Representative Albert W. Kendall View All Years

HONORABLE ALBERT W. KENDALL

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable Albert W. Kendall of Jackson county, begs leave to submit the following report:

Albert W. Kendall was born in Clinton county, Iowa, on May 3, 1857.

He resided there with his parents.

He was married January 25, 1882, to Miss Anna Margaret Kehn. They established their home on a farm which they purchased near Delmar in Clinton county. They retired to Maquoketa in Jackson county in 1917, where he resided until his death. Mr. Kendall died in his eighty-first year, on Friday, March 31, 1939, after a brief illness. He leaves to mourn besides his wife, ten children, Howard, Mrs. Ben Jacobsen, Bert, Olive, Alfred, Ernest, Floyd, Mrs. A. L. Pool, Mrs. T. P. Cassin, and Mrs. Sylvia Witzke. A son and daughter preceded him in death.

Mr. Kendall was well informed on farm problems and a keen business man and until lately maintained his interest in community and political affairs. He was a member of the First Methodist Church.

He was elected Representative of Clinton county to the Thirty-second General Assembly and re-elected to the Thirty-third. He was one of the most sincere members of the legislature. His death was a great loss to his home community as well as his fellow legislators.

Mr. Kendall served his community and state well and Iowa has lost a most valuable citizen, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Albert W. Kendall the state has lost a valuable citizen, a man of character and generosity

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

G. J. BITTNER,

WILLIAM N. JUDD,

J. W. MANLEY,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.