Viewing Oliver H. Kelley, "Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in the United States: A History from 1866 to 1873" (1875).Oliver H. Kelley, "Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in the United States: A History from 1866 to 1873" (1875).Oliver Hudson Kelley (1826-1913) a farmer in Benton County, Minnesota, was a founder of the Grange. About that organization, agricultural historian Thomas A. Woods wrote in "Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology" (1991):
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