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CHARLES LONGLEY RIGBY
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Charles Longley Rigby, begs leave to submit the following:
Charles Longley Rigby, banker, legislator, and business manager, died at Independence, Iowa, May 16, 1949. He was born at Stanwood, Iowa, February 20, 1874, the son of William Titus and Eva Rigby; graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, with a B.A. degree, in 1894. He then engaged in farming at Stanwood, Iowa, from 1894 to 1938. He was also connected with the Union Trust & Savings Bank at Stanwood, Iowa, from 1905 to the time of his death in 1949. From 1940 to 1949, he was chairman of the board of directors. He was business manager of the State Hospital at Independence, Iowa, from 1940 until the time of his death. He served as Iowa State Senator from 1924 to 1932.
Mr. Rigby was chairman of the loan committee, executive committee and member of the board of trustees at Cornell College; member of Iowa Bankers Association, chairman of Group 8, and also Iowa representative of American Bankers Association; a member of Regional Agricultural Credit Association, and later inspector for this office; a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and the Masonic lodge. He was married to Jennie Billings in 1901, who died in 1939, and surviving their parents are two children, Charles Edward and Isabel Rigby.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fourth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Charles Longley Rigby, the State has lost a valuable and honored citizen.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
J. M. TUDOR,
FRANK C. BYERS,
LEROY S. MERCER,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.