Representative Albert Benjamin Washburn View All Years

ALBERT B. WASHBURN

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable Albert B. Washburn, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Albert B. Washburn was born October 28, 1869, on a farm in Winneshiek county, the son of the late John P. Washburn and Ellen Divine Washburn, and passed away at his beautiful farm home near Hastings, Iowa, on September 26, 1942.

Mr. Washburn received his high school education in Winneshiek county schools. He received his preparatory education at Western College, Toledo, Iowa, Coe College at Cedar Rapids, and completed his education at Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa.

On February 26, 1893, be was united in marriage to Mary V. Wearin, daughter of the late Otha and Martha Wortman Wearin, and settled on a farm in Mills county.

To this union were born five children, four of whom preceded their father in death. He is survived by his widow; one son, Henry W. Washburn; two grandchildren, Mary Alice and Albert Theodore Washburn, all of whom reside on the farm homestead near Hastings.

Mr. Washburn owned and operated one of the beat farms in the county, yet he was always willing to take his part in public and community affairs, and devoted a good share of his time to the service of others. He also took an active part in church work, serving on the official board of his church in different capacities and acted as chairman of the building committee when the present Methodist church of Emerson was erected.

In politics he was a Republican and served his community and state well, and was honored by serving his county as its State Representative in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first sessions, where he served on many important committees. His legislative record shows his interest in the common man. No citizen of his community was held in higher regard; he was beloved by his friends and neighbors.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftieth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Albert B. Washburn, the state has lost a valued and honored citizen and the family a loving husband and father 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.

J. R. HALL,

EARL C. FISHBAUGH, JR.,

EDWIN A. GETSCHER,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted,