Representative Millard F. LeRoy View All Years

HON. M. F. LEROY.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the Hon. M. F. LeRoy of Manchester, Delaware county, late a member of the House of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly, beg leave to submit the following report:

M. F. LeRoy was born in Manchester, Indiana, January 16, 1850, and died at Hinsdale, Illinois, February 21, 1914, after an illness of less than one week’s duration. The family moved to Morris, Illinois, and here Mr. LeRoy spent his boyhood years and received a high school education. He, afterwards, attended Clarke’s seminary of Aurora, Illinois, and completed his collegiate education at Moore’s Hill college, Indiana, where he graduated with the degree of bachelor of science. In the spring of 1870, he was graduated from the State University of Iowa with the degree of bachelor of laws.

In 1873, he moved to Manchester, Iowa, and formed a law partnership with the Hon. Charles E. Bronson and in 1884 the firm became Bronson, Carr & LeRoy. In 1890, he became cashier of the First National Bank of Manchester and was made president of the same after the death of A. R. Loomis, which position he held until the time of his death. June 2, 1874, Mr. LeRoy was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Loomis and to this union were born two daughters and one son.

Mr. LeRoy had long been prominently and helpfully identified with the business, social, religious and educational interests of Manchester. He was for two years mayor, his administration being without doubt the most progressive and beneficial the city has ever enjoyed. He gave long and faithful service as a member of the school board, was active in the organization of the Manchester and Oneida Railway Company, and was allied with many of the important concerns financed with local capital. In 1912, he was elected representative from Delaware county in the general assembly, and for some time had held a position on the executive committee of the Fraternal Union of America, a flourishing insurance society, with headquarters at Denver. In all of these relations, his service was unstinted and unselfish.

Mr. LeRoy was a member of the various Masonic orders, both the York and Scottish rites, and was a past eminent commander of Nazareth commandery, No. 33, Knights of Templar. He was also affiliated with Hyperion lodge, No. 186, K. of P., and had long been a leader in Iowa Odd Fellow circles, having been honored by the post of commander of the Patriarchs Militant, the highest position in the gift of the order. In earlier life he was a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, later transferring his membership to the Congregational society.

Personally, Mr. LeRoy was a helper of the unfortunate and distressed, who gave unsparingly and without expectation of return. A record of his unseen kindnesses would tell the story of renewed courage and hope to many a man who came to him in an hour of need and found, not merely temporary aid, but lasting friendship,

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the death of M. F. LeRoy, the state and county in which he resided lost a worthy and upright citizen and an honorable man and we hereby extend to the bereaved family and friends our sincere sympathy.

And Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in the Journal of the House and that the chief clerk of the House be directed to forward an engrossed copy of the same to the wife and family of the deceased.

A. B. HOLBERT,

D. C. STEELSMITH,

H. C. RING,

Committee.

Adopted unanimously.