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CHAPMAN LODGE NO. 27, IOWA LEGION OF HONOR
CHAPMAN LODGE NO. 27, IOWA LEGION OF HONOR. Chapman Lodge, No. 27, Iowa Legion of Honor, was an organization for the promotion of fraternal feelings and to provide financial aid to the widows and orphans, and heirs of deceased members of the Order. The lodge was chartered and organized in July, 1879. Joseph CHAPMAN was president; R. L. HILL, vice president; Henry WHEELER, treasurer; Samuel Smith WINALL, recording secretary; M. Alexander, financial secretary, and E. R. Jackson, physician. (1)
In 1933 the lodge had fifty members and met semi-monthly on the first and third Wednesdays, in the Temple of Honor Building. (2)
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Source:
1. Oldt, Franklin T. The History of Dubuque County, Iowa, Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880
2. "Dubuque County Before 1880," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, November 12, 1933, p. 2