Iowa
Old Press
The Sioux City Journal, Sunday, August 3, 1902
ONE OF IOWA’S VENERABLE CITIZENS
(photograph of Alfred Lothrop included)
Although he has lived nearly a century, Rev. Alfred Lothrop, of Villisca, Io., father of Capt. J. S. Lothrop, the well known lawyer and veteran of the Civil War, of Sioux City, is still hale and hearty and bids fair to reach the century mark.
Rev. Mr. Lothrop was 92 years of age on March 18. He was born in Rutland, Vt., in 1810. He secured a college education at Waterville, Me., by working his way through to graduation, paying his expenses by the labor given him at the college. He was afterward ordained a Baptist minister and engaged in the ministry continuously until 1848, when his voice became impaired, and he was compelled to retire.
Rev. Mr. Lothrop then took charge of the farm of his wife’s father, Rev. Nathaniel Robinson, a quite noted Baptist minister of his day in Maine. In 1852 he removed with his family to LaSalle county, Ill., and engaged in farming. Later he removed to Villisca, Io.
In spite of his age, Rev. Mr. Lothrop is able to take long walks daily without fatigue, but his sight is considerably impaired as a result of his advanced age.
On his 92d birthday last spring the members of the church to which he now belongs, the Adventist church, presented him with a fine gold headed cane, which now accompanies him on his walks, though a cane he had never carried before.
Rev. Mr. Lothrop’s first wife, who was the mother of his children, died in Illinois in 1883, and he is now living with his second wife.
[transcribed by L.Z. Oct 2020]