Also in 1897, the legislature granted one thousand acres in the Bough Kelly section to the local Live Stock Company for raising beef and dairy cattle. Officers, who were also shareholders, included R.L. Knuckles (chairman of the board), G.W. Walker (treasurer and board member), G.W.R. Wordsworth (corresponding secretary and board member), R.A.M. Deputie [Sr.?] (recording secretary and board member), J.C. Johnson (board member), G.W. Walker (board member), and F.W. Jackson.(board member). Other stockholders were J.A. Cuthbert, J.E. Porte, Z.R. Kennedy, R.F. Walker, H.B. Woodson, E.C. Deputie, A.E. Walker, N.A. Richardson, J.H. Carr and Daniel Walker].
Several fraternal organization formed local branches in the early 1900s. The United Brothers of Friendship, Tucker’s Lodge No. 137, took the lead in 1914 (1914, p. 53). It was followed two years later by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. Officers of the Odd Fellows were named as D. W. Urey, past noble father; G. A. Minor, noble father; J. A. Deputie, past noble grand; W. R. Craig, noble grand; W. D. Cassell, vice grand; D. A. Ureh, p. s.; W. F. Dennis, e. s.; R. E. Knuckles, w. t.; T. A. Jackson, w. h.; G. E. Knuckles, w. c.; James Paxton, r. s.; G. R. Knuckles, l. s.; James People, r. s.; G. E. Winder, l. s.; J. T. Wordsworth, guardian; and trustees: George B. Walker, J. E. Woodson, J. L. Honsby and R. L. Knuckles].
Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1897, pp. 33-34; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1916, p. 20.
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