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JOHN ELSPATICES MCINTOSH
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable John Elspatices McIntosh, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
John Elspatices McIntosh, who represented Muscatine county in the Forty-second, Forty-second Extra and the Forty-third General Assemblies, was born on a farm near Atalissa, Iowa, on October 15, 1868, the son of Alexander and Mary Dallas McIntosh, and passed away at his home in West Liberty on December 19, 1944, at the age of seventy-six years, two months and four days.
On October 15, 1923, he was united in marriage to Agnes McEwan Davis, and they were the parents of one daughter, Mary Dallas McIntosh, both of whom survive him.
Mr. McIntosh attended public schools in Atalissa and Cedarville, Iowa, and graduated in the law class of 1892 from the University of Iowa and·he spent practically his entire life as an honored and respected resident of Muscatine county, where he established and conducted his practice of the law, which practice remained uninterrupted for more than fifty-one years.
He was a life member of Mt. Calvary Masonic Lodge of West Liberty. He was also a member of the Consistory and Shrine at Davenport and also held membership in the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, and Modern Woodmen Lodges of West Liberty.
He served as Mayor of West Liberty for twelve years and was active in many civic enterprises. Mr. McIntosh spent a lifetime in unselfish service to the state and community in which he lived and will be sadly missed. As an expression of our appreciation of the character of this outstanding citizen:
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable John Elspatices McIntosh, the State has lost a valued and honored citizen, and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
F. A. LATCHAW,
M. F. HICKLIN,
D. A. DONOHUE,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted,