Representative George Worth Schee View All Years

HON. GEORGE W. SCHEE

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life and service of Hon. George W. Schee, late of O’Brien county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following memorial:

Hon. George W. Schee was born near Alexandria, Missouri, June 15, 1847, and died at National City, California, February 9, 1926.

He removed to Mahaska county, Iowa, in 1861. He enlisted in Company C, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, March 21, 1864. On July 12, 1965, he was transferred to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth Iowa Infantry Consolidated, and was mustered out August 15, 1865, at Houston, Texas.

In 1871 he removed to O’Brien county and entered and later proved up on a United States homestead in Carroll township, that county. He went through all the pioneer hardships and experiences of those years in that vicinity, his principal occupations being farming and school­teaching. He was a leader in the struggle of the settlers to adjust the payment of a debt imposed on the country in its beginning. He served as county auditor from 1875 to 1878, inclusive. He was admitted to the bar in 1881, but never entered into general practice.

He was elected representative in 1883, 1885, 1908 and 1910, serving in the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth General Assemblies.

About the time he left the office of county auditor he engaged in the loan business, handling money for loan companies, and built up a large, lucrative business, and became owner of some 3,000 acres of land in Iowa, and about 1,000 acres in Minnesota.

Mr. Schee was a man of intense patriotism and believed that patriotism should be taught to the youth, and he donated large sums of money for the purpose of having a flag placed on each schoolhouse in Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the Forty-second General Assembly of the state of Iowa takes this occasion to present this tribute to his memory and express its appreciation of his worthy, charitable and public service.

Be It Further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on the records of this House, and an enrolled copy thereof be sent to the family of the deceased.

G. W. SMITH,

HARRY F. COPELAND,

J. A. KING,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted April 6, 1927.