Pepper, Irvin S. 1876 - 1913

PEPPER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/12/2021 at 20:55:34

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 26, 1913, P-FP, C-3

Iowa Congressman Dead. .
Clinton, Iowa, Dec., 22.—Congressman Irving S. Pepper, of Muscatine, representative from the Second congressional district, died at the hospital at 4:50 this morning following an ope¬ration for gall stones. He was greatly weakened by typhoid fever and could not survive the shock.
When Mr. Pepper came to Clinton in November from Washington, he went at once to the hospital where he has remained. He had a hard struggle with the typhoid fever, had recovered from that disease except that the siege had left him in a very weakened condition to stand to stand{sic} the ordeal of an operation which the surgeons seemed to think was necessary to remove gall stones. He passed a very bad night Friday night and friends were called to his bedside. Among them was his brother, Dr. John L Pepper of Goldfield, who gave out a statement Saturday evening that the congressman was threatened with peritonitis. His pulse was 120. The physicians were unable to reduce this nor to lower his temperature. Spells of vomiting were frequent Saturday night and Sunday and his physicians saw that the end was but a few hours away.
Mr. Pepper was a young man of splendid talents and an earnest advocate of democratic principles. For a new and young than he had made wonderful strides in the house of representatives, being the secretary of the democratic congressional committee and chairman of the house committee on expend{i}tures of the post office department. He was one of the three democrats from Iowa in the house. He had been suggested as a candidate for the United States senate and had come to Iowa to canvass the situation when taken down with typhoid fever.

Transcriber's Note: Find a Grave shows his name as Irvin and that he was born June 10, 1876 and died Dec. 22, 1913. He is buried in Shaul Cemetery in Ottumwa.