Senator Harvey Southmit Brunson View All Years

Senator Wilson of Fayette, from the committee appointed to draft suitable resolutions respecting the death of the late Hon. Harvey S. Brunson of Fayette County, Iowa, submitted the following report and moved its adoption:

RESOLUTIONS.

MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Harvey S. Brunson, late of Fayette county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:

Rev. Harvey S. Brunson, late of Fayette, Iowa, was born at Euclid near Cleveland, Ohio, May 10, 1814. About 1840 he moved to the state of Illinois in which year he entered the ministry, uniting with the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1850, he came with his family and settled in Fayette County, Iowa, in which county he resided continuously up to the time of his death, which occurred December 8, 1905, having attained the advanced age of ninety-one years. After coming to Iowa he continued in the ministry for many years and at one time was presiding Elder, when his district included the larger part of North-eastern Iowa. He afterwards engaged in industrial and commercial pursuits.

He was a member of this Senate in the Ninth and Tenth General Assemblies in 1862 and 1864, representing Fayette County as his district. He possessed a clear analytical mind, up to the time of his death. He was a logical, forceful speaker, an able preacher, an efficient legislator, a devoted husband and father and a worthy citizen.

Therefore, in recognition of the life and character and worthy services of the deceased, be it

Resolved, That we extend to his family our sincere sympathy in their bereavement.

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the Journal of the Senate and that an engrossed copy be presented to the family of the deceased by the Secretary of the Senate.

A. C. WILSON,

B. W. NEWBERRY,

L. L. TAYLOR,

Committee.