Frank L. Simpson 



Thomas H. Uoyd 



Lester S. Davison 



NEW lAA DIRECTORS 



New Men Have Long Years of Service 

 With Their County Farm Bureaus 



THREE new men were elected to the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 board of directors at the 34th an- 

 nual mcctinr; held in late November 

 at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. 

 The followint; are thumbnail sketches of 

 the new men elected to serve for a period 

 of two years. 



Lester S. Davison 



LESTER S. DAVISON. 51, of Mi- 

 nonk in Woodford county, was elected to 

 represent the !7th lAA district which in- 

 cludes Livingston, Mcl.c.in, Ford, Logan, 

 and Woodford counties. He succeeds 

 Edward T. Culnan, Logan county. He 

 was born on the farm .he operates and is 

 the fourth generation of his family on 

 the place. 



Davison has two sons, John, 25, and 

 Harry, 24, and a daughter, Betty, 19. 

 He operates the 560-acres farm in part- 

 nership with his sons. Beth- is in her 

 second year at James Milliken University. 

 Decatur. 



Director Davison's father, Paul, lives 

 in Minonk. He was a charter member 

 of the Woodford Countj- Farm Bureau. 

 The new director was graduated from 

 Minonk high school and attended the 

 University of Illinois for one year but 

 left to go home to produce food during 

 World War I. During World W.ir 11. 

 son John was a navy airman and son 

 Harry was an army airman. 1 hey fly 

 their own plane. 



The Davisons are general grain and 

 livestock farmers and raise a considerable 

 amount of hybrid seed corn. 



Director Davison was president of his 

 county Farm Bureau from 1939 to 1945, 

 and has been president of the county 

 service company for the past three years. 



His brother Victor, was president of the 

 count)- Farm Bureau from 1939 to 1945, 



Mrs. D.ivison is the former Doris Ker- 

 rick. Davi.son met her while she was a 

 student at Illinois XX'esleyan University 

 from Idaho. 



He is a member of the Pioneer Farm 

 Bureau-Farm Management Association 

 which classifies the Davi.son place as a 

 high-return low-labor-m a c h i n e r y-cost 

 farm. 



Davison is a member of the Minonk 

 Baptist Church and the Minonk Lions- 

 Club. He was a member of the local 

 school board for 10 years. 



Thomas H. Lloyd 



T. H. LLOYD. 56. of Girard in Ma- 

 coupin county, was elected to represent 

 the 21st lAA district which includes 

 Sangamon. Christian, Montgomery and 

 Macoupin counties. He succeeds Dan L. 

 Clarke, Sangamon county. 



He W.1S born on the farm he now op- 

 erates, part of which was bought by his 

 father about 70 years ago. He was 

 graduated from Girard high school and 

 with the class of 1915 from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agriculture. 

 He spent one year at the University doing 

 graduate work then went back to the 

 home farm in 1917. 



Lloyd has three sotis, all destined like 

 their father, to be graduates of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agricul- 

 ture. Jerry-. 2S. finished in 1942; Dean. 

 26. will finish this month: and Bill. 24. 

 will graduate in 1950. Jerr\' is married, 

 farms with his father, and lives in a 

 house nearby. Dean, also married, ex- 

 pects to join the partnership soon when 

 the Lloyds expect to rent additional land 

 to enlarge the 240-acre farm. 



The Lloyds engage in general live- 

 stock farming. Soybeans are their prin- 

 cipal cash crop with small acreages of 

 certified wheat. They feed an average 

 100 cattle and raise 250 to 300 hogs. 



The Lloyds are a University of Illinois 

 family. Mrs. Lloyd, the former Evelyn 

 Gehant of Lee county, met her husband 

 as a home economics student at Urbana 

 where she was graduated. Director 

 Lloyd's brother, J. H. Lloyd, ser\-ed as 

 farm adviser in Hancock county for 14 

 years and state director of agriculture for 

 part of the Horner administration. 



Director Lloyd is a charter member of 

 the Macoupin County Farm Bureau and 

 a member of the Girard Kiwanis Club 

 and Masonic Lodge. He is now serving 

 his third three-year term on the Farm 

 Bureau board of directors. He is dis- 

 trict director of his county soil conserva- 

 tion district and a member of the county 

 co-op elevator board. He attends Gir- 

 ard Christian Church. 



Frank L. Simpson 



FRANK L. SIMPSON, 52, of Farm- 

 er City of DeWitt county was elected to 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association board 

 of directors to represent the 19th lAA 

 district which included the counties of 

 Macon, Piatt. Shelby, Moultrie, Coles, 

 Douglas, Champaign, and DeWitt. He 

 succeeds Milton W. Warren of Piatt 

 county. 



Simpson was born on a farm in Le- 

 Roy in McLean county and is a charter 

 member of the DeWitt County Farm Bu- 

 reau. He is a general grain and live- 

 stock farmer. 



Serving as president of his county- Farm 

 Bureau for 16 years, Simp.son takes pride 

 in the fact that he h.is never missed a 

 meeting during those 16 years. He farms 

 760 acres, most of it owned, just out- 

 side Farmer City. 



Simpson raises an average 400 to 

 600 hogs a year and feeds two to four 

 carloads of cattle. His principal grain 

 crops are corn and .soybeans with plenty 

 of clover included in his rotation scheme. 



Mrs. Simpson is the former Elma Bail- 

 ey of LeRoy. TTaey have two children. 

 Mrs. Donna Howe, 23, of Farmer City 

 and Ellen, 1 3, at home. 



lAA Director Simpson is a director 

 of the DeWitt County Service Company, 

 vice president of the Corn Belt Electric 

 Co-op (REA) at Bloomington, a mem- 

 ber of the school council at Farmer City, 

 and a trustee of the Prairie Chapel 

 Church. 



LONG 

 the ca 

 counti 

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retiree 

 of director 

 Association 



DAN L. 

 in Sangami 

 rector fron 

 serving the 

 November. 

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 Grain Tern 

 service com 



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 the 21. St di 

 lAA vice 

 operates 3^ 

 Berlin and 

 ates anothc 

 ter. He 

 planting hi 

 He also ha 

 each year. 



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 Bonds cam 

 in the mo\ 

 his area t\ 

 no children 



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 Farm Bure.i 

 a century, ( 

 as director, 

 dent, then i 

 going to th 



MILTO^ 

 Mansfield i 

 director fro 

 three years 

 Warren als 

 finance con 

 recent mon 

 vote his ful 

 of ill healtl 



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 in Noveml 

 came presic 

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L A. A. llECORD 



