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Senator Bennett, from a special committee, submitted the following report and moved its adoption:
Mr. President: Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative of the life, character and services of ex-Senator Elbert Warren Clark, begs leave to submit the following report:
“Elbert Warren Clark was born in Glover, Orleans County, Vermont, February 22, 1842, of Scotch-American parentage. In 1854 he removed to Bureau County, Illinois, where he attended the district school, finishing with a course in the high school at Kewanee, Illinois. Choosing the medical profession as the field in which he should accomplish his life work, he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, in 1866. He graduated from that institution in February, 1871. The following May he settled in Grinnell, and engaged in the active duties of his profession.
In 1874, he was united in marriage to Martha C. Brainard, of Grinnell. To them was born one son, E. W. Clark, Jr., who resides in Grinnell.
Dr. Clark was an active member of the city council of Grinnell for fifteen years, and was mayor of that city from 1893 to 1897, during which time a complete system of water works and sewers was installed.
For six years he was president of the school board of Grinnell. He was trustee of Iowa College for twelve years, and also of the Stewart free public library. During the year 1907, he was president of the Iowa State Medical Society, of which he was an honored member during his professional life. For many years he was surgeon of the Rock Island railroad , and attained more than local fame as a successful surgeon.
He represented Poweshiek County in the Thirty-first General Assembly. He was elected senator from the twelfth district in 1906, and served in the Thirty-second and Thirty-third General Assemblies. He was a man of undoubted integrity and spotless character. A man loved and honored by all who knew him.
On February 16, 1910, he passed peacefully away at his home in Grinnell, where he had lived continuously for thirty-nine years.
Resolved, That in the death of this noble man the State lost a worthy citizen and statesman, and the Senate a loved and honored member.
Be it further Resolved, That these resolutions be printed in the Journal, and an engrossed copy, signed by the president and secretary, be sent to the family of the deceased.”
T. W. BENNETT,
H. W. SPAULDING,
JOHN L. WILSON,
Committee.