Representative William B. Towner View All Years

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William B. Towner

Floyd County

HON. WILLIAM B. TOWNER.

The Hon. William B. Towner, a member of the House of Representatives during the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies, departed this life on the 3rd day of October, 1914, at his home in Charles City, Iowa.

He came to Lake county, Illinois, when he was nineteen years of age, and there in 1856 was united in marriage to Harriet Darby. Mr. and Mrs. Towner went to Floyd county, Iowa, in 1864, and settled on a farm in Cedar township, where they resided until he retired from the farm and went to Charles City.

Mr. Towner was a man who was interested in the civic and social life of the community as well as in his own affairs. During his active life, he served as school director, justice of the peace, which office he filled from 1875 to 1897, trustee, county supervisor of Floyd county, and representative of Floyd county in the state legislature during the terms above mentioned. As a public servant he was affable and obliging, but rigid in his adherence to the right; therefore be it

Resolved, That in his death the state and county have suffered the loss of a worthy and influential citizen, and that we hereby extend to the bereaved relatives and friends our heartfelt sympathy; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the chief clerk transmit an engrossed copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

GEO. H. PURDY,

H. L. WILSON,

P. L. KEPPLE,

Committee.

Adopted unanimously.

House District 85