Representative David Hardman Miller View All Years

HON. DAVID HARDMAN MILLER

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and service of the Hon. David Hardman Miller, late of Dallas county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following memorial:

Hon. David Hardman Miller, who represented Dallas county in the Forty-second General Assembly, was born October 19, 1865, at Des Moines, Iowa. At the age of seven years he moved to Adair county. He was a graduate of the Menlo high school. He spent five years teaching school to obtain money for a college education.

In 1891 he entered the law department of Drake University and graduated in 1894. He commenced the practice of law at Adel, Iowa. In 1903 he was elected county attorney and served three terms in that office.

On June 3, 1897, he was united in marriage to Laura Simcoke, and to them were born two children. The wife passed away June 8, 1910. He was later married to Laura E. Cousins, July 18, 1926, who survives him.

He was elected State Representative on the Republican ticket November 3, 1926, and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death, which occurred at the Savery Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, January 20, 1927.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-third General Assembly, That in the passing of the Hon. David Hardman Miller, the state has lost an honored and valuable citizen, a man of high ideals in Christian living and useful citizenship.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy of it to the family of the deceased.

C. W. LAMB,

GEO. M. HOPKINS,

D. M. GRISWOLD,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted April 8, 1929.