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HONORABLE ROBERT HUFSCHMIDT
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and service of the Honorable Robert Hufschmidt, late of Allamakee county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
Robert Hufschmidt was born in Rouchrath, Germany, September 22, 1844, coming to this country at the age of nineteen. He lived for some years in Wisconsin but removed to Lansing, Iowa, in 1879, where he maintained his home until the time of his death which occurred on May 29, 1936.
Mr. Hufschmidt was always deeply interested in civic and political affairs, serving as mayor several times, as postmaster during both of the Cleveland administrations, and as representative from Allamakee county in the lower house of the Twenty-ninth General Assembly as a democrat.
For many years Mr. Hufschmidt was agent of the American Express Company. Later he was engaged in the grain business, and still later in the farm machinery business until his retirement at the age of eightythree years. At the time of his death he was in his ninety-second year.
His death left a gap in his community that is not likely to be soon filled. He served his community and his state, and served them well, and Iowa has lost a valuable citizen.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh General Assembly, That the state has lost a valued and beloved citizen, and the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, the sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
OVE T. ROE,
JOE FLYNN,
OTTO FUELLING,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.