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ELMER A. JOHNSON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Elmer A. Johnson, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Elmer A. Johnson was born in a lumber camp at Wernerville, Juneau County, Wisconsin, on November 29, 1871, the son of John and Kate Burke Johnson. He passed away at Cedar Rapids October 21, 1955.
He came with his parents to Chester in Howard County, Iowa, in 1877, where he grew to manhood upon a farm. He obtained his early education in rural schools, taught school, and read law in John McCook’s office in Cresco. In 1899 he was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa and was admitted to the Bar the same year, and subsequently practiced law at Lisbon in Linn County. He began his practice of law in Cedar Rapids in 1919 and his combined years as an attorney both in Lisbon and Cedar Rapids was fifty-six years.
Mr. Johnson served in the Spanish-American War with I Company of the Fiftieth Iowa Infantry Regiment.
He was married June 5, 1901, to Ella Kettering of Lisbon, who died in 1903. He again married December 14, 1905, to Iva M. Strong of Lisbon.
He served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-fifth, Forty-fifth Extra, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth sessions of the General Assembly.
He was a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans, Iowa Consistory, El Kahir Shrine, Star of the West Knights of Pythias Lodge, the Chamber of Commerce, the Linn County, Iowa, and American Bar Associations, and St. Paul’s Methodist Church. He was also formerly a member of Linn County Farm Bureau and the Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Johnson is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Erroll L. Miller of Cedar Rapids.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Elmer A. Johnson, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its sympathy to his wife and 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.
ERNEST KOSEK,
EMIL L. NOVAK,
A. L. MENSING,
Committee.