Representative John C. Donahey View All Years

HON. JOHN C. DONAHEY.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public service of the Honorable John C. Donahey, late a member of the House of Representatives in the Nineteenth General Assembly, died at his home in Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, after a lingering illness, on March 26, A. D. 1907.

Be It Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa has heard with deep sorrow and regret the death of Iowa’s distinguished son and former Representative, and that in his death the commonwealth mourns the loss of one of her honorable and patriotic sons.

John C. Donahey was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in the year 1832, and died at the advanced age of seventy-four years. He enlisted as a volunteer in the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Infantry, and was a brave soldier. He removed to Muscatine county, Iowa, in the year 1866, living there until 1883, and during that time he was a member of the Nineteenth General Assembly, having a seat in the House of Representatives.

In 1883, when he removed to Jasper county, he settled on a farm near Newton. He retired from active business in 1892, locating in Newton, where he lived at the time of his death. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Jasper county from 1891 to 1897. In connection with his legislative experience he was active in the passage of the prohibitory amendment.

Be It Further Resolved, That the General Assembly takes this occasion to testify its high appreciation of the exalted character and distinguished public service of John C. Donahey, and hereby extends to his bereaved family its sincere sympathy in their sorrow and affliction, and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be properly engrossed, authenticated by the Speaker and Clerk of the House, and sent to the members of his family.

J. F. OFFILL,

ERNEST R. MOORE,

JNO. B. SULLIVAN,

Committee.

Adopted April 2, 1907.