Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — AIDED IN GROWTH OF LEGION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AIDED IN GROWTH OF LEGION

Rev. John W. Inzer, National Chaplain, Long Identified With Activities of Veterans’ Organization. As national chaplain for the entrain? ’ -r- American Legion has

in Rev. John W. Inzer, pastor of the ir s t Baptist hurch of Chattanooga. Tenn., a nan Identified with he activities of the veterans’ organization since Its Inception. Dr. Inzer not only was one »f the men who initiated the formation of the

Legion, but during the early days of its growth, aided the work by traveling pver the country and making addresses as a member of the national executive committee. Dr. Inzer, who was born in Hamilton county, Texas, January ®> 1890, entered the ministry at the age of nineteen, hie first pastorate being in Birmingham, Ala. He volunteered his services as chaplain In the army after the war broke out and served with the Fourteenth Infantry In the Northwest and at Camp Dodge, lowa, where he was senior chaplain for three months. After the armistice he moved to Camp Grant, HU where be served until March, 1919. He married Miss Marie Smith of Alabama In December. 191&