Representative Henry Clow DeWar View All Years

HONORABLE H. C. DEWAR

MR SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the late Honorable H. C. Dewar, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Harry Clow Dewar was born in Will county, Illinois, December 16, 1870, and died February 24, 1940, at his farm home near Cherokee, Iowa, at the age of sixty-nine years, two months, and eight days.

In 1880 his parents moved to Iowa and subsequently made their home on what is now known as the Spreading Elm Farm in Pilot township, Cherokee county, Iowa. With the exception of a few brief years in early manhood, when he was employed in or near Chicago, Mr. Dewar made his home here for the rest of his life.

On May 24, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Randall of Warren, Illinois, who survives him. Eight children were born to this union, all of whom are still living. They are: Harry, Hattie, Robert, and John of Cherokee, Iowa; Archie of Sioux Falls, S. D.; Mrs. Laura Herrmann of Reinbeck, Iowa; Mrs. Flora Escue of Marcus, Iowa, and Tom of Pico, California.

Mr. Dewar served his state and community well and took an active and constructive part in many civic and public affairs. He held the offices of clerk, trustee, and school board member in his township for many years, and was a charter member of the Farm Bureau in his county. He was one of the founders of the Pilot Rock Plowing Match Association of Cherokee county, Iowa, serving as its first secretary-treasurer and later as its president. He was also the first president of the Cherokee County Purebred Livestock Breeders Association, and together with his sons and daughters, brought honorable recognition to Spreading Elm Farms many times as an outstanding breeder of shorthorn cattle. He represented his county in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Fortieth, Fortieth-Extra, and Forty-first General Assemblies, and was parole agent for the Iowa Training School for Boys at Eldora from October, 1930, to July, 1932. He gave allegiance to the Republican political party.

Mr. Dewar was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Odd Fellows’ lodge, the Masonic lodge, and the Modern Woodmen of America. He had served in practically all of the offices of the Odd Fellows’ lodge, was a past state grand patriarch of that order, and had been honored as a thirty year member.

He lived a long, honorable, and active life and will be greatly missed in his community.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable H. C. Dewar, the state of Iowa has lost a valued and honored citizen, and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of the family in their sorrow, and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

FRED J. RITCHIE,

FRANK O. HOCUM,

E. W. SCOTT,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 3, 1941.