Columbia, Brown Co., SD - G. A. R. (Civil War Vets)

	This file is a copy of pages 232 - 233 of "South Dakota
	Historical Collections", vol. 16, Part 1.

	Scanning and OCR by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net;
	proofing and final editing by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031


	This material is copyrighted, 1932 by South Dakota
	Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced with the 
	written permission of Nancy Tystad Koupal, Director of Research 
	and Publishing.


	LIST OF G. A. R. POSTS IN S. DAK.

Alphabetical list of Posts, South Dakota 
Grand Army of the Republic, with names of 
veterans residing for a longer or shorter time in 
the state.

		COLUMBIA
	Ralph Ely Post No. 45

	This post was chartered March 15, 1884, with the following 
charter members:

	Baker, Richard; Baldwin, Elisha G.; Bordwell, Alonzo B.; 
Cady, Stephen G.; Chamberlin, Charles B.; Cole, Emmett; Daniels, 
Benjamin J.; Dinger, Polikarp; Dickerson, Adelbert; DeShong, Milton 
J.; Foy, Almon W.; Garland, Richard H.; Goodsell, Timothy W.; 
Hart, George W.; Hemer, Henry L.; Jaques, Samuel W.; James, 
Martin S.; Jenne, Enos S.; Koutz, C.; Leak, James; Musser, Jerome 
T.; McDearmon, Joseph; Osborn, Arthur D.; Rumrey, Ezra D.; 
Sargent, Harvey H.; Shay, Louis; Shepard, Gordon H.; Stout, Cyrus; 
Stinchfield, C. H.; Wasson, Warren, and Willsey, Louis H.

	Aside from the list of charter members, no other record of this 
post is available except the following list of post commanders and 
adjutants:

     COMMANDERS         ADJUTANTS
1884 W. H. Wasson       J. J. Musser
1885 E. S. Jennie       M. S. James
1886 H. C. Tucker       I. Hunsberger
1887 Emmett Cole        E. G. Baldwin
1888 S. M. Walters      F. H. Townsend
1889 L. H. Hermon       F. H. Townsend
1890 Z. M. Horsley      George Hart
1891 H. C. Sessions     Phil Rudisill
1892 I. Hunsburger      Phil Rudisill
1893 Joseph McDearmon
1894 Joseph McDearmon
1895 W. W. Dela         A. G. Kilpatrick
1896 W. W. Dela         S. W. Jaques
1897 John Lariby        I. Hunsberger
1898 Lyman Turner       Z. M. Horaley
1899 S. W. Jaques       Lyman Turner
1900 S. W. Jaques       Lyman Turner

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1901 A. G. Kilpatrick   S. W. Jaques
1902 M. B. Wynn         Z. M. Horsley

	This post was organized with 30 members; its largest 
membership was 70 in 1886, and on June 30, 1903, there
were 12 members.