Knox County
Republican
Thursday, September 3, 1914
OLD TIME PEOPLE
Meet and Greet at Gilbert's Park.
The annual meeting of the Old Settlers Association of Knox County was held in Gilbert's Park, Knoxville, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 1914.
This organization holds its meetings annually at Gilbert's Park on the third Thursday in August of each year. This place and date, fixed by the constitution, seems to be very fortunate, as it has been necessary to postpone the meeting but once in thirty years on account of rain. While the mists of the early morning may have kept a few away there was a very large attendance by a great company from every part of the county, to whom the pleasure of a visit, the renewing of old friendships and the recounting of the early joys and thrilling experiences during the early days in Knox county was of more interest than horse races and ball games. Although a formal session is not usually held in the forenoon, President J. F. Latimer called the meeting to order at half past eleven to give those present an opportunity to listen to an address by Senator Hurburgh, as he had to fill an appointment at Lewistown at 3 o'clock.
Senator Hurburgh appropriately chose American Citizenship as the subject for an eloquent and interesting address. America is so broad in its boundaries and so great in its citizenship that all other nationalities are dwarfed when compared to it. The people of England, Scotland and Ireland could all live in New Mexico and have much more room than they now occupy. Germany, Belgium and Italy could be lost in Texas and not be crowded as they are now in any of the countries in Europe. There is no such thing as class and cast in the United Sates. The man who occupies the humblest position here can by industry and honestly attain the highest honors. Reference was made to those who have been corrupt in office, and the universal use of the ballot to keep our politics. The corrupt man is just as good as the men who by their vote or by neglecting to vote place him in power. The address was listened to with the closest attention, and his telling points enthusiastically applauded.
The company then adjourned for dinner, a veritable feast having been prepared by the ladies of the Ev. Lutheran church.
While the audience was assembling in the afternoon. Mr. John Harden, at the invitation of the President, favored the Association with a number of old time selections on his violin.
A selected chorus with Miss Frazier presiding at the instrument, opened the afternoon's program with choruses of former days, the songs greatly pleasing the older people who had heard them when they were young.
Rev. N. G. Clark gave the invocation and the secretary read the roll of the old settlers who have died during the year, as follows;
Galesburg:
Mrs. Electa Canfield - 83
Mrs. Anna Austin - 69
Jacob Sauter - 88
Mrs. Lucretia Regnier - 89
Sylvester Reed - 78
Mrs. J. T. McKnight - 68
George Sipherd - 59
Mrs. Nellie P. Soule - 70
Arthur Spear - 41
P. A. Olson - 89
Mrs. Judith P. Marshall - 90
John P. Starr - 51
W. A. Olson - 49
Nels Lundberg - 67
Mrs. T. W. Rogers - 61
Mrs. Minnie Avery - age not listed
Rev. T. N. Hasselquist - 81
David Delward - age not listed
John A. Johnson - 70
Col. Byron O. Carr - 81
Charles H. Mount - 44
George L. Price - 50
P. H. Parsons - 74
?ane P. Norton - no age listed
George W. Knotzinger - no age listed
Mrs. Huldah Peterson - 54
Dr. John Kemper - 80
Mrs. Albertina Peterson - 76
I. H. Barton - 81
Charles Richardson - 40
M. L. Houlihan - 52
Mrs. Julia M. Childs - 77
Albert B. Clark - 69
Major C. E. Hambleton - no age listed
James Dickson - no age listed
Rev. Lewis Springer - 81
Eugene M. Carr - 55
J. J. Moshin - 56
Mrs. P. M. Johnson - no age listed
Mrs. Louise M. Renier - no age listed
Sara Frost - no age listed
Mrs. Helen A. Raymond - 63
Herman Schroeder - 60
John Dunn - 72
Will Packard - no age listed
Mrs. Marie Wimmergren - 51
Mrs. Catherine Bowser - 92
Mrs. M. T. Perrin - 75
Mrs. George Egan - 52
Matthew McNamara - 85
Lowry J. Edgar -86
A. T. Chittenden - no age listed
Sidney J. Pratt - 55
R. Van Riper - 64
George Whitney - no age listed
O. W. Bennett - no age listed
Mrs. Mary A. Cousins - 60
Mrs. Margaret Gale Hitchcock - no age listed
Michael T. Sullivan - 81
James Graham - no age listed
Miss Hattie Doll - 57
Solomon Spear - 80
C. M. C. Burns - no age listed
Myron Butterfield - 42
Mrs. Ellen M. Copley - 77
Mrs. Sophia Colton - 85
Mrs. Isabella Pawling - 67
Miss Clara A. Churchill - 47
C. G. Peterson - 78
Thomas Diffenbaugh - 81
Frank E. Lanstrum - no age listed
John E. Lanstrum - no age listed
John Buckley - no age listed
D. J. Lane - no age listed
Mrs. Sarah J. Thompson - 75
Mrs. Emily J. Kinnear - no age listed
Mrs. M. R. Johnston - no age listed
Andrew P. Hagstrom - 68
Mrs. Rosa Gaskill - no age listed
John August Ehn - 78
Mrs. Emily Scoglund - 69
Mrs. Geo. R. Hodge - 42
Hans Duvon - 80
Dr. J. M. Lamoreaux - no age listed
Mrs. Cecelia Carter - no age listed
Michael O'Connor - 75
Mrs. J. A. Anderson - 70
Mrs. Lewis Johnson - 78
Mrs. Miron Rhodes - 70
Fred McFarland - 39
Mrs. G. A. Thompson - 86
Jerry Johnson - 70
Milton E. Howell - 71
Mrs. Mary C. Hopkins - 91
B. F. Remmund - 58
Hawkin Hawkinson - 75
Mrs. Emma Anderson - no age listed
Mary A. Slattery - no age listed
Mrs. Victor E. Bender - no age listed
Joseph J. Necasek - 60
S. W. Nystrom - 54
John W. Futhey - 63
Dan Overand - 61
Kathryn Rykert - 72
Mrs. G. C. Evarts - 60
Frank Hatfield - 52
J. C. Crandall - 74
Margaret Sisson Stephens - no age listed
Henderson Township—-Mrs. Isabella Davidson, Mrs. Maria Junk, Thomas Dean, Mrs. Elizabeth Lightner, Mrs. William Bradley, Henry Johnson, Mrs. W. H. Maxwell.
Victoria—Mrs. Robert Young, Andrew Anderson, C. Sanburger, Robert Young, Ed Hammond, Mrs. Ab Col-iinson, Mrs. H. Porter, C. Sawyer, Ames Rice.
Persifer—Mrs. Geo. England, J. J. Eldridge, Zack Stutz, E. J. Wilson, Stephen Yyman[Wyman?], Wm. Fields, Mrs. W. C. Upp, Anton Dolock, William Breece, Mrs. Nancy Corbin Sheldon.
Orange—Mrs. Mary J. Barton. Mrs. Eva Logue Clark, Elery H. Haynes and J. L. Strain.
Haw Creek—T. J. Merrifield and Harvey Morse.
Copley---Mrs Emma Recested, Mrs. Elizabeth Barber, Mrs. Erick Horkstrom.
Knox---M. W. Stone, Mary Jane Housh, Frank Pruitt, Thomas Rickords, Lyman Jackson, Thomas O. Stenson, Lewis O. Leander, Daniel Wainright, W. T. Oglesby, Mary Marshall Webster, Emma Laura Frazee, Mrs. Sophia Lane, Sarah J. McCracken, Charles N. Morey, Mrs. Jennie Wills, C. L. Dossett, Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Nellie Peterson, Mandana F. Lindsey, Martha E. Holt, Chas. Temple, Susan A. Lathrop, James Knox, Admiral Nelson Kennedy, John C. Crandall, Frank Tate, E. C. Brott, Thomas J. Merrifield, Mrs. Eva Temple Hodge, Mrs. Jacob Booth. Miss Bessie Stevens, Miss Nellie Glisson, Jessie Richmond, Stella Metcalf Gould, Mrs. Anna F. Swanson, Mrs Nancy Corbin Sheldon, Rev. Dr. J. M. Waddle, Mrs. Priscilla McCoy, Mrs. Elizabeth Woods Duncan.
Maquon—Joshua Boyington, Horatio Simkins, Mrs. Jane Simkins, Mrs. Julia Clark, Mrs. Tobias Woods, Webster Hamrie, Henry Libolth, Eliza Housh, Peter Brown, Mrs. Florence Thurman, Harvey Morse, Jesse Etchison, Samuel Love, Rose McGirr Nesbit.
Cedar—James Cashman, Elizabeth Edmunson.
Indian Point—Mrs. Cyrus Stegal, Emma Chesney, George Bowden, Josie Page, Mrs. Thomas Austin, Mrs. Thos. Diven, Mrs. Paul Fearsting, Mrs. Arthur Cook, James Thurman.
Sparta—Mrs. Webb England, Jesse Wilmot, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. J. M. Churchill, Mrs. G. W. Robins.
The election of officers resulted as follows:
President—M. O. Williamson.
Vice President—Hon. J. F. Latimer.
Secretary—O. L. Campbell.
Treasurer—S. W. Swanson.
Historian—C. N. Butt.
Township Vice Presidents—
Indian Point—Walter H. Clark.
Cedar—True Rowe.
Galesburg—Rev. N. T. Allen.
Henderson—S. Davidson.
Rio—S. W. Sweeney.
Chestnut—W. H. Reeve.
Maquon—Joshua Burnette.
Walnut Grove—A. F. Ward.
Ontario—Hugh Gregg.
Persifer—J. R. Young.
Knox—L. R. Witherell.
Salem—O. P. West.
Elba—D. C. Hurlbutt.
Truro—Chas. Spencer.
Victoria—G. W. Reynolds.
Haw Creek—Chas. Rebstock.
Orange— W. H. Wiley.
Lynn—J. C. Collinson.
Copley—Fred Becker.
Sparta—Sidney Wilmot.
The Committees.
Great plans are being made to have next year's picnic the biggest and best of any previous. An excellent list of committees has been appointed and everything will be done to have Old Settlers' day of next year one long to be remembered. The committees follow:
Grounds and Parks—Mrs. H. Gilbert, Gene Hebard, John Cook and E. R. Lacy.
Finance—J. Z. Carns, F. E. Wilson, J. M. Nisely, A. J. Hamilton and O. N. G. Johnson.
Entertainment — Alex Peterson, Sam Swanson, F. O. Munson, F. T. Albert.
Transportation—Fred Seacord, Ira J. Lewis, Chas. Westerberg, A. O. Lindstrum, T. C. Love.
Music—J. T. Bentley, J. Winter Thompson, Nathan Anderson, H. E. Parmenter and O. L. Campbell.
Speakers—Hon. J. F. Latimer, Hon. Clark E. Carr, Hon. J. H. Lewis, Rev. Carl J. Bengston, N. O. G. Johnson.
Advertising—Fred K. Jelliff, Walter Clark, Robt. Chandler, Karl Haggenjos, C. F. Mains.
The dinner was served in an able manner by the Luther League of the Swedish Lutheran church of Knoxville.
Representative King was to have been first of the afternoon speakers, but got caught in the Fulton county rain belt and could not be present.
Representative W. B. Elliott, who is enrolled as an old settler, was born in Truro township but had always lived in Victoria township. The Eliott family was among the earliest of the early settlers of the county, coming here in 1828. Mr. Eliott compared the early times with all their early struggles in making this county such a splendid place to live. We should highly honor these men and women of the early days.
Attorney J. D. Truitt of Yates City was called for and spoke at length in the most patriotic and enthusiastic vay. He was glad that he was a citizen of the United States. Instead of spending $54,000,000,000 a year to build Dreadnoughts to destroy each other we were using our wealth for things which would be for the betterment of the people of this blessed country of ours. School houses, churches, schools and museums were dotting this fair land, teaching liberty and patriotism to the people. We should be true to the memory of the old settlers who founded on so firm a foundation this blessed land of ours. "We must educate or we must perish," says a great writer. Let this education be along lines of patriotism and reverence for those who gave their lives that we might live in a country greater than that of Caesar or any potentate. "To be an American citizen is one of the greatest of all honors," was the closing statement of the eloquent orator.
Loren R. Witherell was authorized to make a collection of old Knox County relics for permanent preservation.
This closed the formal exercises of the day, the coming lingering long to enjoy the balance of the day in visiting in the delightful shade of the beautiful park.
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