54 THE GRANGER MOVEMENT 



compared with 132 the previous year. Of these, 652, or over 

 half, were in the state of Iowa. 1 In Minnesota the lethargy of 

 the previous year was shaken off and some forty-six new granges 

 organized, 2 and in Illinois the work of Wilkinson resulted in 

 enough granges to enable Kelley to reorganize the state grange 

 on a permanent basis at Dixon, March 5, 1872. Considerable 

 activity ensued and sixty-five granges were organized in the 

 state during the year making a total of seventy-two or seventy- 

 three active granges. 3 In Indiana, Kelley organized a state 

 grange about the same time, February 22, 1872, at Terre Haute, 

 but the order did not take hold so vigorously there at the start 

 as in some of the more western states, and only thirty-eight 

 granges were established during the year. 4 



Six granges were organized in Ohio in 1872, and S. H. Ellis, 

 who was to make the order a success in that state, was enlisted 

 in the work. In Wisconsin the order was in bad repute, as 

 has been noted, and early in the year, Burnham, the offending 

 deputy, was removed and J. C. Abbot of Iowa sent into the 

 state to carry on the work. He transferred the field of opera- 

 tions to the more fertile counties in the southeastern part of 

 the state, organized sixteen granges in five months, and on 

 October 2, 1872, reorganized the state grange at Portage with 

 all the new and seven of the old granges represented. Six 

 more granges were organized in the state during the year. In 

 Michigan, the first grange was organized January io, 1872, 

 by E. M. Jones, a special deputy, and when Abbot had com- 

 pleted the revival of the movement in Wisconsin, he was sent 

 to Michigan, where he organized seven granges before the end 

 of the year. Nebraska came into the field with two granges 

 organized by correspondence in January and February, 1872. 



1 National Grange, Proceedings, vi. 6, 8 (1873). 



2 Ibid. 8. 



3 Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 359, 368, 374; National Grange, Proceedings, 

 vi. 8 (1873) > Prairie Farmer., xliii. 100, 153, 273, 284, 292, 356, 388, 401, 404 (March- 

 December, 1872); Paine, Granger Movement in Illinois, io. 



4 Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 359, 374, 388; Indiana State Grange, Proceed- 

 ings, xxxvi. 96 (Appendix); Prairie Farmer, xliii. 20, 105, 273 (January-August, 

 1872); National Grange, Proceedings, vi. 8 (1873). 



