Representative William T. Gilmore View All Years

HONORABLE WILLIAM T. GILMORE

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Honorable William T. Gilmore of Cedar county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:

William T. Gilmore was born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, on July 19, 1856. His parents brought him to Tipton when he was six weeks old and he continued his residence in that community until his death on May 5, 1935. He was a pioneer Tipton business man, having carried on the clothing business which had been established by his father. He received his education in the Tipton schools and Iowa State College. He taught country school for two years.

Mr. Gilmore lived an active and full life and was interested in the progress of his community. He was a member of the Tipton City Council for five years. He served as member of the board of directors, then as vice president, and later as president of the Cedar County State Bank of Tipton.

In politics, Mr. Gilmore was a republican. He represented Cedar county in the State Legislature during the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Fortieth Extra, Forty-second, Forty-second Extra, and Forty-third General Assemblies. He was a member of the State Historical Society, the Farm Bureau, and the Knights of Pythias and Masonic Orders.

“Uncle Billy,” as Mr. Gilmore was popularly known among his friends, was a likeable character and had the ability to make true friends readily. He was a sound legislator on economic questions, due to the fact that he was a keen financier, and conservative in all legislative matters. In his private life he was clean and honorable in the highest degree. As a public servant, he was actuated only by a sense of duty to the trust that was committed to him.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh General Assembly, That the State has lost a valued and beloved citizen, and the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.

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.

LA MAR FOSTER,

J. P. GALLAGHER,

THOMAS STIMPSON,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.