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HONORABLE JOHN H. JENKS
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare Resolutions in commemoration of the life and services of the Hon. John H. Jenks, late of Pottawattamie county, beg leave to submit the following report: Mr. Jenks was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, September 25, 1855, and died at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, May 31, 1931, at the age of 75 years. He attended the public schools at Earlville, Illinois, and the University of Chicago for two years. He was a large stock raiser and shipper. His word was as good as his bond. In all his dealings he was honest and upright. In 1892 he became cashier of the Avoca State Bank and in 1900 was elected its president, in which capacity he served until his death. He served as a Representative in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. He was married to Ann Heslet of Mendota, Illinois, in 1881 and at his death lacked but sixteen days of celebrating his fiftieth wedding anniversary. To them was born a son, who died at birth, and a daughter, Mrs. William Knutson, of Hinsdale, Illinois, who survives him.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Forty-fifth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Hon. John H. Jenks the State has lost an honored and valuable citizen, a man of high ideals in Christian living and useful citizenship.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and an enrolled copy be sent to the surviving members of the family.
WM. THIES,
JOHN F. BRADY,
R. G. MOORE,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted April 11, 1933.