“Salamonie Lodge, No. 392, I.O.O.F. was organized May 24, 1872.  …on the night of March 27, 1872, Joseph Elder, Stephen Coles, J.W. Ware , H.J. Coles were initiated , they being the first members to ‘ride the goat.’ ”

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History of Huntington Co., Indiana, 1887, page 796