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Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public service of the Hon. Henry Clay Traverse, one of the pioneer residents of Davis County, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
Whereas, Judge Henry C. Traverse, of Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, departed this life September 24th, 1909, and
Whereas, He was an honored member of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Asembly and of the Senate in the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies of the State of Iowa. In the year 1862 he enlisted in Co. “F” of the 30th Iowa Infantry, after three years’ army service he was honorably discharged and returned to Bloomfield, and began the practice of law, and in the year 1889 was elected circuit judge of the Second Judicial District of Iowa. In 1886 district judge, holding those responsible offices with marked ability for fourten consecutive years, and
Whereas, his life, character, and services to the state and country were such as to entitle him to the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens;
Therefore, be it resolved that in the death of the Hon. Henry C. Traverse the state of Iowa has lost a distinguished legislator, jurist, and patriotic citizen, his city and county a prominent, active, energetic Christan gentleman and his family a kind and indulgent husband and father, therefore be it
Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved companion and children and those near and dear to him our sincere sympathy in their hour of sorrow, and be it further
Resolved, That these resolutions be entered in the Journal of the Senate and the Secretary of Senate be instructed to mail an egrossed copy of these resolutions to the family of the decedent.
L. L. TAYLOR,
P. M. JEWELL,
THOS. H. SMITH,
Committee.