Identifier: compendiumofhist00chic (find matches)
Title: Compendium of history and biography of Linn County, Missouri
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Missouri -- History Linn County (Mo.) -- History Linn County (Mo.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : Henry Taylor & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
monumentthat now ornaments the oval between east and west parks, from thesummit of which the effigy of a volunteer soldier of the Civil War,carved in Italian marble, standing at parade rest, looks down uponthe busy scenes of the main street during the day and keeps watchand ward over the sleeping city at night. It is all a patriotic expression of a patriotic people, some ofwhom were in sympathy with the men who fought under the stars andbars, and who, feeling a just pride in the magnificent valor displayedby these grand men in gray, are yet glad that owing to the valor andsacrifices of the men in blue that this is today one country with oneimited people and under one flag. The monument is not only a credit but an ornament to Brookfield,and is, we believe, the only monument of the kind in Missouri. The movement to erect the monument grew out of a suggestionon the part of the local Womens Relief Corps, the ladies auxiliaryto the Grand Army of the Republic, to replace the monument to the
Text Appearing After Image:
LDIi:i;.S .\I()XL-.ML:.\T at liKUOKFUCLD HISTORY OF LINN COUNTY 97 unknown dead, erected many years since in Kose Hill cemetery, by amore imposing structure. In a conference between tbe local corps and the local Grand ArmyPost, it was suggested that a Soldiers Monument Association beorganized, contributions be solicited and a monument to the soldiers ofthe Civil War be built. It was seriously doubted if a sufficient amount could be raised,but there were a few who expressed the utmost confidence that thepatriotic people of Brookfield would respond liberally to the call. A number of subscriptions were pledged at once. An associationwas organized, and officers and a board of directors were chosen, asfollows: Henry Tooey, president; George W. Martin, vice-president;Eobert W. Davis, secretary, and E. M. Lomax, treasurer. Directors:Henry Tooey, Frank Dick, A. W. Baker, Will W. Martin, E. S. Brown-lee, E. W. Davis, J. C. Gardner, Mrs. Jennie Tuckerman and Mrs.F. P. Lacey. E. M. Lomax was aft

Note About Images