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HON. THOMAS E. JOHNS
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life and service of the Hon. Thomas E. Johns of Keokuk county, member of the House of Representatives in the Nineteenth General Assembly, beg leave to submit the following memorial:
Thomas E. Johns was born in Glanmorganshire, South Wales, July 31, 1846. He emigrated to this country in 1865 and located in Johnson county, Iowa, and engaged in farming.
He was married January 17, 1871, to Margaret A. Baxter. One year later he moved to Keokuk county where he continued his occupation of farming for six years.
He then engaged in merchandising in the little town of Aurora and later, when the B. C. R. & N. R. R. built their branch line to Montezuma, he moved to the newly established town of Keswick where he continued his mercantile business for many years.
In the fall of 1882 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly of the state of Iowa and served one term.
In 1901 he sold out his interests in Keswick and moved to Des Moines. Some time later he purchased a controlling interest in the Prairie City State Bank and continued in the banking business until his death, which occurred at the Colonial Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, March 15, 1929.
Mr. Johns gave to his community, his state and nation, largely of his time, his talents and his love. He sought no greater reward than the reward of faithful friends, which he gained in large measure.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-third General Assembly, That in the passing of Hon. Thomas E. Johns, this assembly express its realization of the loss of a man of strong character and sterling worth, and the House would by this resolution tender sympathy to the family who survives.
RAYMOND JOHNSON,
CHAS. E. BAKER,
AZEL MCILRATH,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted April 8, 1929.