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HENRY T. SABERSON

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable Henry T. Saberson, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following: report:

Henry T. Saberson, son of Torgus and Betsy Saberson, was born in Rock county, Wisconsin, November 28, 1851, his parents having come from Norway in 1839.

In 1875 Mr. Saberson settled in northwest Iowa where he engaged in the hardware business and later associated with a bank as cashier.

He was married March 27, 1879, to Etta Bradfield, daughter of a Christian minister, and also a pioneer of northwest Iowa. Four daughters were born, three of whom with their mother still survive: Mrs. Nina Hohberger and Miss Lulu Grace Saberson, both of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. Ora J. Ryan of San Francisco, California.

Mr. Saberson served in the state legislature as Representative from Buena Vista county during the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies. In 1901 he accepted a position in the office of the secretary of state, which he held 18 years. When the legislature passed the “blue sky” laws, he was appointed special examiner for the executive council. Eight years later he retired.

He was a member of the Capital Lodge No. 110 A.F. & A.M., the Des Moines Consistory and Plymouth Congregational church, and at the time of his death was vice president of the Iowa Pioneer Law Makers Association, and never missed a session of this association until this year.

Mr. and Mrs. Saberson celebrated their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary the day before his death.

He passed away at the age of ninety-one after a two weeks’ illness at his home in Des Moines, and was laid to rest in Woodland cemetery.

In his commercial and in his public life he made valuable contributions to the welfare of the state of Iowa and continued his interest in good government and public affairs until the very end.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftieth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Henry T. Saberson the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family, and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

SAM OREBAUGH,

TED SLOANE,

OSCAR PETERSON,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted,