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state. 1 Some of the new granges were organized by Kelley and 

 others by deputies appointed by the master of the state grange. 



After getting the Minnesota State Grange on its feet, Kelley, 

 in March, 1869, left Minnesota for a trip to the East. After 

 visiting Fredonia, New York, where he found an active grange 

 with a hundred members, he went on to Washington. In that 

 city, on April 13, 1869, the National Grange convened in its 

 so-called first annual session with six members present; it 

 listened to the report of the secretary on the work accomplished, 

 enacted a few laws for the regulation of the order, and then 

 relapsed into inactivity. 2 



Kelley soon returned to Minnesota. There, with the help of 

 his niece, Miss Hall, who acted as his assistant, he continued 

 his active work of organization, and, by an extensive corre- 

 spondence, laid the foundations for the order in other states. 

 Late in October he made a trip to northern Iowa, where the 

 second grange in that state was organized at Pottsville. This 

 trip also resulted soon after in the formation of Waukon Grange, 

 Iowa, which was said in 1875 to have held more meetings than 

 any other grange in the United States. Dudley W. Adams, 

 first master of the Iowa State Grange and later master of the 

 National Grange, came into the work as secretary of Waukon 

 Grange. Kelley followed up this trip by another into Illinois 

 and Indiana, lasting from November, 1869, to January, 1870, 

 which resulted in the permanent introduction of the order in 

 each of those states, by the establishment of granges in Illinois 

 at Nunda (Eureka Grange) and Henry, and in Indiana at Honey 

 Creek, Terre Haute, and Indianapolis (Capital Grange). 3 Kelley 

 then proceeded to Washington to join with the other " founders " 

 in a meeting of the National Grange, and on his way back 

 organized the first grange in Ohio at East Cleveland, March 2, 

 1870. He then hurried on to his Minnesota home, where he 

 found a batch of letters containing inquiries concerning the 



1 Compiled from table in Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 216. 



2 Ibid. 174-179. 



3 Prairie Farmer, xl. 372 (November 13, 1869) announced this trip of Kelley's 

 and recommended both him and the order to the editorial fraternity. 



