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HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



J. W. REID. 



J. W. Reid, Secretary of the South Carolina State 

 Alliance, was born at Reidville, South Carolina, August 



11,1862. He received 

 High School training 

 at the Reidville Male 

 High School and en- 

 tered Davidson Col- 

 lege, North Carolina, 

 in the fall of 1878, and 

 graduated there in 

 June, 1882, standing 

 third in a class of 

 twenty-one. He then 

 taught school three 

 '//, years when he went 

 to farming. He was 

 elected Secretary suc- 

 cessively of Reidville 

 Alliance, No. 55, April 

 20, 1888; Spartanburg County Alliance, May 15, 1888, 

 and South Carolina State Alliance, July n, 1888. He 

 was appointed by the Governor a delegate to attend the 

 eighth annual session of the National Farmers' Congress, 

 which met at Topeka, Kansas, November 16, 1888. He 

 was re-elected Secretary of the State Alliance in 

 July, 1889. 



THOMAS CANFIELD JENKINS. 



Thomas Canfield Jenkins, Secretary of the Maryland 

 State Alliance, was born September 30, 1864, at 

 Pomonkey, Charles county, Maryland. His present occu- 

 pation is farming; earlier in life he was a practical book- 

 keeper and spent a portion of his life in Kansas City, 



