Representative Jeremiah M. Wilson View All Years

HON. JERRY M. WILSON.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft and present resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public service of the Hon. Jerry M. Wilson, late a member of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-eighth General Assembly, beg leave to submit the following as their report:

Jerry M. Wilson was born in Canaen, Indiana, July 16, 1842, and came to Jefferson County, Iowa, with his parents when sixteen months old. He settled in Union township, Adair county, in 1853, where his home continued to be until the time of his death. He left a wife, Laura Darby Wilson, and two sons and two daughters: Mrs. Elmer Maish, Eugene, Clarence and Mamie.

Mr. Wilson served in the civil war in Company I, of the 4th Iowa Cavalry, September 24, 1862, and was honorably discharged June 17, 1885. He was a member of the Masonic order and a member of the Methodist church.

He served as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Adair county for six years, being elected in 1890. He was elected as a republican member of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly from Adair county in 1899 and in 1901 refused the second nomination.

He was president and director of the bank at Macksburg and he was prominently identified with the project of building the railroad from Creston to Des Moines. He was a public spirited man and did much toward the upbuilding of Adair county, and that part of Iowa. Mr. Wilson was a kindly, generous man, sympathetic and helpful to his fellowmen and will long be remembered and spoken of in terms of respect.

Whereas, On June 16, 1910, Mr. Wilson met a tragic death while enroute home from a business trip to Macksburg, being struck by lightning in a barn owned by Mr. Townsend, in which he had sought shelter from a storm, his life, character and service to the state were such as to entitle him to the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, therefor be it

Resolved, That in his death the State and County in which he resided lost a worthy and upright citizen and an honest, conscientious and honorable man and we hereby extend to his bereaved wife and relatives our heartfelt sympathy in their sorrow, and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House of Representatives and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the wife of the deceased.

G. W. VAN CAMP,

D. P. HOGAN,

H. K. DEWEY,

Committee.