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Pardon A. Smith

Greene County

HON. P. A. SMITH.

MR. SPEAKER: Whereas, Honorable P. A. Smith, a member of this House in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh General Assemblies, passed from this life to the rewards of a higher existence on December 25, 1910, and

Whereas, We deem it meet and proper that public attention be called to a life record which so clearly and nobly represents a high type of Christian manhood, we recite the following facts:

Pardon A. Smith was born in Ogle county, Illinois, on September 1, 1840. His boyhood and young manhood days were spent upon the farm. His scholastic training was in the rural schools, but his education was in the great forum of human experience, where he was a close observer, a keen thinker, a champion of the best things in our civilization. As a soldier during the Civil War his record was one of distinguished gallantry; as a public servant in many positions, little and great, he was faithful to his own lofty standards of morality, of upright honesty, and of courageous loyalty to the interests of the people. His able record as a newspaper publisher, as a legislator, and as a member of the State Board of Parole, is written across the history of his times. He lived up to his opportunities; he carried forward the torch of human enlightenment; he stood, as the poet has said:

“For the truth that lack assistance,

For the wrong that needs resistance,

For the future in the distance

And the good that we can do.”

In view of these facts, so briefly and inadequately presented, be it

Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Thirty-fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, that we mourn in his death the passing of a good man; that we invite attention to his life and character as worthy of emulation; that we express our sincere sympathy to the surviving family who have loved and lost a devoted husband and father, and be it further

Resolved, That engrossed copies of these resolutions be prepared and forwarded to the surviving wife, Mrs. Alice M. Smith, and to the oldest son, Lowery W. Smith, and that the same be spread upon the Journal of the House.

PAUL E. STILLMAN,

W. W. GOODYKOONTZ,

W. J. DIXON,

Committee.

Adopted.

House District 54