Rev. Luther F. TROUTMAN

TROUTMAN, JAMESON, MUILENBURG, BOYLAN, SCHLEFERSTEIN, ROBINSON, WEST, HALL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:52

21 November 1849 --- 21 January 1920

Luther F. Troutman son of Isaac and Eliza Troutman was born in southwestern Pennsylvania on the 21st day of November 1849 He was the fourth of a family of nine children five of which survive him/ He continued to reside with his parents until the death of his father which occurred in May 1860. The following years of his life were spent among strangers in his native state until the spring of 1866 when with the oldest sister he came to Iowa making his home in Benton county for a number of years.

On September 1, 1874 he was united in marriage to Adella J. Jameson. To this union were born five children — Linnie Mae Muilenburg of Beresford, S. Dak., Emma E. Boylan of Hubbard Iowa, Chas. S. Troutman of Ashland, Nebr., Gertrude L. Schleferstein of Spearfish, S. Dak., Luther A. Troutman of Beresford, S.D. The wife and mother went to her eternal reward on March 18, 1917 The following sisters and brothers also survive him: Mrs. T. S. Robinson and Mrs. D. I. West of Oxford, Nebr., Mrs. Kate Hall of Enid, Okla., Jerome Troutman of Mascot, Nebr. and Leander Troutman of Tribbey, Okla.

Besides attending common school in his earlier life he was a student at Mt. Pleasant college in Mt. Pleasant, Penn., Blairstown academy at Blairstown, Iowa and Cornell college at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He spent over seventeen years in public school work serving as city superintendent at Rockford, Spirit Lake, Eagle Grove and other Iowa towns. Rev. Mr. Troutman entered Northwest Iowa conference at its session in Algona, Iowa in 1889 having served the previous year as a supply He was pastor on the following charges: Rock circuits two years; Latimer one year; Havelock and Plover three years; Paullina two years; Hubbard three years; Dows three years; Garner three years; Marathon two years; Aurelia one year; Anthon one year and two years as missionary in the Black Hills S. Dak. conference. In the fall of 1911 he was placed on the retired list at his own request which relation he continued to hold during the remainder of his life. He served the Giltner charge in the Nebraska conference last year.

He left Ashland Thanksgiving week going to visit his daughter at Beresford, S. Dak. and from there to Hubbard, Iowa about the 1st of December. He preached his last sermon at the Methodist Episcopal church in Hubbard the morning of December 21 taking for his text: “The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” The beauty of the handiwork of nature was fully pictured and the glory of it all was given the Creator. In this sermon he gave a strong testimony of the hope that was in him.

His death was caused from diabetes although he enjoyed a fair degree of health until about ten days before his death. He fell asleep on Wednesday, January 21st age 70 years and 2 months. He was not without presentiment that he was near the end both before and at the beginning of his last sickness.

Funeral services were held at Hubbard on Thursday January 22 and burial was made at Vinton, Iowa the following day beside the grave of his life partner who preceded him about three years.

Ashland Gazette --- Ashland, Nebraska
5 February 1920