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1907 Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa
Jefferson
The Various Orders
| MORNING
STAR LODGE No. 159, A. F. & A. M., was instituted June 5, 1860, and
chartered June 6, 1861. The first oflicers were: Jackson Orr, W. M.; G.
S. Walton, S. W.; J. M. Culley, J. W.; D. M. Mallory, secretary; James
Stanford, treasurer. The officers for 1907 are: W. M., S. J. Sayers; S.
Warden, A. J. Oblinger; J. Warden, E. S. Gose; secretary, H. Harding;
treasurer, E. A. Milligan. The present membership is about one hundred,
and the lodge meets on the first Monday of each month. It owns property
to the value of $6,000. known as Masonic Temple, being the second story
of the opera house building. It is by far the oldest civic society in
the county, and has had enrolled in its membership a large number of
the leading citizens of Jefferson and suburbs, including the greater
part of the ministers who have been connected with the Protestant
churches of the city. It has one of the finest and best appointed lodge
rooms in northwestern Iowa. CORNER STONE CHAPTER No. 64, R. A. M., was constituted November 20, 1871, and the first oflicers were: C. H. Jackson, H. P.; J. S. Dunning, king; A. Yerger, scribe; J. N. Harrington, treasurer; R. Ellis, secretary. The oflicers for the summer of 1907 are: J. A. Henderson, H. P.; H. W. Kellogg, K.; E. E. Gallop, S.; D. Milligan, C. H.; E. A. Milligan, P. S.; D. B. McClure, R. A. C.; E. C. Freeman, M. T. V.; P. L. Cockerill, M. S. V.; W. C. Grisier, M. F. W.; J. W. Fitz, treasurer; John Stevenson, secretary. The present membership is seventy-three, and the regular meetings are held the second Monday of each montn. EMMAUS COMMANDERY No. 35, K. T., was constituted December 8, 1879, and its first officers were as follows: C. H. Crawford, E. C.; D. Milligan, generalissimo; J. M. Rhoads, captain general; J. S. Dunning, prelate; A. S. Gilliland, S. Warden; A. A. Watts, J. Warden; Henry Fluke, treasurer; A. M. Head, recorder; W. W. Loomis, standard bearer; W. D. Chandler, sword bearer; A. Moorhouse, warder; C. C. Thorp, sentinel. The oflicers for this year, 1907, are: E. C. Freeman, E. C.; W. C. Grisier, generalissimo; E. A. Milligan, captain general; D. Milligan, prelate; H. W. Kellogg, S- Warden; D. B. McClure, J. Warden; J. W. Fitz, recorder; J. A. Henderson, warder; M. M. Head, treasurer. This commandery has on several occasions made special observance of Easter Sunday. This is the only commandery in the county, and has a membership of sixty three. Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month. EASTERN STAR CHAPTER was organized November 30, 1891, and had a large membership from its inception. It was instituted, in large measure, as the result of the earnest efforts of F. E. Fuller, who was one of its long-time officials and enthusiastic workers while he lived. It has been a helpful agency in maintaining and increasing the fraternal and social enjoyments of the Masonic associations. The first oflicers were as follows: Worthy Matron, Minnie S. Fuller; worthy patron, W. S. Schermerhorn; associate matron, May Warrington; treasurer, Eliza A. Greene; secretary, Gertrude McCulley; conductress, Eva F. Head; associate conductress, Lizzie Lovejoy; Adah, Leorah Lindell; Ruth, Leota Wynkoop; Esther, Belle Eagleson; Martha, Alithea Chandler; Electa, Cora E. Head; organist, Mellie Ellis. The past worthy matrons have been: Minnie S. Fuller; Eliza A. Greene, Nan Williams, Isabella Wayt, Elizabeth Witt, Mary Wynkoop, Martha Lyon, Margaret Baughman and Flora E. Brian. The present officers are: W. M., Flora E. Brian; W. P., James A. Henderson; A. M., Margaret Stevenson; secretary, Louisa E. Gilliland; treasurer, Minnie Jones; conductress, Elizabeth Witt; associate conductress, Cora McClure. The membership at present is ninety, and the meetings are held the first Thursday of each month. In the matter of social functions, with banquet annexes, the Eastern Star Chapter is easily in the front ranks, a pace it has always maintained. GREENE LODGE No. 315, I. O. O. F., was chartered October 21, 1875, by Grand Master Ben. Newman, with six members as follows: George McCulley, S. S. Wilkinson, William Elden, R. M. Vaux, E. J. Couch, J. S. Dunning, and George Bleakney. During the three decades that date from its “day of small beginnings” it has had an unusually prosperous career, a fact traceable to the loyalty of its membership. It now owns a splendid piece of property that has been improved so that it has a beautiful and attractive lodge room and well appointed anterooms, and in addition two rooms on the ground floor that bring a good annual rental. Its possessions would be good value at $10,000. The first officers were: N. G., George McCulley; .V. G. William Elden; secretary, A. J. Eiteman; treasurer, S. S. Wilkinson. The present oflicers, 1907, are: N. G., C. G. Kelly; V. G., W. C. Hamilton; recording secretary, W. H. Lyon; financial secretary, George B. Phillips; treasurer, J. W. Huntington; warden, I. F. Hoff; conductor, William Ellis; I. G., B. Livingston; O. G., J. B. Reece; R. S. N. G., S. B. Anderson; L. S. N. G., P. G. Bradley; R. S. N. G., T. C. Smith; L. S. V. S., O. M. Price; chaplain, A. J. Eiteman; R. S. S., D. Elliott; L. S. S., O. Mowry. The lodge now numbers two hundred and twenty members in good standing. Since the granting of its charter, more than five hundred members have belonged to this organization. JEFFERSON ENCAMPMENT, No. 103, I. O. O. F., was chartered October 19, 1880, by Grand Patriarch J. K. Powers, with these officers: C. P., G. B. Dean; H. P., John Dick; scribe, O. O. Jay. The officers for 1881 were: C. P., Albert Head; H. P., E. U. Daly; S. W., John Dick; J. W., H. L. Dresser; treasurer, John Wilkinson; scribe, S. M. Heck. The following were charter members: O. R. Gray, Albert Head, D. P. Root, G. B. Dean, R. Townsend, John Dick, Charles F. Peck, J. C. Toliver, Frank Hassett, G. W. Bleakney, J. A. Shank, E. A. McCoy, A. J. Eiteman, O. O. Jay, L. C. Schultz, E. U. Daly, Joseph Shaw, A. M. Head, H. L. Dresser, A. S. Gilliland, S. M. Heck, Theodore Vest, Z. A. Church, F. M. Franklin, John Wilkinson, Solomon Kuh, J. E. Smith, T. J. Locker, John F. Gesner, J. S. Eiteman and Isaac Millspaugh. The present oflicers are: C. P., Jed. Brockway; H. P., C. G. Kelley; S. W., W. H. Lyon; J. W., P. L. Schultz; treasurer, J. W. Huntington; scribe, S. S. Ruth; financial scribe, G. B. Phillips; trustees, Z. A. Church, Salathiel Flack, H. B. Roberts. BEULAH BEBEKAH LODGE No. 24, I. O. O. F., was instituted October 18, 1889, and since that date has been a prosperous organization. The subjoined list gives the names of the charter members: H. C. Sayre, Lou. M. Sayre, C. C. Shellhart, Mrs. C. C. Shellhart, A. J. Eiteman, Mrs. F. J. Eiteman, W. H. Lyon, Mary Lyon, R. Townsend, G. B. Dean, W. H. Montis, M. J. Montis, S. M. Ferguson, Alwilda Ferguson, O. N. Wright, Emma Wright, C. E. Brown, Orpha Brown, H. A. Turrill, Mary E. Turrill, D. P. Root, Ella S. Root, E. U. Daly, Hattie L. Root, B. T. Daly, Nettie Daly, A. M. Head, Eva F. Head, J. H. Black, Sadie Smith. The first officers were: N. G., E. U. Daley; V. G., Mrs. Mary Lyon; secretary, Alwilda Ferguson; treasurer, Lou. M. Sayre. The present officers are: N. G., Miss Cora Troxell; V. G., Mrs. Minnie Phillips; secretary, Mrs. Olive Sanders; treasurer, Mrs. Sadie Smith. Number of members, one hundred and twenty-five. Sessions held every alternate Thursday evening at Odd Fellows hall. MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA - The charter for this camp was granted March 28, 1892, and it is known as Jefferson Camp No. 2844. The organization has been strong and vigorous from the first, and the following names represent the charter members: William Allison, George A. Allen, S. B. Anderson, Lewis Brown, P. O. Brown, C. E. Davenport, G. F. Decker, W. W. Fields, George C. Grisier, Robert Goodwin, J. F. Hassett, B. C. Hamilton, Walter Hill, F. C. Hastings, Jasper Jones, F. H. Kiddle, Owen Lovejoy, George Lawton, P. J. Lawton, T. J. Le Gore, H. L. Lyons, H. F. Laubach, C. L. Marmon, E. N. Martin, E. Nordenson, S. S. Rutter, John Swearengen, H. . F. Schoppe, C. A. Uhl, J. E. Winkelman, D. I. Walrod. Meetings are held the second and fourth Fridays of each month. The present membership is one hundred and sixty-nine, the largest in the history of the camp. The present officers are: V. C., Mark Wood; W. A., Willard Stevens; banker, Joseph Stoos, clerk, H. B. Roberts; escort, Oliver Price; watchman, George Swearingen; physicians, B. C. Hamilton, Charles Blake; managers, William Legg, D. W. Marsh, William Blackburn. MAPLE LEAF CAMP No. 360, R. N. of A., is one of Jefferson’s wide awake and prosperous fraternal organizations. It is officered as follows: Oracle, Cora Steele; vice oracle, Una Anderson; past oracle, Tessie Cerney; recorder, Mabel Smith; receiver, Elizabeth Stoos; marshal, Jennie Marsh; assistant marshal, Maud Blackburn; chancellor, Mollie Peters; Inner sentinel, Carrie Anderson; outer sentinel, Mary Walrod; physician, Dr. B. C. Hamilton; man agers, Mae Peters, Lydia Stevens, Clara Swear ingén. SLEEPY EYE TRIBE No. 128, I. O. R. M., was organized in Jefferson on the 16th of August, 1907, with a charter membership of twenty. The first officers are as follows: Sachem, T. E. Mason; senior sagamore, J. E. McClurg; junior sagamore, W. F. Hanna; great prophet, Paul E. Stillman; chief of records, Gordon Oliver; keeper of wampum, Chester Lampman; collector of wampum, Ralph DeWitt; trustees, Jos. Lampman, V. H. Lovejoy and C. M. Conger. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS - A lodge of this order was organized in Jefferson in 1881, by Mr. Ryan, who was superintendent of the construction department of the Des Moines & Northwestern Railway Company. For a good many years it was very successful in the matter of interest and a large membership was secured. Dissensions broke out in the ranks and factional feeling ran so high that a large number of members withdrew, and that was the beginning of the end. No trace of its records can be found. With the surrender of its charter, the incident of the K. P. lodge closed. GEORGE H. THOMAS POST No. 23, G. A. R., was mustered January 21, 1880, with fourteen comrades as members. It was one of the earliest posts to be organized, as the number it bears and the date of muster fully proves. The added fellowship of the “boys in blue,” made possible by these fortnightly gatherings, has been a source of incalculable pleasure, but owing to the undermining influences of the terrible war experiences through which its members passed, upon health and strength, their ranks have been decimated by death as no other association has been. And yet there are a good many of these veterans still living in Greene county, and they hold on with loyal allegiance to the meetings of the post, a continual reminder of their sufferings and privations on the tented field and in the fierce carnage of battle. Since the organization of the Women’s Relief Corps, a natural and enjoyable “annex” to every grand army post, the interest has been specially enhanced, and the joint sessions of these co-ordinate organizations, so fittingly banded together, means the perfection of earthly communion. This history refers with reverence and admiration to these men and their service, the value of which may not be reckoned, knowing that before a subsequent record of a public sort shall have been made, these grand heroes and the wives and mothers who stayed at home and worked and prayed while the momentous struggle was on, all these so beloved, will have been summoned into the presence of the Great Commander. Their ranks are rapidly thinning, the following named comrades having died during the past twenty-three years, good men and true, every man of them. The names are given alphabetically, with the company and regiment to which they belonged: Harmon Anderson, Company C, One Hundred and Eighth Ohio John Auld, Company E, Fifty-first Ohio Benjamin F. Aydlott, Company E, Thirty ninth Iowa B. D. Beasore, Second Iowa Cavalry Walter Bedell, Company G, Twenty-fourth Iowa S. B. Blackburn, Delaware Volunteers Samuel Brackett, Company I, Thirty-second Wisconsin George W. Bleakney, Third Missouri Cavalry John Calvert, Company C, Thirty-third Wisconsin Harvey Church, Company I, Third Wisconsin Cavalry Abraham Coleman, Company C, Thirty-fifth Indiana John Coil, Company E, Thirty-ninth Iowa M. D. Culley, U. S. A., 1812 Levi Corbin, Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry Henry Cockerill, Company D, _____Iowa Infantry David A. Conant, Company G. First Wisconsin Cavalry J. G. Dodds, Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers E. U. Daly, Company C, Fourteenth Iowa Henry Drake, Fourth Iowa Cavalry John Dew, Company F, Sixty-fifth Indiana J. W. Edwards, Company G, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio Louis Ehrhardt, Company F, Fifty-second Illinois Zach Funk, Company L, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry John Gray, Company K, Forty-fifth Illinois George W. Gilroy, Company H, Tenth Iowa Chalmers S. Gilliland, died in Philippines T. M. Barrett, _____ Illinois Volunteers John A. Greiner, Company H, Fifteenth Michigan D. W. Henderson, Company H, Twenty second Iowa F. J. Harrington, Company A, Tenth Wisconsin H. F. Hastings, Company H, Nineteenth Illinois John Hauptman, Company _____ Pennsylvania Edward Helmboldt, Company G, Seventy-second Indiana Charles Heward, Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois S. J. Hoot, Second Michigan Engineers David Huffman, Company C, Fourth Illinois John M. Hulse, Company C, Forty-third Ohio Thomas Johnson, Company D, Ninety-sixth Ohio Amos Johnson, Company I, Fourth Ohio Infantry Moses E. Jones Charles Louk, Second Iowa Infantry Joseph Le Gore, Company E, Eighth Iowa Infantry H. R. Myers, Company H., Tenth Iowa John W. Meyers, Company H, Tenth Iowa Joseph R. Meyers, Company E, Thirty-ninth Iowa Isaac Morris, Company I, Ninety-second Illinois George McBurney, Company A, Fifteenth Iowa C. W. Mason, Fifty-first Iowa, band A. R. Mills, Company E, Thirty-ninth Iowa J. F. Miller, Company G, Third Missouri Cavalry G. G. Odiorne, Fourth United States Volunteers William B. Partridge, United States Army, 1812 Barton Pearson, Indiana Volunteers James L. Perry, Company H, Twenty-second Iowa George D. Pettingell, Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry James Quirk, Wisconsin Volunteers Robert M. Rippey, Company E, Thirty-eighth Iowa Philip Rodocker, Iowa Grey Beards J. J. Russell, Company B, Thirteenth Illinois Infantry M. C. Sayers, Ohio Volunteer Navy W. S. Schermerhorn, Surgeon Sixteenth Wisconsin J. C. Secord, Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois James Stevens, Company C, Fifty-second Iowa Infantry A. B. Shipman, Company K, Eighth Iowa H. A. Turrill, Company G, Two Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Thomas Urie, United States Army, Mexican S. E. Wilson, Company H, Wisconsin Infantry Andrew Watt, Twelfth -Wisconsin Battery Nelson A. West Robert Willard, Company A, Sixteenth New York William Wilson, Company I, Wisconsin Cavalry J. W. Wyatt, Company I, Fifteenth Iowa J. E. Wynkoop, Company E, Thirty-ninth Iowa W. H. B. Wynkoop, Company A, Tenth Iowa N. M. Williams, Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois Volunteers Lee Watt, Company K, First Illinois Artillery Augustus Yerger, Company I, Thirty-ninth Iowa There are nearly four score of these honored graves, upon which bright flowers are strewn with the coming of each Memorial Day, and only fifty-eight men now respond, when the ranks are full, to the roll call of George H. Thomas Post. The following are the names of the charter members of the Post, sixteen in number. Of these seven are dead and of the nine living, six are residents of Jefferson, save Daniel Edwards, a farmer in Jackson township: Albert Head, first Post commander A. R. Mills James L. Perry J. W. Fitz D. W. Henderson W. S. Schermerhorn J. A. Delano G. W. Day J. C. Toliver James W. Huntington John H. Clark Mahlon Head J. J. Morgan Charles H. Crawford Daniel Edwards A. D. House C. M. Staring S. B. Cooper The Post is at present officered as follows: P. C., W. N. Abraham; S. V., Jed Brockway; J. V., Captain Barclay; oflicer of the day, Ed. Troxell; officer of the guard, Porter Bradley; quartermaster, James W. Huntington; Wisconsin chaplain, John Beatty; surgeon, John N. Gallup; adjutant, George W. Jackson. Back in 1866, very soon after the close of the war, an association was formed along the same lines as the G. A. R., in purpose, with a membership of seventeen, the charter members of which were largely the same soldirs who in the later day formed the early membership of the present grand army post. WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS - The auxiliary to the G. A. R. is styled George H. Thomas W. R. C. No. 251, and was organized April 16, 1892, with thirty-two charter members. The first oflicers were: President, M. Dyle Mills; secretary, Lillian Bridgeford; treasurer, Lou Shannon. The corps has had eight presidents, as follows: M. Dyle Mills, Maggie Austin, Rhoda A. Miller, Minnie J. Black, Maria King, Sophronia Shipman, Naomi Bradley, Martha Custer. The present oflicers are: President, Naomi Bradley; senior vice, M. Dyle Mills; junior vice, Rosetta Troxell; secretary, Emma Welford; treasurer, Rhoda A. Miller; chaplain, Happy Gallup; conductor, Viola Wilkinson; assistant conductor, Cecelia Barclay; guard, Mary Walrod; assistant guard, Elizabeth Johnson; color bearers, Anna Greiner, Vina Delaplane, Bessie Arnold, Emma Watt; patriotic instructor, Elizabeth Harding; press correspondent, Martha Custer; musician, Estella Brandon. The corps at present numbers eighty four members. Meetings are held every two weeks at the G. A. R. Hall and installation ser vices are often held jointly with the. G. A. R., as are social gatherings. THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION was organized in 1883, with a membership of earnest workers, and met at Head’s Hall for a time and later at the city hall. The first president and secretary were J. S. Dunning and C. D. Case, respectively. For a time literary meetings were held every alternate Friday evening, with which nearly all the young people of the city were pleasantly and profitably identified. The town council gave the use of the city hall for the development of physical culture and a fine gymnasium with unusually good appointments was purchased by the benefactions of citizens. The association was successfully conducted for several years, when, owing to removals, the number of members were so reduced it was thought better to disband and throw the energies centering in the Y. M. C. A. into other lines of religious service. The gymnasium outfit was packed away and finally sold. During the winter of 1896-’97, as the result of a series of revival meetings, a new organization was effected under the most hopeful auspices. A large room was fitted up over McCully Brothers’ store in which to hold the regular Sabbath meetings, and a reading room, well stocked with literature, was furnished in an adjoining apartment. The interest in the new association was well maintained for a few years, when, owing to the many denominational services demanding the attention of the mem bers and the really limited active membership, the project went to its death. Although short lived, in a way, the impartial historian finds it easy to speak of both of these organizations as means of great and probably lasting good in their day and generation. THE GOOD TEMPLARS were an active and infiuential organization in the city for a decade or more, and enjoyed a large and enthusiastic membership much of the time. As this was, and always has been, a temperance town, the real need for the maintenance of the society was not apparent, and soon after the W. C. T. U. came into the field, the Good Templars surrendered their charter. While it lived, this temperance project was specially helpful to our young people in the way of putting them in the forefront in the line of oratoncal or musical effort. Some of their entertainments were first class. DRAMATIC SOCIETY - For a number of years a local theatrical association supplied an excellent type of amusement for the people of Jefferson and vicinity and developed fine talent along lines of comedy acting. J. A. Gallaher was a moving factor in these efforts to please the public, and the ones associated with him who will be best remembered were Charles I. Hall, Alva Wynkoop and Lillian Bridgeford. Most of these married and those living are now playing a more realistic role in the great battle of life. THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION, as is common with such organizations, has realized the ebb and flow of prosperity and public favor, and really has had two terms of natural existence since the project in favor of temperance and good morals was launched about a quarter of a century ago. In the early day of its doings, as the records show, it was more noted for the meetings held and the resolutions adopted, than for aggressive service, but in the struggle for the enforcement of the prohibitory law, and later, the mulct law, it put on the armor of actual doing. Some three years ago it was reorganized and revivified, and is now fairly strong in membership and good works. Mrs. Sarah L. Child is one of the charter members and her zeal and efforts along temperance lines have been consistent, constant and worthy of emulation. She seems almost alone from a survey of the list of the early membership of the society. Mrs. Charles Barclay is now president of the society, and the meetings, held every two weeks, are well attended. GREENE COUNTY YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - After repeated efforts on the part of small towns to make the Y. M. C. A. a permanent institution, resulting in repeated failures, the county work plan of organization was worked out. Under this scheme each town receives trained sectarial supervision (the weak point before), and where one town could not support a competent secretary, a county can do so. Greene county was the second to be organized under this plan. In September, 1904, the state committee, upon invitation of the local work in Jetferson, then supervised by Ross A. Hadley, requested the state committee to send its state county work secretary here to institute the work. They responded by sending J. E. Hauter, who spent September and October in getting the county ready for organization. The first county convention was held in Jefferson, November 4-6, 1904. Such men as A. B. Storms, president of Ames College; John A. Boardman, international county secretary; and a half dozen prominent Y. M. C. A. secretaries appeared on the program. E. B. Stillman, of Jefferson, was chairman of this convention and Wade Gray secretary. A permanent organization was formed, with a county committee, as follows: H A. Glackmeyer, Rippey Henry Rohrer, Farlin John Osborne, Scranton John Powers, Grand Junction C. P. Walker, Paton E. B. Stillman, Jefferson W. C. Perkins, Churdan George McBurney, Cooper Wade Gray, Jefferson E. A. Milligan, Jefferson M. B. Westervelt, Churdan Lee Davis, Scranton James A. Henderson, Jefferson The committee was authorized to raise $1,350 and call a county secretary. The funds were secured and Fred. M. Hansen, a graduate of Ames in 1904, took charge of the work on the 15th of November. The undertaking has been a success from the start. Over two hundred young men and boys have enlisted in less than three years. Evangelistic meetings, resulting in many conversions, have been held, and scores of young men have been trained to do definite Christian service, such as personal work, leading Bible classes, etc. Social events are weekly occurrences. Athletics, baseball, basketball, tennis, track meets are held. The last named is held annually, competition being for a silver cup, Scranton winning in ’06 and ’07. An annual boy’s camp is held. A summer school institute for workers, the only one of its kind in county Y. M. C. A. work, is held annually in the ’Coon valley. Two hundred and fifty young men and boys were enrolled in Bible classes in 1906 and 1907. Three rural Sunday schools are conducted by Y. M. C. A. boys, thus cooperating with the churches. Personal work bands have assisted in revival meetings and have held meetings in rural school houses and in towns. At the end of the third year the following towns have been organized: Jefferson, Grand Junction, Paton, Churdan, Scranton and Ralston. Besides this four rural points have been doing excellent work: The “Dusty” Y. M. C. A., south of Jefferson; the White Maple Class, near Grand Junction, and a good sized class both east and west of Paton. The honor belongs to Greene county of being the first to work out the rural Bible class idea successfully, the “Dusty” being the first Y. M. C. A. rural Bible class in the work of the association anywhere. This phase of the work gives promise of being accorded splendid results. Invitations are on file for work in other points on this plan of organization. The county committee for 1907-8 is made up as follows: J. A. Henderson, Chairman Bert Scarborough, Grand Junction A. E. Edwards, Scranton F. H. Miller, Jefferson E. B. Stillman, Jefferson Elmer Miligan, Jefferson D. B. McClure, Jefferson W. W. Wertz, Grand Junction C. Humphrey, Grand Junction Robert Cain, Scranton D. Paterson, Paton C. P. Walker, Paton Geo. N. Hayslip, Jefferson W. C. Perkins, Churdan M. B. Westervelt, Churdan Lee Davis, Scranton Mark Wood, Jefferson H. C. Kettell, Jefferson In June, 1907, Secretary Hansen, because of the excellent work he had accomplished in Greene county, was called to the higher position of state secretary for county work, and resigned July 1st. He is succeeded by Ralph M. Fagan, of Shelby, who took charge of the county work August 15, 1907. |
Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and uploaded March x, 2025.
Source: Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa, by E. B. Stillman,
Chicago, Illinois: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907
Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and uploaded August x, 2022,
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