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ELBERT HAMILTON HUBBARD.

MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the Hon. Elbert Hamilton Hubbard, of Woodbury county, late a member of the Senate, beg leave to submit the following report:

Elbert Hamilton Hubbard was born in Rushville, Indiana, August 19, 1849; he died at Sioux City, Iowa, June 3, 1912. He was a son of Hon. Asabel W. Hubbard, a member of congress from Sioux City, then in the Sixth Iowa District, from 1863 to 1869.

Mr. Hubbard was privately prepared and educated at Yale, graduating in 1872. He soon thereafter entered the law office of Hon. Constant R. Marks as a student, was admitted to the bar and became associated with his preceptor in 1874, withdrawing to practice alone. In 1878 the firm of Hubbard, Spalding & Taylor was established, in which he was the leading member until his joining with Craig L. Wright in 1890, under the style of Wright & Hubbard. To this firm Mr. A. F. Call was admitted in 1896 and the style changed to Wright, Call & Hubbard, remaining so until Mr. Hubbard withdrew in 1902 to enter the firm of Hubbard & Burgess. In public service Mr. Hubbard first entered the Iowa Legislature as a representative in the Nineteenth General Assembly in 1882. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1899, serving through the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. He was elected to Congress four times, serving through the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses with great credit. He expired on the day he received notice of his nomination for the fifth time to the office.

On June 6, 1882, Mr. Hubbard married Miss Eleanor H., daughter of Nathanial R. and Charlotte Kirtland Cobb, to which union were born two sons and two daughters.

Mr. Hubbard’s life was an active one. He was a public spirited citizen and his influences were always for the best. Energy, activity and integrity of purpose marked all of the efforts of his life. He was a most genial and kindly man. He loved his friends and did not hate his enemies. He was earnest and uncompromising in his convictions, yet did not antagonize unduly. His mind was clear; his life honorable; his thoughts pure. He held advanced opinions and maintained those opinions with tireless energy. In his services in both branches of the State Legislature and in the National House of Representatives, he was ever willing to work in behalf of his people. His very presence in an assembly brought cheer and good and wholesome thoughts. His life may be found an example which the youth of our state could well seek to emulate.

In the moment of victory, while congratulations were being showered upon him, death overtook him, and without fear, and with a smile, he passed into the great beyond. All honor be to the name of Elbert Hamilton Hubbard. In his death Iowa has lost one of her best citizens—a man beloved by all; and in honor of his memory be it

Resolved, That in his death the state and nation have lost a worthy and upright citizen, an honest and fearless statesman and an honorable man, and we hereby extend to the bereaved family and friends our sincerest sympathy; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in the Journal of the Senate and the Secretary of State be directed to forward an engrossed copy to the family of the deceased.

E. P. FARR,

N. BALKEMA,

L. E. FRANCIS,

Committee.

These resolutions were adopted unanimously by a rising vote.