Representative James Bridges View All Years

HON. JAMES BRIDGES.

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, heretofore appointed to draft suitable resolutions respecting the life and character and public service of the Hon. James Bridges of Mahaska county, beg leave to submit the following:

WHEREAS, The Hon. James Bridges, an honored member of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth General Assemblies, departed this life at his home in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on February 23, 1906, and

WHEREAS, We recognize the fidelity and integrity with which he discharged his duty in all stations of life; his efficient and honorable public career; that his private life was above reproach and that his courteous and manly character gained for him the confidence, respect and esteem of friends, neighbors and those associated with him in every walk of life; therefore be it

Resolved, That in his death the family are bereaved of a kind and affectionate husband and father and the community in which he lived an upright and trusted patriotic citizen, a sturdy pioneer of the county who by his private and public life assisted materially in the development of this great state and particularly of the county in which he resided since the year 1849.

Resolved, That we extend to the family of the deceased, who are afflicted with sorrow, our earnest heartfelt sympathy in their sad affliction; and request the clerk of the House to transmit an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the bereaved widow and family and the same be spread upon the Journal of this House as part of its records.

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A. F. N. HAMBLETON,

F. M. EPPERSON,

THOMAS GENEVA,

Committee.

Adopted March 9, 1906.