ORGANIZATION 49 



In April, 1870, a correspondence concerning the establish- 

 ment of the order in Missouri was opened with Norman J. Cole- 

 man, editor of the Rural World of St. Louis; and in August, 

 Kelley spent two weeks in St. Louis and vicinity, organizing 

 two subordinate granges and a temporary state grange. No 

 further granges were organized in Missouri during the year; 

 but Kelley's trip brought Thomas Allen and William Muir 

 into the ranks, and their efforts later resulted in the rapid spread 

 of the order in that state. 1 On his way back to Minnesota, 

 Secretary Kelley met General William Duane Wilson, editor 

 of the Iowa Homestead and Farm Journal, who had been appointed 

 general deputy of the order in Iowa, and together they organized 

 two granges in the neighborhood of Des Moines. 2 By October, 

 1870, Kelley came to the conclusion that the transfer of his 

 headquarters to Washington would be an advantageous step. 

 A circular was sent to every grange and to every person who 

 had inquired concerning the order, announcing the permanent 

 location of the secretary's office in Washington. This circular 

 also stated that the order was working in fifteen states and 

 rapidly increasing, that a plan had been adopted for organizing 

 by letter, and that necessary documents would be sent to anyone 

 desiring to take an active part in the work. 3 



The labors of the secretary and the deputies during the year 

 1870 gave to the order nineteen new granges in Minnesota, 

 making forty-seven in all, and nine in Iowa, established mainly 

 through the efforts of General Wilson, which, added to the two 

 previously organized, gave that state eleven granges. Indiana, 

 Illinois, and New York, each added one new grange during the 

 year, making their totals three, three, and two respectively; 

 and the order was newly introduced into Missouri two granges 

 and Ohio, Tennessee, and California one grange each. 

 The organizations in Tennessee and California were made by 

 letter as a result of correspondence with interested parties, 

 and similar correspondence was under way with parties in Ver- 

 mont, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, 



1 Kelley, Patrons of Husbandry, 250, 273-275, 281, 289, 295. 

 8 Ibid. 283. Ibid. 285, 289. 



