Representative William Alonzo Davie View All Years

HON. W. A. DAVIE

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life and public service of the late Honorable W. A. Davie of Dunlap, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:

W. A. Davie was born near Pontiac, in Livingston County, Illinois, October 13, 1855, a son of John T. and Hannah (Hoskins) Davie, and died at Dunlap, Iowa, April 17, 1929.

He came to Crawford county in 1861 with his parents and received his early education in the district school of Boyer township and continued at home until his maturity. In 1876 he began farming on his own account in which he was highly successful, making a specialty of stock raising. After retiring from the farm, he became manager of the Farmers Co-operative Lumber Company of Dunlap. He was one of the organizers of the company and was its first president. Mr. Davie also was one of the organizers of the Kiron Mutual Insurance Company, which was since taken over by the Farmers Mutual Fire and Tornado Insurance Association of the same place. He served as director of the latter company until his death.

On October 29, 1876, Mr. Davie was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Fullerton, a native of Ohio, and five children were born to this union. The mother of these children was called by death on April 29, 1904, and Mr. Davie was subsequently married to Mrs. Florence (Painter) Griffith.

In political affairs Mr. Davie supported the democratic party and took an active part in its campaigns. He served in the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Thirtieth and Thirty-first Iowa State General Assemblies, and also was elected to fill a vacancy, in the Twenty-ninth General Assembly, discharging his duties most effectively. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors of Crawford County and has also held different township offices.

Fraternally he was connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges.

Mr. Davie was of a kindly and genial temperament, took an active part in public affairs and made many friends. He was a good, honest citizen, and his record stands high in the annals of his community.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the foregoing memorial be adopted as its appreciation of the life and public service of the Honorable W. A. Davie.

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

H. C. FINNERN,

GEO. E. MILLER,

HUGH J. TAMISIEA,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted April 13, 1931.