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The makers of
Iowa Methodism: A Biographies submitted by Dick Barton. The name of Joel
Arrington was a household word in Southeastern Iowa for many years.
He came to Iowa in 1837. He had begun his ministry as junior preacher
under the renowned Peter Cartwright in 1833. He is described as "short
and fleshy, weight about two hundred and twenty pounds, round face,
a musical voice, and a ready speaker. He was as fine a specimen of 'laugh
and grow fat' as one ever saw; always genial, always pleasant, he had
a little spice for every occasion, and carried sunshine wherever he
went." He was the first Methodist preacher to move his family to
the Territory of Iowa. He died at Bloomfield, July 20, 1851. |