Senator Mark Antony Dashiell View All Years

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed on the part of the House to draft suitable resolutions on the life, character and public services of the Honorable Mark A. Dashiell of Indianola, Warren County, Iowa, respectfully submit the following report:

Mark A. Dashiell was born at Moore’s Hill, Dearborn County, Indiana, October 7, 1826, and was one of a family of fifteen children, two brothers surviving him. Doctor Dashiell graduated from Indianapolis High School and finally from the Medical College of Indianapolis, and practiced medicine two years in his native County. He moved to Iowa in 1853, locating at Hartford, Warren County. He was united in marriage to Miss Louisiana Noble, daughter of Doctor Noble of Indianapolis. Doctor Dashiell left surviving him his wife and two daughters, Mrs. Suel J. Spaulding of Des Moines and Mrs. F. S. Burberry of Indianola, Iowa. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Hartford in his early life, and later of the Presbyterian Church of Indianola, of which church he was a liberal supporter and faithful member at the time of his death. Doctor Dashiell resided in Warren County for more than fifty years, practicing medicine the entire time. He had held many places of public trust and honor, having been a member of the Board of Pension Examiners since 1863, when he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln. He was active in political life. Men of all parties loved and honored him regardless of his political faith. He served as Representative in the Twelfth General Assembly and in 1872 was elected to the State Senate, serving four years, and was re-elected in 1878 for a second term. He was again called upon to represent his County in the House of Representatives in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies. He was always trusted and honored by his fellow lawmakers, was placed on important committees and was chairman of the committee which presented the prohibition amendment to the Legislature. During his public life he had served for ten years as a Trustee of the State Industrial Schools, which he was largely instrumental in establishing. He was a prominent member of the Pioneer Lawmakers’ Association, besides being a trusted public servant, for which he had obtained the highest respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He was a good private citizen, clean and trustworthy, and his private life was above reproach. He departed this life July 3, 1907.

Resolved, By the House, That we owe to the late Doctor Mark A. Dashiell a debt of gratitude for the public services and trust that he has performed to the State which can never be paid, and that in the death of this patriotic citizen the State has lost an honored and influential and upright man.

Resolved further, That these resolutions be entered upon the Journal of the House and that an engrossed copy be presented to the family of the deceased by the Clerk of this House.

JAS. H. JAMISON,

C. J. A. ERICKSON,

Committee of the Senate.

CLINT L. PRICE,

E. W. WEEKS,

G. H. VAN HOUTEN,

Committee of the House.

Adopted.