Representative Charles Emil Scholz View All Years

CHARLES E. SCHOLZ

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable Charles E. Scholz, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Charles E. Scholz was born at Guttenberg, in Clayton county, Iowa, February 10, 1874. His father was born in Germany and his mother in Iowa. He attended the high school at Guttenberg and later took a special course under a private teacher. In 1900 he entered the Law School of the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1902.

After his graduation from the University, he formed a partnership for the practice of law with E. W. Weeks of Guthrie Center, Iowa. In August, 1903, he located at Guttenberg, Iowa, and practiced law in that city until his retirement. He was city attorney for the town of Guttenberg for several years and served as county attorney for four years. He was president of the Clayton County State Bank from 1910 to 1930. He was very instrumental in the organization of this bank. In 1921 he formed a partnership with G. W. Hunt, which was maintained for three years, when Mr. Scholz retired from practice. Mr. Scholz was a careful and successful practitioner and had a particularly large probate practice. He was married in 1896. In 1912 he was elected Representative from Clayton county and served in the Thirty-fifth General Assembly. He was a conscientious and capable legislator, being particularly interested in laws pertaining to better public schools.

For several years he spent his winters in Florida and California, finally making his home in California until a year and a half before his death, when he returned to his native town.

He died on January 25, 1944, being survived by his wife, Millie Scholz.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty­first General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Charles E. Scholz, the State has lost a valued and honored citizen, and the wife a loving and thoughtful husband and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow; and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the widow of the deceased.

ERNEST T. SMITH,

C. M. LANGLAND,

C. A. PALMER,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted,