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saar: -son--of -or: &rut -Mia~ ~--ia.st w~ . end when each 1 Hohl property in the west part or member o! the Boy Scout troop · town to thelr newly -built home in and cub Scout pack took his quota 1 Buena Vista addition. Mr. and Mrs. or tickeUs for Monday night's min- : Fred Morton moved Tuesday to the ~ shQW and started advance plp.ce vaCllted by the Jennings fam,sell.lng. jlly. Mr .. and Mrs. Clester Bentzinger

The minstrel &how aponsored by J recently purchased the McCracken ( ~e scout organb:at.ion& as a bene-

1 property on Ma~ street formerly

!lt affair 1.8 being brought from occupied by the Mortons . .. J.{eokuk and the personnel is made 1

Saar, wUl serve a1 the 1n1tl committee this ...,.eater !OJ Delta Beta chapter of Alpha Omega at the state UnlYend Iowa, Iowa Clty. Saar pledge national social fraternity ln He returned to the . uni~t) semester a!ter three years a in the army and 1s now a jUn pre-medicine.

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up of Keokuk Men's Glee Club PIIILIP F. ROAN members. the same program that " 1s having a two night run at the Orand 'Theatre 1n Keokuk starting tonight under American Legion aponsorah!P· ·

'i'be Scouts appreciate your buy-ing tickets !or their Minstrel Show and promise a good evening's entertatnment for the money.

<Fort Madison Democrat) Philip F. Roan, 52, 1224 A venue

B, attorney and chairrrian or the Lee county board o! supervisors, died at 9:50 p. m. Saturday in Sacred Heart hospital following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at 5 p.m.

Mr. Roan was born Dec. 9, 1894,

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Regular meeting George ' ington Lodge No. 618, A. P . M. at the Masonic Temple In neloon, Tuesday eve~. Mal

H. M. ROBERTSON, Vf

EARL LATHROP, Secy.

CLEMONS-K UDEBEH COMING PUBLIC SALES in Marceline, Mo. He came to Fort , I Madison aa a boy and graduated from the public high school in 1915.

'nlursda.Y. March 6 - Wm. H. ' His higher education included a <Fort Madison Democrat: Schroder,..... 51,2 miles southeast of 1 master's degree from the Univeisity Miss Eileen Kudebeh, da ugh Ar1Yle. 8. J. Link, West Point, j of Detroit, Mich., and an LLB from Mrs. J u 11 a 0. Kudebeh. Auct.· cttllens State Bank, Don- the Detroit College o! Law. Seventh street. Fort M adisor nellsO~ Clerk. Ad in this issue of '1 He was married to Elinor Smith, came the bride of Jack R. Cle the Review. June 23, 1928, at Scranton, Pa. He son or Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Cle

''onda.y, March 10 - H a r o 1 d belonged to St. Mary's Catholic Do 11 I · t 3 8 ~ 11 1 nne son, a., a p. m. t Roush, ¥.: mile south and 1';-lr m es 1 church. He was a veteran or the February 23. or. Walter L. 'I east o! Argyle. Harry Bennett, I first world war and a past comman· read the double ring servtoe J Auct. Citizens State Bank. Donnell- · der of the local American Legion Union Presbyterian church 1 ·m, Clerk. Ad to appear 1n next post. altar decorations of lighted et ,eek's Review. Long prominent in Republican abra and vases of white cam.

Wednesday, March 12-R. W. po.~.itics, Mr. Roan served · as Lee and gladioli. (Dick) Snedden. 7~~ mils esJ soLuinkth- county chairman, state ~pre8en- Mrs: A. · D. Soechtig played west r-{)f . Donnellson. · · • tative in the 46th through 48th cause," "One Alone,'' "Cia west Point, : Auct. · Clt~ns State general assemblies, and as a county Lune " "·Ah sweet Mystery of Bank, Donnellson, Clerk. Ad to ap- supervisor since· 1943. As an at tor- as a' prelude, "Wedding !..! pear in next week's issue. ney he served for the defense in from Lohengrln as ~

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many o! the best-known crlminall"~ve's Old Sweet Song" c cases he.re during the last two de- . the ceremony and Mendels cades. . "Wedding March" as· the rece

He 1s survived by his widow; two al. The Donnellson · American War children, Franc}., and Rosalind: William Kudebeh, Cedar R

Dad8 will meet 1n Secretary A. D. one brother; and four sisters. Iowa, gave h18 sister in maJ Krebill's of!loe Thursday · evening Funeral services were held at 9 She wore a noorlength 80,. March 6, at 7:30 o'clock for the a. m. Tuesday in St. Mary's church ivory chiffon velvet fashioned monthly meeting. I with the Rev. Rupert F. Trageser 8 fitted bodice and Ionge sl

· officiating. Burial Wll8 · ln soldier·s The elbow lenath veU wu hi ~ONTBL7MEE'IING OF plot of Oakland cemetery with place by a tiara or shirred , AJI.TABAN ·CHAPTER, 0. E. S. military services by the American Her single strand or pearls '

Artaban Chapter, 0. E. S., will meet In the Muonlo Hall Thursday even.lng, Marc~ 6, at 7:30 p. m. !or ita monthly meeting.

Legion at the grave. gUt from the bridegroom. Sht Pallbearers were . J. R. Leary, J. ried a white Bible with ga.r<

F. Phelan, Tom Lawse, R . N. John- and a shower of t ree&.as . son, C. T. Hull and J. W. Napler. MlM Jean Conlee and Ml.ss

Mr. and Mrs. Ernn Ball and HarJohn SChook of Iowa City spent lan Ball or Charleston vtstte<t in

u~ week end 1n the 0. J. Schock 1 the H. Fred Kreblll home Thun~-oome. · I day evening. "

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Richmond, Fort Madt.son, att their cousin. In identical ro• copenhagen blue ~lvet patt with !ull u iru. Otted bodloe ca p sl~ves, they wore elbow 1 glov.e!l of matchlng velvet anc ried pink carnations.

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A Narrative History

of

The People of Iowa with

SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,

BUSINESS, ETC.

by

EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL.B., A.M. Curator of the

Historical, Memorial and Art Depa.1·t1nent of Iowa

lOW A BIOGRAPHY (Gratuitously Published)

Selcrte rl rmrl Prepa.re1. b >J Special Staff of Writ e>·s of The A 1nerican H is torical Society, Inc.

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1931


THE PEOPLE OF lOWA

political ati'air,;, and ha" ,;en·ed t \\'O term ~ as police judge of Ottumwa, and in December, 1!:12~1. was appointed polite judge for t he third term. Mr. Ramsell is an out-door enthusiast, and is particularly fond of hunting anrl fishing.

On Septt"mber J 1 , l f! l2, at Ottumwa, Iowa, .Mr. Ramsell wa s united in marriag·e with Miss Alma Ethel Glew . who \Yas born at Creston, Iowa, a daughter nf Hem·~· c;. and Luc~· (Hawcock Glew, of \Ya ,h in g ton, lJ. C .. natives of Eng la nd, who came tn tlw l 'nited State« in l~RO and located in Iow a. :11' '" · Ram:'el! gTaduaterl from th~ Ottumwa Hi gh Se hool a nd fnr a time taught in the Ottunw:a public sehools. A :' a loyal Republ ican she is a• : tin·l~· in teresterl in politics. takes a construrti\'e part in the work of the Presbyterian Churl' h. i,; a p::l:~ t p1·e~irl ent of the Parent Teachers A;co- c: ciatinn. and i~ active and popular in club l'in iE', ' . l\Ir. anrl l\Irs. Ram~e\1 are th~ parents of t\1''> "nns : Ri chanl Rn ,.;ne r and \\'illiam Hem·~·. ],, th of whom ar e attendin g tlw Ottumwa H i;d1 School. Th P att1·actin• f a mih· home is ~ituatvd a t :2 :~2·:: Ro(•mer Avenue. ·

REY. I-I:·~:,r!' ' \· . . \!A -_ n;"; E i~ a tlHt i v~· of I{lwa. and fo r o H·~· thi<': \'Pars h ~ ;' h·.'e l' on ? of the· able and Zt" : >' I ' 1, .. ;.; ... ( ' n"' th ·o \ atl,o'i~ ( 'h'lr('\1 in this ~tat ,, .... Fa t \-1~;1. i\ia\o;·w· h a c: . . be.en im.tru mental in h~ ~i~ d -:"~:' un ~ C' \ ' (.~ i·al In\·;a pn1·i she:;, and at the pre~ ~:. n ~. ti!!le i.~ on -;.• nt the l)'::lo·,·2d p1·ie3t:-at Creston .

He wa~ JH ,;·n ~H \\ ' int r::~·~t:·t. In\Ya . ~~n\·en1her 2~. 1862. Hi s narh 1ts •:; ('1' " E ~lF :Hr! :twl C'ath erine (Hoy ) Mn! ·-, n :o, th~ fo rm <'!' :1 nati,:r• of I re la nd and the la tt '-' r nf ~\l:'\': Cr l ea:"'! .~ . H i ~: nH'th ?r nO\\. resides a t '·,'a!\ :·\· .iuncti :m. f,, ·.x a . Hi s L1ther who diecl in 1 ;: u~ . w a:::: a~: l n\~.:H f~nner , cnn1ing to this st ~t ·: , .. :, ,,ut 1 8~,;. Hl' m1·n ed a farm in Polk Count\. Bnth parents wer t" r\ evnut C'athohcs. Hi f. ;·:Hh c·r wa.- ;, ll ~ mo:·!'e~t '1Fd <2 n ·ecl a :' " direc t or G: 1~ ;, he me s ~:1 n n! di "t !· 'c t. Of tlw ir ten childn•• ?if_;ht ;E c li\·i nj:!: . Th •.· ~~ ar e n t s l 'll

coura~ed t:·, .. j, · n'dt"'t ·'"n, E ?lll' \'. to en ter tl1•: rr 'esthood. :mrl hi :' r>du C'at iD'l f n>!;l earl\· k J,·ho:>d was d irect •· :' \l< t h that in Yi e\\' . · .

After th e k .ca l "Ch noh h:- w:c·~:t to Dubnqu e. in

11880, and CJW!' t thret" ycai's in St . Joseph's Colege. and th :.·n \\·as nne of the tir ~ t ~tudents to enroll in ~~ . Amhroc< l' C'n!l?gP at Davenport. Where he ,.PmainPd nne Yea!'. In 1885 he wa' graduated f·''J''' r ,., i ... ht •J:, C ni,-o,·-it -- a t ( ' ''laha ~nd comp !<>t ~(i ' h i~- the~logic,;l .tl::-i ~ing- i·~· St Iary 's S c·mi n :JI'\' at Ba!timo>·t·. On December

Cl9, 1_891. h·· wn~ onlnined a nri est hy th e late ardll1a] (;ihhon~. H l" l'etm·ned to Iowa an:!

~as appoin t ·:d t<• bi- fir ;c t eharge, at Maloy , \Yh en · e rema int·d two a! ~ d a hal f vea r s . For thirteen

Years he lalHI I' ed faithfullY at Dallas Cen ter. anrl ht Granger , \\'h e n · lw hu (Jt the chm·~'J. In U104 e becanw pa,to r ;-~ t W oodbine . remaining then·

eight year:'. a nd in Fe hruan·, 1!11:3 , came to th" beop]e of r · ,..,, t '"' lt" !'a"tor nf. tl1e Immaculate

onceptwn t burch . S1nce conung here he has s~en his \\.<•rk Jll 'fiSJWl'C'd. l'l':'Ulting in the huildine: 0 a pari "h hn u~ ,·. thl' pa~· ing off of the C'hurch

dvLt, and he now has a ~ong-regation numbering tiw hund1·ed. Father l\lalnne is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus and ha s been chaplain of ~he council and has worked on the degree team. Since 1(1:2:3 he has. in addition to his parochial duties, hpld the office of rlean of thP Creston Deaner~·.

PHIL!!' F . nuAl' , an Iowa attorney practicing Ia,~· at Fort Marlison, grew up in thit town, was a ~: 11 lesman and bu siness man until after the \\' ,, rJd \qu ·, in whi ch he saw ser\'ice overseas, ,. nrl has mack an excellent 1·ecord in his profe s:" ion.

He \\·a, born at :V1arcelinc, Mi ssout·i, December !1, 11-: !12, ~ o n of P et e r F. and Mary (Fagan) Rn a n , both of ,,·h om \\'ere horn in Iowa , hi s mother at Burlington. The parents li ve in Fort Mc1di ;c on. Hi s fath r- 1· has spe nt all hi s active life a;: a rai lro;~d man, a n engineer with the Santa l<'p r· ~m•pan:-·. an d was li\·ing at }!at·celine on that r : :1 rl \\h2n hi s ~ on Phi lip F. wa s ho1·n . Th e other childr,•n a r e: Leo. of Fort \Yort h, T exas; Mrs. C:·,·ili a Rii e,\·, of :'.l n r ~e line ; l\11'~ . Rosana Freesm :· ;er. of DC't l'f>it. Mi chigan; l\liss Marga ret, of Fnt Ma(: i.•.on; and Peter F. Jr .. of Ontario.

P hilip F. Roan gTe\\' u p a t F ort Madi son, and att 2iHled JWhlic se hools t hen·, graduat ing from h!;;:1 ~chool in 1 H 14. For two :-·ears he was a ::;u esman fn r the l\1 o:' n !doL•;· ,_ ar l' oi11 pany at S ain t Lou i ~ . and dm ' !~~· lfll(i was a ti '11 ekeeper fc:· :~ -:.e s~f)te FP ~~a i lv.:ay C ·v·np~ ny .

;\ll· . Roa n in Decem be r. l DI G, enl isted with an :>mb•.ilan cc· cor p:; for sen·ice in t he French army, had t 1·a i : ~ i :~ st a ·~ :· nt.un. ain 11eau nea r Pari s, ar;rl \';a s i;1 a ~ tin· :;e;·vic P ei .R;ht mo nth s , and was a\\·r: rded t h e (';·o ix d e Guene. Afte1· being rel ~a s ed fr om this ~er \'i ce he rPturned to America and joiner\ the Tank Corps, being- trained at Gf'tt:-:sbm·g-, P<C nn ~ ~·h·a nia, with l.om)lany A of th 2 Three H ucdrl'c! Second Battalion, with the 1·an k of se rg·er, nt. H e aga in went ove t·seas, was sta tioned at Langres , and fo r s ix months after th e ann; ;,tic e was in Germanv.

After hi~ hon orable di:'cha1·ge in September, 1\!lH, entered thP Detl·oit Coll ege of Law, which he attend f' d three yea r ~. getting his LL. B. degree in 1U24. Dm·ing the summe r vacations he ~aiTierl on his <;tudi es at the Univ ersity of Michi co:an, and afte1· graduating he ,:pent a year in th:: l !n iversity of Detroit , where h e won his Master's ci egree in 1 ~125. For one year he was co nnected with the legal rlepartment of the Michir~an Bell Telephone Company, and in 1927 returned to Fort Madi son to engage in a general Ia\\' pr2.cti ce, and .h as acc umul ated a very promis ing bu s in es,: in hi s profession.

H e is a m ember of thf' Sig·ma :\u Phi fraternit~· , the B. P. 0. Elks, and \\'a:; active on the "chou! d eba ting team s the three years h e was in law colleg1:. He has ::;erverl 'everal vears as chairlll a n of t'h e Le(• Count~· r·pntral R ;·puhlican committe<:.

:Wr. Roan manied, .June ;2;:;, 1 9 2~. Miss Elinor Smith. of Scranton. PPnnsy h ·ania.


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STATE OF IOWA

1947

JOURNAL OF THE-- : HOUSE OF THE

FIFTY ~SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Convened January 13, 1947 ·. _., ·

AdJourned April 25~ 1947

ROBERT D. BLUE, Governor

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KENNETH A. EVANS, President of the Senate

G. T. KUESTER, Speaker of the House

Publlahed by

THE STATE OF IOWA Dea Molnft, Iowa


1726 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE

Butler and Bremer counties sent him to the Senate where he served in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first sessions of the General Assembly. He enjoyed the legislative work and was counted an able legislator.

In 1893 he was married to Miss Della Shafer. To this union four children were born, two sons who preceded him in death. There are left to mourn his passing, Mrs. Ramsey, two daughters, Mrs. Gay Jackson :;tnd Mrs. Lavon Anderson, besides fo'ur grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. He died February 23, 1944, at Clarksville following a brief illness.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Geneml Assembly, That in the passing of John M. Ramsey, this state has lost a citizen who had labored long and faithfully for the b'est interest of his people.

B e It Fu.rthe1· Resolved, That a copy of this 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.

H. A. MooRE, ARcH W. McFARLANE,

WILLIAM S. LYNES,

Committee.

Memo-rial to the Honorable Philip F. Roan of Lee County

MR. SPEAKER : Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable res~lution commemorating . the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Philip F. Roan, begs leave to submit the following · r eport: ·

Philip F. Roan, who represented Lee County in the Forty-sixth, Fortysixth Extra, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Sessions .of the General Assemply> was born on December 9, 1894, in Marceline, Missouri. The family moved to Fort Madison, Iowa, when he was one year old.

He was educated in the Fort Madison High School, Univer sity of Michigan and University of Detroit, LL.B., LL.M.

Mr. Roan served in France with the French Army, 1916 and 1917; and with the American Expeditionary Forces, Tank Corps, Company A, 2nd battalion, 1918 to 1919. He was a Past Commander of the local American Legion Post.

At the time of his death he was practicing law in Fort Madison, and was serving as chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Lee· County,

He was married to Elinor Smith of Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 23, ·,, 1928. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 22, 1947. He i~ /· survived by his widow and two children, Francis and Rosalind, all of ., . , whom live at Fort Madison, Iowa. ,. '··

The1·ef01·e, ·Be It Resolved by the House of R epresentatives of the ·· Fift y-second Gen e1·al Assembly, That in the passing of the late PhiliP :. F. Roan, the State has lost a valued and honored citizen, and the House of the Fifty-second General Assembly tenders, by this resolution; if;s sincere sympathy to the surviving relatives.

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Be It Further R esolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the House Journal and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the widow and children of the d~X:eased.

THOMAS W. 'WELLINGTON,

ARCH W. McFARLANE, 0. C. WILLIAMS,

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Memorial to the Honor able Wrn. E. G. Saundel's of Palo Alto County

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a Euitable r .:·solution commemorating the life, character and public ser vice of the Honorable Wm. E. G. Saunders, begs leave to submit the foll owing report: .

Wm. E. G. Saunders, who represented Palo Alto county in the Fortieth. Fortieth Extra, Forty-first, Forty-second: and Forty-second Extra General Assemblies, passed away in Los Angeles, California, on January 16, 1947. Funeral service~ were. held in 'the Church of the Recessional, Los Angeles, with interment in the family plot in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The Reverend Norman McCay, former Methodist. pastor of Emmetsburg, ofiiciated at the last ritefi. . on January 18.

Mr. Saunders Wa$ born at Blairgowri'e, Scotland, on July 27, 1865. At the age of 17 he came a lonE' to AmeriCa. For four years he worked on cattle ranches in New :\'fexico and Colorado. In 1886 he came to Emmetsbu1·g, Iowa.

On July 1, 1889, he was united in ma'rriage to Miss Vina Acers, a school teacher of Emmetsburg, and the couple established their first home at Blairgowrie Farm, five miles northeast of Emmetsburg·.

In 1896 the Saunders family moved to Ernmetsbul'g, building their home known as "Oakwood,'' one of northwest Iowa's beautiful mansions in its day. It was located on the Wl'St shore of F'ive Island Lake.

Mr. Saunder:> became an a ssociat e of the late banker, M. L . Brown, in the Brown Land and Loan Company, and later with the late Captain E .. B. Soper, in the ownership of the First N a tiona! Bank of Emmetsburg. In later years he was president of the Commercial and F'armer~ Savings Bank of EmmetsblU'g. During the Spanish-American war Mr. Saunders ~erved ·with Company K, Iowa National Guard , as a captain of the 52nd regiment, Iowa Volunteers. When the war ended, Captain Saunders' return home was delayed by an attack of yellow fever and he was a patient in the famed Chickamauga Military hospital.

From 1899 to 1908 he engaged in the development for agriculture of " Laguna de Tache," Mexican land grant on King's River, Fresno and Ki ngs counties in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The tract C"omprised 200,000 acres upon which he built the town of Laton. Later he was president of the Fresno Canal and Irrig-ation Company ami the Consolidated Canal firm. Returning to Emmet sburg in 1908 he took an active part in civil matters, organizing the Medium Lake Improvement Company and promoting the construction of a dredge that was to deepen tht- ,,1uth end c.f the t'orrM:r l\iedi~m Lak... . Fast turning into a sloug'lt.

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