Smyrna times., 1926-01-27
NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE
LEGION TO VISIT DOVER FEB. 8
COMMANDER J.R. McQUIGG WILL
BE GUEST OF HONOR AT DINNER
Smyrna Legion Men Will be Among
the 400 Invited Guests-Dinner
to be Held in the ArmOry


National Commander John R. Nc
Quigg, of The American Legion, will
visit Dover on Tuesday, February
ninth. This was arranged at a con-
ference between Department Com
mander Earl Sylvester, of Harring-
ton, and Col. Thomas w. Miller, of
Wilmington, who is the Legion's Ma
tional Committeeman, with whom
Commander McQuigg is arranging his
visit to this State.
The National Commander will be
the guest at a dinner ito be served in
the Dover ArmOry during his stay
there. The dinner will be served, at
7.30 o'clock in the evening and will be
limited to four hundred guests. The
meal will be prepared and served by
the ladies of the First Baptist Church
This will be the second time that a
National Commander of the Legion
will visit Dover. Two years ago when
Hanford MacNader held that office he
went to Dover as the guest of former
Governor William D. Denney, who is
member of Walter L. Fox Post, and
was entertained by the former Cover
nor and the members of Fox Post at
an Old-fashiOned fishing party out in
the Delaware bay.
State Commander Sylvester has ap-
pointer A. Raig Peacock, commander
Of Walter L. Fox Post, No. 2, of Do
yer, chairman of the committee to ar
range for the national commanders
entertainment and reception while in
the State. The other members of the
committee are J. A. Crothers and
Colonel Miller, of Wilmington, and
Herman H. Hanson, of Dover.
Commander Sylvester will also in
vite Governor Robinson, Lieutenant
Governor J. Hall Anderson and some
other men of prominence as the guest
of the Legion. 1t is expected that
this gathering will be one of the larg-
est ever held in the State by the
Legion, and a full turnout of the
down State posts is anticipated as
we'll as a large delegation from Will
mingtOn, for which special transpOr-
tatiOn arrangements will be made.
National Commander McQuigg seIv-
ed first in the Spanish American War,
on the Mexican border in 1916 and
1917 and commanded one of the COM
bat regiments of the 37th Division
(OhiO National Guard) in the Meuse-
ArgOnne operations, and in Belgium
in the World War. He was wounded
in action and has been decorated by
this government and by the Allies.
From enlisted man to brigadiei
general, from farm boy to president
of his own bank, from buck private
in The American Legion to its ma
tiOnal cOmmander-suchi is the recorC
of go Gettum" John Rae McQuigg
whom the Omaha convention unanim
Ously elected to lead the Legion mex
year.
Commander McQmgg looks upol
his election to national commander a.
a promotion and such it is, for HI
has been serving the organization il
important capacities since its incep
tiOn seven years ago. He was tn
first commander of Engineers Post o
Cleveland, delegate to the first de
parTnent convention in 1919, delegat
to the first national convention an
brought the 1920 convention to Cleve
land. Then he was promoted to de
partment commander of Ohio in 1921
a delegate to the second national cor
ventiOn and at this time was appoint
ed a member of the national fnanC
committee in which capacity he ha
served the organization ever since.
After graduation from Cornell, Nj
Quigg went to Cornell for one year I
study law and then to the Nation;
Law School at Washington. He W;
graduated and admitted to the Oh
bar and settled in Cleveland.
He was elected Mayor of Ea
Cleveland in 1907 and re-elect,
twice. He organized an d develops
the Windemere Savings and LOi
COmpany(a three million dollar ban
= ing corpOration) and is still its pre-
dent.
He has two children, Donald, ag
seventeen, and Pauline, aged twent
seven, a teacher in a private gir
school in Maine.