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FRANK E. ELLIS
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Frank E. Ellis, begs leave to submit the following:
Frank E. Ellis, son of Honorable J. W. and Mary Forbes-Ellis, was born on a farm in Jackson county, March 12, 1879, and passed away at his home in Maquoketa, February 6, 1941. He taught in the public schools for two years, then engaged in the insurance and real estate business. He expended great effort in collecting and maintaining the Frank Ellis Museum of archaeology and anthropology in Maquoketa, housed in a beautiful fireproof building which he erected in 1930, and which is free to school children.
He was an honored member of the Senate in the sessions of the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies. In politics he was always affiliated with the Democratic party, although he numbered among his friends the adherents of all political parties. He enjoyed the confidence, respect, and esteem of all who knew him, irrespective of political affiliation. On all moral questions his voice and vote were always on the side of righteous living. His unswerving fidelity to duty, his faithfulness in every public and private trust, and his character as a citizen, inspired all with whom he came in contact to a higher ideal of life and living.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Forty-ninth General Assembly: In the passing of Senator Ellis, a great bereavement is recognized by the community in which he lived, and the state of Iowa which he served with distinguished ability and unquestioned fidelity.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be entered in the memorial section of the Journal of the Senate, and a copy sent to the surviving relatives.
D. D. FULLER,
ROSS R. MOWRY,
A. E. AUGUSTINE,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.