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George S. Hartman

Fayette County

GEORGE S. HARTMAN

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable George S. Hartman, of Fayette, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

George S. Hartman, merchant, banker and legislator, died at his home in Fayette, Iowa, August 25, 1947; born at Sharon, Wisconsin, November 13, 1871, the son of M. J. and Emma Hartman, and moved with them to Fayette in 1877; received his education in the public schools of Fayette and attended Upper Iowa University; entered the mercantile business at Fayette in 1892 with his father and brother, Emil Hartman, under the firm name of M. J. Hartman & Sons, which continued until the death of his father in 1915, the sons thereafter operating the business under the firm name of Hartman Brothers until the death of the brother in 1932; served on the town council and as mayor of Fayette from 1932 to 1942; also as chairman of the Republican county committee; engaged in banking as director and vice president of the First National Bank of Fayette from 1915 until the consolidation of the banks there in 1928; served as state senator from the Allamakee-Fayette district in sessions of the Iowa General Assembly from 1921 to 1928; during the last several years has engaged in the clothing business at Fayette with his son, M. J. Hartman; married July 14, 1907, to Miss Gertrude Clothier, of Rockford, Illinois, who died February 25, 1920; and he is survived by two sons, Curtis, Charleston; West Virginia, and M. J., Fayette, and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Ainsworth, Volga City; Mrs. Anna Cole, Edgewood; and Mrs. Pearl White, Long Beach, California.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-third General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable George S. Hartman the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen and one who has contributed unselfish service to the state of Iowa.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward enrolled copies to the members of the family of the deceased.

ARTHUR H. JACOBSON,

J. KENDALL LYNES,

DON RISK,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

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