He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Margaret Manary, of Valley Center, Kan., and a sister, Mrs. Mae Van Arsdale, of Wichita.

HONORABLE HOMER LEE PRATHER, representative from district No. 54, Chase county, 1921, was born at Montrose, Mo., December 1, 1873. He died September 15, 1921. In 1877 he moved with his parents to Tarkio, Mo., where he graduated from the Tarkio high school and Tarkio college. In 1907 he moved to Greenwood county, Kansas, and in 1911 he purchased the Clover Cliff ranch, near Elmdale, Kan. At the time of his death he was a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist church, assistant superintendent of the Sunday school, president of the school board, and vice president of the Peoples Exchange Bank. He has also served as a member of the board of county commissioners. Mr. Prather was as popular in the House of Representatives as he was with his neighbors and his tenants and employees. He was united in marriage with Miss Kathryn Baker, October 10, 1900. To them were born seven children, five of whom with their mother survive him.

HONORABLE FRANK HASKINS STANNARD, state senator from Franklin county, 1905 to 1909, and member of the House from Franklin county, 1909, was born in Bureau county, Illinois, December 25, 1857. He died at his home in Ottawa, March 30, 1922. Mr. Stannard came to Kansas in the early days. In 1859 he established what has since become one of the largest nurseries in America, covering more than 500 acres in Franklin county. He owned other nurseries in Shawnee and Pottawatomie counties, and in Oklahoma, and New York. In 1882 he was married to Miss Luceba F. Stannard, of Bureau, Ill. To them were born four children, three of whom with his beloved wife survive him. Mr. Stannard and all the members of his family were active members of a Baptist church society, of which he served as trustee for many years. He had been a trustee of Ottawa University since 1895. In the legislature he was admired for his quiet, inconspicuous yet effective methods of work. To this day reference is made to his remarkable success as chairman of the ways and means committee in the House in 1909.

HONORABLE LYMAN L. UHLS, representative from district No. 10, Johnson county, 1919 and 1921, was born in Chester, Ill., March 25, 1857. He died August 4, 1922. Dr. Uhls received his early education at Sparta, Ill., and later graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He practiced medicine at White City, Kan., and later at Geuda Springs. In 1895 he was appointed assistant physician at the state hospital for the insane, at Osawatomie. In 1899 he became superintendent of that institution, a position which he occupied fourteen years. In 1913 he established a private hospital at Overland Park, in Johnson county. This institution has afforded relief to hundreds of sufferers. Doctor Uhls was also a professor of psychiatry in the state university. On September 13, 1883, Doctor Uhls and Miss Anna E. Bean were married. She and their children, Kenneth B. Uhls, and Mrs. James B. Lindsey, survive him.

HONORABLE WALTER ROBSON, representative from district No. 41, Wabaunsee county, 1913, died at his home near Westmoreland on his forty-eighth birthday, February 26, 1923. He was a leader in church, lodge, social and business affairs in his community. Naturally quiet and modest, his opinions carried weight and conviction when expressed. His judgment was sound, his decisions fair and impartial, and his word beyond question. On September 11, 1900, he was married to Miss Kathryn Arnold. He is survived by his widow, his father, John Robson, a sister, Mrs. J. H. Plummer, and two brothers, William and Andrew.

HONORABLE JOHN A. FERRELL was born at Lane's Prairie, Mo., September 23, 1865. He graduated from the Northern Indiana

Normal School in 1887. He served on the faculties of a normal school at Vichy, Mo., a normal school at Steeleville, Mo., the Kansas Normal College, at Fort Scott, Kan., and the Normal School at Weathersford, Okla. In 1892 he became superintendent of the city schools of Sedan, Kan., and in 1902 he was elected unanimously to the office of county superintendent of schools of Chautauqua county. He practiced law from 1911 to 1913 with W. H. Sproul, congressman from the Third district. He represented Chautauqua county in the House in 1915, and the Elk-Chautauqua district in the Senate in 1917 and 1919. Mr. Ferrell was a prominent Mason, and would no I doubt have attained his ambition to become Grand Master had death spared him another year. In 1887 he was married to Miss Emma Lugabill, of Bluffton, Mo. He died June 21, 1922, after an unusually successful career. His life was an open book and no stain ever disfigured its pages.

HONORABLE BENGT JOHNSON died at his home in Mound Valley, March 9, 1923. Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden eighty years ago. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm which was his home for fifty-three years. He was elected by the Peoples party in 1896 to represent the north district of Labette county. He was an honorable, thrifty citizen, highly respected by his neighbors.

HONORABLE EDWARD B. JEWETT, representative from Sedgwick county in 1909, was born near Steubenville, Ohio, December 11, 1847. He died at his home in Wichita, May 10, 1922. Coming to Kansas in 1870, he practiced law in Wichita and Cottonwood Falls. He was elected justice of the peace in Wichita while a young man, and served as police judge, probate judge and postmaster in Wichita. His greatest success perhaps was his work as warden of the state penitentiary. He brought about a number of improvements and reforms in that institution which attracted attention all over the West. The state has been made better from his having lived in it. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and was a prominent Mason. He was married in 1880. His widow, Mrs. Florence Jewett, survives him.

HONORABLE W. C. EDWARDS was born on a farm in Pennsylvania, April 12, 1853. In 1876 he became principal of the city schools of Larned, Kan. He made that his home for a quarter of a century,

during which time he served as register of deeds, secretary of state for Kansas, and two terms as state representative. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1898, but was defeated by W. E. Stanley. In 1901 Mr. Edwards moved to Wichita. He was postmaster from 1908 to 1914. He was successful in business as well as in politics. He organized the Phoenix State Bank, in Larned, in 1884, and in 1889 became its president. In 1883 he was one of the organizers of the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway Company and its vice president. Later he aided in organizing the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway. He was interested in other railway projects and business ventures. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. He was a member of the Methodist church, a thirty-second degree Mason. On April 3, 1878, he was married to Miss Franc C. Mitchell. She and their two children, William C. and Carroll Elizabeth (Mrs. F. E. Holman), survive him.

HONORABLE SHADRICK R. TIMMONS was born in Vinton county, Ohio, August 29, 1846. He died at his home in Wamego, March 12, 1923. He was married to Mary M. Dixon, December 23, 1886. To them were born ten children, all of whom are living except Mrs. P. L. Jackson. Mr. Jackson is our esteemed colleague from Ness county. Mrs. Timmons died May 6, 1915. Mr. Timmons was a member of the House of Representatives in 1889. His sterling qualities endeared him to a large circle of friends. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church and of the Masonic lodge.

HONORABLE OLIVER P. JEWETT was born at Whitefield, Maine, January 3, 1853. He died at his home in Dighton, Kan., February 12, 1923. On March 22, 1877, he was married to Bessie H. Skelton, of Buffalo, N. Y. She died in 1885. Later he married Emma V. Wheeler of Magog, Canada. He has been a resident of Lane county since 1892. He was eminently successful as a farmer and stockman for a number of years, but more recently has lived in the city of Dighton. He was an active member of the United Brethren church. He took great interest in public affairs. His neighbors elected him to the House of Representatives in 1913, 1915 and 1917. He was influential in securing important legislation, especially for the farmers. He is survived by his widow and five sons.

HONORABLE REUBEN HARRISON NICHOLS was born in Clark county, Illinois, on March 14, 1841, and passed away at Woodward, Okla., March 27, 1921, aged eighty years. He grew to manhood in Illinois, and when the civil war began he enlisted in 1861 in battery B, Second Illinois artillery, serving with distinction until 1864, when he became a member of General Hancock's Veteran Reserve Corps, in which organization he served as a dispatch messenger. To him were entrusted many messages, the delivery of which involved the utmost hazard. While in this service it was Mr. Nichols' privilege to carry a message to President Lincoln, and he treasured his meeting with Lincoln as one of the great moments of his life. He was on duty under Hancock in Washington when President Lincoln was assassinated and on special duty during the time of the trial and

execution of the conspirators of their crime. After the close of the war he took up the study of law, and in 1868 was admitted to the bar in Illinois. The same year he came to Kansas, becoming one of the pioneers of the state. Later in the year he married Miss Olive Moffitt. He took an active part in the early history of the state and helped to organize old Howard county, which was divided in 1875 and the counties of Elk and Chautauqua formed from its territory. In 1870 he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1876 was elected to the Senate from the twenty-sixth senatorial district, composed of Elk and Chautauqua counties. Mr. Nichols was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges. He always took an active part in all political, social and religious matters, and was an orator of extraordinary ability, particularly on occasions of a patriotic nature, and was greatly in demand for addresses of this kind. He was a man of striking personality, vigorous character, undaunted courage and ambition. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs. F. W. Sherwood, of Iola. His other daughter, Lula, having passed away three years ago, was buried at Chanute, and there the remains of Mr. Nichols were taken.

HONORABLE FRED B. CALDWELL was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, January 9, 1881, and passed away at his home near Topeka, March 10, 1922. He graduated from Penn College with the class of 1905, and the following year married Miss Edna Johnson, of that same class. He attended the law school of Missouri University one year, and while there was also active in athletics, winning intercollegiate honors at a contest in St. Louis. He also studied law for one year at Drake University, but never took up the practice of law. For ten years the Caldwell family resided in Kansas, the first seven years of this time being at Howard, Elk county, where he owned the Elkmore farm, which became famed throughout the west for its fine Poland China pigs, always blue ribbon winners in every fine stock show and at the Kansas Free Fair. The stockmen of the state owe much to Mr. Caldwell's knowledge and progressive methods of breeding and raising hogs. From Elk county Mr. Caldwell was elected to the House of Representatives for the terms beginning 1917 and 1919. While at Penn College Mr. Caldwell united with the local Friends church, where he retained his membership during all his life. While residing at Howard he was a member of the Presbyterian church choir, teacher of a young men's class in the Sunday school and president of the Boys' League. He was a recruiting officer during the war. For three years Mr. Caldwell had lived near Topeka, having bought the beautiful place near the entrance of Gage Park, where he continued his chosen work of stock raising. He was a most useful citizen, progressive, enterprising, conscientious, and of the highest integrity in business transactions as well as in private life. He left a wife, three children, his mother and four brothers. Burial was at Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he was born.

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HOUSE RESOLUTION No. 21.

WHEREAS, It has pleased the Almighty Father in His infinite wisdom to remove by death Mrs. Hannah B. Smith, Mrs. Catharine Throckmorton, Mrs. Alpha Helen Hatfield, Edward Sanders Hope, and Mrs. Margaret Bitner:

Be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives extend to the bereaved families its heartfelt sympathy and that the chief clerk of the House be directed to spread this resolution upon the Journal and to send to each of our sorrowing brothers and colleagues an engrossed copy of this resolution.

MRS. HANNAH B. SMITH, on December 26, 1922, wife of Hon. George W. Smith, representative from Elk county, passed away at her home near Longton, Kan.; to this home she had come from Chicago as a bride nearly twenty-seven years ago, and here her children were born and her quiet, unassuming life was lived. She was an interested, active member of the Congregational Church, the Woman's Relief Corps and other agencies for good in her home town, a sympathetic, helpful neighbor, ready to coöperate with all her time and strength for the good of all concerned. Although frail in health and confined to her home during the last year of her life, her loving thought and self-sacrifice surrounded her with a sunny atmosphere which will be a joyous, tender memory for all time to those who were with her. Services were held in the church of her choice and the earthly form laid away in the Longton cemetery. She leaves her husband, two sons and one daughter, a grandson and four sisters to await the time when we shall all understand "God's great plan, which is unending life."

MRS. CATHARINE THROCKMORTON, mother of Hon. George Throckmorton, representative from Coffey county, was a pioneer of Kansas, having moved with her husband, Job Throckmorton, to a farm near Burlington in 1857, at a time when the Indian still roamed the plains. She was a charter member of the Methodist church at Burlington. She died at the home of her son George, February 28, 1923.

MRS. ISAAC HATFIELD, mother of Hon. O. H. Hatfield, representative from Gray county, died March 9, 1923. She was the mother of eight children, five of whom, with their father, survive her. She was a life-long Christian, and at the time of her death a member of the Methodist church in her home town, Kinsley, Kan.

EDWARD SANDERS HOPE, the infant and only son of our honored speaker pro tem., and his wife, Mrs. Clifford H. Hope, was born September 6, 1922. He died in Topeka, February 16, 1923.

MRS. MARGARET BITNER. Our hearts also go out to Rev. John A. Bright, our esteemed chaplain, whose sister died at her home in Rising Springs, Penn., January 23, 1923.