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Prominent Republican N. R. Mccreery Dies

Methodist Men Form

Organization at St, Paul's

A new Methodist men's organi.:. zatiori at St. Paul's Methodist Ch~rch, 1613 Ogden st., has beeii chartered by the Methodist Gen-eral Board of Lay Activities in C~icago.

N. R. McCreery, prominent Republican who carved

him-self a public service career after rising to the top in the sug·ar

beet industry, died Wednesday in Presbyterian Hospital.

Hit had been ill only a short

!

Ice. He served as president of time. He was 721

Mr. Mccreery w a 9 born in the State Civil Service

Commls-Pennsylvania and grew up on a farm near Richmond, Kan. Two years' after his graduation from th II Ottawa University business department in 1899, he came to Loveland to take a job as a ste- ·1

nographer with the Great

West-ern Sugar Co.

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He was on hand when the first crop was gr.own in the Loveland area for .±he first Great Western factory. Through the years he held a series of increasingly responsible jobs.

At the time of his death, he was consulting agriculturist to the management of the Great Western Sugar Co. The job was conferred on him in l!M3, when he retired from the strenuous responsibilities as Colorado dis-trict manager.

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. With his du'ties lessened, Mr.

Mccreery turned to public serv- N. R, Mccreery

slon, secretary ot the Denver Election Commission, manager of the credit union ot Denver city and county employes, and various jobs in the Denver treasurer's and assessor's offices, He became Colorado district manager for the sugar company in 1920. He was active in the Ro-tary Club and the American So-ciety of Sugar Beet Technologists.

He served as president of the technological group while still Colorado district manager and was· a member of the maclrinery

de-velopment committee of the sugar industry.

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Surviving are a daughter Miss E. Louise Mccreery, 6136

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DENVER, Colo.• June 26 -- Appointment

ot

N. R. Mccreery

as

Consulting Agrioulturi

t to

the Management

ot !he

Great

V

i

estern

Sugar

Company will

relieve

him

of

his

strenuous responsibilities as Colorado

District Man.ager and enable him. to cGntinue

his

outstanding contributions

to improvement and

mechanization

ot

beet culture,

according to

Frank A.

Kemp, President and

General

Manager.

Seasoned

by

experience which

began when the

first

crop of' beets

was g7cwn

for

the

first

Great

Yl

estern

factory at Loveland in 1901,

Mr.

McO:reery today

stands in the front rank of American authorities on sugar

beets. He was recently President

or

the

Amllricen

Society

or

Sugar Beet

Technologists

and

is on

the

:

Machinery Development Committee

of the

industry

as a

whole,

coope,¥ating

with

the

Department

of

Agriculture

and

the

Univer-sity

of California. 'l'h:rough

this program has

develope'1

the

suecess:t.'ul use

ot

segmented

seed

affording many

approaches

to mechanized labor-saving

praot iees.

As

Chairman of

the

Company's

committee on

agricultural procedures

Mr.

Mc

creery has worked tor current improvements

with

the same enthusiastio

energywhieh characterized

his work

in

the

early

years of the

Company.

Be•

lieving

that

better

farming

could

be achieved through better int'onnation.

he

rounded

the magazine

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_{Through The}

_{Leaws" in 1913}

_which

_has

_been

_{pub ..}

lished

without interruption

since.

In

1920 he r-eorganized

:tam

X"eeords

so

that the

cropping

and statistical experience of

farmers could

be better

utilized tor

extension

work. Through meetings, demonstrations

and

publica-tions he has

effected

improved practices

and

developed programs

by which

farmers getting the

best

results

could

gain

deserved recognition.

Born

in Pennsylvania,

]Jr.

Mccreery grew

up in

Kansas•

was graduated

in 1899 from

Ottowe. University, business department,

became

a stenographer at

Loveland

in

1901, became assistant to

the

Manager

at

Longmont and

Loveland

in

'

1903,

and , as

Manager at

Longmont from

1908 until 1920

when

he became Colorado

District anager. He is

a

member

of

the Rotary Club

and

United.

.Presbyterian