Representative Anton Hansmann View All Years

HON. ANTON HANSMAN.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable Anton Hansman, of Clinton county, late member of the House, beg leave to report the following memorial:

Anton Hansman was born in Baden, Germany, June 9, 1835, and died at his home at De Witt, Iowa, Sunday March 16, 1913, at the age of seventy-seven years. On May 3, 1862, he was married to Miss Margaret Sophy, who with four children survive him.

Mr. Hansman was elected to the lower house from Clinton county Iowa, as a member of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, and was re­elected as a member of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly, and within these walls he manifested at all times his strong principles of manhood and his true loyality and devotion to the teachings of his sainted mother.

In politics Mr. Hansman was an uncompromising democrat, but at the same time over and above all a lover of his country and its institutions for which he constantly believed his party stood sponsor. Though a farmer by occupation he was always interested in public affairs and held many offices of trust in his community and was careful and painstaking in the discharge of his duties of each. Faithful to every obligation, loyal to his friends, contributing to the happiness of others he was accorded the gratitude of a wide circle of acquaintances. His home life was commendable to a degree that he was a good husband, a kind and indulgent father and ever on the alert for the welfare of his family. Mr. Hansman was a man who was loved and respected by all who knew him. He was an active member of the Roman Catholic Church and took an interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of that organization. So the good man died as he lived, quietly, simply, the smile of good nature upon his face. He died among the scenes he loved, his home. Be it therefore

Resolved, That we as a legislative body, members of the House of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly, bow our heads on this occasion with a deep sense of the states loss over a statesman and a guiding hand and our grief over the loss of a fellow citizen who was so summarily taken from our midst and that we extend to the stricken and mourning wife and children our deep and sincere sympathy, and as they sit by the fireside in their home in ashes of deep affliction, we would convey to them a message of consolation so true and sincere as to touch the deepest chords of their natures, and enable them to realize that in such depths of sadness the whole state is kin. And that all our people bow with them in the great loss that has come to us all in the death of Anton Hansman. 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.

WM. J. GREENE,

J. W. DUNLAP,

A. J. KANE,

Committee.

Adopted April 14, 1913.