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SOLON A. BARNES
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Solon A. Barnes, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Mr. Barnes was born in Kendall County, Illinois, June 22, 1877, and passed away on April 9, 1955. He moved with his parents to a farm near Minor, South Dakota, in 1882.
He was educated in the public school and high school of Howard, South Dakota.
Mr. Barnes came to Iowa in·1897. He worked in his father’s printing office learning the printer’s trade. In 1900, he was appointed to a government position in Washington, D. C., through the courtesy of Speaker David B. Henderson, holding this position four years.
In 1905, he was elected cashier of the Security Savings Bank at Eagle Grove, Iowa, resigning that position May 18, 1925, and retiring from the banking business.
Mr. Barnes was elected Representative from Wright County and served in the Forty-second, Forty-second Extra and Forty-third sessions of the Legislature. He was a Republican in politics.
He is survived by a nephew, Arthur M. Barnes of Iowa City, and a niece, Mrs. Mary Barnes Baxter of Rochester, New York.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftysixth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Solon A. Barnes, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
CLARK H. MCNEAL,
A. C. PETERSON,
WENDELL PENDLETON,
Committee.