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CHARLES RHINEHART

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Charles Rhinehart, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Charles Rhinehart was born in Dallas county, Iowa, on March 4, 1876, the son of George L. and Adaline Rhinehart, truly pioneers of Iowa. He died in a hospital in Des Moines on June 22, 1944.

Mr. Rhinehart was educated in the rural schools of Dallas county and attended business college in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from the Iowa State College of Ames, Iowa, in 1899.

On February 14, 1906, he was united in marriage to Frances B. Schamel, and to this union were born a son, John S., and a daughter, Helen L., who with their mother survive; and also three grandchildren.

He was always an active Republican, having been a member of the Republican State Central Committee for six years and served Dallas county as Representative in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extra and Forty-first General Assemblies of the State of Iowa.

Mr. Rhinehart was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Veterans, Odd Fellows and Masonic Lodges, and as a Mason, he was a member of the Scottish Rites, Consistory and was a Shriner. He was District Governor of the Rotary Club in 1933. He helped organize the Iowa Society for Crippled Children and was one of the first Presidents of that Society.

Mr. Rhinehart was an extensive traveler, having traveled practically all over the world, but he always took an active interest in farming, being the owner of a large amount of farming lands.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Charles Rhinehart, the State has lost a valued and honored citizen and the family a loving husband and father, and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his 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.

G. E. WHITEHEAD,

S. G. HOENESS,

R. E. DUFFIELD,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted,