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HONORABLE SCOTT SKINNER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Scott Skinner of Union County, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
Scott Skinner was born February 29, 1852, and died December 2, 1936. He came with his parents to Union County in 1868, where he was reared on a farm and lived until the age of 19 when he moved to Creston, Iowa, where he became a call boy for the C. B. & Q. Railway Company.
A few years later he became fireman, then engineer, later retiring to engage in the real estate business in Creston. He also became interested in banking, being a stockholder and director in several banks in his community.
He served as mayor of Creston and later as postmaster during the Theordore Roosevelt administration.
In politics Mr. Skinner was a republican and served as representative from Union County in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Emma Giffey of Creston and Mrs. Margaret Day of Afton, a step-son, Thomas L. Groves and three grandaughters.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh General. Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Scott Skinner, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
L. C. BOWERS,
LEONARD L. MOORE,
THOS. HENDRICKSON,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.