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ERNEST R. MOORE
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Ernest R. Moore, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Ernest R. Moore was born in Anamosa, Jones county, November 1, 1869. He was the son of Joseph and Jane Sloan Moore, natives of Ireland where they were married and emigrated to America in the early fifties and settled in Iowa.
Mr. Moore moved with his parents to Cedar Rapids in 1877. He attended the public schools; enlisted in the Iowa National Guard and served for ten years, resigning his commission in 1897. He re-enlisted in Company C, Forty-ninth Iowa, as a private, and afterward was commissioned a first lieutenant and quartermaster, serving in the Spanish-American War on the staff in Cuba.
He bacame a banker in Cedar Rapids and president of the American Trust and Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids.
He married Winifred Evans of Cedar Rapids December 25, 1902.
He served Linn county as state representative in the Thirty-second, Thirty-second Extra, Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth sessions of the General Assembly. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1916, serving two terms.
He retired from active politics when he received the appointment as Republican member of the state board of parole in 1937, serving in that capacity three years. He was a leader locally in many areas of Cedar Rapids business, political, fraternal and civic affairs; served on the water board, county old age pension board, soldiers relief commission and the memorial commission.
He was a thirty-third degree Mason; became grand master of the Iowa supreme lodge in 1924, and served as department commander of the United States Spanish War Veterans.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Donald T. Brodines of Saxtons River, Vermont, Mrs. Robert M. Collins of Council Bluffs, and Mrs. Frank W. Davis of Des Moines. Mrs. Moore passed away in February, 1959, and one son preceded him in death some years ago, a soldier in the army of the U.S.A.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Ernest R. Moore, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its sympathy to his children.
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.
FRANK L. MARTIN,
ROBERT F. WILSON,
ROBERT D. FULTON,
Committee.