Coons - Joseph Andrew
JOSEPH ANDREW COONS
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, 26 August 1932, p 7
Lebanon, Aug. 26 - Joseph Andrew Coons, 68 years old, prominent Lebanon banker, agriculturalist and a former legislator, died at his home here today of a heart ailment.
Mr. Coons was vice president of the First National bank of Lebanon. He had served as a director thirty years and was cashier twenty-one years.
He was active in Democratic political circles, served two terms in the city council, two terms as county superintendent of schools and represented his county in the state
legislature from 1913 to 1917.
He was the author of a number of bills, some of which became law. One, passed in the, spring of 1915 and signed by Governor Samuel M. Ralston, gave the board of education power to appoint attendance officers and fixed the date for such appointment. He was a strong factor in the fight to defeat a bill which would have abolished the state militia.
Educated in Boone countyschools, Wabash college and Indiana State Teachers college, Mr. Coons engaged five years in the teaching profession in his home township. He was prominent in Masonic circles, being a past master of Boone Lodge No.9, F., and A. M.; past eminent commander of Lebanon Commandery, Knights Templar No. 43. and a member of the Indiana Consistory Scottish Rite, and the Murat Shrine.
Survivors are the widow; a son, Joseph. Jr.; a student in Butler university and two brothers. Funeral services will be held at the home Saturday afternoon.