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CHARLES GRANT GOOD
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Charles Grant Good begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Charles Grant Good, better known as C. G., or Grant Good, passed away at his home in Boone on April 15, 1957, after a short illness.
Mr. Good was a life-long resident of Boone county. At the close of the civil war, of which his father was a veteran, Mr. Good’s parents moved to Boone county from Pennsylvania. He was born in a log cabin in the Pilot Mound vicinity on August 15, 1872, the son of John L. and Cassiah Good.
Mr. Good was educated in the local schools and attended Capital City Commercial College for two years.
He was married on May 24, 1899, to Alice L. Zunkel, who died in 1951.
C. G. Good entered the teaching profession and after a few years turned his attention to farming and the importing, exporting and raising of purebred draft horses, principally Belgians. He traveled in Belgium, France, Holland and England in search of good draft horses. His horses were sold throughout the United States, Canada, South America and the Hawaiian Islands.
Mr. Good was the oldest active member and vice president of the Belgian Draft Horse Corporation of America at the time of his death. He served several years as president and was honorary president of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association until his death.
He served as township trustee, justice of the peace, and two terms on the Ogden school board.
Following in the footsteps of his father John L. Good, who served in the state legislature in the late 1890’s, C. G. Good, a Republican, served in the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fiftieth Extra, Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-second Extra sessions of the General Assembly.
Mr. Good is survived by his son, Lester R., and two daughters, Mrs. Lucille Treloar and Mrs. Mabel Vogler, all of Ogden, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth. General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Charles Grant Good the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to 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.
RAYMOND EVELAND,
W. J. JOHANNES,
ARTHUR C. HANSON,
Committee.