Representative Smith Henderson Mallory View All Years

HON. S. H. MALLORY.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions on the life, character and public services of Hon. S. H. Mallory, respectfully submit the following:

Hon. Smith Henderson Mallory, who was an honored and trusted member of this House in the Seventeenth General Assembly, departed this life at his home in Chariton, Iowa, on the 26th day of March, A. D. 1903.

A native of the Empire State, in his boyhood be became an adopted son of our sister State, Illinois, and in his young manhood he cast in his lot with the hardy pioneers of our own beloved State, where he lived and labored for its highest development on the lines of material and intellectual progress, until he had reached the alloted three score and ten, becoming a commanding character of more than State wide interest and affection.

He was an educated gentleman himself, and an earnest friend of education, and of all that education and cultured intellect implies.

Devoting his life to the work of building up the material prosperity of the great West, endowed with constructive genius and executive ability, in a degree that was equalled by few men of his day and generation; in his death progress and material growth has lost a potent and powerful worker.

Patriotic and public spirited, loyal and true, liberal yet positive, conservative, yet progressive, the public service has lost in him a wise counselor, an earnest and honest worker, in all matters of public and political import.

Unfaltering in his devotion to the interests of the local community in which he lived, his friends and neighbors have suffered an irreparable loss, and mourn the dispensation that removed from them the strong will, the trained mind and sympathetic heart, on which they were wont to rely and to which they were accustomed to appeal, and to which they instinctively turned for advise, counsel, aid and sympathy in times of emergency.

An indulgent, loving, yet wise and just head of a happy home, his death is a bereavement to a family whose grief cannot be assuaged or even lessened by an offering of ours, yet we venture to offer to them our feeble and inadequate tribute and token of our respect for our honored dead, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of the Thirtieth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That this memorial be adopted, spread at length upon our Journal, and that an engrossed copy hereof, attested by the Speaker and Clerk of the House, be presented with our profound sympathy to the family of our honored and trusted brother and fellow-worker.

ELI MANNING,

N. E. KENDALL,

M. L. TEMPLE,

Committee.

Adopted March 31st.