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Subject: Sturgis Williams, b. June 1, 1837 - d. Jan. 18, 1905
Date: 14 Feb 2005 14:13:09 -0700

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Surnames: Williams
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. March 22, 1906. "RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT".--R.S.Williams, county auditor, received last week from the clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Iowa, a copy of the resolutions adopted by the house in memory of the life and public services of his father, Hon. Sturgis Williams. We copy them below:

"Your committee appointed to draft resolutions in memory of the life and public services of the Honorable Sturgis Williams, of Fremont county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:

"The Honorable Sturgis Williams, a member of the twenty -fifth and twenty-sixth general assembly from Fremont county, departed this life January 18th, 1905, at Sidney, Iowa. He was born in New York, June 1st, 1837. He came to Fremont county in 1856. He served four years in the civil war as a member of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. He was with Grant at Vicksburg and followed Sherman in his march to the sea.

"RESOLVED, That in his death the community in which he lived, as well as the state at large, has lost an estimable citizen, one whose life was above reproach and whose character was beyond contaminating influences. The church has lost a faithful worker and his family a kind and loving parent. The purity of his life was known and recognized in military as well as in civil life.

"That these resolutions be printed in the journal and a copy sent to his family."

F. M. LAIRD
WM. COBB
JOHN S STANBERRY
GEORGE W. CLARK, Speaker of the House
C. R. BENEDICT, Clerk of the House.

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