Representative Lemuel Dwelle View All Years

HON. LEMULE DWELLE.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life and work of the Hon. Lemuel Dwelle, late of Worth county, Iowa, beg leave to report the following memorial:

Lemuel Dwelle was born in Washington county, New York, August 16, 1824 and passed away at his home in Northwood Iowa, February 8, 1917. He was married to Miss Hattie Edwards of East Troy, Wis., the 30th of December 1875, who is now left to sorrow for the one loved and “not lost but gone before.”

The only child born to this union died in infancy.

Mr. Dwelle settled in Worth county in 1856, purchasing several hundred acres of land and platting the town of Northwood, now the county seat of Worth county.

He was elected to membership in the House of Representatives in the 11th general asembly and to the Senate in the 16th and 17th general asemblies.

The deceased became a member of the Masonic order in Osage, Iowa, in 1865 and was at the time of his death the third oldest Mason in the state of Iowa.

Although he had lived 22 years past the alloted time of man, he continued to manage his large financial interests to the very last.

Mr. Dwelle was a charter member of the Northwood Baptist church and was what the name Christian implies in its highest and noblest sense.

He was honored and loved and respected by his neighbors far and near. His life has spoken: the impress for good will live.

To honor his memory, it is therefore

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an engrossed copy to the widow of the deceased.

J. M. SLOSSON,

STANLEY SMITH,

J. H. ANDERSON,

Committee.

Adopted March 23, 1917.