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JOHN P. CRUIKSHANK
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable John P. Cruikshank, begs leave to submit the following report:
John P. Cruikshank who represented Lee county in the Twenty-eighth and the Twenty-ninth General Assemblies was born in Franklin township, Lee county, Iowa, on June 22, 1852. He passed away at his home in Fort Madison, on April 16, 1944, at the age of 91 years.
He attended Howe’s Academy, Kirksville Teachers’ College and also College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa.
In 1881 to 1883 he taught school. In 1883 he became Recorder of Lee county. In 1887 he engaged in the Real Estate and Abstract business which business he continued till the time of his death.
He was married June 18, 1889, to Martha Ball.
He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Mrs. Molly L. Meinzer, both of whom live in Fort Madison, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Home of Representatives of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of the late John P. Cruikshank, the State has lost a valued and honored citizen, and the House of the Fifty-first General Assembly tenders by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving relatives.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the House Journal and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the widow and the daughter of the deceased.
THOMAS W. WELLINGTON,
BERT E. DODDS,
O. C. WILLIAMS,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted,