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HON. CORNELIUS B. EGGLESTON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare a resolution and a befitting memorial on the life, character and public service of the Honorable Cornelius B. Eggleston, a member of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth General Assemblies, beg leave to report as follows:
Cornelius B. Eggleston was born in Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, October 27, 1853, and died July 2, 1925.
When a boy he moved to Clarke county with his parents, Alpheus and Mary Eggleston, who were pioneers of Clarke county, where he continued his residence, living on a farm until six years prior to his death, when he with his family moved to Wisconsin and later returned to Henry county, Iowa. He is survived by his widow and seven children.
He held several township offices, was deputy county treasurer and for a number of years taught in the public schools of Clarke county.
Mr. Eggleston was elected to represent Clarke county in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth General Assemblies. A democrat in politics.
Mr. Eggleston was a man of honor and uprightness, strong in character, in personality and in all the better elements of citizenship. He won the esteem of the community in which he lived and of all whom he served during his life of usefulness.
In recognition of the value of his service to the state of Iowa and as an expression of our appreciation of his exemplary life and character:
Be It Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Forty-second General Assembly, that in the passing of the Honorable Cornelius B. Eggleston, the state has lost an honored and valuable citizen, a man of high ideals in Christian living and useful citizenship.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of this House and that the Chief Clerk transmit an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
F. M. HARRISON,
COY CRAIG,
M. F. SPRINGER,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted April 6, 1927.