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RUBE MCFERREN
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Rube McFerren, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Rube McPherren, who represented one of the pioneer families of Hamilton county, was born January 31, 1868, about one mile north of Webster City. He died October 27, 1952, at the age of 83 years.
He was the son of William D. and Emma A. Bennett McFerren, who came from Ohio to Webster City, then known as Newcastle, in 1855.
He was educated in the public schools of Webster City, in the State Normal School at Cedar Falls and at Iowa State University at Iowa City. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Iowa in 1890, at which time he entered upon the active work of the legal profession.
Mr. McFerren served as city attorney of Webster City from 1907 to 1909 and as State Representative from Hamilton county for two terms, from 1915 to 1917, serving in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh sessions of the General Assembly.
Mr. McFerran was also an ordained minister, having served at Duncombe and surrounding vicinity.
He was united in marriage August 3, 1885, to Minnie A. Clockman, and to this union were born three sons and one daughter—Donald, Robert, Maynard and June.
Mrs. McFerren preceded him in death July 9, 1927, and Maynard was killed in Germany in 1942, during World War II action. He was also preceded in death by his parents, one brother and two sisters.
Mr. McFerren was author of the book, “Distribution,” published in 1940, and also had written a book of poems. A champion of the cause of the farmer in the days of the 1920’s, he organized the National Farm League. He was always interested in matters of progressive citizenship, and his public spirit was often manifested in many ways.
Surviving are two sons and one daughter—Donald and Robert, both of Webster City, and Mrs. Ralph (Jane) McClure of Iowa Falls. Also surviving are three grandchildren, Terry Ann McFerren of Britt and Peter and Mary McClure of Iowa Falls.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the honorable Rube McFerren, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
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.
JOHN A. WALKER,
PAUL M. WALTER,
ARCH W. MCFARLANE,
Committee.