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and requiring ability of a marked and special character. 

 His services in founding the Order have already been 

 related in these pages, and it is useless to repeat them 



here. 



COLONEL JOHN COCHRANE, 



Master of the Wisconsin State Grange, 



Is one of the most prominent members of the Order. 

 His views upon the questions of the day have been 

 given at length elsewhere. He is one of the old settlers 

 of the State, resides at Waupun, and is known 

 throughout Wisconsin as one of the best practical 

 farmers in the West. He has never been a politician, 

 though he has taken a deep interest in all the political 

 questions of the day ; " and he enters into the farmers' 

 movement at a time of life when men of his habits and 

 pursuits generally find retirement most attractive, from 

 a strong conviction of duty, and a desire to raise the 

 farmers of Wisconsin out of the slough of despond into 

 which they have been fast sinking." Colonel Coch- 

 rane's farm comprises a tract of 1000 acres, which he 

 has brought under the highest state of cultivation. 

 He has had a crop of wheat of 6000 bushels in a single 

 year on this land. 



S. H. ELLIS, 

 Master of the Ohio State Grange, 



Is a native of the State, is forty-three years of age, and 

 has been a fanner all his life. His connection with the 

 Order dates back to September, 1872, when, with fifty 

 of his acquaintances, he succeeded in organizing the 

 first Grange in the State. He was elected Master of 

 this Grange, and was subsequently appointed by the 

 National Grange a deputy for Ohio to organize new 



