Shoup, Joseph S. (died 1913)

SHOUP

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Date: 8/14/2013 at 13:29:41

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
June 17, 1913

HIS END WAS SUDDEN
J. S. Shoup, Former Plymouth County Educator, Dead
PIONEER LAND MAN PASSES AWAY
Saw Service in the Civil War and Was One of Guards in the Death Watch Over
Conspirators Who Compassed Lincoln’s Assassination.

Prof. Shoup, formerly lived in LeMars, died at his home in Smithland on
Saturday. He was well known and popular here while engaged in educational
work in LeMars and Plymouth County. The Sioux City Journal gives us the
following sketch of his life:

Death came suddenly yesterday to Joseph S. Shoup, formerly superintendent of
the Woodbury county schools, at his home in Smithland. Mr. Shoup had
returned the evening before from Council Bluffs, where he attended the grand
lodge meeting of Masons.

Mrs. Shoup was in a nearby room at the time of her husband’s death. He had
complained of being tired upon his return from Council Bluffs, and yesterday
noon reiterated to his wife that he did not feel well. He went into an
adjoining room, remarking that he would lie down a while. A few minutes
later Mrs. Shoup found him lying dead in bed.

Serving two terms as superintendent of the Woodbury county schools, Mr.
Shoup, who was 72 years old, was widely known in western Iowa for his
services as an educator. He served in the Woodbury county schools two
terms, from 1884 to 1888, and from 1900 to 1904. Before coming to Sioux
City, he was head of the city school in Council Bluffs, then at Danbury and
then at Smithland.

After quitting the Woodbury county schools, was head of the Normal School
that was in LeMars in 1895. After acting as superintendent of the schools in
Merrill, Mr. Shoup returned to Smithland, where he was in charge of the
school for two years, and then about 1902, he retired from active life.

Mr. Shoup was a brother of the late United States Senator Shoup, of Idaho.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his sons, Joseph P. Shoup, an attorney,
of Sioux City, and Lieut. A. K. Shoup, of the United States navy. His
daughters surviving him are Mrs. Cal Dicks, of Wichita, Kan.; Mrs. James
Fitzpatrick, of St. Louis; Mrs. Minnie Shoup, of Missoula, Mont.; Mrs. W. C.
Newton, of Westfield, Iowa; and Mrs. B. F. Anderson, of Newcastle, Neb.

Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Shoup was educated at Lombard college, Galesburg,
Ill., and came west in 1873.

The funeral will be held in Smithland Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. H.
A. Riley, of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating.