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LORENZO DOW TETER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Lorenzo Dow Teter, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Lorenzo Dow Teter was born on a farm north of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, June 9, 1870. He passed away at Des Moines, Iowa, June 16, 1955.
He was educated in the rural schools; Iowa Business College, Des Moines, Iowa; Rochester Business University, Rochester, New York; Des Moines Baptist College; Drake University Law School; law department of the State University of Iowa, and Harvard College.
He married Clella Grace Andrews, November 16, 1918, who survives him.
He was a Republican and a Mason.
He became a teacher in the Iowa Business College, also in the Davenport Business College, and was considered one of the three best pen artists in the United States.
He owned and operated a farm in Marion County; practiced law many years at Knoxville and served as city attorney at that place.
He served in seven sessions of the Iowa General Assembly beginning in 1904, and authored the original law requiring candidates for public office to file a detailed statement of campaign expenses, and was the originator and author of the homestead tax exemption bill.
Therefore Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa.: That in the passing of the Honorable Lorenzo Dow Teter, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution 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.
ELMER H. VERMEER,
JOHN GRAY,
NEAL PIERCE,
Committee.