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C. COLFAX SMITH
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable C. Colfax Smith, begs leave to submit the following:
C. Colfax Smith was born in Adair county, November, 1868. His early education was obtained in the public schools, and the high school in Harlan, Iowa. He taught for a short time in the country schools, then took a college course and became superintendent of schools in Fontanelle, Iowa. Resigned this position to enter Northwestern Medical School, where he finished in 1904. Married to Rachel Corrough of Malcom, Iowa, and has two daughters: Louise, a librarian in Toledo, Ohio; and Marian Elizabeth (Mrs. Arthur) Oliphant of Des Moines. He was a Mason and Odd Fellow and a member of the Presbyterian church.
C. Colfax Smith was a member of the Senate during the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies from the Thirty-ninth District, Butler and Bremer counties, and had been a member of the House during the Forty-sixth General Assembly from Butler county.
During the last few months of his life he was in poor health, intermittently confined, and gradually grew worse until his death which occurred December 5, 1939, at Clarksville, Iowa, where he resided.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Forty-ninth General Assembly: In the passing of Senator Smith the State of Iowa has lost a faithful servant and the people a real friend; and we extend to Mrs. Smith and family our sincere sympathy.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be entered in the memorial section of the Journal, and that a copy be sent to the surviving widow.
J. KENDALL LYNES,
A. J. SHAW,
ROBT. W. HARVEY,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.