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HONORABLE L. H. MAYNE
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable L. H. Mayne, former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
Lewis Henry Mayne was born near Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, New York, September 2, 1858. He died at his home at Emmetsburg, Iowa, April 3, 1935.
He was the fourteenth child of a family of sixteen. When he was five years old he moved with his family to Mendota, Illinois, where they resided until Mr. Mayne was seventeen years old, at which time they moved to a farm near Prescott, Iowa. The following years he attended Eureka College in Illinois, and later went to the University of Indiana where he prepared himself for the ministry. After attending school, he entered the teaching profession for a number of years, and then entered the railway mail service at Tiskilwa, Illinois.
September 2, 1891, he was married to Isabel Jane Vander Vort, whose death occurred July 17, 1906. Four children were born, three of whom survive: Clifford of Washington, D. C., Isabel of Olivia, Minnesota, and Mrs. Winifred Van Etten of Independence, Iowa. A daughter, Hortense, died in 1932.
Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Mayne came to Algona, becoming associated with the Upper Des Moines republican newspaper. The following year he came to Emmetsburg and entered a partnership with J. C. Bennett in the publishing of the Palo Alto Reporter. In 1898 he became sole owner, and continued to publish this newspaper until 1925 when he sold it to the present owner.
In 1898 he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War, and served at historical Chickamauga until the war ended. He was a member of the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias. He joined the Methodist church at Emmetsburg and for twenty-five years has served as lay minister at various charges.
July 24, 1907, Mr. Mayne married Florence Davis of Sioux City, who survives. He is also survived by three children, two sisters, and one brother.
Mr. Mayne served his community as postmaster from 1902 to 1911 and later from 1922 to 1933. He was a member of the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth General Assemblies of Iowa. He served his community, his state, and his nation, and he served them well, and Iowa has lost a most valuable citizen.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-sixth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable L. H. Mayne the state has lost an honored and valuable citizen, a man of high ideals in brotherly living and useful citizenship.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 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.
A. H. HENNINGSEN,
ARCH W. MCFARLANE,
A. H. AVERY,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 18, 1935.