Representative George W. Edge View All Years

HON. GEORGE W. EDGE

MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and services of the Honorable George W. Edge, late of Jasper county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:

George W. Edge was born in Saunders county, Nebraska, March 27, 1872. At the age of eleven years he, with his, parents, moved to Jasper county, Iowa, settling on a farm four miles north of Newton, where he resided until his death, September 11, 1927. He attended the rural schools and the Hazel Dell Academy.

On September 1, 1897, he was united in marriage to Anna Friend of Newton, to which union were born two children, Margaret and Everett.

He held several positions of trust in his township, being secretary of the school board for ten years. Also, township clerk for a number of years.

He was in politics a Republican. He served in the national guard five years, being discharged with the rank of sergeant. He belonged to the Modern Woodmen of America, Subordinate Grange, Jasper Pomona Grange, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter order he was department aide of the department commander of the Patriarch Militant branch with the rank of major. He was a member of the Sons of Veterans and of the Methodist Church. He was elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 1922, serving in the Fortieth General Assembly and the extra session. He was reelected in 1924 and 1926.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-third General Assembly, That we extend our sympathies to his wife and family, and express our appreciation of his true worth, and,

Be It Further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to send an enrolled copy to the wife.

CHAS. E. BAKER,

W. H. CROZIER,

W. WALTER WILSON,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted April 8, 1929.