Full Text of HR1504 95th General Assembly
HR1504 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
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| Younker Simon, who passed away on July 8, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, John Simon was born on June 25, 1933 in Highland | 6 |
| Park; he graduated from Swarthmore College and received his | 7 |
| master's degree and Ph.D., both in history, from Harvard | 8 |
| University, where he met his future wife, Harriet; and
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| WHEREAS, John Simon taught at Ohio State University before | 10 |
| joining the faculty at Southern Illinois University at | 11 |
| Carbondale in 1964; for 44 years, he taught history at SIU, | 12 |
| teaching courses on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the | 13 |
| history of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, John Simon also devoted much of his life to his | 15 |
| true vocation, the Ulysses S. Grant papers project; he began | 16 |
| the project, which comprises thousands of documents and | 17 |
| annotations, in 1962 and was nearing completion at the time of | 18 |
| his passing; in total, he had published 28 volumes, with | 19 |
| volumes 29 and 30 scheduled for release in 2008 by the Southern | 20 |
| Illinois University Press and a supplemental volume and an | 21 |
| annotated edition of Grant's memoirs to follow; he was awarded | 22 |
| a Lincoln Prize in 2004 in recognition of his efforts to bring |
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| the writings of Ulysses S. Grant to light; he also served as | 2 |
| the executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association; and
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| WHEREAS, An accomplished historical author, John Simon | 4 |
| wrote or edited a number of books dealing with Abraham Lincoln, | 5 |
| Ulysses S. Grant, and the American Civil War, as well as dozens | 6 |
| of journal articles on 19th-century American history subjects; | 7 |
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| WHEREAS, John Simon is survived by his wife, Harriet Simon; | 9 |
| his sister, Barbara Stuart; his daughter, Ellen Roundtree; and | 10 |
| his two grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 |
| mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of John | 14 |
| Y. Simon; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of John Y. Simon as an expression of | 17 |
| our sympathy.
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