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HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



dation of the Wheel and Alliance at Springfield, Missouri, 

 he was elected State Business Agent of the consolidated 

 body. In December, 1889, at the National meeting of 

 the State Business Agents in St. Louis he was chosen 

 President of that organization. As State Busines Agent 

 Mr. Dines has done an extensive business and saved the 

 fanners many thousands of dollars. 



ETHEL BARKSDALE WADE. 



Ethel Barksdale Wade, Secretary of the Tennessee 

 State Alliance, was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, 



in 1844, where he has 

 since resided. He 

 served four years in the 

 Confederate Army as a 

 private until March, 

 1863, in the 1 8th Ten- 

 nessee Infantry, after 

 that time and until the 

 close of the war on the 

 staff of Gen. John B. 

 Hood. He was elected 

 Assistant Clerk of the 

 Tennessee House of 

 Representati ves two 

 terms, 1871-1873, and 

 Ethel Barksdale Wade. was elected Principal 



Clerk of that body six terms, 1877 to 1889. He was 

 elected Secretary of the Farmers' and Laborers' Union in 

 July, 1889, and elected a delegate to the National Union at 

 St. Louis at the same session. Mr. Wade is an efficient 

 and able officer and the Order in Tennessee is prospering 

 under his management, 



