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Jerry Grover
No full textNarrative by Jerry Grover of his career with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Jerry Grover was the first with a number of National Fish Hatcheries that eventually led to the position as Chief of the National Fish Hatchery System. The last 20 years before retirement, Jerry was a supervisor of field operations in both the Fishery program and Ecological Services program Deputy mostly on the West coast dealing with a wide range of contentious issues in fish husbandry of anadromous fishes and their habitats and basin-wide restoration programs.
Organization: FWS
Name: Jerry Grover
Years: 1961-1997
Program: Hatcheries
Keywords: History, Biography, Employee, Biologist, Hatcheries, Management, Fish ponds, Training, Fish husbandry, Department Training Program, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Tribal lands conservation, Administration, Endangered Species, Young People (YACC), Area offices, Fish production, Klamath River Fish and Wildlife Restor1
Oral History
of
Jerry C. Grover
Retired 1997
Deputy Assistant Regional Director
Ecological Services and California / Klamath Ecoregion
Portland Regional Office, Oregon
Oral History Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
National Conservation Training Center
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
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Oral History
of
JERRY C. GROVER
Date of Interview: November 20, 2000
Final Edit: January 25, 2017
Location of Interview: Tigard, Oregon
Years worked for Fish and Wildlife
Service: 36 years from 1961-1997
Offices and Field Stations Worked,
Positions Held: Fisheries Mgt. Biologist GS-482-5
thru 11 at National Fish Hatcheries at White Sulphur
Springs, WV; Leetown, WV; Craig Brook, ME; Cortland,
NY; Winthrop, WA; Ennis, MT; Coleman, CA; Dept
Mgt, Training Prog, Washington, D.C. GS-11; Manager,
Carson NFH, WA. DS-11; Ass’t. Area Mgr GS-12/13
Jacksonville, FL; Division Mgr Columbia River Fishery
Offices GS-13; Chief NFH System, Washington D.C GM-
14.; Fishery Supervisor CA / Klamath R. Basin / Western
WA. GM-14; Deputy Ass’t. Regional Dir. Eco Services
and Supervisor CA-Klamath Basin GM-14
Colleagues and Mentors: George Balzer, Ray
Vaughn, Paul Handy, Tom Luken, Wally Steucke,
Howard Larsen, Marv Plenert, Dale Hall, Judy Grover
Most Important Issues: Completing the ‘user
pay’ funding agreements with Bur of Recl; implementing
a comprehensive salmon evaluation program;
implementing the Klamath River F & W Restoration Act;
maintaining a coherent family setting and getting 3 sons
thru the university with degrees.
Brief Summary of Interview: A southern
California farm boy completes his university education
and begins a career spanning over 36 years with the
Service. He was first with a number of National Fish
Hatcheries that eventually led to the position as Chief of
the National Fish Hatchery System. With 14 job transfers,
6 times transcontinental, working in a number of
reorganization configurations, a wide range of experience
was gained. The last 20 years before retirement, he was a
supervisor of field operations in both the Fishery program
and Ecological Services program Deputy mostly on the
West coast dealing with a wide range of contentious issues
in fish husbandry of anadromous fishes and their habitats
and basin-wide restoration programs. He did this as a
vital part of multiple organizational changes and
configurations.
Jerry C. Grover
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ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW:
JERRY C. GROVER
PORTLAND, OREGON
11/20/00
INTRODUCTION
ood morning, this is Jerry C. Grover dictating
my interview for the Oral History Project.
I’m recording the interview myself. The purpose of this
interview is part of a program to preserve the history,
heritage and culture of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
(FWS) through the eyes of its employees. This effort is
supported by the Association of Retired Fish & Wildlife
Service Employees and the Service’s Heritage Committee.
I am an Association Board member and a member of the
Committee.
My name is Jerry Carlton Grover. I was born in
Pasadena, California on July 19, 1936. My father was
Carlton O. Grover, an Iowa farm boy that moved to
California right after high school and worked in a number
of jobs. Mostly, he began as a meat cutter, but later on
mostly as a rigger dealing with cranes and cables and so
on. My mother was Bernice Stratford, [born in Chicago].
She was a real rounder. In her younger days she danced in
the ballet in the New York theatre in a chorus line. Their
marriages, this was both their second marriages. I wasn’t
born until she was thirty-six years old. In 1936 this was
kind of rather old to be having children. She would go on
to have two more children, giving birth to the last when
she was forty-two.
When I was growing up she taught ballet. She
had a small studio in Alta Loma, California, (now Rancho
Cucamonga) on an orange grove. It was her desire
growing up in Chicago that when she moved west she
wanted to live on a ranch or a farm and have all the
critters. We had horses, cows, goats, pheasants, turkeys,
ducks, plus the routine dogs and cats.
EARLY YEARS
lived on an orange grove. We lived at the last
developed place & paved road going up the
mountain hillside. Everything else was dirt roads,
sagebrush. As a young boy I did a lot of hunting, and
when the opportunity and season presented itself I did a
lot of fishing. My other leisure time was exploring in the
pucker brush on my horse. A lot of my off time was spent
doing farm chores, milking the cow and the never ending
task of irrigating the orange grove and while going to
school.
I went to a little grade school. There were
fourteen of us in eighth grade. This class went to a
consolidated high school, Chaffey High School that
represented the entire west-end of San Bernardino County
in Southern California. The school had nearly four
thousand students. There was nearly a thousand in my
graduating class, so taking fourteen young people from a
little country school for a 1 hour bus ride and throwing
them into this was something that was really an eye
opener. It did have its advantages. With the large number
of students they had advanced and specialty classes. Not
only did you have English, but you had English Lit.,
Composition, etc. and you could get into report, technical
writing, chemistry; not only inorganic but organic
chemistry, and so you had a wide array, many of which
were pre-university level classes. The shops, they had all
kinds of woodworking shops, metal shops and automotive
shops so it was a pretty good background for high school.
From there, I went to junior college. Chaffey
Junior College was adjacent to the Chaffey High School
that I attended. I went there for two years and during that
time I was working intermittently in a gas station. I’d
work after hours and on weekends and that provided the
money to keep my car going and the other things I wanted
to do. Then it was to Utah State University, Logan Utah,
where I completed a B. S. degree in Fisheries
Management Biology.
By the time I transferred to Utah State University,
I had met Judy Moffitt who would turn out to be my wife.
We attended Utah State together the first year, my junior
year. By our senior year we were married and she
dropped out of school and to work for Thiokol
Corporation, [a maker of solid fuel rocket engines] clear
on the north end of the Great Salt Lake, near Brigham
City. I’d take her downtown at six in the morning to catch
the bus and pick her up at six at night. It was kind of a
long stint.
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wasn’t a particularly good student until right
after I met Judy and got to Utah State. I kind of
calmed down and became focused. My junior and senior
year I really re-knuckled down, with the course work
getting greatly more interesting. Rather than taking
English 101 and Political Science 101 and all those other
basic courses that are required, I started getting into the
fisheries and wildlife management and the ecological kind
of courses that were much more interesting. I made the
Dean’s List for the last two years. I did apply for grad
school and was accepted, but by that time I was getting
schooled out and was looking for an opportunity to go to
work. Also at those times, it seemed advanced degrees
were headed toward a career in teaching or research,
neither of which perked my interest.
During the summer’s, before & after my junior
year and after my senior year I worked for the State of
California as a fisheries seasonal aide out of Chino,
California. Immediately upon graduation I went to work
for California Department of Fish and Game again on a
seasonal appointment. Even though a native Californian, I
had no desire make my career there. In the mean time I
had applied through the Federal Service Entrance
Examination for any number of jobs, whether it was with
the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or the Fish and
Wildlife Service. I kind of just threw my applications out,
along with a number of select state agencies. Ultimately, I
was to get offers at the Federal level that interested me
and I finally accepted my first job which was with the
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, later to become
the Fish and Wildlife Service at the National Fish
Hatchery in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
BEGINNING WITH
THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
hen I reported to work at White Sulphur
Springs it was in February 1961. I came on
as a GS-482-5 Fisheries Management Biologist expecting
to do typical fieldwork I did with the State of California.
When I was hired to go there I was told that, “your job
would be the same.” I felt, ‘Well, here we’re going to
little old backwards West Virginia with all the coal mining
problems and acid mine waste issues,” and things like
that. I’d be working out of a fish hatchery. Well, when I
got there my first job was scrubbing ponds and sweeping
fish shit out of ponds, feeding fish and high-tech mowing
grass [powered lawn mower]. This was a little
disappointing, but it took every nickel that we had to get
back there and so there was no turning around. Then as I
got going with my job, it was pretty interesting work. It
was different than what I had expected, but I grew up on a
farm learning how to raise and care for things, so fish
culture was un-different and interesting work. I met folks
in another hatchery and saw where they were going in
their careers and I began to see the opportunities that were
there over all. It wasn’t a bad job.
It was an entry-level job at GS-5, and the guy I
worked for was George Eisenlore. George, I would come
to find out later, had the reputation of being one of the
“unholy three.” There were three managers that were
absolute bearcats to work for. They were just tough old
goats. The experience I had with George is that he didn’t
particularly care for college graduates. He knew
everything, and you know you were here to learn, and so
he told you what you needed to know. I was just another
worker on the place, but beginning to become acquainted
with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
One thing about George, he kept scrupulous
books. Smaller staffed stations generally did not have a
clerk to do the payroll, pay bills, order supplies, and
answer correspondence. George filled this role at White
Sulphur Springs and which he threw me into. I wasn’t
quite his right hand man; I was his ‘pinky’ and had to
learn the current operations and budgeting systems and
besides, I could type better than him. This later would be
greatly appreciated and gave me an advantage in other
jobs.
After a year and a half there, I transferred to
Leetown, West Virginia, over on the Eastern panhandle.
It was a hatchery co-located with the Eastern Fuish
Disease Laoratory. I was acting assistant manager as a
GS-7. Both these hatcheries, White Sulphur Springs and
Leetown, were what are called ‘combination hatcheries’.
They raised trout as well as warm water fishes: bass, blue
gill, and catfish. The trout were generally stocked into
state managed waters, mostly on national forest lands,
while the warm water fish were part of the Federal Farm
Pond Program.
I wasn’t very long at Leetown, West Virginia
when I was transferred to Craig Brook, Maine. This was
an Atlantic salmon hatchery, and it was involved in a
program that President Kennedy had just started - the
Accelerated Public Works Program (APW). It was to help
counter the high unemployment in Hancock County,
Maine, a high unemployment area. The assistant manager
had retired, so I went up there as a GS-7 and worked at
that hatchery in the GS-9 position. We had a lot of APW
make work projects where we could hire lots of labor.
Mostly we were thinning out the forest, the land the
hatchery was on. But the focus there was Atlantic salmon,
the fish culture work was focused on the culture of this
species, trying to get them up to size, and getting good
migration and survival rates once they were released to the
ocean.
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From there I went to Cortland, New York to the
Fish Husbandry In-Service Training School. It was a
research station, the Eastern Fish Nutrition Laboratory in
upstate New York between Syracuse and Cornell. The
Lab developed the Cortland #6 trout diet universally used
throughout all the trout hatchery systems. It was
compounded on-station. It was 50% ground meat – liver
and spleen, either pork or beef – and 50% dry meals such
as wheat middling’s, distiller solubles, cotton seed meal
and similar products.
The focus of the school was nutrition, husbandry
and disease. Basically, it was the Fish and Wildlife
Service’s effort to professionalize their fish culturists, fish
husbandry and provide some technical training specific to
the needs of fish husbandry. When I was hired into the
Fish and Wildlife Service I was part of a wave, a vanguard
of folks that came in with college degrees. Here-to-fore,
hatchery managers were generally selected from the ranks.
You started out as GS-1. If you showed promise, kept
your nose clean and could work hard and all that, you
could end up as a hatchery manager. Well, in the
professionalizing they were wanting to keep pace with the
states with the monies that the Dingell Johnson Act was
providing to the states. It was a general
professionalization of the Fish and Wildlife Service. I was
in this vanguard group of folks that came in about that
time with college degrees and while we knew the good
biology of things, we were grounded in the university
education. The more practical aspects of raising
salmonids were accomplished through this school in
Cortland, New York.
By this time we’d had two children. One was
born at White Sulphur Springs when we were there, our
oldest son Jeff, and our second son Joel was born in Craig
Brook Maine. After completing the course in Cortland,
New York, we were heading off and going west. Here I
am a western person finally getting an assignment in the
west.
I was assigned to the Winthrop NFH, Washington
in 1966 where I was introduced to the culture of Pacific
salmon. This was a hatchery on the Methow River, just
below the Canadian border by about thirty miles. I was
there not too long when a GS-9 Assistant Manager job at
Ennis NFH, Montana, came up. I applied and was
selected. This hatchery was on the Madison River in the
heart of the Madison Valley just outside Yellowstone
National Park. It was an important rainbow trout
broodstock station. Here I not only got back into trout,
entirely trout, but I got into a different aspect of it. The
Ennis strain of trout was a major egg source for other
National Fish Hatcheries, state hatcheries, and if we had
any left over, for the commercial trout farms. We even
shipped eggs to South America – Chile. They could get
eggs from the Feds at that time.
ome stories that you remember were
humorous. I meant to mention that certain
things that happen to you, stick with you, and this is all
part of the learning process. I was ordering supplies for
the Ennis National Fish Hatchery. It wasn’t very big. We
only had a staff of six or seven people there, and you
know, GSA, you could buy writing tablets, pens, typing
paper, tools and whatever you needed from the GSA, the
General Supply Schedule. It was really much cheaper
than what you could get out in the boondocks like at Ennis
and the quality was excellent. So I’m at work preparing a
routine order through the GSA catalog. They had these
standard issues, these standard packs. I looked at them
and said well…here’s a standard packet…it was a pack of
one hundred and forty-four, and I said well, one hundred
and forty-four writing tablets, they’ll probably last about a
year. So I order one hundred and forty-four. Going to
typewriter paper…we don’t type that much. You know,
with carbon paper and stuff…maybe twelve. Well, being
out in the boondocks, thirteen miles from town down a
dirt road, whenever the GSA supplies came in, they were
usually dropped off at the hardware store or somewhere
and they let us know so when we were in town to pick up
the mail we picked up the supplies. But, I knew we were
in trouble one day when all of a sudden I saw a delivery
truck heading out our road. When he backed up at the
station, those one hundred and forty-four tablets I ordered
actually were one hundred and forty-four cases. It filled
up our coffee room and then we had to back the truck up
to the garage. I had ordered more damn paper, I had
ordered more of this and that…it was an embarrassment.
The Manager, Bill Baker was so embarrassed that he
wasn’t going send it back and get his money back. So
what we did, we started packing this stuff up and putting
labels on it. We sent them to every fish hatchery that we
knew and kind of got rid of it that way. When I left there
we still had gobs of paper and their probably still using it.
But, that’s what happens when you’re still learning if you
don’t have your wits about you and when you take a look
at a standard pack.
It was in June 1968 that my third son Jared was
born. It wasn’t very long after that another job opened up
and I applied. I was selected as a GS-11 and went to
Coleman NFH, California as the Assistant Hatchery
Manager. We packed up in September 1968 and headed
for California, our home state. Coleman National Fish
Hatchery is on the Sacramento River in northern
California between Red Bluff and Redding. It was there
that I again got reacquainted with Pacific salmonids. They
had basically three, four stocks of fish that they were
raising. One was the regular fall Chinook, they had a late
fall Chinook, as well as the steelhead trout and then there
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was a big effort to establish a Kamloops fishery into
Shasta Lake. This latter fish is a landlocked variety of
Sockeye salmon.
Coleman NFH was the largest hatchery in the
National Fish Hatchery System. It was a Central Valley
Project mitigation hatchery associated with the
construction of Shasta Dam and one of the most important
program responsibilities in the Fish & Wildlife Service.
WASHINGTON D.C. - DMDP
After 3 years there I was selected for the
Departmental Management Development
Training program in Washington DC in 1971. So in
September I reported as a DMDP trainee as a GS-11 at
that time. There were twelve of us from the Fish and
Wildlife Service. I think there was like thirty over all
from the Department of Interior representing the Park
Service, BIA, Mines and others. During this yearlong
orientation and training program there was an opportunity
for a number of work assignments.
As a Departmental Management Development
Program (DMDP) trainee I had two assignments I thought
were quite notable. I had a stint with the National Park
Service. I worked for Bernie Hartzog who was the
Director of the National Park Service. The focus of my
effort at that time was assisting in addressing the people
problems in Yosemite Park in California. Plans were
being developed there that would ultimately lead to fewer
cars, fewer camp grounds, and what they would do is have
a tram or a bus system that would take people into the
park. This was in 1971, and it wasn’t until November of
year 2000 that there was finally a plan that had been
introduced and that the Secretary was expected to sign off
on. This plan would encompass many of the same ideas
that were being floated around and developed during this
training assignment. And here it is, twenty-eight years
later, twenty-nine years later that this is finally a plan.
That was my first lesson that things don’t always move
quickly in Washington, no matter who the power is behind
it.
One of the things I remember about Bernie
Hartzog is a story that he relayed it to me, so I believe it
was factual. He had a pretty steadfast policy. He told his
national park superintendents, “Any of you guys fib on a
performance evaluation or a recommendation…,” you
know recommending a turkey to one of your fellow park
superintendents. If he found out about it that person
would be coming back and “he’d be working for you for
the rest of your career.” No matter where you went the
guy was gonna transfer with you. And I think he put the
fear of God in them -- he did have a fairly open
performance evaluation. I don’t know of anybody that
ever ended up with one of these people. If you got a
problem you don’t transfer him. Bernie Hartzog’s motto
was “You take care of it.” “You hired him, you take care
of it, but you don’t pass him on to someone else.”
Another assignment as a DMDP, I thought was
really a good one. I worked up on the Hill for about forty-five
days. I worked on the Senate Interior Subcommittee.
I worked on Allen Bible's staff…he was a senator from
Nevada at that time. That was really kind of exciting,
working with the Congress, and seeing the Senate at work.
It was a very interesting assignment. Two big issues that
we were working on - - one was the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act, and the other one was expanding rivers
and having hearings on adding river systems to The Wild
and Scenic Rivers Act. One of the river systems was in
Northe
Grover McCormick, Sr. Personal Scrapbook Page 2
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Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1888
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1888 presented to Grover Cleveland for renomination during his first presidency. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.Washington, D. C., June 26-th, 1888. - To the Honorable Grover Cleveland of New York. -
Sir: - The Delegates to the National Democratic Convention, representing every State and Territory of our Union, having assembled in the city of Saint Louis on June 5-th inst. for the purpose of nominating Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, it has become the honorable and pleasing duty of this Committee to formally announce to you, that without a ballot, you were, by acclamation, chosen as the Standard bearer of the Democratic Party for the Chief Executiveship of this Country, at the election to be held in November next. Great as is such a distinction under any circumstances, it is the more flattering and profound when it is remembered that you have been selected as your own successor to an office, the duties of which, always onerous, have been rendered of an extraordinarily sensitive, difficult and delicate nature because of a change of Political Parties and methods, after twenty-four years of uninterrupted domination. This exaltation is, if possible, added to by the fact that the Declaration of Principles - based upon your last Annual Message to the Congress of the United States relative to a Tariff-reduction and a diminution of the expenses of the Government - throws down the direct and defiant challenge, "for an exacting scrutiny of the administration of the executive power, which four years ago was committed in its trust to the election of Grover Cleveland President of the United States, and for the most searching enquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion to the pledges which then invited the suffrages of the people." An engrossed copy of that platform - adopted without a dissenting voice - is herewith tendered to you. In conveying, Sir, to you, the responsible trust which has been confided to them, this Committee beg, individually and collectively, to express the great pleasure which they have felt at the results attending the National Convention of the Democratic Party, and to offer to you their best wishes for official and personal success and happiness. - We have the honor, Sir, to be - Your Obedient Servants, - Patrick A. Collins, [sig.] Chairman; Thos. S. Pettit, [sig.] Sec'y; Jno. H. Caldwell [sig.] Alabama, Wilson E. Hemingway [sig.] Arkansas, Wm. D. English [sig.] California, Casimiro Barela [sig.] Colorado, Wm H Barnum [sig.] Conn, E.R. Cochran [sig.] Dela., John Triplett [sig.] Georgia, James S. Ewing [sig.] Illinois, AW Conditt [sig.] Indiana, Wm W. Baldwin, [sig.] Iowa, S. F. Neely [sig.] Kansas, Charles D. Jacob [sig.] Kentucky, John Fitzpatrick [sig.] Louisiana, R. W. Black [sig.] Maine, Wm S Wilson [sig.] Maryland, Chas. D. Lewis [sig.] Mass, Thos F McGarry [sig.] Michigan, John M. Allen [sig.] Miss, John Ludwig [sig.] Minn., Jasper N Burks [sig.] Missouri, X [X on this line for Nebraska missing here?], Jas. S. Mooney [sig.] Nevada, G. Byron Chandler [sig.] New Hampshire, Solomon Scheu [sig.] New York, Thos. W. Strange [sig.] North Carolina, M. V. Ream [sig.] Ohio, M S. Hellman [sig.] Oregon, R. S. Patterson [sig.] Pennsylvania, Isaac Bell Jr [sig.] Rhode Island, Leroy Springs [sig.] South Carolina, M. T. Bryan [sig.] Tennessee, W H Pope [sig.] Texas, John D. Hanrahan [sig.] Vermont, Basil B Gordon [sig.] Virginia, B. F. Harlow [sig.] West Virginia, R. B. Kirkland [sig.] Wisconsin, Jas Sullivan [sig.] Montana, Antonio Joseph [sig.] Mew Mexico, Wm M. Ferry [sig.] Utah Ter., J. R. Dixon [sig.] Wyoming Ter, J. J. Browne [sig.] Washington Ty, J M Silcott [sig.] Idaho Ter, L. Gardner [sig.] Washington D. C., John T. Carey [sig.] Alask
John Parvin
No full textOral history interview with John Parvin as conducted by Jerry Grover. Helen Parvin is also featured.INTERVIEW WITH JOHN PARVIN
WITH MRS. HELEN PARVIN
BY JERRY GROVER JANUARY 29, 2002
MR. GROVER: Why don’t you introduce yourself John?
MR. PARVIN: I am John R. Parvin. My middle name is Ray, without the “mond” on
the end. It’s just straight Ray.
MR. GROVER: When were you born?
MR. PARVIN: January 24, 1914.
MR. GROVER: So you just turned 88?
MR. PARVIN: I’m 88 as of last week.
MR. GROVER: Where were you born John?
MR. PARVIN: Gaston, Oregon.
MR. GROVER: Gaston, Oregon. So you are a native to the northwest.
MR. PARVIN: There’s only one reason I was born there. My father was a manager of
an apple orchard up in the [unintelligible] area. And my grandparents lived at Gaston, so
my mother went home to have her brat.
MR. GROVER: And you were “the brat?”
MR. PARVIN: That’s right.
MR. GROVER: Did you go to school in Gaston?
MR. PARVIN: No, I only stayed there long enough to get my diapers on and take off for
Hood River.
MR. GROVER: So you grew up in Hood River?
MR. PARVIN: My dad was a hired manager. He would rather have farmed for himself
so I grew up around this area.
MR. GROVER: Where did you go to school?
MR. PARVIN: Which school? High School? That was the old Vancouver High School
at “26” and Main.
MR. GROVER: Did you go to College?
MR. PARVIN: Yes, and no. I took college courses wherever I was stationed. But I
didn’t have any opportunities to go to College. That was in the depth of the Depression.
I was looking around for something to do. And I lived on a farm, but the farm wasn’t big
enough for more than one. My father had the farm. I though about it and said that if I
could find something, I would sink my teeth in, and do the best I could with it. I took all
of the Civil Service exams that I could come across. One was for Apprentice Fish
Culturist. It was with the old Bureau of Fisheries. In June of 1938 I was offered a
position at Spearfish. I was offered three or four positions, but that was the closest one.
So by that time we had our daughter. She was a month old when we left to go to
Spearfish. We drove. We had an old Essex. Have you ever seen an old Essex? They are
one of the poorest cars you’ll ever see. But anyway, we drove there and it us a week to
get there.
MRS. PARVIN: Ten days.
MR. PARVIN: Now you can do it in about twelve hours.
MR. GROVER: I see that your wife Helen is with you. Where did you meet Helen?
MR. PARVIN: What? [Mr. Parvin is hard of hearing]
MRS. PARVIN: Where did you meet me?
MR. PARVIN: She pushed my baby buggy! [Laughing]
MRS. PARVIN: I am three years older than he is. He has always told that I pushed his
baby buggy, but I don’t think so.
MR. PARVIN: And I will say this; she was the best. The best thing that I ever got was
her. She backed me to one hundred percent. We went to Spearfish, and I think that that
was the best move that we ever made. She became her own person. She was just newly
married and she was depending on her parents. She became her own person and made her
own decisions. I think that was a great deal because it carried through then to thirty-seven
years with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and/or the Bureau of Fisheries. Right
now, we have been married for sixty-five years.
MR. GROVER: That’s a fair amount of time! What did you first do when you first
went to Spearfish?
MR. PARVIN: What was my first duty?
MR. GROVER: Yeah, what did they have you doing?
MR. PARVIN: Grinding fish food. That was the first assignment. We had a power
[machine]… like a sausage grinder, about that long. It had a hopper like that. So you fed
the livers and spleens and various things into that. Then you had a mixer that you put
them in and it stirred them up. It put salt in them. The salt bound the spleen. That was
my first assignment. Oh, and my first Supervisor was Ted Kibbe. Have you heard of
him?
MR. GROVER: No, I haven’t heard of him.
MR. PARVIN: Well you better look. Ted Kibbe was, as far as I am concerned one of the
best Supervisors you’ll ever run across. He taught his people. He was a person who
believed in research. Ted Kibbe, K-I-B-B-E. I think he is long gone now. Because he
was older than I am. He was transferred from Spearfish up to the new Hatchery in
Montana. It was in Bozeman. Of course, Bozeman has become a Research Station.
MR. GROVER: A Technology Center, they call it nowadays.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. But he was transferred up there. And he operated and got that
started. He was one that believed in research. And I believe one hundred percent in
research.
MR. PARVIN: How long did you stay at Bozeman?
MRS. PARVIN: He was at Spearfish.
MR. GROVER: I am sorry, how long were you at Spearfish?
MR. PARVIN: Have you ever run across Fred J. Foster?
MR. GROVER: Yes, I know the name.
MR. PARVIN: He was the original Regional Supervisor out here. He was there when I
came out there. I came out the second year on vacation to visit and so on. I took some
annual leave and we came out here. I went up to Seattle where the Regional office was, to
meet the guy. He transferred me the new Station at Carson. He didn’t even let me go
back to Spearfish. He was the Regional Director over the whole bit, so he can do that.
They had a new Hatchery up at Carson. Well you know where it is.
MR. GROVER: I was Manager at Carson. But that was in 1972. You must have been
there in 1940.
MRS. PARVIN: Somewhere in there.
MR. PARVIN: Well, the records are there. But I am sure that it was in 1940 when I
transferred to Carson. There was three…there were four people. There was Pop
Meyers. We only knew him as Pop Meyers. He was the Manager, only he wasn’t, he
was Superintendent. Because he was in charge of not only Carson, but the lower
Columbia River hatcheries there. There was The Little White, Big White and Carson were
the three that he was over. We stayed at Carson a while, and I was transferred to the
little Station out from Estacada, Oregon. It was Delf Creek at that time. It was a little
Trout hatchery, but we made a Salmon hatchery out of it.
MR. GROVER: How long were you there?
MR. PARVIN: I was there two times, probably for a total of about five years.
MRS. PARCIN: That sounds right.
MR. PARVIN: This was during World War II and our Secretary of the Interior had all of
us made exempt from military service because we were in food production because of the
Salmon. Then I was drafted and I sat there, and sat there and sat there. We got all ready
for her [Mrs. Parvin] to be taken care of. By that time we had two children. And nothing
happened. I got tired after a while and made a trip up to my original Draft Board, which
was Carson. They said, “Oh, didn’t we send you a notice that you were too old to be
drafted?” I was all of thirty! I said, “No, you didn’t.” They told me that I had been
deferred because of age. So I went back to work.
MR. GROVER: Were you at Delf Creek then?
MR. PARVIN: I was at Delf Creek.
MR. GROVER: How long did you stay there?
MR. PARVIN: Approximately five years. Delf Creek was one that kind got me. I have
a problem with, and I have had for many, many years, with blood circulation in my left
leg. I was talked into having an injection for a varicose vein that I had. It got away from
the Doctor and clogged some other veins. I have a problem, and have had it. But I guess
it doesn’t have anything to do with longevity!
MR. GROVER: No! After Delf Creek, where did you go?
MR. PARVIN: Then I was involved with the Civilian Defense. I was very deeply
involved with Civilian Defense. I said that if I was too old, I wasn’t too old for that. So I
did that as an extra to my job.
MR. GROVER: What kind of duties did you have for Civil Defense?
MR. PARVIN: What kind of duties? I organized the communities.
MR. GROVER: After that, where did you go for the Fish and Wildlife Service?
MR. PARVIN: I was transferred as Assistant Manager up on the Skajet [sic] River.
Then to Leavenworth.
MR. GROVER: What grade were you at that time? Had you been promoted?
MR. PARVIN: We were all SP grades. There is no SP grades any more.
MR. GROVER: Not anymore.
MR. PARVIN: GS, General Schedule grades is what there is. I was a GS-5 at that time.
MR. GROVER: And an Assistant Manager?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, but when the Bureau of Fisheries was transferred to the Interior
Department, the grades went up to no one. When I retired I was a GS-13.
MR. GROVER: Who was at Leavenworth when you were there?
MR. PARVIN: Fred Bitle was there, but he was under me.
MR. GROVER: So he worked for you? O. K.
MR. PARVIN: In fact, I was also in charge of Entiat ‘til Roger Burrows came along and
wanted it for a Research Station. So I was moved down under John Pelnar at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: When was that John?
MR. PARVIN: When was that? I was at Coleman twice. I was in charge of it once, the
last time. And I was the Assistant Manager in charge of Production the first time. I think
it was for four or five years. It was before Eagle Creek was built. I took over Eagle
Creek.
MR. GROVER: About what year were you in Coleman?
MR. PARVIN: I know what year it was that I took over Eagle Creek. That was… [To
Mrs. Parvin] you’re going to have to tell me. You’ve got a better memory than I have.
MRS. PARVIN: For what?
MR. PARVIN: When did we move to Eagle Creek?
MRS. PARVIN: I don’t remember.
MR. PARVIN: It was in 1936?
MRS. PARVIN: No, it couldn’t have been in ’36.
MR. GROVER: Eagle Creek wasn’t built until almost the 1960’s, I think.
MR. PARVIN: I started Eagle Creek.
MRS. PARVIN: I know. But honey, in 1936 we got married, remember?
MR. PARVIN: Oh yeah. 1946, O. K.
MR. GROVER: That was during the War years. It would have been after the war,
wasn’t it?
MR. PARVIN: No, I didn’t move. I was there during the war, or part of the war. When
you get 88, your memory slips a little bit, just off the top of your head.
MRS. PARVIN: When we moved to Eagle Creek it was just nothing but mud.
MR. GROVER: How long were you there at Eagle Creek John? What was your big
program at Eagle Creek?
MR. PARVIN: I think we were there for about four or five years, is that right?
MRS. PARVIN: Something like that.
MR. PARVIN: Then I was transferred to Entiat to take that Station over when the
Manager there retired. They called Managers…
MRS. PARVIN: We went to Leavenworth twice.
MR. PARVIN: Oh yes, I know.
MR. GROVER: You said that you started Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery? How
long were you there?
MR. PARVIN: I don’t really now, but it was quiet a while.
MR. GROVER: But you were the Manager there?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah.
MR. GROVER: What was you program in? What fish were you raising?
MR. PARVIN: We were raising Coho [Salmon], Chinooks, and Steelhead. It was an
anandremous [sic] hatchery. So now I am about out of information on that. Water
supply was not a very good one. It was taken right out of Eagle Creek. And on a
Thanksgiving day, we had five inches of rain in the headwaters of Eagle Creek. It just
flooded everything. We made some unscheduled releases because the water was over the
ponds even.
MR. GROVER: Things haven’t changed. They still do it. It still happens! They’re
cutting the trees up in the watershed and…
MR. PARVIN: I started Eagle Creek, and we had a lot of things, problems that I had
never met before, but we made it. We got returns. We racked the Eagle Creek and forced
the fish to go into the holding ponds. We carried on a program. We got our original stock
of Salmon at Delf Creek from the Clackamas River. We took it and double racked at
section right at the mouth of Eagle Creek. And we took Eagle Creek fish, in other words,
and took the eggs from them.
MR. GROVER: These were Coho?
MR. PARVIN: No, they were Spring Chinook.
MR. GROVER: So the source of Spring Chinook at Eagle Creek came out of Delf Creek?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. Delf Creek is a tributary of Eagle Creek.
MR. GROVER: Where did you after that John? Where was your next Station, or your
next Hatchery?
MR. PARVIN: After I left the northwest I was offered a position at Lamar,
Pennsylvania.
MR. GROVER: I had forgot that you had been back to Lamar.
MR. PARVIN: I was Manager. I think that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The Regional Supervisor for Hatcheries was trying to get somebody to operate Lamar.
The largest Hatchery in Region 5 was Lamar. They finally offered it to me. And that
was a wise deal for me because I operated successfully and made a good reputation in
Region 5. From there I was offered a position back in Region 1 as the Manager of
Coleman after John Pelnar retired. So I took that. For a “13” in that time, they required
time in three regions before you were eligible for the “13” in the field. That made me
three regions; 1, 2 and 5. I was eligible, and I was the only one they could find who was
eligible. So I got Dvorshak.
MR. GROVER: So from Coleman you went up to Dvorshak? Dvorshak was brand new.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah right.
MR. GROVER: You were the first Manager there.
MR. PARVIN: Yes, that’s right.
MR. GROVER: And you retired from Dvorshak in 1975?
MR. PARVIN: Yes, that’s my career. But I thought that you wanted some interesting
things about my first appointment.
MR. GROVER: I do, and I want to ask you some other questions too John.
MR. PARVIN: Go ahead.
MR. GROVER: I was going to ask you about some of the people that you hired. Did
you hire anybody famous, or somebody that really did well? Or a bunch of them?
MR. PARVIN: You know as well as I do that you don’t hire them. You get them
referred to you, but you don’t hire them directly. The only ones that you hire is your
temporaries.
MR. GROVER: What about the ones that you developed or trained?
MR. PARVIN: I am trying to think.
MRS. PARVIN: Don Jerzak.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, Don Jerzak was under me at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: But he was a GS-9 then. He started out as a GS-1.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, he was a “9” at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: What about some beginning ones. Did you have some new people that
you trained?
MR. PARVIN: Oh, lot’s of people!
MR. GROVER: Who were some of the really good ones that you had that turned out [to
have] good careers?
MR. PARVIN: Your asking me to dig up memories that I am having a lot of trouble
doing.
MR. GROVER: O.K.
MR. PARVIN: I trained a lot of people because I believed in training. I believe that
Managers should also be teachers. Oh, Jack Kinchloe was one of them. I got him out of
College and he thought that he knew the whole bit. But we found out that he didn’t. I am
not going to say anything but I had a lot of fun training him because when he first came he
was very egotistical. He was out of College and has a degree. I let him go saw off a limb
while he was on it, and things like that.
MR. GROVER: Jack had a successful career. He retired as Manage of Ridgefield, and he
had been for “NIMPS”. [?] He had been all around. He was a good hand, a good man.
MR. PARVIN: Kinchloe and I are very great friends. And he turned out to be a pretty
good employee I am sure. But I took him out of College.
MR. GROVER: Can you remember some other people that you hired? Or that you
trained, some young ones right out of school?
MR. PARVIN: He just didn’t know all of the answers.
MR. GROVER: Well there was a lot of time that we didn’t know the answers. And
that’s why you take fish up to Seattle and you find ameba or Jeridaculous [sic], the
leaches that were on the gills, the fresh ones.
MR. PARVIN: Eventually, at Dvorshak, I had a Lab under me.
MR. GROVER: And you were dealing with a virus?
MR. PARVIN: We had the virus a lot more that we thought we had. And in a lot more
places too. Do you know how they were passing it out? We found that out too. They
were using visceral from Salmon canners as part of the diet. And the virus was in that
visceral. My name is on a paper with… who was the Pathologist out of Seattle?
MRS. PARVIN: Burrows.
MR. GROVER: Burrows was a Nutritionist.
MR. PARVIN: Burrows was local.
MR. GROVER: There was Fred Fish up there, hum.
MR. PARVIN: Anyway, he was the authority. And he and I ran a bunch of experiments
at Leavenworth. He and I wrote it up. My name is on that. We found the virus that was
at Leavenworth and we found were it was coming from. It was coming from the visceral
that was used in the diet. It came out of Alaska.
MR. GROVER: I can remember those days, but after they started pasteurizing the
visceral they got rid of that particular disease.
MR. PARVIN: Pasteurizing was the next step. And the next step was pellets.
MR. GROVER: What other big issues were you working on? What other things did you
do that was important, or that were problems for you, or for the Service or fish culture?
MR. PARVIN: I’d better not say this, turn it down again.
MR. GROVER: O.K.
MR. PARVIN: People again. [It was] Jealousy between the Managers at Leavenworth
and Roger Burrows that was a problem. They were trying to cut each other’s throats all
of the time. I was in the middle. I was in charge of Production.
MR. GROVER: What about the Regional office in Portland, did they do anything? The
Supervisors in Portland, what did they do about it?
MR. PARVIN: I don’t think they did anything. They eventually transferred the
Manager to Washington, D.C. That’s one way to get rid of them. Take and give them a
promotion! And they have other things to worry about than personal deals.
MRS. PARVIN: May I say something now?
MR. GROVER: Helen, why don’t you speak a minute. You look like you’re getting
ready.
MR. PARVIN: I found the life of the hatchery man’s wife, was a rather lonesome. You
can’t make any good friends because the other people would accuse you of being partial.
That’s all I wanted to say.
MR. GROVER: But you worked at the Hatcheries too.
MRS. PARVIN: I cut fins.
MR. GROVER: You cut fins? Did you feed fish when John was gone?
MRS. PARVIN: I fed fish when he was gone, there are Delf Creek.
MR. GROVER: Did you cook for the visitors? Any surprise lunches?
MRS. PARVIN: Yes. Well, did I have any other choice?
MR. GROVER: Did John surprise you often?
MRS. PARVIN: Not after a while. After I made a few comments, why, he didn’t.
MR. PARVIN: She’s leaving out a very important thing. And that is encouragement.
She was my great encourager.
MRS. PARVIN: If I hadn’t done that, he would have resigned a long time ago. A long
time before he did. He wanted one Hatchery so bad, and he didn’t get it. “I’m going to
retire!” he says. And I talked him out of it.
MR. GROVER: What Hatchery was your great desire?
MR. PARVIN: The one that I thought I should have gotten?
MR. GROVER: Yes.
MR. PARVIN: The new one where the Lab is, Abernathy.
MRS. PARVIN: I did a good thing then, encouraging him not to resign.
MR. GROVER: John you said you had some stories to tell about Spearfish or
something, for the record.
MR. PARVIN: You mean just stories?
MR. GROVER: Yeah, reminiscing.
MR. PARVIN: You know, at the time when I took my oath of office, there was Leonard
Hunt who was a Fish Culturist at that time. There was one other Fish Culturist who
lived in that little house. I can’t remember his name. He was a newspaperman and
thought that he would try something else. Then when the war came they offered him a
job as a war correspondent. He took that and left Fisheries entirely. But there was me,
and two apprentices. There was the Fish Culturist, Leonard Hunt and there was Ted
Kibbe to begin with and John Harrington during that last part of my stay there. And a
story…
I came out of the little house I was living in. You know there’s a circular drive?
MR. GROVER: At the Hatchery?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. I came out of the front door to do something, I don’t know what.
Leonard Hunt came running and he puts on his brakes. It was an oiled road. He squealed
his tires and backed up and went around the other way. I asked him when I got over to
the Hatchery, “What’d you do that for?” He says, “There was a black cat who ran across
in front of me! And you don’t ever run across a black cat’s path!” I laughed and I was in
his doghouse!
MRS. PARVIN: I have to tell you about this. We lived in a little house too, for a long
time. That little tiny house?
MR. GROVER: I think that one is taken down now.
MR. PARVIN: I can tell one on Ted Kibbe. We were invited up for dinner and we had a
little girl, Rose. She’s much more than a little girl now. She is in her sixties. Anyway,
she left a diaper up there. They had one boy, the Kibbe’s did. At about ten-thirty or so
in the evening there was a knock on the door. There was Ted Kibbe at the door with a
diaper. He said, “You don’t ever want to leave a diaper up here! We’ll have another
child!” There were considerable more superstitions then than there is now.
MRS. PARVIN: While we were living in that little house, I would go out and do my
washing and hang it up. There was a great big black snake that’d come out of the stone
wall and watch me, every time. I don’t know what kind of snake it was. It wasn’t
poisonous. But it was a huge snake, about that bid around, and long. He would come out
every time I hung out clothes.
MR. GROVER: On most of your stations, did you live on the Hatchery?
MRS. PARVIN: Most of them yes. As a matter of fact, we went to Leavenworth two
our three different times.
MR. PARVIN: One winter morning, we woke up. It was a weekend and I wasn’t on
duty. We had to take turns being on duty on weekends.
MR. GROVER: Where?
MR. PARVIN: The sun was shining bright and the temperature gage said thirty below
zero. We went out and it seemed nice. We went out for a nice long hike in thirty below
zero with snow on the ground. It was fun! Isn’t that right, M
Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1884
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1884 presented to Grover Cleveland during his term as Governor of New York. Official presentation took place in Albany, NY in the Governor's Chambers. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.New York City - July 28th 1884 - The Honorable Grover Cleveland of New York. - Sir - In accordance with a custom befitting the nature of the communication the undersigned, representing the several states and territories of the Union, were appointed a Committee by the National Democratic Convention which assembled at Chicago on the eighth day of the current month, to perform the pleasing office, which by this means we have the honor to execute, of informing you of your nomination as the Candidate of the Democratic Party in the ensuing election for the office of President of the United States. A declaration of the principles upon which the Democracy go before the people, with the hope of establishing and maintaining them in the government, was made by the Convention; and an engrossed copy thereof is submitted in connection with this Communication for your consideration. We trust the approval of your judgment will follow an examination of this expression of opinions and policy; and, upon the political controversy now made up, we invite your acceptance of the exalted leadership to which you have been chosen. The election of a President is an event of the utmost importance to the people of America; prosperity, growth, happiness, peace and liberty, even, may depend on its wise ordering. Your unanimous nomination is proof that the Democracy believe your election will most contribute to secure these great objects. We assure you that in the anxious responsibilities you must assume as a candidate, you will have the steadfast cordial support of the friends of the cause you will represent; and in the execution of the duties of the high office - which we confidently expect from the wisdom of the nation to be conferred upon you - you may securely rely for approving aid upon the patriotism, honor and intelligence of this free people. We have the honor to be with great respect. - Nicholas M. Bell [sig.] Secretary; Wm. F. Vilas [sig.] President; D.P. Bestor [sig.] Alabama, [illegible] W Fordyce [sig.] Arkansas, Niles Searles [sig.] California, M S Waller [sig.] Colorado, Thos. M. Waller [sig.] Connecticut, Geo. H. Bates [sig.] Delaware, Attilla Cox [sig.] Kentucky, James Jeffries [sig.] Louisiana, Ch. H. Osgood [sig.] Maine, Geo. Wells [sig.] Maryland, J.G. Abbott [sig.] Massachusetts, Daniel J. Campan [sig.] Michigan, Thos E. Heenan [sig.] Minnesota, Chas. E. Hooker [sig.] Mississippi, David R. Francis [sig.] Missouri, Patrick Fahy [sig.] Nebraska, D. E. McCarthy [sig.] Nevada, J F. Cloutman [sig.] New Hampshire, John P. Stockton [sig.] New Jersey, John C Jacobs [sig.] New York, W.D. Chipley [sig.] Florida, M.P. Reese [sig.] Georgia, A E Stevenson [sig.] Illinois, E.D. Bannister [sig.] Indiana, L. G Kinne [sig.] Iowa, C. C. Burnes [sig.] Kansas, Wm. E Haynes [sig.] Ohio, L.L. McArthur [sig.] Oregon, James P. Barr [sig.] Pennsylvania, David S. Baker Jr [sig.] Rhode Island, Wilson G. Lamb [sig.] North Carolina, Jos. H. Earle [sig.] South Carolina, Wm A Quarles [sig.] Tennessee, Jos. E. Dwyer [sig.] Texas, Geo L Spear [sig.] Vermont, Rob Beverly [sig.] Virginia, Frank Hereford [sig.] West Virginia, W.A. Anderson [sig.] Wisconsin, S T Hauser [sig.] Montana, W.B. Childers [sig.] New Mexico, G H Oury [sig.] Arizona, M.S. McCormick [sig.] Dakotah [sic.], Ransford Smith [sig.] Utah, N. B Dutro [sig.] Washg. Territory, John M Silcott [sig.] Idaho, E.D. Wright [sig.] District of Columbia - [last line has stricken out signature of John C Jacobs
Grover Farmer's Elevator, Grover SD, Codington County
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Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1892
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1892 presented to Grover Cleveland between his terms of office. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.Grover Cleveland, - New York, - As members of the Notification Committee delegated by the National Democratic Convention, which assembled in Chicago, June 21st, it is our agreeable duty to inform you that, upon a single ballot, you were unanimously nominated for the Presidency of the United States. Nothing could evince the affection and confidence in which you are held by the Democratic party more positively than the fact that you have three times been made its candidate for that office. Your devotion to the principles of the party of Thomas Jefferson, your fidelity to every trust reposed in you by the people, your courageous, conservative and exemplary administration when the chief executive of the United States, and the prosperity of the country under that administration, have won for you the respect of every citizen. In the maintenance of the doctrines which you have so clearly expounded and so consistently advocated, and which form the basis of the declaration of principles formulated by the Democratic convention which has again placed you in nomination, rests the hope of the people for constitutional government. They turn now to the Democratic party that the blessings of civic and industrial liberty may be secured to them, and in response to the people's demand that party has chosen for its leader him whose public record conveys the guarantee that the will of the people will not be thwarted. It is, then, not only with a sense of profound personal satisfaction, but also with the assurance that your nomination is welcomed by every man who feels the burden of unjust taxation and the distress of unwarranted legislative interference with, the rights of the citizen, that we inform you, of the action of the National Democratic Convention and submit herewith its declaration of principles. Firmly believing that there is no other safe repository for the liberties of the people, and the welfare of the nation, than the hands of a democratic administration, we most heartily congratulate the country upon the opportunity presented by your candidacy for a return to the methods and measures of that party which has administered and will ever administer the government for the good of our country and in the interest of the entire people. That our cause - the people's cause - will triumph, we have no doubt, and judging the future by the past, the administration which you will give to the people of the United States will be directed by wisdom, statesmanship, integrity and patriotism, and will cause your fellow democrats to regard with the same pride and pleasure your future career as President of this great Republic, that they now enjoy in the remembrance of your former administration. - We are, sir, - Respectfully yours, - William L. Wilson, [sig.] Chairman.; Nicholas M Bell [sig.] Secretary.; Alabama Rufus N. Rhodes [sig.], Arkansas B.R. Davidson [sig.], California Stephen M White [sig.], Colorado Frank Adams [sig.], Connecticut Robert J Vance [sig.], Delaware Robert J Reynolds [sig.], Florida W. D. Chipley [sig.], Georgia John Triplett [sig.], Idaho G. V. Bryan [sig.], Illinois Thos. M. Thornton [sig.], Indiana William A Cullop [sig.], Iowa L M Martin [sig.], Kansas James W Orr [sig.], Kentucky John P. Salyer [sig.], Louisiana A. W. Crandall [sig.], Maine Edward C. Swett [sig.], Maryland L. Victor Baughman [sig.], Massachusetts Patrick Maguire [sig.], Michigan R. A. Montgomery [sig.], Minnesota C. M. Foote [sig.], Mississippi W. V. Sullivan [sig.], Missouri J. W. Walker [sig.], Montana S. T. Hauser [sig.], Nebraska J. A. Creighton [sig.], Nevada [no sig.],New Hampshire H R Parker [sig.], New Jersey Geo. H. Barker [sig.], New York Norman E. Mack [sig.], North Carolina K. Elias [sig.], North Dakota Andrew Blewett [sig.], Ohio R. R. Holden [sig.], Oregon Henry Blackman [sig.], Pennsylvania J Henry Cochran [sig.], Rhode Island Fayette E Bartlett [sig.], South Carolina Theo D Jervy Jr. [sig.], South Dakota Wm R. Steele [sig.], Tennessee W. A. Collier [sig.], Texas J. H. McLeary [sig.], Vermont Oscar C. Miller [sig.], Virginia A. Fulkerson [sig.], Washington John Collins [sig.], West Virginia B. F. Martin [sig.], Wisconsin James Bardon [sig.], Wyoming Robert H Homer [sig.], Alaska [no sig.], Arizona E. E. Ellinwood [sig.], Dist. of Columbia Henry E. Davis [sig.], New Mexico E. V. Long [sig.], Oklahoma [no sig.], Utah H. P. Henderson [sig.], Indian Ter. Solomon E. Jackson [sig.
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Old Office, Grover SD, Codington County
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