Representative Thomas C. Beach View All Years

HON. THOMAS C. BEACH.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative of the life and character and public service of Honorable Thomas C. Beach, respectfully submit the following report:

Born in Jacksonville, Illinois, January 11, 1831; died in Oskaloosa, January 11, 1906. He was reared on a farm and attended district schools in Illinois. Came to Iowa and entered land in Richland township, Mahaska county, Iowa, in 1853, where he improved a farm and resided thirteen years. Was married to Miss Martha Campbell April 17, 1853, who departed this life February 3, 1904. To them were born five children, four sons and one daughter. Three of his sons and the daughter are respected citizens of Mahaska county. Mark W., Thomas C., Joseph C., and Mary E. Beach, the other son, Luke L., having died.

A stalwart Republican, an honored Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. Six years a justice of the peace, a member of the Christian church, a progressive farmer and a public-spirited citizen.

WHEREAS, The Hon. Thomas C. Beach, an honored member of the Fifteenth and Twenty-fourth General Assemblies of Iowa, and a respected citizen of Mahaska county for more than a half century, passed from earth to his reward July 11, 1906;

WHEREAS, The life and high character of the deceased were such as to entitle him to the respect and esteem of all who knew him, and his services to the State and Nation such as to command the confidence and gratitude of his fellow citizens; therefore, be it

Resolved, That in the death of this public-spirited citizen and legislator the State has lost an influential and upright citizen, his family are bereft of a kind and loving father, and his friends of an honest and esteemed man.

Resolved, That we extend to his children and those nearest him our sincere sympathy in their sorrow and affliction; and the Chief Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to transmit an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the bereaved family and to enter the same on the Journal of this House.

A. F. N. HAMBLETON,

HENRY DUNN,

PHILIP HELES,

Committee.

Adopted January 28, 1907.