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ISAAC N. SNOOK
The committee appointed to prepare a memorial commemorating the life and public service of the Honorable Isaac N. Snook, State Senator, beg leave to submit the following:
Isaac N. Snook, a member of the Senate from the First District of Iowa in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extraordinary and Forty-first General Assemblies, was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1848, and died at his farm home in Lee county, Iowa, November 2, 1931. In 1854, his parents brought him, his four brothers, and four sisters to Iowa, to establish a western home. The family was five weeks on the road and came in two covered wagons. They settled in Lee county, two miles north of West Point, in June, 1843. Here the Senator grew to manhood. He obtained his education in the old Farmers’ College. At the age of twenty-three he married Rachel Box, five years his junior. Six children were born to this union, Ola Dell, Crilla Alice, Edward, Frank, Emmet, Gertrude and Charles I. The eldest girl, when fifteen years of age, had the responsibility for the rest of the family; as the wife and mother died at that time.
All his life Senator Snook was engaged in various agricultural pursuits. He served his township sixteen years as justice of the peace, and held all township offices. He was president of the Iowa Threshermen’s Association for fourteen years, and was national director for Iowa. He operated a threshing business for fifty-six years.
Senator Snook typified all of the rugged and sturdy characteristics of the pioneers who made the great Commonwealth of Iowa what it is today. He was a man of indomitable energy, and through his life exemplified the characteristics of honesty and industry that made him a success. He was an affable, simple hearted and kindly gentleman, and he has left his influence upon the community in which his long life was spent.
The committee directs that a copy of this memorial be spread upon the Journal of the Senate as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy be transmitted to his daughter, Miss Ola Snook, West Point, Iowa, and his immediate family.
J. R. FRAILEY,
D. W. KIMBERLY,
H. C. WHITE,
Committee.