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HON. T. W. JOHNSTON.
MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions upon the life, character and public services of Hon. T. W. Johnston, an honored member of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-third General Assemblies, beg leave to report the following:
WHEREAS, The Honorable T. W. Johnston was born in County Mays, Ireland, in 1840, and emigrated to this country at an early age, with his parents, settling at Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended school with the late President McKinley. When he grew to manhood, he came to Iowa, settling on a farm in Dubuque county, where he departed this life on the 30th day of November, 1906, and
WHEREAS, He was very closely identified with the government of his county and state, acting in the capacity of steward of the County Poor Farm for a period of ten years, and representing the county of Dubuque in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-third General Assemblies, 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 deceased.
PHILIP HELES,
G. H. SCHULTE,
JAMES MERCER,
Committee.
Adopted March 26, 1907.