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RALPH SHERMAN
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Ralph Sherman, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Ralph Sherman was born October 10, 1870, in Chester Centre, Iowa, and passed away October 17, 1956, at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vogt of Grinnell. He was eightysix years of age.
His parents were born in New Hampshire and were descendants of Revolutionary stock.
He retired from farming in 1932. He was a charter member of the Elks Lodge in Grinnell and a member of the Fortnightly Club. He was a State Representative from Poweshiek County from 1911 to 1915, serving in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth sessions of the General Assembly.
Mr. Sherman is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Clarence Vogt of Grinnell, Mrs. Joe L. Gettys of Oskaloosa, Mrs. George Dare of Crawfordsville, Mrs. Curtis Nelson of Alexandria, Minnesota, and Mrs. Wendell Hise of Milwaukee; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Ralph Sherman, the people of Poweshiek county and the entire state of Iowa have sustained a great loss and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their great sorrow and loss.
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.
GEORGE L. PAUL,
NEIL E. JOHNS,
MAHLON N. BROWN,
Committee.