Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-21
PIONEER METHODIST MINISTER
OF IOWA DROPS DEAD At
CEDAR RAPIDS.
ORGANIC HEART DISEASE
BELIEVED CAUSE OF DEATH
Body Found by Passershy Lying in
Entrance to Store Friday Night-Or.
Fleming Had Spent Forty Ono Years
in Effective Ranks Of Upper Iowa
Conference.

D. D., formerly superintendent OF the
Narshalltown district Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, with headquar-
tiers in this city, for forty one years in
the effective ranks of the ministry Of
the church, and one of the best known,
men in Iowa Methodist, dropped dead
! in Cedar Rapids Friday night. Death is
! believed to have been due to organic
| heart disease.
! DR.. Fleming, who had made his
| home at Manchester for more than two
years, had arrived at Cedar Rapids on
| a business trip. and at 1 o'clock reg
| istered at the New Pullman Hotel. At
7:45 his dead body was found by
passersby lying in the entrance to the
Armstrong a. Moehl grocery store on
! Fifth street.
Had Complained Of Heart.
The first thought of Harold Maud
sIey and Gerald Cheseboro who dis
! covered the PROSTATE form of Dr
! Fleming. was that he had been injured
OF foully dealt with. Blood was ooz-
! ing from a wound over one eye, and
as there were no signs of life the men
went to notify the police. In the
! meantime &. i. Suits and {. G. Arthur
passed along the street and saw the
/ body of d man lying in the grocery
| DOORWAY They notified a nearby I'M
! dcr:a!;cr. end the body waal removed
| 10 the morgue. Noticing a thirty-sec-
end degree Masonic charm worn by
Dr. Fleming, DR.. c. B. Whelpley, head
! nf pa C st notified.
and took charge of the body.
Dr. Fleming had complained of his
heart while in Cedar Rapids a week
! ago. when he spent the evening at the
/ Charles A. Laurence home. He also
spoke of suffering from neuralgia. 1t
was declared that death was due to
the heart trouble, and that the wound
over the eye had been caused by strik-
ing an iron pillar at the entrance OF
the store when DR.. Fleming fell. =
In Conference Forty Ono Years.
| Thomas Easton Fleming was a ma
! tive of Scotland, where he was born in
| 1850. He came TO this country as
| boy, and to Iowa at the age OF 49, He
entered the Upper Iowa University, at
Fayette, from which he was graduated.
and in 1873 entered the Upper Iowa
conference.
This was the beginning of fort-- one
years of active work in The ministry
in a single conference.>Rev. Mr.. F'lem-
ing's first charge was on the Ridge
way circuit, in Winneshiek county.
where there were four charges, with
out a single church. Three of the con-
gregations held services in school
houses, and the other in grange hall.
After two years on the Ridgeway cir
cult Rev. Mr.. Fleming was assigned
to Lansing 1S74-5 then to Northwood,
1851; Nora Springs, 1878; Mitchell,
1853; Elkader, 1s79S1: Waukon,
1873: Fayette. 1886; Fourteenth
street. Davenport, 1861; Davenport
Rapids, 1926 Eldora, 1865; Ma
quoketa, 1s9S-l900: DEBORAH district,
1904: Dubuque district, 1869; Mar
shalltown district, 190S14.
Long limo on Districts.
Dr. Flemings work on the districts
as presiding elder and district super
intendent, as the office is now known.
comprised nineteen years, the longest
period any man in the conference has
ever spent in district work. He was
So when he was made presiding elder
Of the Davenport district, which he
served five years. He was on the De-
corah district four years, five on the
Dubuque district and five on the Mar
shalltown, which he resigned in 1914,
one year before his term had expired.
DR.. Fleming did post graduate work
in Illinois Wesleyan University, where
he received his Phi. D. degree. His
D. D. was received from Iowa Wes-
leyan, Mount Pleasant.
In addition to his long work as a
pastor and district superintendent DR..
Fleming was honored by the confer
ence by having been elected a delegate
to the general conferences Of 1892,
1904, 1903, and 1912, and to the
ecumenical conference at Toronto,
Ont, in 1911.
For many years DR.. Fleming was a
member of the board Of trustees of
Cornell College, Mount Vernon. He was
165. A. F.. and A. NJ, and Of Iowa Con-
sistory, No. 2, Scottish Rite Masons
Cedar Rapids.
In Business Since Retirement.
Since his retirement from the minis
Try III the Id!l Oh 1914, "nen ne dS-
cepted supernumerary relations with
the conference, DR. Fleming has been
associated with the American Mort
gage and Securities Company. of Man
chester. a contern organized by Dr.
F'leming's son-in law, A. NJ Cloud, of
Manchester, and others. to float farm
loans on first mortgages. DR.. Elem
ing has devoted bis time to affairs Of
this company since he moved from
this city to Manchester in October
1914.
Widow and Five Children Survive.
/ DR.. Fleming Is survived by his
widow and five children-one son and
four daughters Mrs. Fleming before
her marriage, was Miss Isabel Jones.
The son is Herbert f. Fleming, pub
Usher Of the Civil Service News, Chi
csgo, and the daughters Mrs. A. NJ.
Cloud, and Misses Lillian and Sue
Fleming, Of Manchester, and Miss Bess
Fleming, teacher OF English and
Latin in the high school of this city.
Miss Fleming left for Manchester Fri
day night upon receipt Of telegram
announcing her fathers death.
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