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HONORABLE J. D. MORRISON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Honorable J. D. Morrison of Grundy county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:
J. D. Morrison was born at Pittsfield, Illinois, on December 4, 1850. He received his initial education at a district school near his home. He also attended commercial college in Quincy, Illinois. After his graduation from that school he moved to Clinton county, Iowa, where he taught school for several years. In 1883 he was married to Carrie Atwood and to this union there was born one daughter and one son. Mr. Morrison moved to Reinbeck immediately after his marriage, where he was employed as a bookkeeper. Later he entered the insurance and real estate business and carried on this work for many years.
Mr. Morrison lived an active and full life. He was consistently elected a delegate to the Republican party’s county convention. During President Taft’s administration he served as postmaster at Reinbeck. He was also a member of many organizations, one of which was the Reinbeck I. O. O. F. Lodge.
Mr. Morrison represented Grundy county in the state Legislature during the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-sixth Extra General Assemblies. As a public servant his first thought was always of the sense of duty he owed to the people of the state as a whole rather than to some group which was seeking a special advantage for themselves.
Mr. Morrison passed away March 1, 1939, at the age of eighty-eight years.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That the state has lost a valued and beloved citizen, and the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, its sincere, heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
C. W. ROSS,
HENRY W. BURMA,
DEAN W. PEISEN,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.