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GEORGE FRANKLIN COBURN
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee which was appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character, and services of the late George Franklin Coburn of Marcus, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
George Franklin Coburn was born at Belvidere, Illinois, on the twelfth day of May, 1856. At the age of twenty-one years he moved to Iowa and located upon a farm near Marcus. Later in the same year Mr. Coburn married Mary Ann Pettengill. To this union were born five children.
He was the proud owner of a stretch of prairie which was transformed largely by his own personal labor into one of the best farms in Iowa. Upon this same farm Mr. Coburn passed away on the seventeenth day of March, 1929. From this farm home the funeral party proceeded on the twenty-first day of March to the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church. Inside accommodations were available to less than one-half of the crowd of friends who had gathered. Interment was made in the little cemetery near the church. Mr. Coburn was one of the founders of this cemetery in earlier years.
Mr. Coburn was very active in all the interests of his community, both civic and social. He belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of Marcus, also was a member of the Masonic Lodge of that place. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies. He was a member of the Iowa Senate in the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies. Mr. Coburn was a respected and influential participant in the affairs of republican politics in northwest Iowa.
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Forty-third General Assembly of Iowa, That in the death of George Franklin Coburn the state and the community where he lived have suffered the loss of an influential and honorable citizen; and,
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send an engrossed copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
LEW MACDONALD,
F. C. GILCHRIST,
B. M. STODDARD,
Committee.