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HON. WILLIAM BLAIN.

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to draft and present suitable resolutions relative to the life and public services of the late Hon. William Blain, respectfully submit the following:

The Hon. William Blain, who was an honored member of this House in the Nineteenth General Assembly as a representative from Marion county, departed this life at his home in Knoxville, Iowa, on the 31st day of October, A. D., 1905.

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1823, where he resided during his early boyhood, removing to Ohio in 1835, but imbued with the inviting possibilities of the West, he emigrated to our sister state of Illinois in 1850, where he resided until 1855, at which time he settled in Marion county, Iowa.

On August 2, 1862, he responded to the call to arms, and enlisted as a soldier of the Civil War, defending his flag until his discharge on August 9, 1865. By devotion to duty, he advanced from the office of second Lietutenant to that of Captain of his company.

At the close of the war, he returned to his adopted home in our beloved Iowa, devoting his remaining years to the material interests of his home, his family and the community in which he lived. A man of affairs, ever interested in local, state and national questions, a worthy and influential citizen, conscientios, patriotic, and unfaltering in his devotion to the faith of conviction; conservative, yet charitable; a Christian gentleman, whose death is a bereavement and irreparable loss not only to his family, but to all who knew him—a bereavement which cannot be removed by any tribute of ours; nevertheless, we desire to offer our token of esteem and to record our appreciation of the worth of our departed brother and co-worker, who has answered the roll call of the messenger of death beckoning him to the hope beyond the grave; Therefore, be it

Resolved By the House of Representatives of the Thirty-first General Assembly, that

These resolutions be adopted and spread at length upon the Journal; that the chief clerk be directed to forward an engrossed copy to the family of the deceased.

Adopted.

LORENZO D. TETER,

R. M. WRIGHT,

F. M. EPPERSON,