Early baseball in Iowa/Club 6

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Location	Iowa
Year	1867
Month	6
Date	8
City	Jefferson County
State	IA
Country	US
Nickname	Mechanics
Found by	Jeff Kittel

On June 8th, the Mechanics’ Base Ball Club completed an organization. Its officers were: A.R. Fulton, president; A.R. Byrkit, vice president; C.S. Byrkit, secretary; S.E. Bigelow, treasurer; and W.L. Daggett, John D. Rider and Henry Vote, directors.

Jefferson County IA is in the SE sector of the state. Its county seat is Fairfield and its 2010 population is about 17,000.

Sources

History of Jefferson County, Iowa: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement; Fulton, Charles J.; S.J. Clarke Publishing Company; 1914; pp 385-386