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HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



tion was limited to such as could be acquired in the 

 common schools, and one year's attendance at St. Mary's 



College in Kansas. He 

 has spent most of his 

 life on a farm; taught 

 school two years. He 

 joined the Farmers' 

 Alliance in August, 

 1889, and has taken an 

 active part in its or- 

 ganization in Colorado. 

 He was a delegate at 

 the time the State Alli- 

 ance was organized at 

 Pueblo, December 17, 

 1889, and was elected 

 Secretary of that body. 

 He has given much of 

 his time to the work, 

 W. S. Starr. an d { s deservedly popu- 



lar with members of the Order. He is at present the 

 Independent nominee for State Auditor in Colorado. 



MRS. SOPHIA M. HARDEN, 



Mrs. Sophia M. Harden, Secretary of the South 

 Dakota Farmers' Alliance, was born in Gainsville, Wyom- 

 ing county, New York, August i, 1846. She attended 

 the district school until 16 years of age, when she entered 

 the Gainsville Female Seminary and remained there until 

 her school days were over. To her a school-room educa- 

 tion was but the foundation for a higher and more 

 practical knowledge which she afterwards, with diligence 

 and industry, acquired, and her mind is a rich storehouse 

 of useful knowledge. Her maiden name was Marsh. In 



