WWI - Woman's Council of Defense - McLean County Illinois Genealogy & History

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Women's Council of Defense
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Very active in the promotion of the work of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Defense in McLean county during the war, was Mrs. Frank O. Hanson, who traveled over the country and consulted with the representatives of the committee at various time. The women did a work in keeping up the morale of the population which is hard to over-estimate.
The representatives in the various townships were as follows:
Lexington, Mrs. James McCullough;
Chenoa, Mrs. A. B. Hiett;
West, Mrs. William Dean;
Arrowsmith, Mrs. H. A. Ball;
Martin, Mrs. Pearl Mclntosh;
Lawndale, Mrs. Charles Atkinson;
Yates, Mrs. Carrie Eckhart;
Cheney's Grove, Mrs. Frank Anderson, Miss Jessie Youle;
Anchor, Miss Minnie Martens;
Cropsey, Mrs. Maud Crum;
Randolph, Mrs. L. F. Rutledge;
Mt. Hope, Mrs. Harry M. Palmer;
Funk's Grove, Mrs. Eugene Funk;
Empire, Mrs. Arthur Keenan;
Downs, Mrs, J. G. Corey;
Towanda, Mrs. S. S. Boulton;
Old Town, Mrs. John Stableton;
Gridley, Mrs. John Whiteman;
Bloomington township. Mrs. W. E. Reeves, Mrs. Dell Deems.
[McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]

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