Representative James Harvey Crawford View All Years

HON. JAMES H. CRAWFORD.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions upon the life, character and public services of Hon. James H. Crawford, an honored member of the Fourteenth General Assembly, beg leave to report the following:

WHEREAS, The Honorable James H. Crawford was born near Orleans, Orange county, Indiana, August 29, 1830. He was united in marriage to Mary A. Riley, January 8, 1852, moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, in March of the same year and came to Wayne county in the early part of the year 1853, where he and his good wife settled on a farm in Benton township, where they resided all their remaining days and where he departed this life on the 24th day of June, 1908; and

WHEREAS, He was very closely identified with the pioneer settlers of his community and in the early government of his county and state. He was elected treasurer of the county for the years 1854-5, a member of the county board of supervisors in 1866 and represented Wayne county in the Fourteenth General Assembly, and

WHEREAS, The life and character of the deceased were such as to command the respect and esteem of all who knew him; therefore be it

Resolved: That in his death the county and state have lost a citizen and a man whose life was above reproach; and be it further

Resolved: That we extend to his family and relatives, and to those nearest to him, our heartfelt sympathy and that a copy of these resolutions be entered upon the Journal of the House and the Chief Clerk be instructed to send a copy to the family of the deceased.

W. P. ALLRED,

G. W. KOONTZ,

J. D. ELLIOTT,

Committee.