Representative Gillum Solon Toliver View All Years

HONORABLE G. S. TOLIVER

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life and service of the Honorable G. S. Toliver, late of Greene county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following memorial:

G. S. Toliver was born in Owen county, Indiana, on February 11, 1840. His parents left Indiana in a covered wagon, pulled by a yoke of oxen, in the year 1848, with their five children and finally settled in Iowa, being the tenth family to make their home in Greene county.

His early education consisted mostly of attendance of winter terms. In 1860 he walked to Ottumwa to take an examination that would enable him to teach. After teaching in Wapello county for one year he spent a few months at Western College previous to entering the army. He served one year, then being discharged for disability. In 1862 he pursued a literary course at the Iowa State University, and then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, for a short period he studied law. He then served two years as Greene county surveyor, one term as county treasurer. In 1869 he was elected to the Thirteenth General Assembly of Iowa, of which he was the last surviving member. He formed his law partnership with John J. Russell in the year 1870, this continuing until the death of Mr. Russell in 1901.

In 1873 he was wedded to Miss Belle Blake, and to them were born two daughters, now Mrs. Iris Milligan of Jefferson, and Mrs. Portia Goke of Cordell, Oklahoma. Mrs. Toliver passed away in January, 1909.

Mr. Toliver was a typical product of his day and generation, representing the best type of the sons and daughters of the early pioneers who made a valuable contribution to Iowa history. He was one of nature's noble men, honest, broadminded, clean and square. He was possessed of more than ordinary abilities as an attorney, and had an exalted idea of the obligations of his profession. To all of his public services and to all of his private affairs he brought the same character and fine regard for the highest ethics of his profession.

Mr. Toliver passed away on October 24, 1933, and was buried under direction of the Masonic Order.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-fifth General Assembly, Extra Session, of the State of Iowa, That the foregoing memorial be adopted as its appreciation of the life and public service of the Honorable G. S. Toliver.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of this House, and an enrolled copy sent to the family of the deceased.

S. B. CROUCH,

EARL M. DEAN,

ROY J. SOURS,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, March 7, 1934.