Odus Creamer Horney (1866-1957), Alamo Lodge 44, San Antonio, was an armed forces officer who eventually attained the rank of Brigadier General. A tinkerer by nature, he developed a new, more comfortable and durable riding saddle for the military. Then, not satisfied with the standard issue rifle, he designed and built a new model which became the US military's most famous standard issue weapon. His invention, the Springfield Rifle M1903 was so good it was the standard issue from 1905 through World War II and, although finally replaced by the M1, remained the army's sniper rifle through that conflict, Korea and even Viet Nam, in an astonishing run of nearly 70 years.
