Hugh Rodney Putnam was born at Carrington on February 22, 1892. Hugh has spent his life in Carrington. He was a 1917 graduate of the University of North Dakota. He is active in community affairs and in the church. He was active in organizing the County Historical Society.
Hugh's number of the draft in World War I was the first drawn. He served with the Carrington unit, the 162nd, Field Hospital Company of the 41st Division in France.
He was a charter member and the first Adjutant of the American Legion. He was also a charter member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
On December 30, 1919, he married Maude Ethel Cummings, born August 17, 1896, the daughter of William and Carrie Cummings. They had one son, John Rodney. Maude Putnam died April 24, 1921.
On October 26, 1927, Mr. Putnam married Blanche Ebbert, born January 19, 1902, at Noblesville, Indiana, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ebbert, who came to Foster County in 1908.
The couple had four children: Hugh D., Robert, Joanne and Jean.
Blanche Putnam died January 20, 1969.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 36B