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HON. MAHLON HARVEY.
Mr. Speaker—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable Mahlon Harvey, of Rochester, Minnesota, late member of the House, beg leave to report the following memorial:
Mahlon Harvey was born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, New York, August 26, 1844 (his parents being born in the same county). He received his education in the schools of Potsdam and Canton, taught school for some time, then learned the art of cheese-making in his early twenties which he followed during the summer seasons until he came to Iowa, Osceola county, in the spring of 1874, where he settled on his present farm near Sibley. Was secretary of the school board in his township for thirty years, and for six years was a member of the board of township trustees; elected representative in 1906, re-elected in 1908 and 1910; was a republican in politics.
An old-time friend and neighbor said of him “indeed he was a diamond in the rough, all the brightness of his nature slightly concealed by a thin crust which only needed a little human suffering to reveal it in all its beauty.” He was found to be simply honest, truthful and conscientious, tributes of which his friends were proud.
He passed from this life at Rochester, Minnesota, on December 21, 1912, and was buried at Sibley, Iowa, on December 24, 1912.
Resolved, That, in token of our appreciation of his well spent life, this brief sketch be spread on the Journal of the House and that the chief clerk be directed to forward an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the family of the decedent.
D. C. STEELSMITH,
S. H. BAUMAN,
W. P. DAWSON,
Committee.
Adopted April 14, 1913.