Representative John Campbell Kennan View All Years

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John Campbell Kennan

Benton County

HON. JOHN C. KENNAN.

MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee appointed to present resolutions on the life, public character and service to the State and Nation of the late Captain John C. Kennan, an honorable member of the Twenty-second General Assembly of Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:

WHEREAS, The life and character of the said deceased were such as to commend the love and esteem of his friends, neighbors and the community in which he lived so many years and his service to his State and Nation as a veteran of the Civil War for the preservation of the Union entitled him to the respect and gratitude of his fellow citizens; Therefore be it

Resolved, That in his death the community in which he resided mourns the loss of an honest patriotic citizen, and his State the loss of a useful conscientious and faithful public servant.

Resolved, That in his death his family have been bereft of a kind and affectionate father and husband, and we hereby extend to the widow and children our sincere sympathy in this their great affliction, and that the Clerk of this House hereby is instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased and to enter the same upon the Journal of the House.

M. F. MCNIE,

J. I. NICHOLS,

JOHN MCALLISTER,

Committee.

Adopted Jan. 25, 1906.

House District 49