Title: Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall Records
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1978

Creator:

• Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Call Number: WVM Mss 4

Quantity: 13 linear ft. (8 archives boxes, 11 flat boxes, and 5 oversized folders) of papers, 0.7 linear ft. (1 archives box. 7 folders, and 2 carte de visite boxes) of photographs, 0.7 linear ft. (1 oversized flat box) of drawings.

Repository:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)

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Abstract:

Records and photographs of the G.A.R. Memorial Hall and its custodians, with the bulk of the material dating from 1904 to 1965. A significant portion of the collection is from the tenure of Hosea W. Rood, the first custodian of the Hall. Custodian records include correspondence with veterans, G.A.R. officials, and the general public; newspaper columns, essays, poems, and speeches on patriotic themes written by the custodians; six diaries of Hosea Rood from the period during which he was Hall custodian; legislative records about the mandate and operation of the Hall; and correspondence and other records documenting the creation of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch in 1912.

The collection also includes budget information about the operation of the Hall; lists of artifacts, flags, pictures, and books; and visitor registers, including a G.A.R. members only register dating from 1904 to 1914. Scrapbooks that were created by the Hall custodians or donated to the Hall comprise another large portion of the collection. Most of the scrapbooks feature news clippings about G.A.R. events, reunions, and members, as well as the Women's Relief Corps.

Other topics covered include Abraham Lincoln, the assassination of President William McKinley, newspaper clippings containing letters from the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, the First Wisconsin Cavalry, World War I and World War II, and a book of 'curious things' from the Civil War. The photographs series includes depictions of the Hall and its exhibits, including many views of the Gettysburg diorama exhibit, and also includes an extensive collection of Civil War-era carte de visites that were removed from one of the scrapbooks.

Language: English

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In 1901, the Wisconsin Legislature created a museum in the State Capitol honoring the veterans of the Civil War and “any subsequent wars.” The museum was named the G.A.R. Memorial Hall in recognition of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), the most significant Civil War veterans organization. The Memorial Hall also served as the state G.A.R. headquarters and housed the Civil War battle flags of Wisconsin regiments. The director of the Hall was called the custodian and was by law to be a Civil War veteran.

In February 1904, the capitol burned to the ground as a result of a faulty gas light jet, destroying the original Memorial Hall. Among the Wisconsin Civil War treasures lost in the fire were Old Abe the War Eagle, military memorabilia, military and veteran records, books, and portraits. Wisconsin's Civil War battle flag collection was displayed in the Capitol rotunda, and two Madison citizens rushed into the capitol, broke the exhibit cases, and moved all 194 flags to safety in the snow outside. Virtually all of the records in this collection date from after the Capitol fire.

A new Memorial Hall was dedicated and opened in the north wing of the present capitol in 1918. This Memorial Hall remained under the custodianship of the G.A.R. until it was passed to Spanish-American War veterans and the Adjutant General's office in 1938. Immediately after World War II, the G.A.R. Memorial Hall was transferred to the auspices of the newly created Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1965, the Hall was rededicated after significant renovation. The Memorial Hall remained under the custodianship of the Wisconsin Department of the United Spanish-American War Veterans until the early 1970s when the museum's first professional museum curator was hired. In 1972, the G.A.R. Memorial Hall was integrated into the newly created Wisconsin Veterans Museum System and it ceased to be known by that name.

This collection covers the period from the creation of the Memorial Hall through 1965. Much of the collection is organized by the names of the Memorial Hall custodians, and a list of the custodians and their dates of service is provided below. The custodians through Charles W. Netherwood were Civil War veterans, and after that point were Spanish-American War veterans.

The records of the G.A.R. Memorial Hall are divided into six series, Hall Custodians, Finances, Collections, Scrapbooks, Registers, and Photographs.

Hall Custodians (1894-1978) is arranged chronologically by custodian dates of service, and constitutes a significant portion of the collection. The Hosea Rood sub-series forms the bulk of the Hall Custodians series. The Rood sub-series includes correspondence with GAR comrades and posts concerning GAR and personal business, including correspondence with Harlan P. Bird, who was a Civil War veterans and Wisconsin State Senator. Photocopies of Rood's daily diaries from 1902, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1917, and 1920, contain much routine material, but also address his activities as Hall custodian. Rood's 1902 diary is virtually the only documentation in the collection of the pre-fire Hall, and the 1912 diary describes his efforts to encourage the construction of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch. Also included in the Rood sub-series are the 'Grand Army Corner' columns he wrote for the Sunday edition of the Madison Democrat newspaper, covering the periods 1906 to 1912 and 1916 to 1921. Draft versions of his newspaper columns and a variety of other essays, poems, and speeches on GAR and patriotic themes are also part of the collection. Rood's efforts on behalf of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch are documented by a draft letter to University of Wisconsin president Charles Van Hise and his essay about the significance of the Arch to the GAR. Also of interest is an extended essay on Wisconsin regiments in the Civil War. Three pages from Rood's personal GAR scrapbook are also included. Of interest in the collection is the original certificate appointing Rood custodian of the GAR Memorial Hall. The certificate is signed by Governor Robert LaFollette. Image material pertaining to Rood are also included in the Rood sub-series. Images feature several original and copy photographs of Rood, mainly those taken during his time as Hall Custodian. Additional images include copy photographs of Rood as a young soldier and a pastel drawing of him as a young man in uniform. The images were kept separate from the photograph series due to their direct connection to Rood.

The custodianships of Jesse Meyers and E. B. Heimstreet are briefly noted through a small amount of correspondence and a few speeches given at dedications and patriotic events. The George Pounder and Charles W. Netherwood sub-series have extensive references to Marie Melzner, who was the secretary and assistant custodian, and handled much of the day-to-day operation of the Hall as the Civil War veteran custodians grew older and more infirm. In addition to the usual speeches and essays, the correspondence in the Pounder and Netherwood portions of the collection is interesting because the Hall custodians, through Mrs. Melzner, became very active as an ad hoc veterans service office by assisting Civil War veterans and their dependents obtain benefits. Also of interest in the Pounder sub-series are his efforts to change the Hall custodianship law to include descendants of Civil War veterans, and not just the veterans themselves. Of particular interest in the J. Stanley Dietz sub-series is correspondence about the efforts to obtain money from the state for the repair and preservation of the Wisconsin monuments at Andersonville and Vicksburg, and an interesting memorandum about the uncertain origin of the 1st Wisconsin monument at the Chickamauga National Military Park. The George Stahl, W. L. Gillette, and John Diehl custodianships are only briefly evidenced by correspondence, however, the Diehl sub-series does have a notable personal reminiscence of the attack on San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. The records of the final custodian covered in the collection, Edmund Westcott, primarily documents the efforts of John Moses, the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to renovate and update the Memorial Hall, which had been virtually unchanged since 1918, and includes correspondence about the proposed changes to the collection and mission of the Hall.

Finances (1921-1947) includes information about the budgeting and purchasing activities of the Memorial Hall. Although much of this material is routine, there is some information about the maintenance of artifacts and the construction of exhibit cases, including an exhibit case diagram.

Collections (1864-circa 1970) is comprised mostly of lists of the artifacts, flags, pictures, and books (circa 1937 and circa 1970). Also included in this series is a small selection of items from the Hall collections such as a battle flag tribute poster from the 1918 dedication and a 1864 print of George Washington and his family, which was displayed in the Memorial Hall.

Scrapbooks (1862-1968) comprises the bulk of the collection and contains over thirty scrapbooks, either created by the Hall custodian or donated to the Hall, which cover a variety of G.A.R. related subjects. Most scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings about G.A.R. members and activities, including the Women's Relief Corps. There is a large scrapbook on the 1937 G.A.R. National Encampment in Madison. Other topics covered include three scrapbooks on Abraham Lincoln; an extensive scrapbook on the assassination of President William McKinley, who was a G.A.R. member; scrapbooks on World War I and World War II; two scrapbooks contain a series of sixty-two letters (1861-1864) written by Charles D. Waldo and other soldiers of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which were published by the West Bend News as a column entitled “How They Fought the Rebellion”; and a small scrapbook on First Wisconsin Cavalry veterans. An interesting book of 'curious things' from the Civil War is apparently comprised of items donated to the Hall in the wake of the capitol fire, and includes Confederate money and documents, Civil War letters, snips of clothing worn by Lucius and Cassius Fairchild, and other Civil War memorabilia.

Registers (1904-1953) contains three visitor registers, one of which is a 1904 to 1914 register of G.A.R. members who visited the Hall, including name, town, Civil War regiment, and G.A.R. post number and post location in chronological order.

Photographs (circa 1861-1965) includes some images of the original Memorial Hall; museum visitors and exhibits in the new Hall; the 1965 rededication of the Memorial Hall; many views of the Gettysburg diorama exhibit. The series also includes 120 Civil War-era carte de visites, which were removed from one of the scrapbooks, featuring over 90 portrait photographs of Wisconsin soldiers, including Lucius and Cassius Fairchild and Wisconsin Dells photographer H.H. Bennett, as well as Civil War-era military and political figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Several other G.A.R. photographs, including 'then and now' photographs of three comrades taken in 1862 and 1906, are also part of this series.

Acquisition Information

Presented by GAR Memorial Hall, undated. Accession Number: Series 7, Record Group 7, Record Group WVM, Record Group 35, Mss 2002.21, Mss 2004.111, Mss 2011.43, and VI 1983 Feb 24..

Processing Information

Originally processed by Lynne Wolfe in 1983, with additional processing by Jonathan Nelson in 2001. Additions processed by Andrew J. Baraniak and Brittany Strobel in 2013.

	Series: Hall Custodians
	Subseries: Hosea W. Rood (served 1901-1924)
Box   1 Folder   1	Camp Randall Memorial Arch project, circa 1911-1912
Ov   34 Folder   13	Certificate, custodian appointment, 1901
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1894-1929
Box   1 Folder   3	Ephemera, 1926-1932, undated
	Images
Box   13 Folder   13	Photographs, circa 1910
PhOv   49 Folder   10	Cabinet card, circa 1910
PhOv   42 Folder   4	Continued, circa 1910
PhOv   42 Folder   4	Oversized photograph, circa 1910
Box   22	Pastel Drawing, [between 1861-1865]
Ov   2 Folder   2	Lincoln University certificates, 1910
Box   1 Folder   4	Memorial Day news clippings, circa 1912
Box   1 Folder   5	Miscellaneous papers, 1920, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Personal scrapbook pages, undated
	Writings
Box   1 Folder   7-12	Diaries (photocopies), 1902-1920
Box   1 Folder   13	Memorial Day oration, 1912
	Newspaper columns, essays, and poems
Box   1 Folder   14	General, circa 1908-circa 1920
Box   2 Folder   1	General, circa 1908-circa 1920
	“Grand Army Corner” columns
Box   2 Folder   2-5	1906-1918
Box   3 Folder   1	1919-1921
Box   3 Folder   2	Wisconsin regiments essay, undated
	Subseries: Jesse Meyers (served 1924-1933)	⇧
Box   3 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1927-1928
Box   3 Folder   4	News clippings, 1931
Box   3 Folder   5	Speeches and orations, circa 1926
Box   3 Folder   6	State Commander nomination, 1931
Box   3 Folder   7	Writings, undated
	Subseries: E. B. Heimstreet (served 1933)	⇧
Box   3 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1927-1932
	Subseries: George Pounder/Marie Melzner (served 1934-1936)	⇧
Box   3 Folder   9	Biographical information, 1935
Box   3 Folder   10-13	Correspondence, 1934-1936, undated
Box   3 Folder   14	G.A.R. and encampment business, 1930-1935
Box   3 Folder   15	G.A.R. Memorial Hall legislation, 1935
Box   3 Folder   16	Report on the Memorial Hall, undated
Box   3 Folder   17	Speeches, essays, and poems, 1934-1936
	Subseries: Charles W. Netherwood/Marie Melzner (served 1937-1938)	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   3 Folder   18	1937
Box   4 Folder   1	1938
Box   4 Folder   2	News clippings, 1937-1938
	Subseries: J. Stanley Dietz (served 1938-1947, 1949-1952)	⇧
Box   4 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1938-1950
Box   4 Folder   4	Ephemera, undated
Box   4 Folder   5	News clippings, 1944, undated
Box   4 Folder   6	Veterans affairs issues, 1942-1951
Box   4 Folder   7	Writings, 1943, undated
	Subseries: George H. Stahl (served 1952-1954)	⇧
Box   4 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1952
Box   13 Folder   14	Photograph, circa 1950
	Subseries: W. L. Gillette (served 1954-1958)	⇧
Box   4 Folder   9	Correspondence, 1954-1955
	Subseries: John P. Diehl (served 1958-1960)	⇧
Box   4 Folder   10	Correspondence, 1958-1959
Box   4 Folder   11	Spanish-American War memoir, 1940
	Subseries: Edmund L. Wescott (served 1962-1974)	⇧
Box   4 Folder   12	Correspondence, 1962-1965
Box   4 Folder   13	G.A.R. Memorial Hall legislation, 1901-1965
Box   4 Folder   14	G.A.R. Memorial Hall renovation and rededication, 1962-1965
Box   4 Folder   15	Personal, 1964-1978
	Subseries: Other custodian material	⇧
Box   4 Folder   16	Memorial Day Annual page, 1936
Box   4 Folder   17	Unidentified G.A.R. list, 1902-1904
	Series: Finances	⇧
	Subseries: Budgets
Ov   2 Folder   3	1921-1945
Box   4 Folder   18-19	1935-1947
	Subseries: Purchase orders and requisitions	⇧
Box   4 Folder   20-21	1937-1940
Box   5 Folder   1-2	1941-1944
	Series: Collections	⇧
	Subseries: Collection lists
Box   5 Folder   3-4	Artifact lists, circa 1937-circa 1970s
Box   5 Folder   5	Flag and picture lists, circa 1937
Box   5 Folder   6-7	Library lists, circa 1937, undated
Box   5 Folder   8	Manuscript list (partial), circa 1970s
Box   5 Folder   9	Picture lists, circa 1937-circa 1970s
	Subseries: Collection items	⇧
Box   5 Folder   10	Exhibit captions, circa 1935-1959
Ov   3 Folder   1	G.A.R. Memorial Hall battle flag tribute poster, 1918
Ov   3 Folder   2	“Washington and His Family” print, 1864
	Series: Scrapbooks	⇧
	Subseries: Abraham Lincoln
Box   5 Folder   11	Birthdate centennial, 1909
Box   6 Folder   1	General, circa 1902
Box   6 Folder   2	General, circa 1936
Box   6 Folder   3	Civil War, Memorial Day, patriotism (2 volumes), circa 1904-1909
Box   6 Folder   4	Civil War, Women's Relief Corps, 1864-1895
Box   6 Folder   5	“Curious Things from Civil War Times,” 1862-1892
Ov   20 Folder   8	Oversize material removed from scrapbook
Box   6 Folder   6	First Wisconsin Cavalry, circa 1907
Box   6 Folder   7-9	G.A.R. and Civil War, 1891-1902
Box   7 Folder   1	Volume III
	Subseries: G.A.R. and Fond du Lac	⇧
Box   7 Folder   2	Loose material, 1897-1952
Box   7 Folder   3	Loose news clippings, 1932-1954
Box   11 Folder   1-4	Pages, 1932-1968
	Subseries: G.A.R. Memorial Hall	⇧
Box   16	Vol. 1, 1885-1924
Box   17	Vol. 2, 1917-1923
Box   18	Vol. 3, 1927-1932
Box   19	Vol. 4, 1936
	Photocopy of scrapbook
Box   9	Vols. 1-2
Box   15	Vols. 3-4
Box   7 Folder   4	G.A.R., miscellaneous, circa 1902-circa 1938
	Subseries: G.A.R. National Encampments	⇧
Box   7 Folder   5	Toledo, Ohio, 1908
Box   7 Folder   6-7	Des Moines, Iowa, 1922
Box   10 Folder   1-4	Madison, Wisconsin, 1937
Box   7 Folder   8	G.A.R. reunion photographs, 1899-1916, undated
	Subseries: G.A.R. State Encampments	⇧
Box   7 Folder   9	1921
Box   7 Folder   10	1923
Box   7 Folder   11	“How They Fought the Rebellion,” 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (2 volumes), circa 1905
Box   8 Folder   1	“Memorial and Patriotic Matters,” circa 1911-1921
Box   8 Folder   2	Military leaders, undated
Box   8 Folder   3	President William McKinley assassination, 1901-1933
Box   8 Folder   4	Vicksburg National Military Park, 1881-1920
Box   12	Vol.1-2: World War I, circa 1917-1918
Box   12	Vol. 3: World War II, 1942
	Series: Registers	⇧
Box   8 Folder   5	G.A.R. member visitor's register, July 1904-April 1914
Box   8 Folder   6	School group register, 1952-1953
Box   8 Folder   7	Visitor's register, October 1916-September 1925
	Series: Photographs	⇧
	Subseries: Carte de visites
Box   14 Folder   1	Civil War generals , circa 1861-1865
Box   14 Folder   1	Ulysses S. Grant
Box   14 Folder   2	Regis de Trobriand
Box   14 Folder   3	Ulysses S. Grant "in peace"
Box   14 Folder   4	Richard Busteed
Box   14 Folder   5	John Dorsey
Box   14 Folder   6	Hiram G. Berry
Box   14 Folder   7	Joseph Hooker
Box   14 Folder   8	John A. McClernand
Box   14 Folder   9	Napoleon J.T. Dana
Box   14 Folder   10	Stephen Hurlbut
Box   14 Folder   11	Abner Doubleday
Box   14 Folder   12	Winfield Scott Hancock
Box   14 Folder   13	Unidentified General
Box   14 Folder   14	Mayberry Prentiss
Box   14 Folder   15	Ambrose Burnside
Box   14 Folder   16	Ormsby M. Mitchel
Box   14 Folder   17	Benjamin Franklin Butler
Box   14 Folder   18	Philip Kearney
Box   14 Folder   19	Israel B. Richardson
Box   14 Folder   20	Hugh J. Kilpatrick
Box   14 Folder   21	Philip Kearney
Box   14 Folder   22	Philip Sheridan
Box   14 Folder   23	George G. Meade
Box   14 Folder   24	Daniel Sickles
Box   14 Folder   2	Political and civilian leaders , circa 1861-1865
Box   14 Folder   25	Professor Samuel Morse
Box   14 Folder   26	Abraham Lincoln
Box   14 Folder   27	Mary Todd Lincoln
Box   14 Folder   28	Andrew Johnson
Box   14 Folder   29	Horace Greeley
Box   14 Folder   30	Henry Ward Beecher
Box   14 Folder   3	Wisconsin Civil War soldiers , circa 1861-1865
Box   14 Folder   31	Henry B. Converse
Box   14 Folder   32	Charles W. White
Box   14 Folder   33	Charles H. Schmidt
Box   14 Folder   34	Karl Ruf
Box   14 Folder   35	Charles A. Menges
Box   14 Folder   36	Thomas S. Allen
Box   14 Folder   37	George Barber
Box   14 Folder   38	Frank Barrett
Box   14 Folder   39	Henry Becker
Box   14 Folder   40	Benjamin Keley
Box   14 Folder   41	Henry H. Bennett
Box   14 Folder   42	Ephraim Blakeslee
Box   14 Folder   43	Wallace W. Botkin
Box   14 Folder   44	George E. Bryant
Box   14 Folder   45	Gage Burgess
Box   14 Folder   46	Thomas G. Butler
Box   14 Folder   47	Philip Burk
Box   14 Folder   48	George H. Calkins
Box   14 Folder   49	Frances Clalin
Box   14 Folder   50	David C. Carlsley
Box   14 Folder   51	Michael Cantwell
Box   14 Folder   52	William Chatwood
Box   14 Folder   53	John W. Curran
Box   14 Folder   54	Alonzo E. Cheney
Box   14 Folder   55	Newton DeForrest
Box   14 Folder   56	Martin Dickersheid
Box   14 Folder   57	Burnett Demarest
Box   14 Folder   58	Henry H. Dyer
Box   14 Folder   59	Phillip Emery
Box   14 Folder   60	Charles W. Fosbinder, unidentified
Box   14 Folder   61	Cassius Fairchild
Box   14 Folder   62-63	Lucius Fairchild
Box   14 Folder   64	Gabriel Gebhardt
Box   14 Folder   65	John Gillespie
Box   14 Folder   66	Charles L. Harris
Box   14 Folder   67-68	Frank A. Haskell
Box   14 Folder   69	Marshall N. Godard
Box   14 Folder   70	George Hitchings
Box   14 Folder   71	Edward Homiston
Box   14 Folder   72	Daniel G. Jones
Box   14 Folder   73	Theodore C. Kavel
Box   14 Folder   74	Alpheus E. Kinney
Box   14 Folder   75	Henry S. Lee
Box   23 Folder   1	George Lenz
Box   23 Folder   2	James W. Loughney
Box   23 Folder   3	Lemuel B. Mason
Box   23 Folder   4	Charles McFait
Box   23 Folder   5	David McLain
Box   23 Folder   6	David Noble
Box   23 Folder   7	Peter Ole Olson
Box   23 Folder   8	Joseph B. Oliver
Box   23 Folder   9	Anthony Olson
Box   23 Folder   10	Elijah H. Prine
Box   23 Folder   11	Erick B. Paulson
Box   23 Folder   12	William W. Perrine
Box   23 Folder   13	Franklin Philbrick
Box   23 Folder   14	John O.W. Paine
Box   23 Folder   15	Adolph Pitsch
Box   23 Folder   16	George W. Reily
Box   23 Folder   17	Thomas Reynolds
Box   23 Folder   18	Albert J. Rockwell
Box   23 Folder   19	George M. Sabin
Box   23 Folder   20	Bernhardt Schlichting
Box   23 Folder   21	Dighton Smith
Box   23 Folder   22	Christian Scholkopft
Box   23 Folder   23	Andrew Sexton
Box   23 Folder   24	James M. Sexton
Box   23 Folder   25	Charles Strasburg
Box   23 Folder   26	Thomas B. Squires
Box   23 Folder   27	John Soal
Box   23 Folder   28	Benjamin J. Sweet
Box   23 Folder   29	Luther Thomas
Box   23 Folder   30	Edward L. Whitney
Box   23 Folder   31	James E. Thayer
Box   23 Folder   32	Sydney T. Wygant
Box   23 Folder   33	Theodore West
Box   23 Folder   34	Thomas West
Box   23 Folder   35	Harry D. White
Box   23 Folder   36	Daniel E. Wyman
Box   23 Folder   37	Frederick J. Bartels
Box   23 Folder   38-47	Unidentified Soldiers [10]
	Subseries: G.A.R.	⇧
PhOv   41 Folder   1-4	Comrades, then and now [4] 1862-1906
Box   13 Folder   2	Events [1] , undated
Box   13 Folder   3	Members [3] , circa 1861-1865, undated
Box   13 Folder   4	Reunions [2] , 1889, undated
	Subseries: G.A.R. Memorial Hall	⇧
	Exhibits
Box   13 Folder   5	General [7] , circa 1918-circa 1964
Box   13 Folder   6-8	Gettysburg diorama [16] , 1965
Box   13 Folder   9-10	General [12] , 1901-1917
Box   13 Folder   11	General [6] , 1962
Box   13 Folder   12	Rededication [4] , 1965
Box   13 Folder   15	GAR Memorial Hall taken by Clifford Wells [5 photos]. 1964-1965
Paper Print   5 Folder   13	In Color [1]

Name	Tenure
Hosea W. Rood	1901 to 1924
Jesse Meyers	1924 to 1933
E. B. Heimstreet	1933
George Pounder	1934 to 1936
Charles W. Netherwood	1937 to 1938
J. Stanley Dietz	1938 to 1947 & 1949-1952
George H. Stahl	1952 to 1954
W. L. Gillette	1954 to 1958
John P. Diehl	1958 to 1960
James J. Carr	1960 to 1962