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HENRY L. ADAMS
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Henry L. Adams, begs leave to submit the following:
Henry L. Adams, attorney, educator and legislator, was born on a farm near Maynard, Fayette county, Iowa, November 28, 1875, and died at Des Moines, Iowa, December 14, 1947. He graduated from the Maynard schools at sixteen and from Upper Iowa University at Fayette in 1897; was principal of the Waucoma schools for two years, and appointed county superintendent of schools for an unexpired term and was reelected three times; resigned in 1905 and entered the law school of the University of Chicago, which he attended one year, then entered the law department of the State University of Iowa, and was admitted to the state bar in 1907; located at West Union in the firm of Rogers and Adams; elected State Senator in 1908 from the Allamakee-Fayette district, serving in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth General Assemblies; moved to Des Moines in 1912, becoming attorney for the C. & N. W. Railway, and in more recent years specialized in insurance law; married in 1898 to Ina Holmes, of Fayette, a classmate, who graduated in the same college class, and who survives with two daughters, Mrs. Edward Rate, Iowa City, and Mrs. Paul Dowty, Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Adams was a vice president of the Pioneer Lawmakers Association of Iowa, a Republican, a Mason, and a member of the Prairie club of Des Moines.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-third General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Henry L. Adams, the state has lost a valuable and honorable citizen and one who has contributed unselfish service to the state of Iowa.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceasd.
ARTHUR H. JACOBSON,
WILLIAM LlNNEVOLD,
F. E. SHARP,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.