biography
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Kelley, Oliver Hudson
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| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1913)
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| biography:
| Farmer, and founder of the Grange, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He worked in Illinois and Iowa before moving to Minnesota (1840), where he traded with Dakota Sioux and farmed. In 1864 he became a clerk in the Bureau of Agriculture, and undertook the Bureau's survey of agriculture conditions in Minnesota (1865). In 1867 he and six other men founded the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, with him acting as its secretary. He argued the benefits of the Grange in the agricultural press, and by 1874 there were more than 20 000 Granges. In 1875 he moved his family to Louisville, KY, where he established the Grange secretary's office. In 1878 he resigned his office and became a land speculator in N Florida, founding the town of Carrabelle. |
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