Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — W. B. Austin Elected President of the Hamilton Club. [ARTICLE]

W. B. Austin Elected President of the Hamilton Club.

William B. Austin, formerly of Rensselaer, was elected president of the Hamilton Club of Chicago, Monday in the most hotly contested election in the history of the club. Mr. Austin is known in Chicago as “the man that made the new Hamilton Club possible,” and he received 841 votes to his competitor far the office, Guy Guernsey, 636, carrying in with him the entire ticket headed by him except one director and one member of the political action committee.