Representative George Morton Anderson View All Years

HONORABLE G. M. ANDERSON

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable G. M. Anderson of Lyon County, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:

Honorable G. M. Anderson, who represented the Thirty-first District in the House of Representatives, which district at that time was composed of Lyon and Osceola counties, in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies, was born February 13, 1861, on a farm in the state of New York. In 1876 his family moved to eastern Iowa, and again moved in 1879 to Lyon County, Iowa, locating in the town of Inwood. He was married July 29, 1885, to Carrie L. Baker and they continued to reside at Inwood until his death, which occurred in the early part of December, 1923.

During his life Mr. Anderson always contributed generously to his community, always willing to help and serve its best interests. He was mayor of Inwood, city treasurer and served on the board of education at various times. At the time of his death he was president of the Inwood Commercial Club and treasurer of the Northwestern Building and Loan Association, which office he held for many years. He was generally known by his friends and neighbors by his genial and cheerful disposition; glad to be of service to everyone, to his county, state and nation. In politics he was a democrat and carried his district by a large majority, which district was in most cases republican in politics. His sterling manhood and well known integrity recognized in Des Moines as well as by his home people and was reelected for his second term.

In business he was associated with his brother for twenty years in the grain and hardware business, and sold out to take charge of the Farmers National Bank at Inwood, Iowa, of which institution he was the executive head at the time of his death.

Mr. Anderson was a member of the Presbyterian church and was also affiliated with the Odd Fellows and Masonic Fraternities. He was loved and respected by all who knew him and at the time of his death, it came as a very sudden shock to the people of his community, who suspended business for the balance of the day, which showed the great respect people had for him.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Forty-first General Assembly, that in the passing of Honorable G. M. Anderson, this assembly express its realization of the loss of one of the leaders in the state, a man of strong character and sterling worth, a man of high ideals in Christian living, and the House would tender by this resolution its sympathy to the family who survives.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House of Representatives and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to forward an engrossed copy of the same to the family of the deceased

O. J. REIMERS,

W. WALTER WILSON,

Z. S. RATLIFF,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted March 30, 1925.