Representative Charles Linderman View All Years

HON. CHAS. LINDERMAN.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions respecting life, character and public services of the Honorable Charles Linderman, late a member of this House in the Eleventh, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, beg leave to report the following:

The Hon. Charles Linderman was born near Bloomingburg, Orange county, New York, February 4, 1829. He received a common school education in an academy of that state, and in 1851 entered Hamilton College, at Clinton, New York, from which institution he was graduated in 1854. The following year he spent in teaching. In the fall of 1855 he came to Scott county, Iowa. In the spring of 1856 he removed to Nebraska Territory, and that season assisted the government surveyors in establishing the sixth principal meridian. In November of the same year he located in Sidney, Fremont county, Iowa. In April, 1859, he arrived in Page county, and made his home in Clarinda, where he continued to reside until the day of his death, which occurred April 15, 1907, a period of forty years.

In August, 1863, he resigned the office of clerk of the courts and enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighth Iowa Cavalry. He was elected Second Lieutenant of his company and was mustered to active service at Davenport and remained with his company, engaged in the duties of an officer, until it was mustered out of service at Clinton, Iowa, in September, 1865.

On his discharge he immediately returned to Clarinda and at the ensuing election was chosen as a member of the Eleventh General Assembly.

In the fall of 1866 he was elected clerk of the Supreme Court of Iowa and continued in that office for eight years. In January, 1875, he purchased an interest in the First National Bank of Clarinda which, with changes in business, is now known as the Page County State Bank, of which he was president at the time of his death.

Mr. Linderman was again, in 1892, elected by the people of his county as a member of the Legislature, and served in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, serving on many important committees.

From the time of Mr. Linderman’s arrival in Clarinda to the day of his death, he was actively identified in the upbuilding and development of his home town and county; a kindly, generous and gentlemanly man, appreciated and trusted by all who knew him. He was ever willing and ready to assist in every laudable undertaking, and was respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens. His acquaintances became his friends and he retained their confidence to the end.

Mr. Linderman was a prominent Mason, a member of the Loyal Legion, of Warren Post No. 11, G. A. R.; a member of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows fraternities, and through his political, business and social connections, he had an extensive acquaintance throughout the state.

His wife, Mrs. S. E. Linderman, and his only child, Mrs. F. L. Blair of Creston, Iowa, survive him.

Resolved: That in his death his family, to whom we extend our heartfelt sympathy, is deprived of a kind and affectionate husband and father, county and state of a worthy and loyal citizen. The Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the wife and daughter of the deceased, and to enter the same on the Journal of the House.

J. D. ELLIOTT,

W. P. ALLRED,

A. V. PENN,

Committee.