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E. J. COLE, M.D.
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable E. J. Cole, M.D., begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Dr. E. J. Cole was born January 24, 1865, near Woodbine, Harrison County, Iowa, and passed away at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on July 6, 1966, at the age of 101 years.
He attended school in Woodbine, Iowa State College at Ames, and Rush Medical College in Chicago, where he graduated in medicine in 1889.
Dr. Cole was interested in farming and the banking business and was president of the First National and the Peoples Savings banks of Woodbine. He had served on the Woodbine School Board for more than 20 years and on the Woodbine Town Council. He was a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.
He was married in June, 1891 to Maude Allen. To this union three daughters and one son were born.
Dr. Cole, a Democrat, served in the House of Representatives in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extra, Forty-second, Forty-second Extra, and Forty-third sessions of the General Assembly.
Dr. Cole is survived by two daughters, Bernice Cole of Woodbine, and Mrs. Helen Longworth of Boone; and a son, Clement Cole of Omaha.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable E. J. COLE, M.D., the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and 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 that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
WILLIAM E. DARRINGTON,
JEWELL WAUGH,
ALFRED NIELSEN,
Committee.