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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/6/1900
Birth Place: Tondern, Germany
Party Affiliation:
People’s Party
Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 11 (1866) - 14 (1872)
Home County: Scott
Matthias Jensen Rohlfs
Scott County

Calderwood of Scott offered the following resolutions, and moved their adoption:

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to present resolutions respecting the life and public services of the late Mathias J. Rohlfs of Scott county, beg leave to submit the following:

WHEREAS, The Hon. Mathias J. Rohlfs, an honored member of the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth General Assemblies, departed this life at his home in the city of Davenport, September 6, 1900, after a long and useful life; therefore be it

Resolved, That in his death the state has lost a citizen who was ever honorable and upright, and one whose work was always for the betterment and uplifting of mankind.

Resolved, That this Assembly extend to the bereaved family our sincere sympathy, and the Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to them, and that they be printed in the Journal of the House.

M. H. CALDERWOOD,

CHAS. MORDHORST,

SAMUEL A. MOORE,

Committee.

Adopted.

Sources:
Text above from 29 GA (1902) House Journal Memorial Resolution
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