Senator Lloyd Selby View All Years

HON. LLOYD SELBY.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of the Honorable Lloyd Selby, late a member of the Senate in the General Assembly of Iowa, beg leave to respectfully submit the following memorial:

The Honorable Lloyd Selby was born in Licking county, Ohio, November 26, 1833. He came to Wayne county, Iowa, in the spring of 1856 and was married January 20, 1862. He was engaged in the general mercantile, produce and grain business in the town of Corydon for a period of nearly thirty years. He was indeed one of the pioneer merchants of the county, coming to the west as one of the advance guard of civilization. For this work he was abundantly equipped, with a strong body, a clear brain, a warm heart and an intellect, blended with a capacity to do great things. He was early conceded to be a leader among the citizens of his town and community on all questions or matters of public interest to them.

Lloyd Selby was a man of polished and dignified manner, yet he mixed freely with and was universally popular with all the people of his county and many of the early settlers found in him a friend and one who willingly helped them when their need was great. Scores of these early settlers remember and recount with grateful hearts the many, many times that he relieved them in their extremity by extending to them credit until their crops could be marketed. He was noted for his liberality and support of every laudable enterprise for the public good. He built the first brick block on the public square in Corydon in the year 1875 when everything looked dark for the place and when it needed men of heroic mould and indomitable courage to go forward and exemplify to all of the people of the county his abiding faith in the future prosperity of his home town at a time when its destiny was being tested. And when the town was without a railroad, Lloyd Selby was the central figure around which clustered the future welfare of Corydon. He was with one accord elected president of the Wayne County Construction Company, which built the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad from Centerville to Corydon, completing the same in the year 1879.

Lloyd Selby was elected State Senator from the Wayne-Monroe district in 1873, serving in the Fifteenth General Assembly of Iowa. He was a member of the Masonic order and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Corydon where he resided (with the exception of a very few years) as an honored and respected citizen, for nearly half a century. He answered the final summons at 9:15 Monday morning, April 2, 1906. Therefore be it

Resolved: That the foregoing memorial be adopted by the House and that we extend to his son, Mr. F. B. Selby, our sincere sympathy in his sorrow and affliction; and the Chief Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to transmit an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the bereaved family and to enter the same upon the Journal of the House.

W. P. ALLRED,

J. H. DARRAH,

E. J. SANKEY,

Committee