Representative Charles F. Crose View All Years

HON. CHARLES F. CROSE.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Hon. Charles F. Crose, a member of the House of Representatives in the thirtieth and thirty-first general assemblies, beg leave to submit the following as their report:

Hon. Charles F. Crose was born March 16, 1856, at Sidney, Iowa, in a log cabin, when the Indians still roamed over this region and his mother once hid him from a roving band of redskins.

As a boy, he clerked for his brother, R. B. Crose, at Manti, before Shenandoah was started; when the new town was born, the Croses put their mercantile effects in wagons and moved over, establishing one of the first stores in Shenandoah. Mr. Crose continued with this firm as clerk or a partner for nearly forty years, with the exception of one year when he studied medicine, and one year in which he took a business course with the Bryant & Stratton college in Chicago.

On June 2, 1880, he was united in marriage to Miss Nina Nixon of Afton, Iowa; to this union one daughter was born. He was a member of the Congregational church, had served as trustee and was chairman of the board of ushers in his local church. He was a past patron of the Eastern Star, and held a membership in the Blue lodge, Knights Templar, the Shriners, Elks and Odd Fellows. He lived a beautiful and useful life, full to overflowing with activity in every direction.

In politics he was a life-long republican for he believed this party to contain the best elements of good government.

In 1903, he was honored by the republican party with the nomination of representative for Page county and elected a member of the thirtieth and thirty-first general assemblies. Mr. Crose was a close student of all that was going on in the legislature and made a fine record and he had the respect of all members thereof. He was recognized as a gentleman of tried integrity and worth.

In the spring of 1910, Mr. Crose moved to Santa Ana, California, where he died on the 11th day of January, 1917. The deceased leaves besides his widow and daughter, Mrs. T. C. Rowland, to mourn his demise, four brothers, W. H. Crose, of Santa Ana California, A. J. Crose and L. L. Crose, of Long Beach California, and R. B. Crose of Shawnee, Oklahoma.

To the honor of his memory,

It Is, Therefore, Resolved, That the House of Representatives take this occasion to express its appreciation of his character and public services, and at this time to extend to his family, its sincere sympathy in this, their sorrow; and

Be It Further Resolved, That the resolution be spread upon the journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

ALFRED WENSTRAND,

C. ORVILLE LEE,

S. C. REES,

Committee.

Adopted February 5, 1917.