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Permanent LinkRepresentative Samuel Bell Downing View All Years
HON. SAMUEL B. DOWNING.
MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to present resolutions on the life, public character and services to his State and Nation of the late Samuel B. Downing of Davis county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
WHEREAS, The life and character of the said decedent were such as to command the love and esteem of his friends, neighbors and the community in which he lived for so many years; and his services to his State and nation as a veteran of the Mexican war, and also the war for the preservation of the Union entitled him to the respect and gratitude of his fellow citizens; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in his death the community in which he resided mourns the loss of an honest, patriotic citizen, and his State the loss of a useful, conscientious and faithful public servant.
Resolved, That in his death his family have been bereft of a kind and affectionate father, and we hereby extend to the sorrowing children our sincere sympathy in this their great affliction; and the Clerk of this House is hereby instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased, and to enter the same upon the Journal of the House.
T. J. PREVO,
G. W. KOONTZ,
L. F. SPRINGER,
Committee
Adopted March 18th.