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ELMER E. MITCHELL
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee which was appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character, and services of the late Elmer E. Mitchell of Mahaska county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
Elmer E. Mitchell was born January 27, 1863, in Mahaska county, Iowa, near New Sharon. He was educated in the public schools of his county, after which he took a two years’ general college course. For six years he taught in the public schools, spending his vacations on his father’s farm. In 1890 he was appointed to a position in the United States census office in Washington, D. C. Two years later he was called to a position in the United States government printing office. During his incumbency of these positions, he attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated with a Master’s Degree of Law. He later took a post-graduate course in Columbia University Law School and was admitted to the practice of law in the United States courts. After the death of his father, he engaged in farming and stock raising in Mahaska county, on his farm which was known as Mitchell Meadows. He was a member of the Iowa state Senate during the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions. His death occurred March 17th, 1924, on his farm near New Sharon, Mahaska county, Iowa.
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the Senate of the Forty-second General Assembly of Iowa, that in the death of Elmer E. Mitchell the state and the community where he lived have suffered the loss of an influential and honorable citizen; and,
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send an engrossed copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
F. C. STANLEY,
OSCAR ULSTAD,
F. M. BEATTY,
Committee.