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HONORABLE CYRUS L. STRATTON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare memorial resolutions, commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable Cyrus L. Stratton, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:
Cyrus L. Stratton was born in Wayne County, Ohio, December 18, 1843, and died at his home in Red Oak, Iowa, July 6, 1923. He received his education in the public schools and later in the Canaan Academy and Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio, after which he engaged in teaching and farming. In 1867 he became a licensed minister and was ordained local Deacon in 1884.
He came to Iowa in the spring of 1872 and settled on a farm in Montgomery County. In 1890 a church was built near his home and named Stratton Chapel in his honor. He served as chairman of the building commitee in charge of the building of the Montgomery County Court House and later served as a member of the Board of Supervisors for six years. Mr. Stratton was elected to represent Montgomery County in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. Mr. Stratton was a man of honor and uprightness, strong in character, in personality and in all the better elements of citizenship. He won the esteem of the community in which he lived and of all with whom he served during his life of usefulness.
In recognition of the value of his service to the state of Iowa and as an expression of our appreciation of his exemplary life and character:
Be It Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Forty-first General Assembly, that in the passing of the Honorable Cyrus L. Stratton, 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 that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward a copy of the same to the relatives.
C. C. ANDERSON,
ROY HANEY,
CHAS. W. HUFF,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted March 30, 1925.