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HON. PRINCE A. SAWYER.
MR. SPEAKER—Your committee, appointed to prepare and present to this body suitable resolutions regarding the life, character and public service of the Honorable Prince A. Sawyer, beg leave to submit the following report.
Whereas, Hon. Prince A. Sawyer, formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the state of Iowa, passed from this life on October 23, A. D. 1912; and,
Whereas, We deem it proper that public attention be called to a life record which represents a high type of Christian character and patriotic manhood, we present the following facts:
Mr. Sawyer was born in the town of Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine, on June 23, 1847. He received a public school education in his native state, and for a time was a school teacher. He came to Iowa when seventeen years of age, and lived in this state for about two years, when he returned to his native state and engaged in the practice of law. On November 16, 1868, he was married to Miss Elvira Oakes at Phillips, Maine. He held the office of Secretary of State of the state of Maine, and after retiring from that office he returned to Iowa in 1890 and located in Sioux City, where he engaged in the practice of law. He was elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1893, and represented Woodbury County in that body in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly. At the expiration of his term of office he declined re-election, and continued in the practice of law up to the time of his death. Mr. Sawyer always took a leading and active part in church and charitable affairs. He was a consistent and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was one of the founders of Morningside College, which is located at Sioux City. He was an honest, charitable, upright and patriotic citizen, and was admired and respected by all who knew him. He died at Sioux City, Iowa, on October 23, 1912. He leaves surviving him his widow, Mrs. Elvira Sawyer, and one son, Dr. Prince E. Sawyer, both of whom reside at Sioux City. In his death the people of the state lost a faithful and loyal citizen. Therefore be it
Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly of the state of Iowa that we mourn the passing of a good man, a true and upright citizen, and invite attention to his life and character, and we extend our sincere sympathy to his surviving wife and son; and be it further
Resolved, That engrossed copies of these resolutions be prepared and forwarded to the surviving wife, Mrs. Elvira Sawyer, and the surviving son, Dr. Prince E. Sawyer, and that the same be spread upon the Journal of this House.
Respectfully submitted,
E. B. GRIFFIN,
A. B. ELLIOTT,
M. F. THOMPSON,
Committee.
Adopted April 10, 1913.