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HARRY A. MOORE

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

Harry A. Moore was born March 14, 1882, in Wright County, Iowa. His family moved to a Black Hawk County residence and he attended schools in that county. He attended the State Normal School (now State College of Iowa), and taught at Dike, and at schools in Waterloo, and then served as County Superintendent of Schools in Black Hawk County for four years.

On March 10, 1909, he married Julia Van Gelder of New Hartford, Iowa. To this union were born four children; Harriet (Mrs. Sidney Shapiro of Arlington, Virginia), Robert J., farming in the New Hartford area, Alice (Mrs. Harry Schooley of Indianapolis, Indiana), and Doris, who died at the age of five.

The Moores lived at Mason City for a couple of years, then farmed at New Hartford for a number of years, after which Mr. Moore operated a grain elevator and an implement business for a few years.

Mr. Moore served in the House of Representatives during the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-second Extra, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-fourth sessions of the General Assembly.

Mr. Moore was always an active worker in the Methodist Church, was for several years a member of the Masonic Lodge, and the Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of Rotary International. He was a member of the New Hartford School Board and also served as chairman of the Butler County Farm Bureau for several years.

At the time of his death, August 24, 1963, he left a host of friends, his three children, five grandchildren and two great grandsons.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Harry A. Moore the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and 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.

CHARLES E. GRASSLEY,

HENRY W. BUSCH,

FLOYD P. EDGINGTON,

Committee.