McINTIRE, Rev. Daniel M.

MCINTIRE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/2/2015 at 17:40:34

Obituary ~ Rev. Daniel M. McIntire

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

We are glad to be able to present our readers with the portrait or Rev. D. M. INTIRE, which we mentioned last week published in the M. E. Conference minutes. We are indebted to J. J. MCINTIRE for the favor. He was so well known and much beloved here where the last twenty-two or three years of his life were spent when at home, that his genial face will be warmly welcome. The memoir of him is very full and we give some extracts.

His mother died when he was four years old, and he was blessed with having a kind and thoughtful step mother whom he regarded with great affection. He went to school in winter and worked in his father’s cooper shop in summer. He went to teaching school when old enough. He began to preach August 24, 1839 on Rising Sun circuit, Indiana.

"He was admitted on trial in the Indiana Conference, October 28, 1840, at Indianapolis, and appointed by Bishop JOSHUA SOULE as junior preacher with JAMES JONES on the Vevay circuit. He was admitted into full membership in the Conference, October 24, 1842, and ordained deacon next day following by Bishop THOMAS A. MORRIS, at Centerville, Indiana. He was ordained Elder by Bishop BEVERLY WAUGH, October 1, 1844, at Bloomington, Indiana.

The fields of service assigned him during the years of his ministry were: Veray Circuit, 1840; Wilmington Circuit, 1841; Brown Mission, 1842; Livonia Circuit, 1843; Brownstone Circuit, 1844-1845; Springville Circuit, 1846; Paoll Circuit, 1847-48; New Harmony Circuit, 1848; Mount Vernon Circuit, 1851; Rockport Circuit, 1852; Rockport Station, 1853; Presiding Elder on the Vincennes District, 1854-57; Centenary Station, New Albany, 1858-59; Presiding Elder on the New Albany District, 1860-63; Simpson Chapel, Greencastle, 1864-65; Presiding Elder on the Mitchell District, 1866-67; Washington Station, 1868; Supernumer, 1869;

"Transferred to this Conference 1870; Stationed at Osceola, 1870-72; Monroe Circuit, 1873; Financial Agent for Simpson Centenary College, 1874-76; Leon Station, 1887-78, Malvera Circuit, 1879; Boone Station, 1880; Financial Secretary Preacher’s Aid Society, 1881-1887.

"Feeling the weight of advancing years and failing strength in September 1888, at his own request he was granted a Superannuated relation. It will be readily seen from the foregoing figures that his was a very remarkable career.

"Forty-seven years of effective services in God’s kingdom is a record that few of earth’s worthy ones can boast! With the exception of one year – and it was spent in teaching – his was an interrupted service from 1840 to 1888, when he retired from the strife. During those years what events crowded that eventful life! He arose from the humble position of junior preacher on an obscure circuit, until he filled almost every position of trust in the church of his choice.

"His brethren delighted to confer upon him preferment and privilege. While pastor at Greencastle in 1864, his brethren elected him reserve delegated, and in 1868 he was elected to lead their delegation in the Fifteenth Delegate General Conference which as a circuit preacher fourteen years, as a station preacher thirteen years, as a presiding elder ten years, as a college agent three years, and as a worker in the interest of the Preacher’s Aid Society seven years.

"His labors being such a varied character, have brought him into fellowship whit many people, and his personality being so unique and striking, has made him perhaps the most widely known member of this Conference."

His life in Osceola was one of single unostentatious comfort and rest between his laborious trips until he was superannuated. The eagerness with which he pursued his work for colleges and for the Preacher’s Aid Society would have made him wealthy had he chosen to exert his talents for himself in business. He cared for his own enough to acquire a good home and sufficient means, but he laid up thousands for the poor ministers and their wives, also by his efforts. He lived a grand, unselfish career, was happy, ever cheerful, the friend of everybody, full of interest in all that was transpiring in the world, young in heart to the end of his seventy-four years. April 30, ’93.

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur