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PAUL E. STILLMAN

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, charcater and public service of the late Honorable Paul E. Stillman, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Paul E. Stillman was born in Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1868. He was the son of E. B. and Elizabeth Bowman Stillman. He attended school in Chicago, and then at Waucoma, Iowa, where his father engaged in the business of milling. He later attended high school at the Chicago Manual Training School.

He came with his parents to Iowa in 1866, and resided in Iowa City, Des Moines and Sioux City. His father established the Sioux City Journal in 1863. Following that, he returned to Chicago and operated a printing establishment until the great Chicago fire, after which the Stillmans returned to Iowa and to Waucoma.

In 1884 he became associated in the publication of The Jefferson Bee.

Mr. Stillman entered the University of Michigan in 1887, graduating in 1891 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts. He purchased an interest in The Jefferson Bee that year and became active in its publication with his brother, Frank.

He served three terms, from 1907 to 1911, in the House of Representatives, being Speaker of the House in the Thirty-fourth General Assembly. In 1914 he was temporary chairman of the Republican state convention, and in 1916 a delegate to the Republican national convention. He served eight years as a member of the Iowa State Board of Education, and removed to Glendale, California in 1923, and established the Stillman Printing Company, in which he remained active until a short time prior to his death.

Mr. Stillman married Edith May Anderson of Jefferson, in February, 1894, who died. His second wife, Anne Ruth Anderson survives him, also a son, Paul B. Stillman, and two daughters, Mrs. James Van Scoy and Mrs. Carol Higley of Glendale, and three grandchildren. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Masonic bodies, I.O.O.F. and various civic organizations at both Jefferson and Glendale, and held an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Rollins College at Winter Park, Florida.

Mr. Stillman died at Corona del Mar, California, February 16, 1962.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of The Honorable Paul E. Stillman, the State has lost and honored citizen, and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution 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.

HENRY H. STEVENS,

CHESTER A. SCHEERER,

ARCH W. MCFARLANE,

Committee.