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RESOLUTION ~IEREAS the life of Elmore Brown Hinman closed on the 27th day of november, nineteen hundred thirty seven, and it is fitting to commemorate the great loss sustained thereby to Redwood City and to San Ma.teo County, as well as to his faJuily, his vetera.n comra.des, and his hOst of friends, RESOL\1]JD, by the Ci ty Council of the Ci ty of Redwood Ci t;y-, that we record here"oy the distinguished services of our late member in his contri- bution. to our local goverLment during his year of councilmanship; his intelligent and nersistent leadership in the a.dvocacy and accomplishment of the organization, construction and operation of a port and harbor at Red- wood City, culmina.ting in his zealous chairmanship of the Port Commission; his indefatiga;ble efforts in the advancement or our Ch8ll1ber of Commerce 8J"\d the prosecution of its nubIle service t1::.rough his directorshiu,9residency and managership; his practical promotion of public SOC'! al service thro~a.gh his 1):"'lrt5Gipation in the orGaniza.ti.~n of the Kiwanis Clu.b, of which he was UnaniJIIOusly ehosen first nrestd.ent 8.J.~d therebjr established str=lndards which ha~e ever since been followed; his devotion to the welfare a~d interests of his comrades in arms in the Spa~ish-Affierica~ War, especially those residing at tne Veter&J.s' Home in 1Tapa County, of which he served as a d.irector, giving twenty-fOllr years of intelligent a~d loving service to promotion of the co:nforts and welfare of its residents; his wider public service durL'1g the seven years of his distinguished administration of the office of County Cle~~ of San Mateo County wherein he exemplified in a practical way his ideal that a public office is a pla.ce of public trust and by his courtesy and effi ciency endea.red himself to the hundreds of ci ti zens, members of the bar, a~d fellow of'ficials whom he served, as well as to denartmental denuties and employees to whom he was an inspiration as well as friend; and 13B r:p FURrHE..-q RESOLVED that we hereby at test the devotion of Elmore Hinman to hi smother t hi s wife &7ld hi s children J to whom he was an ideal son, -1-