Grand Island Camp No. 408, M. W. A., was established late in the 'eighties. In 1890 D. A. Finch was V. C, A. B. Harriott, W. A., J. A. Brent, E. B., and D. C. Zink, clerk. Unable to secure a compilation of the past commanders and clerks of this lodge, a partial list of the same shows, Geo. H. Caldwell, D. A.
Finch, Z. B. Partridge, Henry Allan. Clerks have been E. E. Cole, D. C. Zink. T. A. Hathaway, A. B. Harriott. A second camp thrived for some time in Grand Island, known as Beet Sugar Camp No. 533, of which H. E. Clifford was V. C, am! I. G. Cawley, clerk.
A. F. Buechler and R. J. Barr, editors. "Fraternals and Social Organziations of Hall Cuonty: Modern Women of America," History of Hall County Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1920): 381. Provided by the Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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