Stoddard, Walter P
clergyman, poet, was born July 4, 1852, in New York city. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native city, and attended the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn.
He has attained success as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He preached in New England until 1891, when he served three years in Oskaloosa, Iowa; and now fills a pastorate in Mt. Peasant, Iowa. He has traveled extensively in Europe; has lectured in many places in his adopted state; and is the author of various papers contributed to current literature; and his poems have appeared in several standard works.