Representative William E. Long View All Years

HONORABLE DR. W. E. LONG

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable Dr. W. E. Long, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Dr. W. E. Long was born in Akron, Ohio, August 29, 1871, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Long. Dr. Long had lived in Cerro Gordo county since he was three years old, except for brief intervals. He was reared on a farm north of Mason City.

At the age of eighteen years Dr. Long started teaching in the rural schools and taught for three years in the Lime Creek and Portland township schools. He attended Iowa State College at Ames for two years. Later he graduated from Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls, after which he served for two years as superintendent of schools at Marble Rock. Dr. Long graduated in 1899 from the University of Illinois. He practiced medicine at Rockford for five years.

On June 5, 1901, he was married to Sue E. Lyon at Rockford. In 1904 they moved to Mason City.

Dr. Long was one of the founders of the Park Hospital. For many years he was a member of the American Medical Association and secretary of the Austin-Flint Medical Society. He was a former lieutenant district governor of Kiwanis Club and the Community Chest campaign chairman one year. He served as treasurer of the Austin-Flint Medical Society and as assistant councilor of the fourth district of Iowa and had served as county coroner twenty years. He was a Mason and a member of the Congregational Church, of which he was president of the board of trustees four years.

Dr. Long was a former member of the Forty-fourth Iowa General Assembly, as a Representative from Cerro Gordo county, serving in 1931 and 1932.

Dr. W. E. Long is survived by his wife and two children, Dr. Draper Long and Mrs. M. F. Miller, both of Mason City, Iowa.

The book of life is closed for Dr. W. E. Long, but the deeds recorded there still live in the hearts of those who knew him, and our lives are richer because this man has walked with us in friendship.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Dr. W. E. Long, the state has lost a valuable 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.

H. M. KNUDSON,

ARCH W. MCFARLANE,

A. H. AVERY,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.