56 TEE GRANGER MOVEMENT 



meetings of the state grange occurred on July 2, and December 

 10, 1872, and fifty-five granges were organized in the state 

 during the year. Kentucky added one new grange in 1872 

 and in Tennessee four were organized, mainly through the 

 efforts of General A. J. Vaughn, master of the Mississippi 

 State Grange. In five other southern states, the first granges 

 were organized in 1872: Virginia, February 16; Louisiana, 

 March 15; Alabama, July 15; Arkansas, August 3; and Georgia, 

 October 2. Before the year closed, seven more granges were 

 organized in Alabama, two in Louisiana, and one in Georgia. 1 



In the eastern states, the only active work in 1872, besides 

 the organization of one additional grange in New Jersey, was 

 done in Vermont, where Deputy Eben Thompson began work 

 in January and by the twenty-second of February had organized 

 nine granges. The state grange was established by Kelley 

 on the fourth of July, in connection with a Patrons' celebration 

 at St. Johnsbury, there being thirteen granges in the state, 

 but no more appear to have been organized during the year. 

 The year 1872 also saw the organization of the first grange in 

 Oregon, January 6, and the introduction of the order into Canada, 

 where Eben Thompson organized the first grange August 16, 

 and two more before the close of the year. 2 



To summarize the advance of the order in 1872 : state granges 

 were organized in six states Indiana, Vermont, South Carolina, 

 Nebraska, Mississippi, and Kansas and reorganized in Illinois 

 and Wisconsin, thus making, in all, ten state granges in opera- 

 tion. In nine states Nebraska, Oregon, Michigan, Virginia, 

 Louisiana, Kansas, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia - - the 

 order found lodgment during 1872, so that, at the close of the 

 year, twenty-five states had active subordinate granges within 

 their limits. Although the strength of the order was, at this 



1 Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 354-403; Rural Carolinian, iii. i, 70-72, 217, 

 iv- 37> 39> 88-93, 2I 3 (October, i87i-January, 1873); National Grange, Proceedings, 

 vi. 8 (1873); South Carolina State Grange, M inute Book (Ms.), 1-6, 18; Mississippi 

 State Grange, Proceedings, iii. 9 (1875). 



2 Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 359, 370, 390-393, 398; National Grange, 

 Proceedings, vi. 8 (1873). On Vermont, see also Bryan Fund Publication, no. 4 

 (Grange circular); Vermont State Grange, Proceedings, i-iii. 3, 8, 37 (1872-74). 



