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JOHN MILTON LINDLY

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare a suitable memorial commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable John M. Lindly of Winfield, Henry County, Iowa begs leave to submit the following:

John Milton Lindly, pharmacist, banker and Iowa legislator died, at the Memorial hospital in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 7, 1951, at the age of 86. He was born November 17, 1864 in Washington, Pennsylvania, the son of Bayard B. and Clarriet Hanna Lindly. He came to Winfield, Iowa, with his parents in April, 1866, and maintained his residence there throughout the remainder of his life, except for a fifteen year period spent in Glenwood. He attended local schools and was graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1889 and from the National Institute of Pharmacy of Chicago in 1892. He taught at the Round Grove School near Winfield and completed one year’s teaching in Louisiana in 1894.

On January 21, 1924, he was united in marriage with Alaudia Yewell of Uniontown, Kentucky, and to this union was born one son, Buford Yewell Lindly of Sacramento, California, who, together with his wife and two nieces, Mrs. James Smiley of Winfield and Mrs. Fred Nelan of Washington, Pennsylvania, survive him.

Mr. Lindly engaged in pharmacy and banking for many years, and was active in many civic, community and church activities throughout his life. He practiced pharmacy in Winfield from 1888 and was a member of the Iowa State Pharmaceutical Association for 62 years, serving as its secretary for six years and as treasurer for 37 years. In 1929 he was elected recording secretary of the Iowa Druggist Veteran Association. For many years he was cashier of the Bank of Winfield and on its reorganization he became president of the People’s State Bank of Winfield.

In 1915, Mr. Lindly was elected State Senator from Henry and Washington Counties, serving in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh General Assemblies. He served as chairman of the committee on pharmacy of the Senate in 1917, during which session he introduced what was known as the Pharmacy Prerequisite Law. He was a member from the First Congressional District of the Democratic State Central Committee from 1916 to 1922 when he declined further election. In 1935 he was appointed by Governor Clyde L. Herring to serve as pharmacist at the State School in Glenwood, which position he held until his illness in March, 1950.

Mr. Lindly was a life member of the Iowa State Historical Society, having been appointed a member of its Board of Curators in 1920 by Governor W. L. Harding; also a life member of the Iowa Academy of Science, to whose proceedings he contributed twelve articles. He was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and of the Sons of the American Revolution, having had 14 ancestors in the patriotic military forces; also of Colonial Wars and Colonial Governors. He had nine ancestors who were members of the committee of twenty-five to see that King John observed the provision of the Magna Charta which was signed in 1215.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Winfield and served as clerk and treasurer of the board of trustees for 30 years and taught a Bible class of men.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable John M. Lindly, the state has lost an able and honored citizen and the Senate tenders, by this resolution the sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family, and

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this memorial resolution be printed in the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send an enrolled copy to the members of the deceased.

CARL T. ANDERSON,

D. C. NOLAN,

THOMAS C. LARSON,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.