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A. Earl McNeill

Monona County

Memorial to the Honorable A. Earl McNeill of Monona County

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable A. Earl McNeill, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

A. Earl McNeill was born April 8, 1886, on the McNeill homestead, three miles north of Onawa. He was the son of Edwin and Louisa McNeill, who came to this county in 1868. Mr. McNeill passed away on February 9, 1949.

He attended rural schools and graduated from the Whiting High School. In 1911 he was united in marriage with Amelia A. Hubbard, who survives, with their two children, Park, of Onawa, and Jane, of St. Louis, Missouri.

Mr. McNeill was prominent in the Farm Bureau, the AAA, and helped organize the REA, of which he was a director. He served as Ashton township clerk for eighteen years, and as treasurer of the Ashton township school district for thirty-one years. He served in the state legislature in the Fifty-first General Assembly, was president of the Farmers Elevator, and was a member of the Shorthorn Breeders Livestock Association, the Masonic lodge, the Eastern Star chapter, and attended the Methodist Church.

Mr. McNeill was a man of sterling character, considerate and always thoughtful of others. His main thought in life was to serve his community and his fellow man. Coming from a pioneer family, he carried out the inherited trait of brotherly love, so firmly believed in and carried out by his forefathers.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-third General Assembly: That, in the passing of the Honorable A. Earl McNeill, the people, not only of Monona county, but of the entire state of Iowa, have sustained a great loss.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this memorial 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.

HARRY NIELSEN, ALBERT WEISS, WILLIAM H. WELCH,

Committee.

House District 57