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JOHN RYDER.

MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee, appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the life, character, and public services of the Honorable John Ryder, respectfully report as follows:

John Ryder, who was a member of this body in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, died at Vinton, August 13, 1911, the day he completed his eightieth year. Mr. Ryder was a native of the state of Ohio, born near Tiffin. He got the ordinary schooling of the locality and, reaching manhood, went into mercantile business, and bought and shipped grain extensively, having two elevators. In 1870 he came to Iowa and engaged in buying and shipping butter, eggs and country produce, and did at one time a business of the kind hardly surpassed in volume in this state, shipping to the great markets east and west. Mr. Ryder was for one term a member of the Ohio legislature. After coming to Iowa he was elected to the House of Representatives of this state. In 1883 he was chosen senator. Politically, he had been a republican until the presidential campaign of 1872, when he supported Horace Greeley; thereafter he acted with the democratic party and was the first democrat chosen to the legislature for many years from Benton county.

November 14, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Tyler of Fremont, Ohio.

Resolved, That these sentiments be entered upon the Senate Journal and an engrossed copy, duly authenticated, be sent to Mr. Ira Mitchell, Vinton, Iowa, and a copy to the Vinton Eagle.

A. L. AMES,

JOHN L. WILSON,

E. L. CROW,

Committee.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously by a rising vote.