The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-10-13
F, A. FALKENBURG.
President National Fratern al
Congress.

Published by Request;
Mr.. F. A. Falkenburg. who has just
been elected president of the Fraternal
Congress at it's session in st. Louis,
which body represents 48O. OOO
members of various fraternal insur-
ance societies OF America, was born In
Indiana IN 1857. He ia the son OF
the Rev. S. B. Falkenburg, a Metho-
dist divine of that State. Mr.. Falken-
burg is an educated and cultivated
gentleman. AS student he graduated
with the highest honors in his col
ieguate, classical and business college
courses. He was admitted to the bar
of the Supreme Court in the State OF
Indiana in 1879, after passing an ex-
animation before board composed OF
General Benjamin Harrison, General
Thomas Brown and Major Jonathan
w. Gordon. He resigned from the
practice OF law In Indianapolis to be-
come auditor OF the Toledo, Cincinnati
6 st. Louis railroad. This position. he
later resigned to become secretary and
treasurer Of one of Chicago's largest
publishing houses. Later he entered
the fire insurance business in charge OF
sub-agency accounts for thirteen North
western States. This he followed for
two years. He then moved from Chi
cago to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he
conducted wholesale book and sta
tiorery business. It was here that he
became identified with fraternal order
work, and was appointed by Head Con-
sui Joseph Cullen Root as one OF his
deputies Ia extending the order OF
Modern Woodmen OF America. 1t
was while In that service that he
moved to Denver in 1889, which city
has since been his horne. Desiring to
see the principles of Woodcraft extend
ed beyond the marrow field of eight OF
nine States, to which it was by lts
charter then limited, he and Joseph
Cullen Root, the head consul of the
Modern Woodmen of America, on June
6, 1890, founded the Woodmen OF the
World, and he has been head consul o.
the Western or Pacific jurisdiction o.
that order ever since. He is also SOW
ereign advisor of the Eastern or Sover
eign jurisdiction, and is commanding
general of the uniform rank Of the en-
tire order. The Woodmen of thu
World and its allied ladies' organiza
lions Though but fourteen years o
age) haye a membership of over 4OO,
900 members and have 5000 camps II
the United States and British America
Tue western Ur facino Jul iedictlou, y
which Mr.. Falkenburg is the officla
head, has become the largest fraterna
insurance order in that field, with
memberthip now approaching tn
100000 mark. Mr.. Falkenbufg ha
attended all important sessions OF til
order in both the Western and Easterr
Jurisdictions, and it was while ATTEND
ing such a gathering, and in compl
ment OF the high position be holds i
the fraternal world, that a few yeal
!, ago be was granted the title Of L. L. [
, by the University of Nashville. He
a member of several kindred fraterni
societies, and is universally known en-
, esteemed as a friend to the movemeI
generally. 1t is largely because of tn
fraternal spirit and helpfulness, whic
he has always exercised toward sistt
iraternal societies, that he owes h
election as the president OF the NOV
ment in America and Canada.
. The presidency Of the National FIR
ternal Congress is the highest hon
that can be conferred upon an Amer
fraternalist, and his friends, which a
numbered by the hundreds OF thou
ands in the various orders of Amerl
and Canada, will rejoice in receivil
= the news of his election to this hi(
office.
70 II. L. BELL,
$ Clerk of Birch Wood Camp No {
n DAWSON FRIENDS.