Representative Henry Nassau Newell View All Years

Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 7/21/1932

Birth Place: Province of Ontario, Canada

Birth Country: Dominion of Canada

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 33 (1909) - 34 (1911)

Home County: Plymouth

Henry Nassau Newell

Plymouth County

HONORABLE HENRY N. NEWELL

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare memorial resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable Henry N. Newell, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Henry N. Newell was born at North Dorchester, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, on November 8, 1855, where he attended country school and received all of his early training. When he came to Iowa he engaged in farm work and continued his farming interests until his retirement.

In 1879, Mr. Newell was married to Eliza Demmary in Ontario and to this union two children, a daughter and a son, were born. Several years after the death of his first wife, he was married to Clemme White of La Porte City on October 14, 1902. He died July 21, 1932, and was buried in the City Cemetery at Le Mars, Iowa.

Mr. Newell was always active in community and civic enterprises. He served as school director, justice of the peace, and township clerk and trustee while living on the farm. Later after he had retired, the people of Plymouth county recognized his worth and elected him as their representative to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth General Assemblies. He was a very able and extremely trustworthy representative, always trying to carry out the will of the people and locality which he represented. While serving as representative he was a member of the ways and means committee, chairman of the telegraph and telephone committee and held several other offices.

Mr. Newell was a devout member of the Methodist faith and a clean, upright man who served where he could to the very best of his ability.

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of the Forty-fifth General Assembly, Extra Session, of the State of Iowa, That in the death of Henry N. Newell, the people of Plymouth county, and the people of the entire state of Iowa have sustained a great loss. Everywhere he was known as a man honored and trusted, a man of sterling quality and irreproachable character.

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

GUSTAVE ALESCH,

A. H. BONNSTETTER,

T. G. JENSEN,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, March 7, 1934.

House District 80