The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-01
MANY ATTEND The MEETING
New officers of the Camp Are Named
and Installed and Sons of Veterans
in Kenosha Start Out With Charter
Membership of Nearly a Hundred.

in the future be known as Governor
Harvey Camp No. II, Sons of Veterans,
U. S. A., was instituted at Carpenter S
Hall, Park street on Tuesday evening.
The petition for charter bore 107
signatures. Past Department Comman-
der, John. G. Martin of Madison, the
official organizer of the Wisconsin Di-
vision had spent the preceding ten
days in circulating among the Sons,
with great success as shown by the
number who sought membership.
Beside the formalities of installa-
ton, there were addresses by Comrade
Martin and by his daughter, Miss Ag-
mes Martin of Chicago, national Of
fetal of the Daughters Of the Grand
Army, and by Past Department Com
mander, Hiram J. Smith of Racine.
The large assemblage was made up
of delegations from the Grand Army
Post and Sons of Veterans Camp of
Racine and of the local Grand Army
Post, the w. r. c., the Ladies Of the
G. A. R., and the Daughters Of the G..
A. r. Mrs. Frank Lane, president OF
the latter organization, led in patrio
tic songs, "The Battle Hymn Of the
Republic and Marching Through
Georgia. =
After important preliminaries the
camp proceeded to election of officers.
Howard Baia and Frank Sem were
placed in nomination for commander;
the former received II votes, the lat
ter is, many having left because of
the lateness Of the hour. Frank Senne
was elected senior vice commander by
reclamation and in the same way Louis
DeDiemar was made junior vice com
mander. DIR. John I'll. Cleary, G.. F..
Beckrnan and D. G. Travis were elect
ed camp trustees.
Governor Harvey was chosen as the
namesake of the camp. This choice
is peculiarly appropriate as he was
-eminently the war governor of Wis
consin, having been drowned when at
the front looking after the needs of
Wisconsin s sick and wounded after
the battle of Shiloh. What makes the
choice of name more significant is the
fact that in the early 40's Louis P.
Harvey taught in the log school house
that then stood on Main street, next
south of Simmons Hall, and ait that
time chose as his wife Kenosha
young woman, Cor1elia Perrine, who
became distinguished in the work of
alternating the sufferings Of the sick
and wounded of our army. She was
the one who first thought of the adj
vantage of convalescent camps in the
bracing atmosphere of the north. She
went to Washington and personally
presented the cause to Abraham Lin
coin who at first doubling the feasibili-
ty of the plan was finally won over
and voluntarily named the first one in
stituted, the Governor Harvey Con-
valescent Camp, which was located at
Madison.
Incidentally, another point of appro-
priateness is the fact that the rendez-
vous of the First Wisconsin Cavalry
in 1861, occupying the present site of
st. James Cemetery was called Camp
Harvey.
The commander elect then named
the following members of his staff:
Robert o. Likes, secretary; John M.
Regner, treasurer; E. S. Hubbard, chap
lain; Harry Il. Coshun, patriotic in
structor, Ralph Gamble, guide; E. j.
Getschman, inside guard; w. W. Sen
ne, outside guard.
With Commander G.. E. Likes acting
as guide, the officers were then form
ally installed by Comrade A. Graeger
of the Racine Camp. All present seem
ed to be imbued with the spirit of
hopefulness, which was certainly well
founded on the number and high char
acter of the charter membership.