Representative Hilton Miller Letts View All Years

HON. HILTEN M. LETTS.

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions respecting the life, character and public services of the Honorable Hilton M. Letts, also a member of this House in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies, beg leave to report the following:

The Honorable Hilton M. Letts was born near Grandview, Louisa County, May 13, 1854. He was educated in the common schools and high schools of this county, and later attended the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames.

In 1875, he was married to Miss Nellie M. Springer of Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa, daughter of the late Judge Springer. As a man he was actively engaged in farming and feeding, at his home in Columbus City.

For three terms he served as a member of the County Board of Supersors. He was elected and served as a member of the Twenty-eighth and Twnty-ninth General Assemblies. For three years following 1901, he was a manager of the San Pablo Company, a corporation controlling a large plantation in Yucatan, New Mexico. The last five years previous to his death he was manager of the Rocky Mountain Supply Company of Kahlor, New Mexico, and became engaged in live stock and packing house products.

He was a man of strong personality, strong convictions and a lovable man and one of many friends. He was actively identified in the uplifting of his home town and county. He was kind, generous and was appreciated by all who knew him. He was ever willing and ready to assist every laudable undertaking. He was respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens. His acquaintances became his friends and he retained their confidence to the end.

He is survived by a wife, Mrs. Nellie M. Letts, and three children, Mrs. George Remly, Cimmiron, New Mexico, Miss Mary H. Letts and Mr. Warren Letts, Columbus Junction.

Resolved, That in his death his family, to whom we extend our heartfelt sympathy, is deprived of a kind and affectionate husband and father, county and state of a worthy and loyal citizen. The Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the wife and children of the deceased, and to enter the same on the Journal of the House.

JAMES M. BROCKWAY,

C. J. FULTON,

G. W. KOONTZ,

Committee.

Adopted.