Brother Ray was adopted into Wyandotte Tribe, No. 3, in March, 1896, and served in various chieftaincies, earning his honors as a Past Sachem. He was admitted to the Great Council of Kentucky in 1899 at Louisville, serving then as representative of his Tribe. At Lexington, in 1900, he was appointed by Great Sachem Willie Walker chairman of the Committee on Returns and Reports, and the following great sun by Great Sachem Ellerkamp a member of the Finance Committee, and at Owensboro, in 1902, he was made chairman of that committee by Great Sachem Pelham. At the Great Council held in Maysville, 1903, he was, on the retirement of C. E. Lyddane, unanimously elected Great Chief of Records, and he served in that capacity for five consecutive great suns, being accorded the honors of a Past Great Sachem at Frankfort, in 1908, when he was elected Great Representative to the Great Council of the United States for two great suns. During the five great suns of his administration of the chieftaincy of Great Chief of Records he managed the business end of the Order in the Reservation in the same methodical way that characterized his private affairs, and saw the Order grow from a membership of 5,089 to 11,950: from 65 Tribes to 182 Tribes. The lay member of the Order has no conception of the vast labors performed by a faithful Great Chief of Records, but a small portion of his duties being apparent to the casual observer. Brother Ray was ever faithful to every duty, and earned the soubrequet of "The Minute Man." The whole may be summed up in the words, "He was always there with the goods." Brother Ray is now filling a position as clerk in the State Auditor's office at Frankfort. HORACE J. McFARLAN =PAST GREAT SACHEM HORACE J. McFARLAN= 1903-4 As a young man, Brother McFarlan was deeply interested in base ball, and made it a profession. For quite a number of years he was a favorite umpire in the National League. Prior to his activity in base ball circles he had received a liberal education, and tiring of the nomadic life consequent upon following the National game for a livelihood, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married and began practice of his profession at Lagrange, where for some time he was County Attorney.