ELDER JOSEPH PEREGRINE

PEREGRINE

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 19:59:38

ELDER JOSEPH PEREGRINE, one of the honored pioneers of Adams county, was born in Shropshire, England, August 6, 1822, and is the fourth son and child of the Rev. James Peregrine, a native of Wales. The mother was also a native of England. James Peregrine was a minister in the Presbyterian Church for over fifty years. In 1830 the family emigrated to America, and located at Utica, New York. Then they removed to Ohio, and afterward to Indiana, in which State the father died about the year 1862, at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother died several years previously, at the age of sixty-five years.

Joseph Peregrine spent the greater portion of his youth in farm work. He was married in Rush county, Ind., to Miss Catherine Robinson, daughter of John and Catherine (Rishling) Robinson, who came to Rush county in an early day. After his marriage our subject followed farming in Rush, Scott and Jasper counties, Indiana, until 1855, when he came to Iowa, and entered 200 acres of Government land in what is known as Methodist Grove; there he resided one season, and in 1856 he located on his present farm; he has 170 acres in a high state of cultivation.

In March, 1858, he entered the ministry of the Christian Church, and labored as an evangelist in eight counties in southwestern Iowa, and Nodaway county, Missouri. He has been pastor of the Brooks church over fifteen years; of the Valley church for nine years; of the church at Bedford, six years; of the church at Prescott for four years; of the Boundary Grove church, six years; of the church in Clairmont, Missouri, three years, and for several years he was pastor of the Union City, Buchanan, and Hawleyville congregations. He has probably been called to preach as many funeral sermons as any other minister in this part of the State, and he never fails to respond when possible to attend.

Mr. and Mrs. Peregrine had born to them eight children, six of whom survive: J. S., a Brooks, Iowa; Elizabeth, the wife of William Hanly; Amanda, the wife of Orlando McKay; G. R., a resident of Nance county, Nebraska; E. J., the wife of G. D. Wilson; C. S., a druggist at Brooks, Iowa, and two children who died in infancy. The mother of this family died in 1862, at the age of thirty-six years. Mr. Peregrine was married again in 1863, to Mrs. Lydia J. Newhouse, whose maiden name was Flenner; she is a daughter of Thompson Flenner, formerly of Rush county, Indiana. By this last marriage six children were born: Edgar, Mary, Adner, the wife of M. D. Parcher; Cora, Walter and Homer.

Mr. Peregrine has been a member of the Board of Supervisors for five years. Politically he was formerly an old-line Whig; he voted with the Republican party upon its organization, but he is now a staunch Prohibitionist. He has spent many years of this life in preaching the gospel of his Master, and expects to continue this work as long as his health and strength will permit.