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A. G. Eggerding 



L. M. Knoi 



Biggest man physically on the lAA 

 board is good-natured August G. Eggerd- 

 ing, new director from the 25th district. 

 He stands 6' II/2" tall and carries his 256 

 lbs. with ease. Eggerding was born Oct. 

 9, 1879, near Red Bud in Randolph 

 County. His father came from Germany 

 in 1852, the year Jas. Polk was elected 

 president of the United States. He soon 

 found his way to Randolph County and 

 built a log cabin where the Eggerding 

 house now stands. 



When the Randolph County Farm 

 Bureau was organized 20 years ago, Mr. 

 Eggerding became a charter member. A 

 Farm Bureau community chairman, he 

 was elected president of the Randolph 

 County Service Company when it was 

 launched. 



Mr. Eggerding's list of offices reads 

 like "Who's Who." He has been presi- 

 dent of his local bank, the Red Bud 

 Trust Company, for 21 years. He has 

 served as president of the Horse Prairie 

 township Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany since 1918, is president of the 

 Horse Prairie Township District Torna- 

 do Insurance Company, president of the 

 Red Bud Quarry Company, and is a 

 member of the Town Board. He is 

 chairman of the local soil conservation 

 committee and secretary of the Rural 

 Resettlement committee. 



The Eggerding farm of 200 acres 

 produced 100 acres of wheat, 40 corn, 

 25 oats, and eight acres alfalfa last year. 

 On his farm are nine horses, 1 5 milk 

 cows and heifers. He also has a tractor 

 and drives a Chevrolet car. He is mar- 

 ried and has five children, three boys 

 and two girls. Edwin, 29, is an oil truck 

 salesman, Adelia teaches school at Water- 

 loo, la., Oliver is a minister in the 

 Lutheran church at Wessington Springs, 

 So. Dakota, Wilbert, 22, is at home, and 

 Dorothy is a stenographer in Sparta. 



C. M. Smith 



Dw!ght Hart 



Dwight Hart, newly elected direc- 

 tor from the 21st district is a pioneer 

 Farm Bureau builder. He hails from 

 Sharpsburg in Christian County. Al- 

 though the doctor made him give up 

 active farming 12 years ago, his interest 

 in his 240 acre farm, now operated by his 

 son-in-law, has never lapsed. 



Born near Edinburg in 1872, he be- 

 came a charter member of the Christian 

 County Farm Bureau 19 years ago. His 

 public life in Farm Bureau work started 

 three years later when he was elected 

 secretary. For ten years he held the office 

 of president of the Christian County 

 Farm Bureau, guiding it successfully 

 through many a difficult situation. He 

 helped organize the Christian County 

 Service Company during this period. 



Mr. Hart ser\-ed as chairman of the 

 County Tax Committee and on the legis- 

 lative committee. He was appointed 

 chairman of the Christian County Debt 

 Adjustment Committee by the Governor. 

 He served also as vice-president and 

 director of the Soybean Marketing As- 

 sociation. 



Farming runs in the Hart family. Mr. 

 Hart's grandfather, a pioneer from Ten- 

 nessee, settled near the Macoupin-Mor- 

 gan County line in the early days. His 

 father also farmed in Morgan before 

 moving to Christian County. Pure-bred 

 Berkshire hogs and purebred Short- 

 horn cattle are raised on the Hart farm. 



Mr. Hart is married and has two 

 daughters, one married. He lost a son 

 at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., during 

 the world war. 



Leo M. Knox, newly elected direc- 

 tor from the 13th district, was born in 

 his present home three miles east of 

 Morrison in Whiteside County, 44 years 

 ago. When the Whiteside County Farm 

 Bureau was organized and started func- 

 tioning in 1917, he became a charter 



member and has belonged ever since. 

 For several years he served as a director. 



His love for the farm is shown by 

 the fact that he started farming at 21 

 years of age in 191 3. At the present time 

 he operates 388 acres in two farms. He 

 graduated from high school where he 

 distinguished himself as an athlete in 

 football and basket ball and later at- 

 tended the University of Illinois College 

 of Agriculture for several years. 



Mr. Knox comes to the lAA board 

 well qualified for his board duties. He 

 has been secretary-treasurer of the White- 

 side Service Company since its organi- 

 zation. Knox was formerly president of 

 the Farmers Elevator and Supply Com- 

 pany of Morrison and still serves as a 

 director. He has been secretary-treasurer 

 of the Morrison National Farm Loan 

 Association since it was organized and 

 more recently became secretary of the 

 Rural National Farm Loan Association 

 of Mt. Carroll. Farm adviser F. H. 

 Shuman reports that Mr. Knox has the 

 best record on land bank loans among 

 more than 1200 farm loan secretaries in 

 the St. Louis Land Bank territory. He 

 is an excellent judge of land values and 

 human nature. 



President of the Morrison Rotary Club, 

 school director, former purebred Hol- 

 stein breeder, are other local activities. 

 He is married and has four children: 

 Loren, 18; Crystal, 14; Ellis, 9; and 

 Doris, 3. 



Charles M. "Charlie" Smith, president 

 of the Woodford County Farm Bureau, 

 is the new lAA director in the 17th 

 district. A livestock and dairy farmer, 

 all the grain is fed on the 365 acre farm. 

 The milk from his 12 Guernsey cows 

 is marketed through the Peoria Milk 

 Producers, and the four to five carloads 

 of cattle plus several carloads of lambs 

 fed annually go to market through the 

 Peoria and Chicago Producers Commis- 

 sion Association. "Everything I sell 

 off the farm goes to market through co- 

 operative channels," he said. 



Mr. Smith was born in 1886 in the 

 house in which he now lives. He at- 

 tended country school, later Eureka Col- 

 lege. A charter member of the Farm 

 Bureau, he served six years on the ex- 

 ecutive committee and for the past five 

 years as president. He is also a director 

 in the Woodford County Service Co., 

 Eureka National Farm Loan Association, 

 and Woodford County Agricultural As- 

 sociation (seed). 



Mr. Smith's grandfather acquired the 

 original 80 acres of the Smith farm from 

 the government at $21/2 an acre. His 

 father who was on the farm 35 years 

 bought additional land to make 365 acres. 



Mr. and Mrs. Smith have two children, 

 both girls. 



MARCH. 1937 



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