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HON. ROBERT B. WARREN.
MR. SPEAKER—Your special committee, appointed to draft resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable Robert B. Warren, respectfully submit the following report:
WHEREAS, The Honorable Robert B. Warren, one of the pioneers of central Iowa, who was born in Knox county, Tennessee, March 16, 1829, receiving his education at Holston college in that State, and who removed to Iowa in 1844, locating first in Lee county, but removing later to Mahaska county in 1846, where he resided as an honored and respected citizen for nearly half a century, departing this life at his home on June 19, 1906, in Des Moines, where he had removed, and
WHEREAS, The life and character of deceased were such as to entitle him to the respect and esteem of all who knew him, being a Representative in the Eighteenth General Assembly of Iowa, a member of the Masonic order, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in good standing for more than fifty years, and of the Tippecanoe club, and a man beloved by all who knew him for his generous and kindly heart, his sterling integrity and uprightness of life, therefore be it
Resolved, That we extend to his family and especially to Senator J. L. Warren, his son, now an honored member of the Senate of this General Assembly, our sincere sympathy in their sorrow and affliction; and the Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to transmit an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the bereaved family and to enter the same upon the Journal of the House.
A. F. N. HAMBLETON,
JOHN B. SULLIVAN,
W. H. HICKEY,
Committee.
Adopted February 15, 1907.