GARRETT, Burgess W.

GARRETT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/20/2015 at 08:07:30

Obituary ~ Burgess W. Garrett
February 24, 1872 ~ November 15, 1943

The Annals of Iowa
Iowa State Historical Society
Volume 25, No. 4, Spring of 1944, Pages 313-14.

Notable Deaths.

Burgess W. Garrett, public official, died at his farm home near Otley, Iowa, November 15, 1943, where he moved after he retired in January after thirty-two years service as clerk of the Iowa Supreme court; born on a farm in Van Buren county, Iowa, February 24, 1872, the son of William Carlisle Garrett, a representative of that county in the Tenth Iowa General Assembly; moved with his parents to Decatur county, and was educated in the Leon schools, Simpson college and St. Joseph university at St. Joseph, Mo.; taught school in Decatur and Pottawattamie counties; served as pardon clerk in Governor Cummins' office, later as secretary of the state board of parole upon its creation, and was first elected as clerk of the supreme court in 1910, serving during subsequent terms through appointment by the court; a Republican in politics he had been chairman of the Decatur county Republican committee, chairman of the old Eighth district Republican congressional committee, and chairman of both Republican state party and state judicial conventions; a member of the capitol hill Church of Christ and an elder for thirty years, active in missionary and temperance affairs and for seven years president of the Iowa Christian Missionary society. Besides Mrs. Garrett he is survived by two sons, Neill and Julian, both lawyers.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015