The Mutual Hope Grange,

No. 36, Patrons of Husbandry

Livingston

Columbia County

New York

By Captain Franklin Ellis⁴¹⁶

1878            

      Mutual Hope Grange, NO. 36, Patrons of Husbandry, was organized Dec. 9, 1875, with twenty charter members.  Stephen O. Potts was chosen Master, and J. B. Wagner Secretary, and have since filled these offices.  It has been very prosperous, and now numbers sixty-seven active members, comprising some of the best farmers of the town.  The meetings are held in a neatly-furnished hall at Johnstown.