Representative Camden Amboy Meredith View All Years

HONORABLE CAMDEN A. MEREDITH

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions regarding the life, character, and public service of the Honorable Camden A. Meredith, late member of this House in the Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies, begs leave to report the following:

Camden A. Meredith was born on a farm near Corydon, Iowa, December 10, 1863, and died March 9, 1931, at Atlantic, Iowa. He received his education in the country schools first, and later in the high schools of Allerton, Iowa, still later was a student at the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute at Fort Edward, New York, from which institution he graduated in June, 1885. In the fall of 1885 he entered the law department of the State University of Iowa, from which he graduated in the class of 1887. He located In Atlantic, Iowa, for the practice of his chosen profession in March 1892, forming a partnership with L. L. DeLano, under the firm name of DeLano and Meredith. In 1889 he was married to Miss Anna King, of Corydon, Iowa, and to this union were born two children, a daughter, Lois, who died March 31, 1901, at the age of four years, and a son, Ernest K. Meredith, who died October 25, 1929, at the age of 27 years.

He was a member of the Republican party and was elected city attorney of Atlantic, Iowa, in 1892, re-elected in 1894. In 1896 he was elected county attorney of Cass county, Iowa, and re-elected to that office in 1898. At a special election held December 19, 1905, he was elected State Representative of Cass county, to fill out an unexpired term caused by the death of his partner, L. L. DeLano, and served during the Thirty­first General Assembly. He was re-elected as a Representative in 1906.

Mr. Meredith was an outstanding personality, there was no one else just like him. He was one of nature’s noblemen, honest, broadminded, clean and square. He was possessed of more than ordinary abilities as an attorney, and had an exalted idea of the obligations of his profession. To all of his public services and to all of his private affairs he brought the same character and fine regard for the highest ethics of his profession. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for a good many years he was one of the trustees of the local Methodist church.

Be It Resolved, That the General Assembly take this occasion to testify its high appreciation of the exalted character and distinguished public services of Camden A. Meredith, and hereby extends to his bereaved family its sincere sympathy in their sorrow and affliction.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be properly engrossed, and authenticated by the Speaker and Clerk of the House and sent to the members of his family.

C. E. MALONE,

ALVA HUMESTON,

WM. KOCH,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted April 11, 1933.