Show FOUNDER OF A P A the honorable henry F bowers 0 of f clinton iowa the american protective association a name which figures of 0 late so pro prominently eminently in III the columns ot of every newspaper boasts ot of a membership of from two to three millions of 0 voting american citizens it la is diffused throughout the entire country but Is said to be the strongest in the west and south it includes in its membership jews protestants and thinkers of all classes except roman catholics the man who founded this assoria te I 1 d na L 1 all I 1 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 11 A I 1 ia k INN 1 honorable Hono rabla henry F bowers tion Is the honorable henry F bowers a prominent lawyer of clinton la Is he organized it on march 13 1887 in his 0 oilin n town and council no 1 of which IV aich he is a leading member Is still located toca loca ca led there mr air bowers was for six years supreme president of the order but was succeeded last year by W 11 J traynor mr bowers was born in baltimore in 1837 ile he Is a member of the methodist church ond and has ailed many official positions s sit lie he Is at present a member of the A P As supreme council of the world much bluch of hit his time Is devoted to and he Is said to have ave addressed more than a million people since the inception of the organization he founded |