roughwood.
Was Native of Iowa.
James NJ. Plumb was born in 1853
near Murphy, Jasper county, and was
the Oldest son of j. w. and Elizabeth
Plumb. His mother. now rs wears old.
is still living.
In 1872 Mr.. Plumb took as his wife
Miss Sarah f. Reagan, of Collins,
Story county. who survives her hus-
band. To this union We're born five
children, three of whom survive, in the
persons OF Mrs. Sarah E. Mead OF
Ferguson; and Charles y. Plumb and
John D. Plumb. both of MarshalFown
one of the children died in infancy,
and the other at the age of Z.
outside of his immediate family and
his aged mother. who lives at Baxter.
Mr.. Plumb is survived by six brothers
and two sisters. They are j. NJ Plum b.
of Ardmore, S. D.; s NJ. Plumb. of
Oklahoma; W. c. Plumb. of Baxter;
f. F. Plumb. of Ardmore, s. D.: Mrs.
Laura A. Shepley. of Eldorado Springs.
Mo; George Plumb, and Mrs Hattie
E. Hoy, of Baxter; and G. w. Plumb. of
Northwood
Arrangements for the funeral have
NOT yet been made, pending the re-
ceipt of word from relatives