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JOHN R. PRICE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee which was appointed to report resolutions commemorating the life, character and service of the late John R. Price beg leave to submit the following report, and move its adoption.
Senator Price was born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, Great Britain, on June 23, 1875. Came to the United States in May, 1881. He was employed as a coal miner in his boyhood days and received his education in the public schools, and later in Central University at Pella, Iowa. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1900, locating in Albia, Iowa, where he was a practitioner until the time of his death, which occurred January 9, 1927. He was married in 1899 to Mary E. Welch, who survives him.
He was elected twice to the office of State Senator from the Fifteenth district composed of Marion and Monroe counties, and was a member of the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth extra General Assemblies, which office he filled with honor to himself and the state of Iowa. The life and character of the deceased, and his exemplary services call for such as to place his memory among those highly respected and esteemed in the state.
“Star crowned and beautiful, his memory stands,
A Sacred Statue, sculptured not with hands,
Above the crash of words, the wreck of years,
Too bright for sorrow and too sweet for tears.”
Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable John R. Price the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, a man of strong character and sterling worth, and the Senate of Iowa would tender by this resolution its sympathy to the widow, who survives.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the journal of the Senate as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy hereof be transmitted to the widow.
W. A. CLARK,
CHAS. D. BOOTH,
LLOYD ELLIS,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising vote.