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Contents

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General Society, List of Officers, 1914-1917 5

Founders of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution 7
List of Officers, Managers, Delegates, Alternate Delegates,

Standing Committees and Color Guard, 1916-1917 8

Officers and Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of

the Revolution from its Organization, 1888-1916 13

Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, and Report

of the Board of Managers, April 3, 1916 15

V Annual Sermon, Preached in Christ Church, Philadelphia, by the

Reverend Leighton W. Eckard, D.D., December 19, 1915 87

List of Members 95

Constitution and By-Laws 107

Charter 123

Form of Bequest 127

General Society

(Organized at Washington, D. C, April 19, 1890)

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1914-1917

General President

James Mortimer Montgomery
102 Front Street, New York City, N. Y.

General Vice-President

Richard McCall Cadwalader

133 S. Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

General Second Vice-President

Walter Gilman Page

Fenway Studios, Boston, Mass.

General Secretary

Prof. William Libbey

Princeton, N. J.

Assistant General Secretary

W. Hall Harris, Jr.

216 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Md.

General Treasurer

James A. Sample

Cashier, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

Assistant General Treasurer

Ralph I sham

1411 Ritchie Place, Chicago, 111.

General Registrar

Hon. George E. Pomeroy

510 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio

General Historian

Holdridge Ozro Collins

814 San Fernando Building, Los Angeles, Cal.

General Chaplain

Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L.

St. Louis, Mo.

Pennsylvania Society

Instituted April 3, 1888
Incorporated September 29, 1890

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President
Richard McCall Cadwalader

Vice-Presidents

Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennyp acker, LL.D.

Colonel Josiah Granville Leach

Hon. Charlemagne Tower, LL.D.

Right Reverend James Henry Darlington, D.D., LL.D.

Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

Secretary

Geo. Cuthbert Gillespie

203 Walnut Place, Philadelphia

Treasurer

Harrold Edgar Gillingham

423 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Registrar
John Woolf Jordan, LL.D.

Historian
Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

Chaplain
The Rev.'George Woolsey Hodge, S.T.D.

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Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D., Chairman

Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden

Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.

Edward Stalker Sayres

Hon. John Morin Scott

William Innes Forbes

Joseph Fornance

William Currie Wilson

John Armstrong Herman

Charles Louis Borie, Jr.

and officers, ex officio

DELEGATES AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES

TO THE

General Society
1916-1917

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Col. Josiah Granville Leach

Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

Geo. Cuthbert Gillespie

Harrold Edgar Gillingham

John Armstrong Herman

Brigadier-General Charles Lukens Davis, U. S. A. (Retired)

Walter George Smith

Richmond Leigh Jones

Clarence Payne Franklin, M.D.

William Copeland Furber

Thomas Hand Ball
Hon. John Marshall Gest

Alternate irterjatea

Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson

Lucius Scott Landreth

Theophilus Parsons Chandler

Meredith Hanna

Thomas Cadwalader

David Milne

Samuel Babcock Crowell

Carl Magee Kneass
Joseph Allison Steinmetz

Henry Korn Fox

Richard Wistar Harvey

Joseph Howell Burroughs

George Alexander Davison

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Josiah Granville Leach, Chairman

John Woolf Jordan, LL.D.

Edward Stalker Sayres

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Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Chairman

Charles Louis Borie, Jr.

Powell Evans

Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.

William Foster Fotterall

Josiah Granville Leach

David Milne

Samuel Davis Page

Oliver Randolph Parry

Edward Stalker Sayres

Robert Foster Whitmer

Horace Wells Sellers, Secretary of Committee

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Hon. John Morin Scott, Chairman

Frank Battles

John William Brock

William Copeland Furber

Edward Hine Johnson

Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, LL.D.

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William Currie Wilson

Alexander Wilson Wister

Albert Kelsey

Elmer Clarence Miller

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Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr., Chairman
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Edward Stalker Sayres, Chairman

Color Guard

Organized October 7, 1897

Clarence Payne Franklin, M.D., Captain

Frank Earle Schermerhorn, Lieutenant

Joseph Allison Steinmetz, Secretary and Treasurer

John Morgan Ash, Jr.

Paul Henry Barnes, Jr.

Lawrence Visscher Boyd

James De Waele Cookman

Samuel Babcock Crowell

George Alexander Davison

Clinton Franklin, D.D.S.

William Copeland Furber

Harrold Edgar Gillingham

William Partridge Gilpin

Meredith Hanna

Albert Hill

Henry Douglas Hughes

William Leverett

Jacob Giles Morris

John Burton Mustin

Oliver Randolph Parry

William Campbell Posey, D.D.

Ralph Currier Putnam

Frank Miller Riter

Learoyd Silvester

Thomas George von Stockhausen

James Thorington, M.D.

Ogden Dungan Wilkinson

NON-ACTIVE

Alexander Wilson Russell, Jr.

David Knickerbocker Boyd

Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.

Officers and Managers

OF THE

PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION
April 3, 1888

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Elected Retired

1888 *James Edward Carpenter 1901

1901 *Charles Henry Jones 1911

1912 Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

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Presidents

1888 *William Wayne 1901

1901 Richard McCall Cadwalader

Vice-Presidents

1888 Richard McCall Cadwalader 1894

1907 *Hon. James Addams Beaver, LL.D. 1914

1907 Major-General John Rutter Brooke, U. S. A. 1912

1907 William Maclay Hall, Jr. 1909

1907 Rev. Rogers Israel, D.D. 1910

1907 Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, LL.D.

1909 Hon. John Bayard McPherson, LL.D. 1912

1912 Colonel Josiah Granville Leach

1912 Hon. Charlemagne Tower, LL.D.

1912 *Brigadier-General Louis Henry Carpenter, U. S. 1916

(Retired)

1914 Right Reverend James Henry Darlington, D.D., LL.D.

1916 Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

First Vice-Presidents

1894 Richard McCall Cadwalader 1901

1901 *James Edward Carpenter 1901

1901 Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, LL.D. 1907

Second Vice-Presidents

1894 *William Henry Egle, M.D. 1901

1901 *James Edward Carpenter 1901

1901 Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, LL.D. 1901

1901 *Alexander Johnston Cassatt 1902

1902 Major-General John Rutter Brooke, U. S. A. 1907

Secretaries

1888 George Horace Burgin, M.D. 1892

1892 David Lewis 1892

1892 Ethan Allen Weaver 1910

1910 Harrold Edgar Gillingham 1911

1911 Geo. Cuthbert Gillespie

Treasurers

1888 *Robert Porter Dechert 1892

1892 Samuel Emlen Meigs 1893

1893 *Charles Henry Jones 1910

1911 Harrold Edgar Gillingham

* Deceased.

Retired

1894

1897

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1899

Elected Registrars

1889 John Woolf Jordan, LL.D.
1894 *Capt. Henry Hobart Bellas, U. S.
1897 *Maj. Richard Strader Collum, U.
1899 John Woolf Jordan, LL.D.

Historians

1890 Col. Josiah Granville Leach 1912
1912 Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

Chaplain

1890 The Reverend George Woolsey Hodge, S.T.D.

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1888 Oliver Christian Bosbyshell 1891

1888 Herman Burgin, M.D. 1891

1888 *James Edward Carpenter 1901

1888 John Woolf Jordan, LL.D. 1889

1888 Josiah Granville Leach 1890

1888 *Elon Dunbar Lockwood 1891

1888 Charles Marshall 1891

1888 Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennyp acker, LL.D. 1901

1888 *William Brooke-Rawle 1890

1889 "William Henry Egle, M.D. 1894

1890 *Hon. Clifford Stanley Sims, D.C.L. 1891

1890 "Thomas McKean 1892

1891 *Isaac Craig 1892

1891 Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden

1891 William Macpherson Hornor 1904

1891 *Charles Henry Jones 1893

1892 *William Spohn Baker 1897
1892 *George Mecum Conarroe 1896

1892 *James Mifflin 1895

1893 Thomas Hewson Bradford, M.D. 1912

1894 *Isaac Craig 1899

1896 John Woolf Jordan, LL.D. 1899

1897 Hon. Charlmagne Tower, LL.D. 1897
1897 Francis von Albade Cabeen 1910
1897 *Capt. Henry Hobart Bellas, U. S. A. 1906
1899 *Maj. Richard Strader Collum, U. S. N. C. 1900
1899 *Dallas Cadwallader Irish 1899

1899 Samuel Stanhope Smith Pinkerton 1900

1900 Hon. John Bayard McPherson, LL.D. 1912

1900 Park Painter 1901

1901 Hon. William Potter . 1910
1901 *William Wayne 1901
1901 Sidney Byron Liggett 1908
1901 *Richard DeCharms Barclay 1908
1904 Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.

1906 Edward Stalker Sayres

1908 Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

1908 "Horace Magee

1909 *James McCormack Lamberton

1910 "John Sergeant Gerhard

1911 Edward Townsend Stotesbury

1911 Hon. John Morin Scott

1912 Alexander Wilson Russell, Jr. 1914
1912 Hon. William Sebring Kirkpatrick, LL.D. 1913

1912 William Innes Forbes

1913 Joseph Fornance

1914 William Currie Wilson

1915 John Armstrong Herman

1916 Charles Louis Borie, Jr.

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April 3, 1016

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

OF THE

PENNSYLVANIA

SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION

April 3, 1916

The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Society of Sons of the Revolution was held in the Assembly Room
of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street,
"Philadelphia, on Monday, April 3, 1916, at 8 P. M.

The meeting was called to order by the President, Richard
M. Cadwalader, Esq.

On motion, Honorable William W. Porter was called to the
chair.

Prayer was offered by Rev. G. Woolsey Hodge, S.T.D.,
Chaplain.

The ceremony of assembling the colors was performed and
the color guard dismissed.

On motion of Col. J. Granville Leach, the reading of the
minutes of the last meeting was dispensed with.

The Secretary read the report of the Managers,

To the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution:

Your Board of Managers begs to submit its report for the
twenty-eighth year, ending April 3, 1916, as follows:

During the past year the Board has held nine stated meetings.
At a meeting held April 13, 1915, the Officers and Managers
elected at the annual meeting, April 3, 1915, convened and the
Honorable Norris S. Barratt, LL.D., was reelected Chairman of
the Board. The President, Richard McCall Cadwalader, Esq.,
announced the appointments of the Standing Committees for the
year, and the Color Guard, under Captain Alexander Wilson
Russell, Jr., was reappointed.

The twenty- third annual outing to an historic point, com-
memorative of the one hundred and thirty-seventh anniversary
of the Evacuation of Philadelphia by the British and the simul-
taneous retirement of the American Army from its winter
intrenchment at Valley Forge, on June 19, 1778, was celebrated
by a river trip to Burlington, N. J., on the steamer "Thomas
Clyde." The Society was met by the Mayor of Burlington and
the Rector of Old St. Mary's Church.

This church has a most interesting history.

St. Mary's Church and Church Yard,

Corner Broad and Union Streets.

The corner-stone of the first Church was laid March 25, 1703, by the
Rev. John Talbot. The first service was held in it before it was com-
pleted. Rev. George Keith, the great Church of England Missionary to
the American Colonies, conducted the service and preached on the text,
II Samuel XXIII : 3, 4. Lord Cornbury, the Governor and many "Gentle-
men who accompanied him both from New York and the Jersey's," were
present. On January 25, 1709, the Charter was granted by Queen Anne,
and a Silver Chalice and Salver presented by her to the Parish.

The old Church was extended westward in 1796, eastward in 1811,
and made cruciform by enlargements north and south in 1834.

The corner-stone of the new Church was laid November 17, 1846,
and consecrated August 10, 1854. It was the first cruciform Church
with a central tower and spire, all ol stone, built in this country.

During the Revolution, in a house formerly owned by Governor
Franklin on the river bank, occupied by Margaret Morris, a Quakeress,
and standing until 1873, the Rev. Jonathan Odell, rector of St. Mary's
Church, a Tory of pronounced type, was hidden to prevent his capture
by the Patriot forces.

In the Church Yard, tombstones of the following noted persons
may be seen:

WILLIAM BRADFORD, Attorney-General of the United States during
Washington's administration and Judge of the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania; died August 23, 1795.

ELIAS BOUDINOT, President of Congress, 1782-1783, and who signed
the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain; died October 24, 1821.

BISHOP GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE, Second Bishop of New
Jersey; died April 27, 1859.

BISHOP WILLIAM HENRY ODENHEIMER, Third Bishop of New
Jersey; died August 14, 1879.

The Rev. John Talbot died in Burlington and was buried in Old St.
Mary's Church, but no stone marks the spot.

Mr. Henry Snowden Haines and Mr. Cooper Prickett then
escorted the Society to the following interesting historical points
in the old town of Burlington :

Surveyor-General's Office,

Broad Street, in rear of Railroad Station.
The Grant and Charter of King Charles the Second, and early deeds
of the Proprietors of West Jersey, are kept here. The members for
Burlington County are elected by the Board of Proprietors every year on
April 6th, in the open air on the corner of Broad and High Streets.

Library Company of Burlington.

Founded 1758. Union Street, between High and Wood Streets.

Friends Meeting House.

Built 1785. High Street, between Broad and Union Streets.

The first Meeting House was built in 1685. This building is the
second one erected.

St. Mary's Hall,

On the river bank. Founded 1837.

House of Elias Boudinot,

Corner of Union and Talbot Streets.

President of Congress, 1782-1783; died in Burlington, October 24,
1821, in what was known as the "Bradford Mansion."

House of General Joseph Bloomfield,

Northwest Corner of High and Broad Streets.

Attorney-General of New Jersey and Governor of the State, 1801-
1812; died in Burlington, October 3, 1823. Also of

Col. Joseph Mcllvaine,

United States Senator, 1823; died in Burlington, August 19, 1826.

Houses of James Fennimore Cooper,

North side of High Street, between Broad and Federal Streets.
Novelist; born in Burlington, September 15, 1789.

Captain James Lawrence,

Commander of the "Chesapeake;" born in Burlington, October 1,
1781. His last words were, "Don't give up the Ship." He lived in one
of the two houses of brick stuccoed, built together; one having five windows
in front, the other four. He was born in the house having five windows,
and James Fennimore Cooper in the house with four windows.

House of Samuel Smith,

South side High Street, between River and Broad Street.

Historian of New Jersey, and which History was printed in Burlington,
in 1765, by James Parker.

House of Daniel Smith,

Corner of Broad and High Streets.

One of the founders of the "Friendly Institution," organized in 1796.
The house was built by his father. Built in the wall may be seen the
letters and date, D. S. M., 1733.

Benjamin Franklin,

Corner of Pearl and High Streets.

Printed Continental Currency for the Province of New Jersey for
three months' at Burlington, in a small brick house that stood on the
corner of Pearl and High Streets and originally the office of Governor
Samuel Jennings.

General U. S. Grant,

Wood Street, between Broad and Union Streets.

Visited Burlington several times during 1864-1865, while his family
lived there.

CHRONOLOGY

1665. Indian name of spot where Burlington now stands, "Techichohocki,"
meaning "oldest planted land."

1666. Dutch settlers arrived.

1668. First house built by Peter Jegou.

1677. August 16. The ship "Kent," Godfrey Marlow, Master, arrived from

Hull, England.

First Friends Meeting held.

Commissioners, appointed by Trustees of Edward Byllynge, laid out

Burlington.

1681. Burlington, the only Town in West Jersey, except Salem, head of the
Province and Port of Entry.

1682. Weekly Markets established.
1687. Council of Proprietors established.
1690. First Manufactures of nails and pottery.
1694. April 5. First Town Meeting held.
1696. Survey of the Town made and recorded.

1702. October 29. Missionaries Keith and Talbot, of the Church of England,
arrived.

1703. March 25. Corner-stone of St. Mary's Church laid by Rev. John
Talbot.

1709. January 25. Charter granted by Queen Anne to St. Mary's Church.
1733. May 7. Charter granted by Gov. William Cosby to the City of

Burlington.
1758. Library Company of Burlington Chartered by King George II.
1767. Proposals for First Public Free School.

1776. Count Donop and 400 Hessian Troops entered Burlington.

1777. December 5. First newspaper, "New Jersey Gazette," printed by
Isaac Collins.

1778. British Sloop of War fired on the Town.

1784. City incorporated by the name of "The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen,
and Commonalty of the City of Burlington."

1785. Second Friends Meeting House built.

1795. First Fire Company, "The Endeavor," formed.

1804. Burlington Water Works chartered.

1837. St. Mary's Hall founded by Bishop George Washington Doane.

1839. Mechanics Bank organized.

1846. Burlington College incorporated.

November 17. Corner-stone of the New St. Mary's Church laid.

1854. August 10. St. Mary's Church consecrated.

1877. Two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Burlington celebrated.

This was one of the most delightful and best attended trips
of any that the Society has had. A great deal of the credit for
this is due to the Chairman of the Committee, Edward S. Say res,
Esq., and the Treasurer of the Committee, Mr. John Morgan
Ash, Jr. The Committee on this occasion consisted of the
following members:

Edward S. Sayres, Chairman William Macpherson Hornor

John Morgan Ash, Jr. Alba B. Johnson

William Henry Ashhurst Caleb J. Milne, Jr.

Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D., Hon. John Bayard McPherson

ex officio Hon. James Tyndale Mitchell, LL.D.
Richard McCall Cadwalader, ex officio Randal Morgan

Thomas Cadwalader W. Heyward Myers

Theophilus Parsons Chandler Wm. Clayton Newell

George K. Crozer Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D.

Hon. Henry Martyn Dechert George Wharton Pepper, LL.D.

Francis A. Donaldson Alexander Wilson Russell, Jr.

Benjamin Dorrance Benjamin Rush

Theodore Newell Ely Hon. John Morin Scott

Powell Evans James Thorington, M.D.

Clarence Payne Franklin, M.D. George Steptoe Washington

Hon. John Marshall Gest William Wayne

George Cuthbert Gillespie, ex officio Henry Redwood Wharton, M.D.

Harrold E. Gillingham, ex officio Robert Foster Whitmer

John Armstrong Herman Joseph Allison Steinmetz

The twenty-seventh Church Service of the Society, to com-
memorate the beginning of the encampment of the American
Army at Valley Forge in 1777, was held at 4 o'clock on the after-
noon of Sunday, December 19, 1915, in Christ Church, Second
Street above Market Street, Philadelphia. The services were in

charge of the Rector of the Church, the Rev. Louis C. Washburn,
S.T.D., and the Rev. George Woolsey Hodge, S.T.D., Chaplain
of the Society. A most interesting sermon was delivered by the
Rev. Leigh ton W. Eckard, D.D., a member of this Society and
Chaplain of the Georgia State Society of the Cincinnati. The
sermon will be printed in the annual Book of Proceedings. The
members marched to the Church from the Neighborhood House,
a building connected with Christ Church Parish, in a body,
preceded by the Color Guard and Clergy. The Church, as is
usual on these occasions, was beautifully decorated with the
flags, banners and bunting of the Society. The music was of
excellent quality, and the attendance of the members and others
crowded the edifice. The reading by our Chaplain of the names
of the deceased members of the Society that had been reported
to the Secretary during the previous twelve months was a solemn
feature of the service, after which taps were sounded. The
Chairman of the Committee on Church Service was Stanley
Griswold Flagg, Jr.

Washington's Birthday was commemorated by a meeting
of the Society held on February 22, 1916, in the Assembly Rooms
of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and there was a large
attendance of the members and guests, the latter of which
included a number of distinguished people. The rooms were
decorated with the flags, banners and bunting of the Society,
and the music was rendered by several members of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra.

Committee in charge:

Col. J. Granville Leach Edward S. Sayres, Esq.

Dr. John W. Jordan Richard M. Cadwalader, ex officio

Norris S. Barratt, ex officio

At a meeting of the Color Guard, held January 15, 1916,
the following Officers were elected :

Captain, Clarence P. Franklin, M.D.
Lieutenant, Frank Earle Schermerhorn
Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph A. Steinmetz

non-active members:

Alexander Wilson Russell, Jr.
Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.
Matthew Baird
David Knickerbocker Boyd

and the following new members :

John B. Mustin
Thomas G. Stockhausen

all of which were ratified by the Board.

Dr. George Woodward, who was elected as one of the
Managers of the Society at the last annual meeting, having
declined election, William Currie Wilson was appointed by the
Board to take his place.

The vacancy on the Board, caused by the death of James M.
Lamberton, of Harrisburg, was filled by the appointment of
John Armstrong Herman, of Harrisburg.

The vacancy caused by the death of Brigadier-General
Louis H. Carpenter, U. S., retired, as Vice-President, was filled
by the appointment of Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

It is gratifying to state letters have been received from
prominent Officers of the General Society, stating that they
know of no State Society of the Sons of the Revolution that
issues literature as interesting as that which comes from the
Pennsylvania Society.

Owing to the fact that many of the State Societies have not
responded to the request of the General Society for a vote ratifying
the Resolution passed at the last Triennial Meeting, to have the
next General Meeting occur in 1916 instead of 1917, the next
General Meeting of the Society will be held in April, 1917.

Resolutions passed by the General Council on National
Preparedness have been approved by your Board, and your
President, as General Vice-President, with the General President,
James M. Montgomery and the General Secretary, Col. William
Libbey, met President Wilson by appointment at the White
House and transmitted the Resolutions, as was authorized by the
General Officers of the Society. A letter of acknowledgement
was received from the President, as follows:

February 15, 1916.
" The White House,

Washington.
My dear Mr. Montgomery:

Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of the resolution which the Society of
Sons of the Revolution authorized its general officers to convey to me
officially, and to say that both the spirit and the substance of the resolution
give me the greatest encouragment in pursuing the deeply important matter
of preparedness for national defense.

Very sincerely yours,

(Signed) WOODROW WILSON."
MR. JAS. M. MONTGOMERY,

102 Front Street, New York City.

The Committee on Celebration of Evacuation Day is making
arrangements for the next outing. It is proposed to accept
Colonel H. C. Trexler's invitation to visit his estate near Allen-
town as his guests. Your Board has appropriated the sum of
$400.00 for a bronze Tablet, to be placed on the Zion Lutheran
Church at Allentown, to commemorate the fact that this church
had been used as a hospital during the Revolutionary War. It
is intended to have this unveiled with appropriate ceremonies on
this occasion.

Upon investigation, your Board has found that New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, as well as other State Societies of
the Sons of the Revolution, in accepting members by transfer
from other State Societies, do not require the payment of a second
initiation fee. In view of this fact, your Board has accepted by
transfer recently a member of the New York Society without
requiring the payment of an initiation fee, and would ask your
approval of their action, as your Board believes that the amicable
relations at present existing between these Societies and our own
might, to some extent, be jeopardized if we charged an additional
initiation fee from transferred members.

Section 5 of the General Constitution provides: "The
State Societies shall regulate all matters respecting their own
affairs, consistent with the general good of the society, judge of
the qualifications of their members, or those proposed for member-
ship, subject, however, to the provisions of this Constitution," etc.

Your Board has appropriated the sum of $300.00, to pay for
an oil painting by Mrs. Robert P. Robins, being a copy of

William Penn in armour, to be presented to the United States
Battleship Pennsylvania, to be placed in the bulkheads of the
Ward Room. The painting is nearing completion and the offer
of the gift has been accepted by the Secretary of the Navy. A
photograph of this picture will be made and will appear in the
Book of Proceedings for the current year.

Owing to the difficulty of the Art Jury and The American
Institute of Architects in ascertaining the exact site of the
Observatory from which Col. John Nixon read for the first
time the Declaration of Independence in State House Yard, the
proposed Tablet to commemorate this site has not yet been
placed. It is hoped in the near future this spot can be definitely
established to their satisfaction.

Your Board feels that there has been continued interest in
the Society by the members in the large attendance at the
various meetings which have been held during the past year.

The Society has lost by death, since the last annual meeting,
a number of prominent members, two of them founders, to wit:

Col. William Brooke Rawle,

John Biddle Porter,
also a Vice-President, Brigadier-General Louis H. Carpenter,
U. S. A., retired, and the following members, whose deaths had
been reported to the Secretary during the past twelve months,
and in reading their names it is requested that the members rise
out of respect to their memory :

William Reed Fisher December, 1914

Thomas Daugherty February 22, 1915

J. Wilkes O'Neill, M.D. April 25, 1915

Henry W. Birkey, M.D. May 8, 1915

William E. Speakman May 13, 1915

Joseph B. Vandergrift May 23, 1915

Caldwell K. Biddle June 2, 1915

George S. Comstock June 12, 1915

Col. James West June 24, 1915

T. Hewson Bradford, M.D, June 25, 1915

Hon. James T. Mitchell July 4, 1915

Col. Charles A. Converse August 5, 1915

George G. Lennig August 22, 1915

Charles J. Shoemaker September 1, 1915

Covington Few Seiss September 5, 1915

Col. Henry T. Dechert

October 14, 1915

J. Marx Etting

October 23, 1915

Simon P. Wolverton, Jr.

November 10, 1915

William F. Muhlenberg, M.D.

August 25, 1915

Edward K. Rowland

November 19, 1915

George H. Lewis

November 27, 1915

Col. William Brooke Rawle

November 30, 1915

Charles I. Cragin

December 15, 1915

Charles H. Bosby shell

December 17, 1915

Bernard Hoopes

January 3, 1916

William F. Williamson

January 7, 1916

Charles M. Steinmetz

January 12, 1916

Henry M. Rupp

January 19, 1916

Brig.-Gen. Louis H. Carpenter

January 21, 1916

Lincoln Godfrey

February 8, 1916

George W. Kendrick, Jr.

February 28, 1916

Henry S. Cattell

March 12, 1916

R. M. Pile

March 28, 1916

The obituaries of the deceased members will appear in the
forthcoming Book of Proceedings.

During the past year the Society has received a number
of publications, historical and statistical, of various Societies.

During the past year the Board approved thirty-eight
Proposals for Membership.

There were admitted to membership during the year thirty-
two new members, as follows:

Smith Hamill Horne, April 13, 1915.

Wayne, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Hamill (1730-1800). Served in
Pennsylvania Militia in 1779 and 1781.

Rev. Jeremiah Jacob Schindel, May 11, 1915.

Allentown, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of John Peter Schindel (1732-1784),
Served as Fifer in Capt. Andrew Graff's Company, of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania Militia in 1776; in Capt. John Ewing's
Company, of said Militia, in 1781, and as Sergeant in 8th
Battalion of said Militia in 1782.

Frank Morton Wolf, May 11, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of Abraham Hambright (17 — 1793), Sergeant
in Pennsylvania Artillery Company, Continental Line, from
February, 1777, to January, 1781.

William Carelton Jackson, June 9, 1915.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Great -great-grandson of Joseph Williams (1734 ), Drummer in

Captain Isaac Halsey's Company, Eastern Battalion, Morris
County, New Jersey Militia, August 19, 1776.

Frederick Leighton Kramer, June 9, 1915.

Melrose Park, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of John Scott (17 — 1808), Private in
Warwick Township Company of "Associators," Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, in 1775.

Erwin Clarkson Garrett, June 9, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of John Garrett (17 — 1808), Captain ' in
Delaware Militia, in Colonel Thomas Duff's Regiment, and also
in that of Colonel Henry Neill.

Richard Vaux, June 9, 1915.

Three Tuns, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Morris (1734-1812), Member of
the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 1775; member of the
Naval Board of Pennsylvania in 1777. In 1776 he became
Captain of the Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, and at the
head of this famous command participated in the battles of
Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, etc.

Charles Parker, June 9, 1915.

Swarthmore, Pa.

Great-grandson of William Roderfield (1760-1793), entered the
American Army as a Gunner, and was honorably discharged in
1783.

Harold Frank Diffenderffer, October 12, 1915.

Lancaster, Pa.

Great-grandson of David Diffenderffer (1752-1846), Private, Lan-
caster County, Pennsylvania Associators, 1776; Private, Captain
David Wilhart's Company, German Regiment, Colonel Nicholas
Haussegger, Pennsylvania Line, October, 1776; Ensign, same
Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig Weltner commanding,
July 23, 1778; Lieutenant 7th Company of Foot, Fourth Bat-
talion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, May 1, 1783;
taken prisoner near Monmouth, N. J., May 3, 1777, and confined
in the "Sugar House," N. Y., until exchanged March, 1778;
retired January 1, 1781; at Trenton, Princeton, Valley Forge,
Monmouth, and in Sullivan's expedition.

Fredric Stickney Borchers, November 9, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of James Stickney (1742-1823), Ensign in
Captain John Belknap's Company, 2nd New York Ulster
Militia, Revolutionary War. Also private in Captain Benjamin
Vail's Company in the same regiment from July 4, 1778. Com-
missioned as Ensign, October 25, 1775.

William Krusen, M.D., November 9, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson Miles Strickland ( ), Private in

Second Associated Company of Bensalem Township, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania Militia, in 1775.

Grant Christopher Roth, November 9, 1915.

East Orange, N. J.

Great-grandson of Gottfried Roth (1759-1829), Private in 1778, in
Captain George Kuappenberger's Company of the Second
Battalion Northampton County Militia, under Colonel Stephen
Balliet; Private in Captain Reit's Company, First Battalion of
Militia of said County, in 1781 and 1782, under Colonel Balliet.

Herbert Dayne Swearer, November 9, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of Hezekiah Davis (1747-1837), Lieutenant of
Montgomery's Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp.
Taken prisoner at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776,
exchanged December 7, 1780. Commissioned as Lieutenant,
September 7, 1776.

Josiah Harmar Penniman, December 14, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of Charles Prescott (1711-1779), Colonel, and
served in a detachment of Eight Months' Men, Massachusetts
Troops, 1776.

James Hosmer Penniman, December 14, 1915.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of Charles Prescott (1711-1779), Colonel, and
served in a detachment of Eight Months' Men, Massachusetts
Troops, 1776.

Rev. Joseph Roscoe Walker, December 14, 1915.

West Nanticoke, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Phineas Walker (1738-1829), Served in
Connecticut Militia as Orderly-Sergeant on "Lexington Alarm,"
1775; also in Connecticut Militia in 1776-1777 and 1779, and as
Lieutenant in 6th Company, 11th Regiment, Connecticut, 1781.

Howard Chester Williams, December 14, 1916.

Easton, Pa.

Great-grandson of William Brown (1757-1803), Private in First
Regiment, Essex County, New Jersey Militia, and also as
Private in Captain Craig's Company, Second Regiment, New
Jersey State Troops.
Seth Bunker Capp, December 14, 1916.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of George Musser (1741-1806), Captain in
First Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1776,
Colonel George Ross commanding. In actual service of United
States in the Jersey campaign, August, 1776.

Hon. Frank Mattern Trexler, January 12, 1916.

Allentown, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Peter Trexler (1748-1828), Captain of the
Macungie Company, 120 men, on May 22, 1775, also on January
18, 1777; Captain of the 5th Company, Second Battalion,
Northampton County Militia, commanded by Colonel George
Breinig on June 18, 1777 and May 14, 1778; Major of Northamp-
ton County Militia, September 10, 1781, to November 10, 1781;
elected Lieutenant-Colonel of Northampton County Militia on
May 6, 1783. Ranked Lieutenant-Colonel of Third Battalion,
Northampton Militia, May 14, 1783.

Col. Harry C. Trexler, January 12, 1916.

Allentown, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Peter Trexler (1748-1828), Captain of the
Macungie Company, 120 men, on May 22, 1775, also on January
18, 1777; Captain of the 5th Company, Second Battalion,
Northampton County Militia, commanded by Colonel George
Breinig on June 18, 1777, and May 14, 1778; Major of Northamp-
ton County Militia, September 10, 1781, to November 10, 1781;
elected Lieutenant-Colonel of Northampton County Militia on
May 6, 1783. Ranked Lieutenant-Colonel of Third Battalion,
Northampton Militia, May 14, 1783.

Clarence Patton Freeman, January 12, 1916.

St. Davids, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of James Murray (1729-1804), Member
of the Committee of Observation of Lancaster County, Penn-
sylvania, November 8, 1775; Captain, Colonel James Burd's
Lancaster County Pennsylvania Associators, forming part of
the "Flying Camp," 1776; Captain, First Company, Tenth
Battalion, Colonel Robert Elder, August 26, 1780; Colonel,
Captain Robert Elder's Battalion, April 17, 1781, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania Militia; Delegate to the Military Con-
vention held at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1776, to choose
Brigadier-Generals for the Associated Battalions of Pennsylvania •

Francis Gustavus Caldwell, February 10, 1916.

Philadelphia.

Great-grandson of Andrew Caldwell (1759-1795), May 15, 1776, was
appointed Conductor of Captain Bernard Roman's Company of
Artillery, Pennsylvania, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of
Captain Owen's Company, Pennsylvania Artillery, Continental
Line, April 1, 1777.

William Bradford, February 10, 1916.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-great-grandson of William Bradford (1721-1791), Captain
Second Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, 1776; Delegate to the
Military Convention held at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 4,
1776, to choose Brigadier-Generals for the Associated Battalions
of Pennsylvania; Major, Second Battalion, Colonel John
Bubenheim Bayard, July, 1776; Colonel, First Battalion, July
12, 1777, Philadelphia Militia; Chairman of the Navy Board of
Pennsylvania, 1777; Member of the Court of Inquiry respecting
officers of Pennsylvania, May 12, 1779, at Trenton, and Princeton
where he was severely wounded and promoted Colonel; in
command at Billingsport, July and August, 1777, and partici-
pated in the defence of Fort Mifflin.

John Smylie Herkness, February 10, 1916.

Rydal, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of William Hayman (1740-1823), Captain in
the United States Navy of the brigantine "George," August
20, 1774; Commissioned Captain of the Ship "Hope," December
23, 1780, and served until the close of the war.

Francis Swaby Markland, February' 10, 1916.

Secane, Pa.

Great-grandson of John Markland (1755-1837), appointed Ensign
in 6th Pennsylvania Continental Line, and on July 1, 1779,
1st Lieutenant, and was transferred January 1, 1783, to 3rd
Pennsylvania Continental Line. One of the original members of
the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.

Louis Clayton Lessig, February 10, 1916.

Pottstown, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Johan Christian Lessig (1745-1821), Private
in the 7th Company, Fourth Battalion, County of Pennsylvania
Militia; Lieutenant-Colonel, Anthony Bitting commanding.

Joshua Brooke Lessig, February 10, 1916.

Pottstown, Pa.

Great-great-grandson of Johan Christian Lessig (1745-1821), Private
in the 7th Company, Fourth Battalion, County of Pennsylvania
Militia; Lieutenant-Colonel, Anthony Bitting commanding.

Robert Wilkinson Skinner, Jr., February 10, 1916.

Philadelphia.

Great-great-grandson of George Thorn (1746-1794), Private in
Captain Andrew Burkhard's Company, Third Regiment of
Foot in the Service of the United States, under Colonel William
Will in 1780.

Matthew Beckwith Markland, March 9, 1916.

Atlantic City, N. J.

Edward Anthony Meckling, March 9, 1916.

Moorestown, N. J.

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Mechlin (1757-1800), Lieutenant in
the 3rd Company, Captain Peter Schullen, 2nd Battalion,
Colonel George Brienig, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Militia, May 14, 1778.

Jay Martin Shindel. March 9, 1916.

Lebanon, Pa.

Great-grandson of John Peter Shindel (1766-1829), Fife Major in the
Eighth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia. In active service
September 22, 1781.

Stephen Paschall Morris Tasker, March 9, 1916.

Wynnewood, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Pope (1742-1825), Sergeant in
Captain Daniel Engree's Company of Dartmouth, Mass., at the
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; and Second Lieutenant in
Second Regiment, Bristol County, Massachusetts Militia,
1776-1777.

SUPPLEMENTALS

Rev. Jeremiah Jacob Schindel, May 11, 1915.

Allentown, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of George Ludwig Breinig (1733-1812),
served as Colonel of Second Battalion of Northampton County,
Pennsylvania Militia, 1777-1778; also as member of Committee
of Safety of said County in 1776.

Henry Richard Linderman, November 9, 1915.

Newark, N. J.

Great-great-grandson of Jacob Linderman ( ), Private in

Fourth Regiment, Ulster County, New Jersey Militia.

Joseph Knox Fornance, November 9, 1915.

Norristown, Pa.

(1) Great-great-grandson of Thomas Price (1752-1816), Private in

Captain Jehu Eyre's Company of Associators, 1777; com-
missioned, June 25, 1777, 2nd Lieutenant Fifth Company,
Philadelphia Militia, under Colonel Sharp Delaney; commis-
sioned August 10, 1780, 1st Lieutenant, Captain John Ogburn's
2nd Company, Pennsylvania Artillery, in 1781; commanded
Schooner "Raccoon" of Pennsylvania Navy, and on May 1,
1783, commissioned Captain in 3rd Artillery, Pennsylvania
Militia.

(2) Great-great-grandson of Andrew Knox (1728-1807), Member of the

Committee of Correspondence, and a Commissioner for Col-
lection of Clothing for the Continental Army.

Clarence Patton Freeman, January 9, 1916.

St. David's, Pa.

(1) Great-grandson of John Patton (1757-1836), Private in Captain

William Donaldson's Company, Colonel William Chamber's
Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia. Lieu-
tenant, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia Rangers on
the frontiers, in actual service on several tours of duty between
1781 and 1783.

(2) Great-great-grandson of John Simpson (1744-1807), Second Lieu-

tenant in Captain James Murray's Company, Colonel James
Burd's Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Associators, commissioned August 15, 1775. On January 28,
1777, Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius Cox, of the Battalion, detailed
him to the "Continental Smith-Shop," at Bristol. He served
during the greater part of the Revolution and towards its close
was in command of a Company of Militia.

Thomas Hand Ball, January 12, 1916.

Philadelphia.

Great-grandson of Henry Ball (1762-1816), Private in Captain
Thomas Kemplen's Company of Northumberland County
Rangers, his name being on the Muster Roll of said Company,
dated, June 15, 1779.

Rev. Jeremiah Jacob Schindel,
Allentown, Pa.

Great-great-great-grandson of Peter Trexler, Jr. (1748-1828), Captain
of the Macungie Company, May 22, 1775, and January 18, 1777;
Captain of the 5th Company, 2nd Battalion, Northampton
County Militia, Colonel Breinig commanding, June 18, 1777,
and May 14, 1778. Major of Northampton County Militia,
September 16 — November 10, 1781; Leiutenant-Colonel, elected
May 6, 1783; and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3rd Battalion, May
14, 1783.

The summary of new and reinstated members and casualties
for the year is as follows :

Elected to membership classified as follows:

Perpetual or endowed 1

Life 12

Annual 19

— 32

Casualties:

Deceased 34

Dropped for non-payment of dues 16

Resigned 6

Transferred to other State Societies 1

— 57
Restored to rolls 5

Net decrease in membership during the year ending
April 3, 1916 20

Number of Insignias issued during the year 10

Number of Certificates of Membership issued during
the year 4

The condition of the membership of your Society on this

date (April 3, 1916), covering a period of twenty-eight years,

is as follows:

Founders, April 3, 1888 15

Elected to membership since April 3, 1888 (thirty-
three by transfer from other State Societies) . . . 1933

1948

Classified as follows:

Never qualified 8

Perpetual or endowed 13

Life 129

Honorary life 1

Annual. . 1797

Casualties:

Elected, but never qualified 8

Deceased 515

Dropped from rolls for non-payment of dues 229

Resigned 126

Transferred to other State Societies 47

Transferred from annual to honorary life 1

926
Restored to rolls 50

876

Net membership, April 3, 1916 1072

Net membership, April 3, 1915 1092

Net decrease in membership during the year 20

Total number of Certificates of Membership issued 348
Total number of Insignias issued 812

The necrological roll, from reports received during the year,
is as follows :

CHARLES WALTER AGARD, son of William Yale Agard, by his wife
Augusta Shepard Hatch, born at Hartford, Connecticut, Jul}7 4, 1848;
died suddenly at New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 21, 1913. After an
education received principally at various Philadelphia schools, he even-
tually became resident agent and superintendent of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company at New Bedford. Apart from his
business life, Mr. Agard was best known for his remarkable collection of
old whaling implements, an equally remarkable collection illustrative of
South Sea Islands life and lore, tribal, ceremonial and native dress; also
a third collection of Alaskan Esquimo photographs, now in the New
Bedford Museum. Much interested in historical the genealogical
research, he was a member of the Old Colony Historical Society, Old

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Dartmouth Historical Society, the Essex Institute, the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania, and of the Dartmouth and Wamsutta clubs. He was
unmarried and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ephraim Brice, of Philadelphia ;
a brother, Frederick Tyler Agard, and a nephew, Charles Frederick Brice,
both of Philadelphia, and members of this Society.
Reprinted to correct error in name in IQ14-1Q15 Proceedings.

DUFFIELD ASHMEAD, son of Isaac Ashmead, a Pennsylvania patriot of
the War of 1812, by his wife Belina Farren, of East Haven, Connecticut,
was born at Philadelphia, October 15, 1836, and died at Wayne, Penn-
sylvania, April 1, 1916, a few months short of the Psalmist's limit of three
score and ten years. At an early age he matriculated at Delaware
College, from which he was graduated in 1856, and for some time was in
the missionary work of the American Sunday School Union, of which his
father was an organizer. Enlisting for Civil War service September 15,
1862, in the First Philadelphia Battery, under Captain Henry D. Landis,
he was mustered out with his command July 30, 1863, having been
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. He studied for the ministry of
the Presbyterian Church, and was a licentiate of the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, and, though his health would not permit him to assume
pastoral duties, he successfully conducted evangelistic work, served as an
elder and as clerk of the sessions. Mr. Ashmead married, May 18, 1865,
Margaret Myerle Simons, daughter of George W. Simons, of Philadelphia,
and is by her survived with three children: Henry Clifton Ashmead, of
Jacksonville, Florida; Mrs. Roger S. Mitchell, of St. David's, and Duffield
Ashmead, Jr., of Wayne.

HARRY GILLUM BARNES, son of Edward Luther Barnes, by his wife
Harriet Louise Hale, was born at Orange, New Jersey, June 25, 1864,
and died at Philadelphia, November 27, 1915. Obtaining his education
at private schools and at Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, he, upon
graduating, entered the employ of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing
Company, of which his uncle, Henry S. Hale, was president, and his
grandfather, Warren Hale, Sr., the founder. After the death of the latter,
he became one of the company and served as its treasurer many years,
retiring in 1912. He was a member of the Valley Church, of Orange, and
many years its treasurer, the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the
Union League, Manufacturers' and Whitemarsh Valley Country clubs,
and the Order of Founders and Patriots, Richard Barnes, a founder of
the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts, was his emigrating, and a third
Richard Barnes, his patriot ancestor. His wife, Mary Logan Erringer,
survives, as does a daughter, Edith Louise, wife of Lambert Ott, Jr., Esq.,
a member of the Philadelphia bar.

CALDWELL KEPPELE BIDDLE, son of Hon. Thomas Biddle, by his wife
Sarah Frederica White, born at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, January 3, 1865; died
at Philadelphia, June 2, 1915. At the time of his birth his father, a

distinguished Civil War officer, was United States Consul-General in
Brazil, later United States Minister to San Salvador, and still later
served in the same capacity at Ecquador. The son prepared for college
at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, was graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1884; entered the Law Department of that
institution, received the LL.B. degree in 1886; was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar and engaged in the practice of law in that city. In
1892, he enlisted in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry and was
with that command when it was detailed to aid in quelling the labor riots
at Homestead, Pennsylvania. One year later he was commissioned
Second Lieutenant Company F, Third Regiment, National Guard of
Pennsylvania; First Lieutenant Company H, in 1894, and in July, 1895,
became Captain of Company G, serving in that capacity during the
Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War. He was Captain and
Inspector of rifle practice in 1900; Major in 1901; Lieutenant-Colonel in
1910, and was unanimously elected Colonel of the regiment, to succeed
the late Colonel Benjamin C. Tilghman, in 1911. Colonel Biddle took
a deep interest in the National Guard, and throughout his connection
with the Third Regiment devoted his time to the general advancement of
the organization, practically abandoning his profession for that purpose.
He was a member of the University and University Barge clubs, the
Delta Psi Fraternity and other organizations. Unmarried, he is survived
by a brother, the Rev. James C. Biddle, of Kentucky, and two sisters,
Miss Elizabeth C. Biddle, and Sarah Biddle, wife of Francis von A. Cabeen,
a member of this Society.

HENRY WYKOFF BIRKEY, M.D., son of William Jukes Alcock Birkey,
M.D., by his second wife, Eliza Ferguson Meyer, born at Philadelphia,
in the house now occupied by the Penn Club, Eighth and Locust Streets,
November 18, 1840; died at Newportville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
May 8, 1915. Obtaining his earlier education at the private school of the
Rev. Charles Williams, and later under the tutorship of Dr. Cleanthes
Felt, he entered the Medical Department of the University of Penn-
sylvania, where, after a four years' course, he was graduated in 1861.
In this year he acted as surgeon on the emergency staff of Henry Horner
Smith, M.D., Surgeon-General of Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the
examination of recruits for the United States Army. On February 23,
1862, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. A., and was
immediately ordered to report for duty at Eckington U. S. General
Hospital, Washington, D. C, where later he was Acting Surgeon in
charge of this and the U. S. Hospital at Findley. While at Eckington,
he supervised the sick and wounded from the Chickahominy, and battles
on the Peninsula, the wounded and Confederate prisoners from General
Stonewall Jackson's Army in the Shenandoah, and the Union wounded
from Antietam and Fredericksburg. Desiring more active service, he
applied for permission to enter the Navy, and, after an examination, was

appointed, January 10, 1863, Acting Assistant Surgeon United States
Navy. He was on duty at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, New-
York, as a member of the Board of Naval Surgeons for examining Acting
Assistant Surgeons U. S. N. until July 1, 1863, when he was sent to New
Orleans. In southern waters he served as Surgeon of U. S. S. Aroostook,
being detailed for special service on the U. S. S. Sciota, where, as well as
on the Aroostook, his success in yellow fever was of signal importance.
While on board the latter off the blockade of coast of Texas, he was in the
engagement of February 6, 1864, with the Confederate Fort at Caney
Creek, and on February 9th, in that with the Fort at St. Bernard River.
Subsequently, while stationed with his ship at New Orleans, he volun-
teered, April 20, 1864, to attend the wounded of the Army, which, under
Major-General Banks, had been defeated at Red River. Honorably
mentioned to the Department for this course, he was placed in charge of
the Officers' Wards at St. James U. S. A. General Hospital. On August
25, 1864, broken in health, he was, at his request, "detached" from the
Navy. He served as a member of Naval Court Martial held off Galveston,
Texas, May 17, 1864; Physician of the Home for Southern Refugees at
New Orleans, 1865; Physician of the S. S. Indiana, of the American Line,
1873-1876; Physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1877,
but finally withdrew from active practice after the long heroic struggle
against ill health. A member of the Masonic fraternity, he was advanced
to the degree of Master Mason in Quitman Lodge No. 76 of A. Y. M., of
New Orleans. He married, at New Orleans, September 15, 1864, Catherine
Elvira, daughter of Ivan Ochiglevich, by his wife Ellen Ward, who, with
one son, John Washington Birkey, survives. Filed with Dr. Birkey's
papers in this Society are copious extracts from his notable war journal,
1861-1864.

CHARLES ALBERT BOSBYSHELL, son of Oliver C. Bosbyshell, by his
wife Ann Whitney, was born at Port Carbon, Schuylkill County, Penn-
sylvania, May 10, 1836, and secured his education in the Public Schools
of Pottsville, in the same County. Early in life he learned the art and
trade of printing, which he followed many years. About 1872 he received
an appointment in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, where he
remained until his death, being one of the oldest continuous employees
of that institution. During the War of the Rebellion he served in the
Second and Thirty-ninth Regiments Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia in
the campaigns of 1862 and 1863. An ardent advocate of temperance,
preaching its tenets whenever occasion offered, he was also a devoted
Sunday School man, being many years Assistant Superintendent in the
School of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Saviour, West Phila-
delphia. An amiable Christian gentleman, his genial characterises
endeared him to a large circle of friends. His wife, Elmira, daughter of
John H.von Dreele, of Hanover, Germany, survives him, as does a son,

James Rex Bosbyshell. Nearly a quarter of a century in membership
with this Society, of which his brother, Colonel Oliver Christian Bosby-
shell, is a founder; Mr. Bosbyshell died at Philadelphia, December 17, 1915,
in his eightieth year.

THOMAS HEWSON BRADFORD, M.D., son of James Hewlings Bradford,
M.D., by his wife Mary Hewson Caldwell, and a descendant of William
Bradford, the noted printer and publisher of colonial Philadelphia, was
born at Philadelphia, July 16, 1848, and died there, June 25, 1915. His
earlier education was obtained at the Military Academy, Chester, Penn-
sylvania, and at the Classical Institute, Philadelphia, under Dr. John W.
Faires. After a course in medicine, he was graduated in April, 1874, at
the Jefferson Medical College, and subsequently served on the medical
staffs of the Philadelphia Dispensary, the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Howard, Children's and St. Christopher's Hospitals, and on that of St.
Martin's College for Destitute Boys. In private practice he was well
known in the medical world, and was a frequent contributor to scientific
journals on subjects in which he was professionally interested. For
years he was prominently identified with medical insurance, and at the
time of his decease was medical director of the Philadelphia Life Insurance
Company and of the United Security Life Insurance and Trust Company.
On February 26, 1880, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon Third
Regiment, National Guard Pennsylvania, and was later promoted to
Surgeon, with the rank of Major. He was a Fellow of the College of
Physicians, a member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, the Phila-
delphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-
vention of Social Diseases, the Society of Insurance Medical Officers,
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Society of
Colonial Wars, of which he was many years the Registrar, the Humane
Society, the Fishing Company in the State in Schuylkill, the Skating
Club, Philobiblon Club, Delta Phi Fraternity, the Academy of Natural
Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts and Raim Tuppani. He was also a
vestryman of Christ Church, and active in the advancement of its mani-
fold activities. As a member of the Board of Managers of this Society
from 1893 to 1912, he will long be remembered by his colleagues for his
gracious courtesy, faithful attendance and unfailing interest in Revolu-
tionary matters, and in those relating to the welfare of the Society. His
suggestion that, "during the Annual Church Service the Chaplain read
the names of the deceased members that have been reported during the
year and that taps be sounded by the bugler present," has been in effect
for three years. In 1885, Dr. Bradford married Katherine A. Nevins,
daughter of J. Willis and Adeline T. Nevins, who survives him with three
children, Mary Hewson Bradford, wife of John Lanning, Jr., of Wilkes
Barre, a member of this Society, Katherine Nevins Bradford and William
Bradford, also a member of this Society.

LOUIS HENRY CARPENTER, one of the Vice-Presidents of this Society
and son of Edward Carpenter, by his wife Anna Maria Howey, was born at
Glassboro, New Jersey, February 11, 1839, and died at Philadelphia,
January 21, 1916. Upon graduating A.B. at the Central High School, Phila-
delphia, he entered the University of Pennsylvania in the Class of '59, but
left at the end of the Junior year, and was a student of medicine at the
commencement of the Civil War. On November 1, 1861, he enlisted in
the Sixth United States Cavalry. After serving as private, corporal
and sergeant, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, July 17, 1862;
First Lieutenant, September 28, 1864; was made Lieutenant Colonel of
the Fifth United States Colored Cavalry, October 1, 1864; Colonel
November 2, 1865, and was honorably mustered out of the Volunteer
service, March 15, 1866. Ke entered the Regular Army, July 28, 1866,
as Captain of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry; became Major of Fifth Cavalry,
February 17, 1883; Lieutenant-Colonel of Third Cavalry, July 28, 1892;
transferred to Fifth Cavalry, August 28, 1892; to Seventh Cavalry,
September 22, 1894; promoted Colonel of Fifth Cavalry, June 2, 1897;
entered the Spanish-American War as Brigadier-General U. S. Volunteers;
honorably discharged from the Volunteer service, June 12, 1899; was
commissioned Brigadier-General U. S. Army, October 18, 1899, and, at
his own request, was retired the following day. He served throughout the
last three years of the Civil War with the Army of the Potomac, partici-
pating in many battles, and for a time served as aide-de-camp to General
Sheridan. At the close of the war he returned to his regiment and
became conspicuous in many campaigns against the hostile Indians in
the West. In the Spanish-American War he commanded the First
Division, Third Corps, and Third Division, Fourth Corps; was Military
Governor of the Province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, 1898-1899. During
his career he received six brevets and a Medal of Honor: First Lieutenant
U. S. Army, July 3, 1863, "for gallant and meritorious services in the
battle of Gettysburg, Pa."; Captain September 19, 1864, "for gallant
and meritorious services at the battle of Winchester, Va."; Major and
Lieutenant-Colonel March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services
during the war;" Colonel U. S. Volunteers, September 28, 1865, "for
meritorious services during the war;" Colonel October 18, 1868, "for
gallant and meritorious services in the action with Indians on Beaver
Creek, Kansas, October 18, 1868;" and was awarded the "Medal of
Honor," under resolution of Congress, March 26, 1898, for: "During the
Indian campaign in Kansas and Colorado in 1868, this officer, then
Captain 10th Cavalry and commanding Troop H, was able, gallant
and meritorious throughout. He was specially gallant in the combat of
October 18, and also in the forced march on September 23, 24 and 25, to
the relief of Forsyth's scouts, who were known to be in the greatest danger
of annihilation by bands of Indians outnumbering his own troop eight or
ten to one." He was variously commandant at Fort Robinson, Nebraska;
Fort Myer, Washington; Cavalry School of Application, Fort Riley,

Kansas, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and was also president of the
board to revise cavalry tactics. Upon his retirement from the Army, after
thirty-eight years of distinguished service, he returned to Philadelphia,
where he spent the remainder of his life. During late years he compiled
a history of the Carpenter family, from which he sprang, beginning with
Samuel Carpenter, Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania,
1694-1698, many years a Provincial Councillor and Treasurer of the
Province. This work of 320 pages he published in 1900. General
Carpenter was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
Society of the Army of the Potomac, Society of Foreign Wars, Society of
Cavalry Corps, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Colonial Society
of Pennsylvania, Academy of Natural Sciences, Army and Navy Club
(Washington), Rittenouse Club and Union League, Philadelphia. In
politics a Republican, in religious belief an Episcopalian and communicant
of the Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia, all that is mortal of the
brave soldier and Christian gentleman lies buried in Trinity Church-
yard, Swedesboro, New Jersey. He never married, and is survived by a
sister, Mary H. Carpenter.

HENRY SPARKS CATTELL, Esq., son of Andrew Chambers Cattell, by
his wife Eliza Hassinger Egner, born at Philadelphia, October 3, 1852;
died there March 12, 1916. Educated at the Episcopal Academy,
Philadelphia; he studied law under J. Cooke Longstreth, Esq., was
admitted to the Philadelphia bar, May 24, 1879, and became well known
as a practitioner in the Orphans' Court and as a corporation lawyer.
His private practice was large, and he administered the interests thereof
with keen sagacity, infinite patience, and undeviating loyalty. His
clients were his friends, and when death claimed him, their loss was a
very personal one, as was testified by numberless letters and tributes of
appreciation. He was a trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church of.
Philadelphia, to the general work of which he had been an invaluable
support, and to the furtherance of which he had, by his will, left a con-
tingent bequest of twenty thousand dollars. A thoughtful citizen, he
recognized the vacation needs of the children less favorably circumstanced
than his own, and by another contingent bequest provided a fund to be
expended in sending "worthy white children of Philadelphia, of Protestant
parentage and American birth, to the country or seashore for suitable
vacations." Actively identified with the Law Association of Philadelphia,
he served as a member of its Board of Governors. He was also a member
of the Old Guard of the First Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania,
the Union League, the Penn and the Merion Cricket clubs. Mr. Cattell
is survived by a daughter, Miss Esther Cattell, his wife, Mary Rhoads
Stokes, daughter of Edward D. Stokes, having predeceased him by a few
months.

GEORGE STEDMAN COMSTOCK, son of William Henry Comstock, by his
wife Catherine Amelia Foote, born at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10, 1850,
received his early education in the schools of that place and at Hartford,
Connecticut, after which he entered Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, in
1876. An illness from which he suffered almost his entire life prevented
the completion of his academic career, during which he was a member of
the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity and the Union Philosophical Society.
In 1869, at Buffalo, New York, he entered into partnership with Mr.
James Brown, in the lumber business, and from 1876 to 1879 was superin-
tendent of the Wharton foundry and machine shop, Philadelphia, being
in the latter year an iron broker with the late William M. Watts and
Rodman Wister. He went to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1880,
where he was associated with the late Samuel Hauck in the foundry and
machine business, utilizing many of his own inventions in the output of
the plant. He was also largely associated in the town's varied social and
civic activities, until his much lamented death, June 12, 1915. Measured
by the standard of patriotism, that love of country is best reflected in
painstaking service for the State, the work for which he will be longest
remembered is that of forwarding industrial safety and welfare standards
for this Commonwealth in connection with the Department of Labor and
Industry, to the Industrial Board of which he was appointed by Governor
Tener and reappointed by Governor Brumbaugh. As a manufacturer
in the iron trade, Mr. Comstock was alive to the problems on the mana-
gerial side of business; having kept in human touch with his ov/n em-
ployees, he keenly appreciated the claims of the laborer to justice and
consideration, and the variety of his experience had yielded him a knowl-
edge of the diversified industries of the State. He was a founder and
charter member of the Engineers Club of Central Pennsylvania, and
served continuously as an officer thereof. He became President of the
Engineers Society of Pennsylvania in 1913. For many years he was junior
warden of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Mechanicsburg. A little more than
twenty-three years a member of this Society, he was also in membership
with the Society of Descendants of Andrew Ward, a distinguished
Revolutionary officer. His wife, Julia Watts, daughter of the Hon. William
Miles Watts, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, survives him, with four
children: Edith, wife of Clement Grubb Smith, Miss Katharine Foote
Comstock, George Stedman Comstock, Jr., and John Reed Comstock. Of
the earlier life of Mr. Comstock, Judge Wilbur F. Sadler, of the Cumberland
County Court, wrote: "As a student, he was diligent and conscientious. His
moral conduct was irreproachable, leading a pure and model life; con-
siderate of his fellow students, charitable as to their shortcomings and
always lovable in his relations to them. It became a matter of common
remark that he was a young man who had a proper conception of what
was required to ensure a distinguished career. Frank, open, generous,
sympathetic and warm to his associates; always accommodating, but
never at the compromise of right and duty."

CHARLES ALLEN CONVERSE, son of the Rev. John Kendrick Converse,
by his wife Sarah Allen, was born in Burlington, Vermont, May 17, 1847,
and died there August 5, 1915. Fitted for college at the Burlington
Union High School, he was graduated A.B. at the University of Vermont
in 1869, and was a member of the Lambda Iota, a local fraternity, founded
at the latter institution in 1836, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
From October, 1870, until November, 1886, he was connected with the
Vermont Central Railroad, later the Central Vermont Railway Company,
at St. Albans, Vermont, and from 1897 with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works in Philadelphia, of which his brother, John H. Converse, was the
president, and where he later was the head of one of its departments.
He was a member of the First Regiment National Guard of Vermont
from June, 1872, until May, 1883, and aide-de-camp to the Governor of
Vermont on his military staff, with the rank of Colonel, from 1896 to 1898.
He also served as aide-de-camp on the staff of General Miles at the
Philadelphia Peace Jubilee, October, 1898, and as aide-de-camp at the
ceremonies of the dedication of the Grant Monument in Philadelphia,
April 27, 1899. Greatly interested in historical research, he published,
in 1905, a noteworthy compilation of nearly one thousand pages, devoted
to "The Converse and Allied Families," as a memorial to his pioneer
ancestor, Edward Converse, of Woburn, Massachusetts, who came in
the fleet with Winthrop in 1630, and was described by a New England
writer in words that would fittingly apply to his descendant, the subject
of this sketch: "prompt, clear-headed, devout, conscientious, outspoken,
unflinching, yet prudent, self-contained and uniform." Colonel Converse
was a member of the Historical and Genealogical Societies of Pennsylvania ,
The Swedish Colonial Society, the Geographical Society of Philadelphia ,
New England Society of Pennsylvania, Transatlantic Society of America,
Union League, Art and Merion Cricket clubs, and the Presbyterian Social
Union of Philadelphia, Lake Champlain Yacht Club, the Masonic
fraternity, Pennsylvania Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots
of America, Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Wars, and a member and
Gentleman of the Council of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of
Vermont. He was unmarried.

CHARLES ISAIAH CRAGIN, son of Isaiah L. Cragin, by his wife Sarah
Augusta Loring, born at South Reading, now Wakefield, Massachusetts,
March 31, 1843; died at Philadelphia, December 15, 1915. He was
educated at the public schools of his native town, and at Lawrence
Academy, Groton, Massachusetts. During the Civil War he fought as
a private in the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. In
1869 he removed to Philadelphia, as the representative of a foremost dry-
goods firm of Boston, and during the following year purchased the plant
and good-will of the Dobbins' Soap Manufacturing Company, with
factories at Camden, New Jersey. From that time he was president o f
the corporation, though virtually retired from active business for more

than twenty years preceding his death. He became interested in many
financial institutions, and was a director of the Fourth National Bank
from its inception. Five months of every year Mr. Cragin spent at his
winter home, Reve d'Ete, at Palm Beach, Florida. So extensive was this
estate that the Federal Government co-operated with its owner in making
experiments there for the propogation of fruits and flowers, and he is
generally credited with the phenominal growth of Palm Beach. He was
devoted to the highest interests of its church — Bethesda-by-the-Sea —
from its organization in 1889, being its first and only senior warden. In
a memorial of him, the vestry substantially said: "He was a liberal
subscriber to the first and also to the present church building; he con-
tributed one-half of the present pipe organ as he had to that which it
replaced. The costly clock installed in the church tower in 1907, was his
thank offering to God for recovery from a serious illness; and that his
service of love might continue unceasingly, he, by his will, contributed the
sum of ten thousand dollars as an addition to the endowment fund." A wide
reader, he was much interested in historical subjects, and was a member
of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Wars, Pennsylvania Society of
the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, also of the Union League,
the Masonic fraternity, the Philadelphia Country club and the Essex
Country club, of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. His will
provided for a legacy of ten thousand dollars to the endowment fund of
his alma mater, which was also that of his father and other members of
the Cragin family. Of his academic days and business career, a classmate
wrote: "At school, he led his classes. * * *As a merchant and business
man he has ever shown those characteristics which mark the large man as
different from the small man. Energetic, self-reliant, progressive, always
an originator, never a copyist, always successful. A man of honor." He is
survived by a widow, who was Miss H. Frances Carpenter. In the
Cragin mausoleum, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C, he was
laid to rest, having worn "through all the track of years the white flowers
of a blameless life."

THOMAS DAUGHERTY, son of George Hammond Daugherty, by his wife
Mary Laird, was born at Beaver Meadow, then in Northampton, now in
Carbon County, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1836, and died at Allentown,
Pennsylvania, February 22, 1915. After attending the public schools of
his native county, he began his business career as a clerk in a general store
at Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, where he remained until he entered upon
the location and construction of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, as a member
of the engineer corps, from 1853 to 1856. Early in 1859 he went to
Colorado, where, for a time, he engaged in prospecting and mining.
During the winter of 1859-1860, he was assistant clerk of the Colorado
Legislature, under the provisional government, and following the adjourn-
ment of the Assembly, he taught the first school in the Territory, at
Golden City. In the spring of 1860, he was one of the prospecting party

that discovered the California Gulch diggings at the head waters of the
Arkansas River, where, twenty years later, the Leadville diggings were
opened. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was mustered in the
United States service on April 18, 1861, and served for three months in
Company A, First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Captain
James L. Self ridge. On October 12, 1861, he reenlisted in the famous
Anderson Troop, Captain William J. Palmer's Independent Company,
of which he was fourth sergeant, and participated in the battles of Shiloh,
of Pittsburg Landing, Perry ville, Murfreesboro or Stone River, and was
at Fort Donelson the day after the surrender. He was also in the siege
of Corinth, Mississippi, and in many smaller engagements. For a time
he was on duty in the Gault House, in Louisville, Kentucky, and witnessed
the shooting of General Nelson by Jefferson C. Davis. Mr. Daugherty
was mustered out of service with his command, March 26, 1863. In
1864 he connected himself with the Yorktown Colliery, in Carbon County,
and continued there for thirty years, during the last eight years of which
he was a member of the firm, the business being conducted under the
firm name of George H. Myers and Company. Late in 1894 he removed
to Allentown, where he was one of the organizers and the president of the
Lehigh Telephone Company, remaining at its head until the business was
merged into that of the Consolidated Companies of Pennsylvania, of
which he was a director at the time of his decease. He was also in the
directorate of the Interstate Telephone Company of New Jersey.
Exceptionally conversant with the history of his State, Mr. Daugherty
possessed a large and valuable library. A member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and a thirty-second degree mason, he was also a stalwart
Republican. He married, January 15, 1859, Jane Hewitt, who survives
him with five of their children: George Hammond Daugherty, Miss
Lillian Jane Daugherty, Mrs. Charles F. Huber, Mrs. William A. Pollock,
of Allentown, and Abel Hewitt Daugherty, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

HENRY TAYLOR DECHERT, son of Henry Martyn Dechert, Esq., by his
wife Esther Servoss, born at Philadelphia, February 2, 1859; died there
October 14, 1915. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, he
received the B.A. degree in 1879, LL.B. in 1881 and A.M. in 1882.
He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1881, and to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1889. A wise and safe counselor,
his known probity, industry and intelligence brought him a high standing
in his profession. For years he had been the consultant and attorney for
a number of financial institutions, and served them, as well as a general
clientele, with great fidelity and skill. Although devoted to his pro-
fessional interests, he nevertheless found opportunity for the activities of
a citizen who recognized his full duty to the common weal. In 1884 he
joined the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and later the Second
Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania, of which he was subsequently
commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, and served with this command in the

Homestead riots and the anthracite coal strike. At the beginning of the
Spanish-American War he entered the service of the United States with
his regiment, which became the Second Regiment of United States
Volunteers, and during the entire tour of duty commanded five companies
in the Department of the East. When the war terminated, the regiment
reentered the service of the State, and Colonel Dechert was elected to
the Colonelcy, succeeding his kinsman, the late Colonel John Biddle
Porter. He was a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, the University,
the City, St. Anthony and Philadelphia Country clubs, and in the
management of the Spring Garden Institute, the Young Men's Institute,
the Western Home for Poor Children, the Philadelpha Home for Infants,
the Western Temporary Home and other charitable institutions of his
native city. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion by inheritance, from his uncle,
Brigadier-General Robert Porter Dechert, one of the founders of this
Society. His widow, Virginia Louise Howard Dechert, and two sons,
Robert P. Dechert and Philip Dechert survive him, as does his father,
Henry Martyn Dechert, Esq., long a member of this Society.

ANDREW FINE DERR, youngest son of John Derr, by his wife Hannah
Mellick Fine, was born in Upper Augusta Township, Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, May 29, 1853, and died at Wilkes Barre, Penn-
sylvania, November 19, 1915, Prepared for college at Missionary Insti-
tute, Selinsgrove, now Susquehanna University, he, in 1871, entered
Lafayette, where he was graduated B.A. with the Class of 75; A.M.,
1878. After a post-graduate course in German, French and English
Literature, he read law in the office of George W. Biddle, Esq., of Phila-
delphia, and was admitted to the Bar of that city and of Luzerne County
in 1878. During the same year he located in Wilkes Barre, and there
practiced his profession until 1882, when, gradually abandoning the law,
he became the business manager, and a few years later, the head of the
firm of Thompson Derr and Brother, one of the largest general insurance
agencies in the country, to the success of which he has been a tremendously
potent force. Subsequently, he was enlisted as director of the Miners'
Savings Bank, later vice-president and president; director and vice-
president of the Anthracite Savings Bank; director of the Sheldon Axle
Works, and member of the executive committee of that company; director
of the Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York City, and chairman
of its finance committee; director of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company,
and chairman of its executive committee; director of the Osterhout Free
Library and of the Wilkes Barre Hospital; trustee of the Wyoming
Historical and Geological Society; president of the board of trustees of
the Young Men's Christian Association; secretary and trustee of the
Home for Friendless Children; elder and trustee of the Wilkes Barre
Memorial Presbyterian Church; original member of the Westmoreland
and Wyoming Valley Country clubs; a member of the University,

Lawyers and the Grolier clubs of New York City, the Prince Society of
Boston, the R.oyal Victoria Society of Great Britain, the American
Geographical Society, the American Economic Society, the American Bar
Association, the Archeological Institute of America, the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania, the Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania German Society, the New Jersey Society Sons of the
Revolution and the Society of War of 1812. He was a connoisseur in
books, both as to their contents and outward guise. His splendid library,
collected with discrimination, was a comprehensive survey of science,
literature, biography and standard fiction. His mind, though absorbed
in weighty commercial problems, held itself fertile for the higher sugges-
tions. On June 23, 1896, he married Harriet, daughter of the Rev.
Samuel Thompson Lowrie, D.D., and granddaughter of Hon. Walter
Hodge Lowrie, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by
whom he is survived with four children: Elizabeth Lowrie, Katherine
Dickson, Thompson, and Andrew Fine, Jr.

JOSEPH MARX ETTING, youngest son of Benjamin Etting, by his wife
Harriet Marx, was at the time of his decease the eldest surviving grandson
of Captain Reuben Etting, of Baltimore and Philadelphia, who, more
than a century ago (1797), recruited and commanded the since well-
known Baltimore Independent Blues. Born at Richmond, Virginia,
February 5, 1836, Mr. Etting died at Philadelphia October 22, 1915.
The groundwork of his education was laid at Dr. Faires' Classical
Academy of Philadelphia. In 1851 he was appointed Acting Mid-
shipman in the United States Navy and spent two years at the Annapolis
Academy. Resigning therefrom, he engaged in the iron commission
business with his father. Subsequently he was bank clerk, United States
Sub-Treasury. He, however, withdrew from active business some
years before his death. By appointment of Governor Curtin, March 12,
1861, he held the Captaincy of Company I, Second Regiment, uniformed
Reserve Brigade, First Division, Pennsylvania Militia — a command
recruited for home defense. Captain Etting was a member of the Phila-
delphia and Rabbit clubs, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and
was a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Pennsylvania
Commandery. He married, April 14, 1864, Margaretta Emilie Pope,
daughter of Charles Milton Pope, by his wife Margaretta Emlen Howell,
who died some years since. Two of their three children survive: Mrs.
John A. Brown, Jr., and Frank Marx Etting.

LINCOLN GODFREY, son of Benjamin Granger Godfrey, by his wife
Emeline Maxwell Field, and a descendant of Colonel George Godfrey,
1721-1793, of Taunton, Massachusetts, was born at Philadelphia, May
17, 1850, and died there February 8, 1916, He completed his school
life at the Ury School, Fox Chase, and began business life with his father's
firm, B. G. Godfrey and Company, then one of the large dry-goods com-

mission houses of the country. In 1866 he identified himself with William
Simpson Sons and Company, becoming, in 1873, the senior partner of the
firm. Upon the firm's incorporation as the Eddystone Print Works,
perhaps the most important establishment of its kind in the world, Mr.
Godfrey was made its president. He became a director of the Philadelphia
National Bank in 1880, and its vice-president from 1889 to 1915, when he
resigned and was succeeded by his son, William S. Godfrey. He was also
in the directorate of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1900 until
January, 1916, when, owing to ill-health of nearly two years continuance,
he resigned that position. During his active career he was a director of
the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, the Insur-
ance Company of North America, the Mutual Fire and Inland Insurance
Company, the Argo Mills Company and the William Cramp and Sons'
Ship and Engine Building Company, a manager of the Western Savings
Fund and the Merchants' Fund, a trustee of the Episcopal Hospital and
one of the managers of the Red Bank Sanitarium Association of Phila-
delphia.'He held membership in the Union League, Rittenhouse, Art, Penn,
Racquet, Merion Cricket, Rose Tree Fox Hunt and Radnor Hunt clubs,
the Society of -Colonial Wars, Society of Mayflower Descendants, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the New England Society of Penn-
sylvania and in other organizations. He married, October 17, 1872,
Mary, daughter of William Simpson, by whom he is survived, with six
children: Henry S. Godfrey, William S. Godfrey, Lincoln Godfrey, Jr.,
Mrs. Ralph M. Townsend, Mrs. Daniel A. Newhall and Mrs. William
Pepper.

FRANK DELAPLAINE GREEN, son of Robert McCay Green, by his wife
Louisa Barry Gelston, born at Chester, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1870;
died at Philadelphia, March 31, 1916. Educated at the common schools
and the Central High School of Philadelphia, he was later a member of
the firm of Robert M. Green and Sons, manufacturers of soda water
fountains and apparatus. He came of a family that traced its ancestry
to the first colonists of Penn's government, and for some time he had
been engaged in compiling a detailed account of his ancestors, to be titled
"The Genealogical Notes of Frank D. Green." The wealth of his material
was such that he anticipated a publication of several volumes. Frater-
nally of the William L. Elkins Lodge of Masons, he was also a member of
the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Society of War of 1812, Society of
Sons of Veterans, 1861-1865, the Rotary Club of Philadelphia and the
Ocean City Yacht club. "A man of initiative, energy and ability far
above the average, a tireless worker, and omnivorous reader, he found
time for much loving service to his family and friends." He married,
October 27, 1892, Freda, daughter of Julius Senzheimer, who survives
him with three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Day Wiler, Nettie Powell Green,
and Marie Delaplaine Green, and three sons under age, Robert McCay

Green, 3rd, Frank Delaplaine Green, Jr., and James Ferrell Green. His
father, Robert M. Green, is, and his uncle, the late James Delaplaine
Green, was in membership with this Society.

BERNARD HOOPES, born at Philadelphia, December 13, 1864; died at
Bala, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1916. His father, Bernard Adolphus
Hoopes, a noted essayist and member of an old Philadelphia family,
died recently in Mexico. His mother, Eliza Yorke Donelson, was a
daughter of Thomas Jefferson Donelson, of Tennessee, whose twin brother
was adopted by their uncle, General Andrew Jackson, hero of the War of
1812 and later President of the United States. Mr. Hoopes was educated
at the public and private schools of Philadelphia, entering at the age of
eighteen years the law-book firm of Rees and Welch, and continued
actively connected therewith, being at his decease a director of the
company. He was a golfer of reputation, a member of the Philadelphia
Country and other clubs, and twice married. Donelson W. Hoopes, a
son of the first marriage, survives.

OLIVER HOUGH, son of Isaac Hough, by his wife Anna Alexander Duff, and
a descendant of Richard Hough, member of the Provincial Council of
Pennsylvania in 1692 and 1700, was born at Philadelphia, September 3,
1868, and died at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, September 21,
1915. He prepared for college at the Convent of Notre Dame and at
Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, and was graduated at the University of
Pennsylvania, in the Class of '88, B.S. and P.C. Shortly after leaving
college he engaged in genealogical and historical pursuits, and was later
recognized as a biographical writer and genealogist of high rank. Among
his authorships, published largely in the Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography, were: Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor;
Captain Thomas Holme, Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Pro-
vincial Councillor; Captain William Crispin, Proprietary's Commissioner
for Settling the Colony of Pennsylvania; Thomas Janney, Provincial
Councillor; The Atkinson Family of Pennsylvania, and several papers on
practical chemistry, published in the journal of Franklin Institute.
Interested in public affairs, Mr. Hough enlisted in the National Guard of
Pennsylvania in 1893, as private in the First Regiment of Infantry; was
promoted Corporal in 1896, and was later commissioned Second Lieu-
tenant, G Company, Third Regiment. On July 19, 1898, he was com-
missioned Second Lieutenant of I Company, Third Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, U. S. Army, organized for service in the war with Spain, and
was mustered out of service with his regiment, October 22, 1898. He also
held various offices in the Municipal League, 1893-1896, and served later
as delegate in the conventions of the Republican party. He was a member
of the Markham, Merion Cricket and Priestly clubs; the Pennsylvania
Society of Colonial Wars; the Military Order of Foreign Wars, Penn-
sylvania Commandery; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the

Historical Societies of Harford County, Maryland, Bucks County and
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; the American Catholic Historical
Society; the Franklin Institute; the Society of Chemical Industry of
Great Britain, and was at the time of his decease, on the board of directors
of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. He had never married.

FRANCIS MARTIN HUTCHINSON, son of Francis Martin Hutchinson,
2nd, by his wife Sophia Lord Cass, born at Sewickley, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, January 14, 1870; died at Los Angeles, California, January
11, 1914. Educated at the Sewickley Academy and at St. Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire, he entered Princeton College with the Class of
'92. At the close of his academic career he engaged in business in the
La Belle Steel Company, Allegheny, and after nine years of successful
work in his department was obliged to abandon his chosen career. For
thirteen winters he made a gallant struggle for health in the more
favorable climate of California, but on the eve of the fourteenth, while
speeding towards the golden West, death's swifter messenger reached
him. Blest with a genial temperament, overflowing with wit, generous to
a fault, a staunch churchman, he was from boyhood on through the years
of endeavor, sustained by an unfaltering faith and an unaffected piety.
Like one "who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to
pleasant dreams," he was laid to rest in Sewickley 's beautiful city of the
dead. Paternally, he descended from the Hutchinson family of Philadelphia
and vicinity; maternally, he was the grandson of George Washington
Cass, Jr., of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the quondam president of Adams
Express Company, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
and of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and great-great-grandson of Major
Jonathan Cass, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Muskingum County,
Ohio. He was unmarried, and is survived by his mother, one sister,
Mrs. Ellen Dawson (Hutchinson) Nettleton, of Sewickley, and a brother,
George Cass Hutchinson, a member of this Society.

GEORGE WASHINGTON KENDRICK, Jr., son of George Washington
Kendrick, by his wife Maria McDonald, born at Philadelphia, July 31,
1851; died there February 28, 1916. Educated at the public schools of
his native city, he was graduated at the Central High School in 1858, and
began his busniess career in a broker's office, where he remained until
1865, when he engaged in business for himself. Early in life he became
interested in finance, and was prominently identified with a number of
banks and financial institutions. He was for some years a vice-president
of the Third National Bank, and was in its directorate at the time of his
death. For a time he was a director of the Union Surety and Guaranty
Company, but resigned in 1903. He was also a director of the Phila-
delphia Company for Guaranteeing Mortgages and of the Fidelity Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Politically a Democrat, public affairs claimed
his active attention for some years. In 1871, 1872, 1878 and 1879 he

was a member of Common Councils of Philadelphia, and from 1893 to
1896, a member of Select Council. It was as a Mason however that he was
most widely known and generally beloved. He received his first Masonic
degree August 27, 1863, and in October of the same year, became Master
Mason in Mitchell Lodge, No. 296. Later he was past master, Washington
Lodge, No. 59; past master, Columbia Lodge, No. 91; past high priest,
Harmony Royal Arch Chapter, No. 52; past commander, Philadelphia
Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar; past thrice illustrious grand
master, Royal and Select Master Masons; past grand master, Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania; past grand high priest, Grand Chapter; past
grand commander, Grand Commandery; chairman finance committee,
1892-1913; past most puissant grand master, Grand Council Royal and
Select Master Masons; past thrice illustrious grand master, Lodge of
Perfection; past sovereign prince, Council Princes of Jerusalem; past
most wise and perfect master, Chapter Rose Croix; past commander-in-
chief, Philadelphia Consistory; sovereign grand inspector general, 33d
degree, 1891, Supreme Council; made an active member in 1906; past
president, Masonic Veterans, and made president, in 1911, of the Masonic
Home of Pennsylvania. In 1914, following the death of General Louis
Wagner, he became president of the Masonic Home, Broad and Ontario
Streets. In 1885 he founded the University Lodge, No. 610, which,
on the occasion of its eighteenth anniversary, November 9, 1913,
celebrated Mr. Kendricks' fiftieth anniversary as a Mason. He was
commander of the first council of the American Legion of Honor, con-
stituted in Philadelphia, grand vice-commander of the Grand Council,
and was past grand commander at death. He was elected supreme
representative in 1882, and in 1890 was elected supreme treasurer of the
order. Mr. Kendrick was a member of the Board of City Trusts; the
Manufacturers' and Penn clubs; many years a director of the Athletic
Club of the Schuylkill Navy, and was the sole survivor of the original
trustees of the Northminster Church, his association with that church
having existed continuously for thirty-two years. He married, in 1866,
Minnie, daughter of the late Samuel Kehl Murdock, who predeceased
him. Two sons survive, Murdock Kendrick and George Washington
Kendrick, 3rd.

GEORGE GROSSMAN LENNIG, son of Frederick Lennig, by his wife
Ellen Douglass Thompson, born at Philadelphia, July 24, 1838; died at
his summer home, Lennig Station, Margate, New Jersey, August 22, 1915.
Educated at Samuel Crawford's Private School and the Episcopal
Academy of Philadelphia, he matriculated in the Medical Department,
University of Pennsylvania, October 30, 1685, but did not finish his
course. Early in life he associated with his father as an importer of East
India merchandise, which business, established by Nicholas Lennig in
1819, was continued from 1824 by Frederick Lennig, who became the
owner of the Tacony Chemical Works and was a long-time resident of the

house at the southeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, now the site
of the Ritz-Carlton. Afterwards Mr. Lennig carried on the importing
business for himself continuing until his decease, being in later years also
actively engaged in promoting the improvement of New Jersey lands near
Margate. From young manhood he had been a discriminating collector of
rare publications, and was the owner of a unique collection of antiquarian
lore. He was an ex-member of the Union League and Philadelphia
clubs, and a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity, Eta Chapter; Univer-
sity Barge club, Philadelphia; Delta Phi club, New York; the Historical
and Genealogical Societies of Pennsylvania; New Jersey Society of
Mayflower Descendants; Society of Descendants of Colonial Governors;
Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Wars, and the Baronial Order of Runne-
mede. He was likewise identified with the Masonic fraternity, was
past master of Cassia Lodge of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and filled many
high positions in various branches of the Order. His wife, Margaret,
daughter of Edmund Birmingham, Esq., of Bradford County, Pennsyl-
vania, survives him with eight of their nine children: Mrs. Felix Berga-
monte La Crosse, of Half Moon Bay, and Edmund Birmingham Lennig,
of San Francisco, California, George Gurdon Lennig, Frederick Lennig,
Gurdon Saltonstall Lennig, Margaret A. Lennig, John Lion Gardiner
Lennig and Catherine Mumford Lennig, of Philadelphia.

GEORGE HARRISON LEWIS, son of George Davis Lewis, by his wife
Hannah Andrews Bunting, born at Clifton Heights, Delaware County,
March 7, 1879; died at Altoona, November 27, 1915, and was buried at
Darby, Pennsylvania, in the grounds of the Society of Friends, of which
religious organization he was a birthright member. Educated at the
Friends' Graded School of West Chester and Friends' Central School of
Philadelphia, he completed the classical course and was graduated at the
latter institution June 17, 1898. From 1898 until his death he was in
the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in various capacities,
from clerk to special agent. Aside from his regular occupation he was
much interested in Neighborhood Guild work in Philadelphia and in
genealogy. For some years he had been compiling data for a publication
on the descendants of William Lewis, of Glamorganshire, Wales, who
settled in Haverford Township, Chester, now Delaware County, Penn-
sylvania, in 1686. Maternally, as well as paternally, he was descended
from many of the seventeenth century makers of this Commonwealth.
He was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Colonial
Society of Pennsylvania and the Old Pupils' Association of Friends' Central
School. Unmarried, he was one of a family of six brothers, five of whom
survive him.

JOHN LILLY died at his residence, No. 8 Lilly Street, which has been the
family homestead for several generations, Tuesday, April 25, 1916, at
10.30 P. M., after an illness of several months. Mr. Lilly was born
July 20, 1851, in the family homestead, being the only son of the late

Dr. Samuel Lilly and Mary Ellen Torbert, nee Coryell. He attended
Lawrenceville and afterward studied law. He retired after practising
but a few years. He was a Past Master of Amwell Lodge No. 12, F. and
A. M.; Union Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; Past Eminent Commander of St.
Elmo Commandery No. 14, Knights Templar; Jersey City Grand Lodge
of Perfection, Jersey City Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Jersey City
Chapter of Rose Croix, New Jersey Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R. S. 32 of
the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, N. M. J., U. S. A. ; Lu Lu Temple, A. A.
O. N. M. S., Past Eminent Commander's Association, N. J., Masonic
Veterans' Association, N. J.; the Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Association of Knights Templar's Commanders; Leni Lenape Lodge No.
15, I. O. O. F.; Lilly Encampment No. 20, of Patriarchs, I. O. O. F.; a
member of the Sons of the Revolution, both the New Jersey and Penn-
sylvania Societies, the Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Society; a member
of the Society of the War of 1812, and an associate member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers. He is survived by his widow and an only
son, William Lilly, of New York City.

JAMES TYNDALE MITCHELL, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, son of
Edward P. Mitchell, by his wife Elizabeth Tyndale, born at Belleville,
Illinois, November 9, 1834; died at Philadelphia, July 4, 1915. Receiving
his early education in the public schools of Philadelphia and graduating
at the Central High School in 1852, he entered Harvard University, where
he was graduated v/ith the notable Class of '55. He studied law in the
office of George W. Biddle, Esq., and at the Law Department of the
University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he received the
degree of LL.B. in 1858, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. Jeffer-
son Medical College conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1872,
Harvard University the same degree in 1901, and the University of
Pennsylvania in 1904. He was Assistant City Solicitor of Philadelphia
from 1860 to 1863; Judge of the District Court from 1871 to 1875; Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia County, from 1875
to 1888; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from
1889 to 1903, and Chief Justice of that Court from 1904 until his retire-
ment in 1910. Subsequently, he was appointed Prothonotary of the
Supreme and Superior Courts, which position he held at his decease.
From 1862 until 1887 he was editor-in-chief of the American Law Register,
which, under his editorship, stood in the front rank of legal periodicals;
and he was one of the founders of, and for many years a contributor to,
The Weekly Notes of Cases. He assisted in the revision of "Troubat
and Haly's Practice;" edited "Williams on Real Property," with American
Notes; and was the author of "History of the District Court," "Manual
on Motions and Rules," an address on "Fidelity to Court as Well as
Clients," Eulogium on John Marshall, and "Hints on Practice in Appeals."
Justice Mitchell's career at the Bar and on the Bench won for his name a
place on the roll of the most distinguished jurists that have graced the

Courts of Pennsylvania. The Law Association of Philadelphia adopted
a minute on his death which, in part, reads: "He paid in full the debt
which every lawyer owes to his profession. No false or sordid ambitions,
no desire for gain, no efforts to obtain popular applause marred the
steady growth and useful results of his work at the Bar and on the Bench.
His education and scholarly tastes gave him that foundation in the
knowledge of the history and developing principles of the law so essential
to accurate legal judgment. He possessed, to an unusual degree, a com-
bination of a knowledge of the science of the law with that power of
analytical and logical thought so essential to its application to the every-
day transactions of human life, and he was a master of terse, vigorous,
lucid English which filled his opinions and addresses with illuminating
epigramatic sentences. As a nisi prins Judge he was a model of quiet,
dignified, impartial demanor, never forgetting that it is the privilege of
the Bar to wage the contest and of the Bench to keep it within bounds
and to define and present the true issue to the jury. As a member of the
Supreme Court, and for five years its Chief Justice, his opinions were
notable, both for their style and matter, and were the ripe fruit of a well-
rooted and splendidly developed professional training. He was a man
of profound convictions and with the courage to defend and maintain
them, but he was always mindful of the rights of others." He was a
vice-president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and president
of its Council, a member of the American Philosophical Society, the
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Society of the Cincinnati,
the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, the Rittenhouse club, and one of the early members of the Union
League. He never married. A recent biographer of Justice Mitchell,
in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, closes his comprehensive
appreciation with words that aptly describe this deceased member:
"His life was like the stream described by Sir John Denham:
'Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without overflowing, full.' "

WILLIAM FREDERICK MUHLENBERG, M.D., born at Gettysburg,
November 18, 1852; died at Reading, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1915.
His father, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D., LL.D., eminent in
the pulpit and in scholarship, and for sixty years connected with higher
education in Pennsylvania, was professor of Greek at Pennsylvania College
and at the University of Pennsylvania, and president of Muhlenberg
College and of Thiel College. He married his cousin, Catharine Anna
Muhlenberg, and the son was thereby descended from two of the three
sons of the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, D.D., "Patriarch of the
American Lutheran Church," and founder of the family of his surname
in this country. No other German family has conferred such distinction
upon the land of its adoption as that of Muhlenberg, and few names
during six generations have had such an illustrious succession in the

learned professions, or have contributed to the nation's development
more military heroes, statesmen, scientists, diplomats, poets and bene-
factors. Local townships, colleges and foreign fields have been named
after it, and one of Pennsylvania's two statues in America's "Hall of
Fame," at Washington, bears this name. With this heritage, young Muh-
lenberg was educated at Pennsylvania College and at Muhlenberg College,
from which latter he was graduated in 1868. Subsequently, he studied
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and was there graduated in
1872. After special hospital work in Philadelphia, he located at Reading,
where he acquired a far-reaching reputation as surgeon and physician.
From 1884 until his decease, he was the regularly appointed surgeon for
the Schuylkill Valley Railroad and vicinity, and during the same period
was surgeon at the Reading Hospital, esteemed by his colleagues as a man
of ripe experience, exceptional capacity and endowed with a thorough
knowledge of his profession, and regarded with entire confidence by the
general public among which he lived and labored. For a number of years
he was a member of the Reading Board of Health, of the Reading Medical
Association and the Berks County Medical Society, serving as president
of the two latter and materially furthering the interests of both. Besides
being identified with professional societies, local social activities and
charitable organizations, he was a member of the Wyomissing and Berk-
shire clubs of Reading, and of the University and Country clubs of
Philadelphia. His wife, Augusta Muhlenberg, daughter of Heister H.
and Katherine (Hunter) Muhlenberg, survives him with three sons:
Heister Henry Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and Augustus
E. Muhlenberg.

JAMES WILKS O'NEILL, M.D., was born at Baltimore, Maryland, May 5,
1854, and died at Bergenfield, New Jersey, April 25, 1915. The son of
John O'Neill, by his wife Ruth A. Wilks, he was the nephew of the Hon.
Charles O'Neill, many years a member of Congress from Philadelphia.
Matriculating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1873, he left during
the Freshman year, and was graduated from the Medical Department of
the same institution with the Class of '77. Practicing his profession at
Philadelphia, he served on the medical staffs of the Children's Hospital
and the Southern Home for Children. He also served many years, first
as Assistant Surgeon, with rank of Lieutenant, of the First Regiment,
National Guard of Pennsylvania, and later as Surgeon, with rank of
Major. A fellow of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, a delegate to
the Columbian Catholic Congress, at Chicago, in 1893 ; he held membership
in the University, Rittenhouse, Corinthian Yacht and St. Anthony
clubs, the Society of War of 1812 and of other organizations. He was
one of the organizers of the Philadelphia Red Cross Society, and later a
member of the National Society. He was also a vestryman of St. John's
Church, Bergenfield, and mayor of that town at his decease. Dr. O'Neill
was twice married. His first wife, Florence Emilie Chandler, who died

May 11, 1904, daughter of William Penn Chandler, Esq., of Phila-
delphia, was the mother of his children, who survive him: Mrs. George
L. Justice, of St. David's, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Edmund de Forest
Curtis, of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

RUFUS MOODY PILE, son of Burdet Clifton Pile, by his wife Mary Ann
Cunningham, was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, June 25, 1844, and died
at Philadelphia, March 28, 1916. Shortly after reaching his majority,
he became a clerk in the general ticket office of the Jeffersonville, Madison
and Indianapolis Railway, now known as the Louisville division of the
Pan Handle System. On June 1, 1873, he was appointed rate and
division clerk in the passenger department of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in this city. Ten years later he was promoted chief clerk to the assistant
general passenger agent, and on November 6, 1888, he was made chief
clerk to the general passenger agent. In 1903, when George VV. Boyd
was made general passenger agent, Mr. Pile succeeded to Mr. Boyd's
office. After more than forty years of active service in one corporation,
and nearly fifty years in railroad circles, Mr. Pile retired from the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, July 1, 1914. In addition to his membership in this
Society, which began in 1889, he was a member of the Union League, the
Historical Society and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the New
England Society of Pennsylvania and the Masonic fraternity. He was
buried at his birthplace, Jeffersonville, and was unmarried.

JOHN BIDDLE PORTER, U. S. A., one of the founders of this Society, born
at Paris, France, September 5, 1858; died at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
June 21, 1915. He came of a line of Pennsylvania ancestors who played
dominating roles in life's strenuous drama in strenuous days, and who
were alike notable in military and civil affairs. His father, General
Andrew Porter, Captain of United States Mounted Riflemen in the
Mexican War, was brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for gallant
and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras, Churubusco and
Chapultepec, and at the commencement of the Civil War was com-
missioned Colonel of the Sixteenth United States Infantry; was subse-
quently Brigadier-General of Volunteers and Provost Marshal-General
for the Army of the Potomac. His mother, Margaretta Faulkner Biddle,
was the daughter of Major John Biddle, of the Regular Army, and grand-
daughter of Charles Biddle, the fascinating autobiographist and member
of the Philadelphia Revolutionary Committee of Safety. The son
studied at Paris and at Heidelberg, military instruction entering largely
into his training. Returning to America, he took residence at Philadelphia,
where, in 1879, he joined the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, of
which he was later made sergeant. For years identified with the Penn-
sylvania National Guard, chiefly as an officer of the Second Regiment, he
was, at the inception of the Spanish- American War, commissioned April
28, 1898, colonel of Second Pennsylvania Infantry and served with that

command until the close of the war, being mustered out November 15,
1898. In the following year he was ordered to the Philippines with the
28th United States Volunteers, of which he was commissioned major in
July, 1899. On May 27, 1901, he was appointed major and judge
advocate, U. S. A. ; was senior officer in charge of the school for Instruction
in Military Law in Fort Leavenworth at the time of his decease, and had
come to be regarded as one of the leading military law authorities in the
service. During the occupation of Vera Cruz by the American forces in
1914, he handled the legal problems arising from the occupation with
signal ability. Major Porter was one of the vice-presidents of the Society
of War of 1812, a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati,
the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, and of the Rittenhouse Club. He is survived by his widow,
Elizabeth (Rush) Porter, daughter of the late Murray Rush, of Phila-
delphia, and granddaughter of the late Hon. Richard Rush, United States
Minister to England and France, and by three daughters: Mrs. Margaretta
Biddle, widow of the late Rt. Rev. Robert Codman, D.D., Episcopal
Bishop of Maine, and the Misses Catherine Rush Porter and Elizabeth
Rush Porter.

WILLIAM BROOKE RAWLE, a founder of this Society, a member of its
first Board of Managers, and one of its most loyal adherents, was born at
Philadelphia, August 29, 1843, and died there, November 30, 1915. The
son of Charles Wallace Brooke, by his wife Elizabeth Tilghman Rawle,
a descendant of John Brooke, who settled in Gloucester County, New
Jersey, prior to 1699, and of Francis Rawle, who came to Philadelphia
in 1688, as well as of Colonel Andrew Porter, and Captain John Brooke,
of the Army of the Revolution, he added luster to his military inheritance
by his own gallant service throughout the Civil War. Prepared for
college at the Episcopal Academy and at Dr. Faires' Classical Institute,
he was graduated A.B. at the University of Pennsylvania with the Class
of '63 while on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Subsequently, his alma
mater conferred upon him the A.M. degree. In the autumn and winter
of 1862, he engaged in recruiting for cavalry service, and the following
year was commissioned Second Lieutenant Company C, Third Penn-
sylvania Cavalry — commission to date from December 18, 1862; was
promoted First Lieutenant October 5, 1864, and Captain October 31,
1864; was transferred to the Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry May 8, 1S65,
and honorably mustered out August 7, 1865. Attached to the Army of
the Potomac, he reconnoitered along the Rappahannock, and took part
in the engagements of Brandy Station, Gettysburg, and the almost daily
skirmishes in pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia,
ambushed on a scout on Salem Road near Warrenton, in cavalry action
at Culpepper Court House, and along the Occoquan, was in the Mine
Run Campaign, in the awful Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg and Hatcher's Run.

Subsequently attached to Headquarters Armies operating against Rich-
mond, he was in the Appomattox Campaign, and was escort of Generals
Grant and Meade in their entry into Petersburg, and of General Meade
at the surrender of General Lee, at Appomattox Court House. He was
brevetted Major United States Volunteers "for services at Hatcher's
Run, Virginia," to date from March 13, 1865, and Lieutenant-Colonel
"for services in the Campaign terminating in Lee's surrender," to date
from April 9, 1865. It was, however, at Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863, as
a recent writer in the Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania
has emphasized, that the supreme inspiration of his military life came
to William Brooke Rawle. The afternoon shadows of the third day's
battle had grown long. The situation was heavy with possibilities as
General Custer, commanding a single cavalry regiment, dashed forward
to meet the head of Stuart's column of reserves attacking the rear of the
right flank of the Union Army, and outnumbering him three or four to
one. With but thirty men of his Company, Brooke Rawle was posted on
a slope of Lotts' Wood, on the Confederate left flank. Captain Miller,
with a like number from another Company of the Third Pennsylvania
Cavalry, was in command of the little squadron, and he, in a letter of
four days later, gives the conclusion of the story : "At Brooke's suggestion,
I ordered him to close up the squadron whilst I looked out for a point to
strike. * * * We struck Stuart's left flank in rear of his colors and cut him
in half, turned the rear portion and drove them like sheep." It was one
of the many turning points in this crucial battle of the war, and the
military coup d'oeil of the young baccalaurate and his prompt acceptance
of responsibility contributed in no small measure to what has been called
the most dramatic charge of cavalry ever made on American soil. Captain
Miller, for his service in Gettysburg's immortality, received the Con-
gressional Medal. Brooke Rawle's modesty would not permit his friends
to present his name for the same honor. The war ended, he entered
upon the study of law, a profession which came to him by inheritance
no less than the military. His father, Charles Wallace Brooke, grand-
father William Rawle, the younger, and great-grandfather, William
Rawle the elder, were prominent members of the Philadelphia bar, while
his great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Chew, was Chief Justice of Penn-
sylvania prior to the Revolution. His studies were pursued in the office
of his uncle, William Henry Rawle, also a noted lawyer, and, after admis-
sion to the bar, May 18, 1867, he was associated with him in practice,
and upon his decease succeeded to his legal business. For family reasons,
and by legal authority, he, about this time, assumed the name of William
Brooke Rawle, in lieu of William Rawle Brooke. His career as a lawyer
was highly creditable; his clientele was large and embraced important
interests, among which was the charge of the Penn Estates in America,
and other large holdings in trusts. Actively identified with the Law
Library of Philadelphia for more than a third of a century, he was its
treasurer many years and materially aided in building up its library.

His law library, one of the most unique in the country, represented a
collection begun by William Rawle, the elder, in 1781, while yet a student
at Middle Temple, London, and added to by his successors in the Rawle
law offices. This library, embracing about twenty-eight hundred volumes ,
Colonel Rawle presented to the City, with the stipulation that it should
be housed in the new main library building to be erected on the Parkway,
and to be maintained there as the "Rawle Law Library of Philadelphia."
With this he also donated ten thousand dollars as a trust fund, the interest
thereof to be applied to its maintenance and further extension by the pur-
chase of current reports and digests. His civic activities were marked in
many directions other than those named. As a member of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania he contributed liberally of time and money to
the furtherance of its interests, and filled at various times the offices of
secretary, councillor and vice-president, the latter position being held
by him at his decease. His great-grandfather, William Rawle, and grand-
father of the same name, had been staunch supporters of the institution,
the former having been its first president, and their descendant took a
commendable pride in their achievement. Through his effort the Rawle
papers, the Norris, Hamilton and some portion of the Penn papers, were
added to the Society's noble collection of manuscripts. One of the
founders of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, he was a member
of its Board of Managers, 1905-1915. From 1866 until his decease he was
a valued member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and junior vice-commander, 1893-1894. In
the Commandery-in-Chief he was a recognized authority on the law of
primogeniture, upon which new membership in the Legion is based, and
upon all questions arising under its constitution. He was also a member
of the Society of War of 1812, the board of managers of the Colonial
Society of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, the Phila-
delphia, University, Penn and Pennsylvania History clubs. A loyal and
generous alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania ; almost his last
activity was the preparation of a suitable memorial to those of her sons
who served during the Civil War, and to her he bequeathed one-half of his
estate. His publications, notable contributions to Civil War and Penn-
sylvania history, embraced "The Right Flank at Gettysburg," "With
Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign," "Gregg's Cavalry Fight at Gettys-
burg," "History of Third Pennsylvania Cavalry," "60th Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers," "The Original Charter of Charles II to
William Penn," "The General Title of the Penn Family to Pennsylvania,"
"Robert Turner and his Descendants," "Laurel Hill and some Colonial
Dames who Once Lived There." Preeminently a man of high ideals,
he was, measured by every standard a gentleman, and the exemplar}'
character of his public and private life was and is an inspiration to all
who had the honor of his acquaintance. He married, February 7, 1872,
Elizabeth Norris, daughter of Henry Pepper, of Philadelphia, by his
wife Sally Norris, who survives him.

EDWARD KOONS ROWLAND, eldest son of Edward Rowland, by his wife
Norma L. Koons, born at Philadelphia, October 28, 1870; died at Bridge-
port, Connecticut, November 23, 1915. Receiving his early education
at the Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, he matriculated at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in the Class of '91, and was, during undergraduate
days, substitute tackle on the football team, and a member of the Mask
and Wig Club. Upon leaving college, he read law and was admitted to
the Philadelphia Bar. He then entered the law offices of George Harrison
Fisher, Esq., where he remained until family interests caused him to
assume the vice-presidency of the firm of William and Harvey Rowland,
Inc., a position which he held until his death. He was a member of the
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Country, Radnor Hunt and Merion Cricket
clubs, and of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, with which
command he served in the Spanish- American War. In 1906 he was
appointed on the Board of Public Charities and took an active interest in
the Commission on Lunacy, of which he was a member. Mr. Rowland's
fine scholarly taste led to his being the recipient of much appreciation
and courtesy from leaders in statecraft and science whom he met during his
travels. Several times he was the guest in Rome of Sir James Rennell Rodd,
British Ambassador to Italy. He was elected a member of the Bath
Club of London, being proposed by General Charles Delme-Radcliffe,
and he carried on an extensive correspondence since the outbreak of the
present war with Sir William Ramsay, the widely known Scotch arch-
aeologist and scholar, who, after his decease, wrote: "It has been a con-
solation to me during the last year to write occasionally to him and to
hear from him. I acquired such a high esteem for him .... that, in the
worst troubles of this war I found it a relief to write to him about the war
as a military question and a problem that would interest him both as a
soldier in the Spanish War and as a scion of the Rowlands of the Welsh

Marches May I be able till death to quote his words as an example

of the insight and practical sense of a man of affairs. We need such as
he was sorely in England at present." Mr. Rowland is survived by two
young daughters, Esther White Harrison Rowland and Dorothy Louise
Rowland, and by his widow, Esther White, daughter of Charles Custis
Harrison, LL.D., ex-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and one
of the vice-presidents of this Society.

HENRY WILSON RUPP, son of Tilghman Rupp, by his wife Emily Mar-
garet Wilson, born at Treichlersville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,
September 28, 1836; died at Philadelphia, January 19, 1916. Shortly
after attaining his majority he engaged in the jewelry business at Concord,
North Carolina, and there continued until April 3, 1861, when he was
forced to flee north with his family as refugees, suffering confiscation of all
his property, which was sold by the Confederate government. Coming to
Philadelphia, he allied himself with the well-known house of Bailey,
Banks and Biddle, subsequently becoming a member of the firm. After

its incorporation he was a stockholder, and his active connection with
the company continued until his decease. He was a member of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania German Society,
the Moravian Historical Society of Nazareth, and Society of War of 1812.
His wife, Ellen Maria Guetter, whom he married May 12, 1859, died
July 26, 1879. Of his five children, Mrs. Herbert G. Leonard, of this city,
is the sole survivor.

CHARLES HENRY SCOTT, born at Philadelphia, June 29, 1849; died at
Radnor, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1915. The son of John Caile Scott,
by his wife Louisianna Eleanor Slesman, grandson of John Caile Scott, of
Pickaway County, Ohio, and great-grandson of the Hon. Gustavus
Scott, of Maryland, 1753-1801. Mr. Scott was transferred from the
Maryland Society, Sons of the Revolution, to this Society, June 30, 1893,
and has held a membership of more than twenty years. Graduated at
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, his business life
was associated with his father and brothers, John C. Scott, Jr., and William
Biddle Scott, as miners and shippers of coal, under the firm name of
John C. Scott and Son, with offices at Philadelphia. A Republican in
political principles and practice, in religious faith an Episcopalian, for
years the Secretary of St. Christopher's Hospital and one of its board of
managers, he was also a member of the Rittenhouse, Union League,
Markham, University, Germantown Cricket and Philadelphia Country
clubs, as well as of other organizations. His wife, Margaret A., daughter
of the late General John W. Geary, Governor of Pennsylvania, survives
him with one son, Charles Henry Scott, Jr. John Caile Scott and Louis
Slesman Scott, nephews of the deceased, are members of this Society.

COVINGTON FEW SEISS, artist, publisher, naturalist, was born at Cum-
berland, Maryland, July 14, 1847; died at Philadelphia, September 5,
1915. A son of the Rev. Joseph Augustus Seiss, D.D., LL.D., L.H.D.,
many years pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion,
Philadelphia, by his wife Elizabeth S. Barnitz, he was paternally of
French-Huguenot ancestry. His great-great grandfather, John George
Suisse, a native of Wertheim-on-the-Saur, in Lower Alsatia, after nine
years of French military service, with honorable discharge, emigrated to
Philadelphia in 1750, settling later in Maryland. The student life of Mr.
Seiss at the Friends' School for Boys and Professor Henry D. Gregory's
School for Young Men and Boys, was supplemented by a five years'
course in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts. His work and lively interest lay largely in natural history. He
loved nature and loved to be with it in its various forms, and was a well-
known contributor of articles and illustrations on zoological subjects to
The Scientific American, The Agriculturist, The Cultivator and The
Country Gentleman. In addition to membership in this Society, he
was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member

of the Feldman Collecting Society, the American Entomological Society,
American Ornithologists' Union, the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural
Science, the Delaware Valley Ornithological and the Philadelphia Sketch
clubs, having been secretary of the latter from 1885. Unmarried, he is
survived by two unmarried sisters and a brother, Ralph William Seiss,
M.D., of Philadelphia, the prolifi c writer on otology, laryngology and
biological subjects.

CHARLES JONES SHOEMAKER, son of George Shoemaker, by his wife
Rebecca W. Jones, born in Wyoming Valley, at Forty Fort, Pennsylvania ,
December 5, 1847; died at Wilkes Barre in the same State, September 23,
1915. As a great-grandson of Lieutenant Elijah Shoemaker, killed at the
Wyoming massacre, and also great-grandson of Colonel Nathan Denison,
who commanded the left wing at the same battle and negotiated the
terms of surrender of Forty Fort with the commander of the British,
Tory and Indian forces, his name links pre-revolutionary days with
the twentieth century development of that historic locality towards
which five generations of his family contributed. Prepared for Williams
College, Mr. Shoemaker was obliged to forego the proposed course by an
affection of the eyes, which made continuous study impossible. Much
travel followed in almost all the populated countries of the world; mean-
while through the years a steady regime of the classics and other items
of a liberal education was maintained, so that his culture was supplemented
by observation and experience. Later on, as he settled down to business
matters, he developed keen sagacity and was an authority on investments.
As a man, one who knew him said substantially, he moved as a friend among
the most distinguished men in a region that produced many great men. He
stood worthily among the worthy and upheld in himself the fine traditions
and ideals of the pioneers. His refinements were balanced by a natural
wholesomeness and rugged honesty; his judgments could be promised as
based invariably on the highest standards of living. Mentally alert,
always was he considerate, sympathetic and guileless, combining the
mental acumen of his time and opportunity with the graces and virtues
of the fathers of the Commonwealth. His nature invited friendships,
and was withal so fine in its strength and comradeship that friends
gained were never lost. Many years a member of the Kingston
Presbyterian Church, his bequests to religious and charitable organiza-
tions made plain the fact that for him religion was an all-potent force.
He rests in a plot of ground which for much more than a century has
borne the Shoemaker name in Forty Fort Cemetery. He had never
married.

WILLIAM ELLWOOD SPEAKMAN, son of Thomas Say Speakman, by his
wife Emma Eliot Draper, born at Camden, New Jersey, December 13,
1858; died at Woodbury in the same State, May 13, 1915. He was a
graduate of the Episcopal Military Academy of Cheshire, Connecticut,

and of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he received the
degree of Ph.G. Kis business life was for many years connected with a
prominent wholesale drug firm, from which he finally retired to make
extensive European travels. A man of broad sympathies and diverse
interests, he was associated with many social, philanthropic and fraternal
organizations and business enterprises. He never entered public life,
as that term is commonly accepted, but he was deeply interested in all
public questions and his political affiliations were with the Republican
party. As a vestryman and senior warden of Christ Church, Woodbury,
he gave years of unstinted service, and he was for a long period active in
the Red Cross Society when there was a State Society. He was also in
the directorate of The Delaware Insurance Company, one of the board of
managers of the Red Bank Sanitarium Association of Philadelphia, and
of the Transatlantic Society of America, a member of Florence Lodge,
No. 87, F. and A. M., Knights Templar, the Atlantic Union of London,
the New Jersey Society Sons of the Revolution, the Colonial Society of
Pennsylvania, the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the Washington
Association of Morristown and the Historical Society of New Jersey,
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Union League and Philobiblon
clubs of Philadelphia, the Woodbury Country club and the Navy League.
He married Martha C. Winchester, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and
is by her survived, together with a daughter, Eleanor B. Speakman, and
two brothers, the Rev. Henry D. Speakman, Mount Alto, Pennsylvania,
and Dr. Howard Draper Speakman, of Pau, France.

CHARLES MAYS STEINMETZ, son of the late Rev. John Withers Stein-
metz, D.D., by his wife Mary Margaret Mays, was born in Sunbury,
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1859, and died at
Reading, in the same State, January 12, 1916. His early education was
received in the schools at Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, where
he was graduated from the high school at the age of fourteen. He entered
Franklin and Marshall College, and was there graduated in the Class of
77, and was a member of Zeta Chapter, Phi Kappa Sigma. After
teaching in the districts near Reading, he matriculated at the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy, and completed the course with the Class of '84.
For some years following this he conducted a drug store, but was engaged
in the manufacturing business for a considerable period before his death.
Mr. Steinmetz was especially gifted in languages, reading both ancient
and modern Latin and French, together with many of the dialects; also
Dutch. Llis knowledge of German literature and mastery of the German
language and dialects, both in reading and speaking, were noteworthy .
Through both parents he was descended from the pioneers of Lancaster
and Berks counties, and several of his ancestors took part in the Revo-
lutionary struggle on the side of the colonies. By his first wife, Caroline
Kraemer, he has surviving him a daughter, Caroline Kraemer Steinmetz.

His second wife, Mary Louise (Owen) Steinmetz, the present Regent of
Berks County Chapter, Society of Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, also survives him with a young daughter, Mary Elizabeth Steinmetz.

JOSEPH BUSHNELL VANDERGRIFT, son of Jacob Jay Vandergrift, by
his first wife Henrietta Virginia Morrow, born at Oil City, Pennsyl-
vania, August 23, 1868; died at Pittsburgh, in the same State, May 23,
1915. His father, the story of whose life and endeavor is told wherever
the flow of natural gas glov/s in the white heat of a furnace, or whenever
the yellow gleam of a petroleum lamp brightens a home, was the well-
known oil trade operator and Pittsburgh capitalist to whose enterprise
the town of Vandergrift is a monument. The son received his earlier
education at Media, Pennsylvania, his later at Rutgers College, New
Jersey. He began business life as a shoe merchant and was subsequently
an operator in coal, but withdrew from active business pursuits some ten
years ago. Cherishing the history and traditions of a Colonial and
Revolutionary ancestry, he was in membership with many of the organiza-
tions which perpetuate the memory of the early leaders of the new nation:
The Holland Society of New York, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania,
the Swedish Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the Descendants of
the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; also with the Historical
and Genealogical Societies of Pennsylvania, the Lambs' Club of New
York, and the Masonic fraternity. His sons, Jacob Jay Vandergrift and
John Montanye Vandergrift, the issue of his first wife, Diana Montanye,
survive, as does his widow, nee Sybil May Humrod.

JAMES WEST, son of Captain James West by his wife Ann Bell Welsh, and
great-grandson of the noted Colonel John Nixon, who, on July 8, 1776, read
and proclaimed for the first time the Declaration of Independence, was
born in Philadelphia, April 30, 1839, and died there June 24, 1915. His
father, a skillful navigator, for many years captained ships sailing
between this country and Europe, and bore the reputation of being one
of the best, as well as one of the most popular navigators in the American
Marine Service. The son was educated in the schools of his native city.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the First Troop, Philadel-
phia City Cavalry, and served with this command in the three months'
campaign in 1861. He continued in active membership many years and
remained on its non-active roll until his death. He also saw service in the
battles of Gettysburg and Port Royal, and was present at the capture of
Fort Pulaski, on the Savannah River. After the war he entered the whole-
sale dry-goods business in Philadelphia, from which he retired several
years ago. During the administration of Governor Robert E. Pattison,
he was appointed aide-de-camp on the Governor's staff, with rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel. Colonel WTest was a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic. His wife, Anna Bliss, widow of Andrew Rose, pre-
deceased him. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Cooper Smith.

WILLIAM FINLEY WILLIAMSON, son of Walter Williamson, M.D., by
his wife Mary Matilda Massey, was born at Philadelphia, November 15,
1848, and died there January 7, 1916, His father, many years a leading
physician of Philadelphia, was a descendant of Daniel Williamson, who
represented Chester County in the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania
as early as 1708. The son, educated at William Whitall's Friends'
School, Dr. Faires' Classical Academy and William Few Fewsmith's,
began his business life in the wholesale novelty house of John Shaffner ,
where he remained some years. He later entered the William F. Potts
Iron Store, continuing with that firm twenty or more years, after which he
was associated with the Export Exposition held at Philadelphia in 1899.
About 1900 he connected himself with the Trust Company of North
America, and, at its merging with the Commercial Trust Company,
accepted a position with the latter company, which he filled acceptably
until his decease. He has had membership in the Wissahickon Boat, the
Old Reform, the Ours and Drug clubs, and in this Society nearly twenty
years. Unmarried, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
and Miss Elizabeth L. Williamson. His nephew, Walter D. Williamson,
is a member of this Society.

SIMON PETER WOLVERTON Jr., only son of the late Hon. Simon Peter
Wolverton, by his wife Elizabeth Dewees Hendricks, was born at Sun-
bury, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1876, and died there November 10, 1915.
His education, begun in the public schools of Sunbury, was continued at
Chambersburg Academy, Pennsylvania, Lawrenceville Academy and
Princeton College, New Jersey, after which he read law with his father;
was admitted to the Northumberland County Bar, and became a member
of the law firm of Wolverton and Wolverton. His father, a man of
unusually brilliant intellect and individual merit, coupled with untiring
industry, occupied an exalted rank in the community of his nativity and
was, during his career, a State Senator, Democratic Congressman from the
Seventeenth Congressional District, and one of the most successful corpora-
tion lawyers of the State. The son associated with his father in the prac-
tice of their common profession and continued therein after the latter's
decease. He was attorney for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley Coal Company and the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. The most important case in which he was interested recently
was the tax appeals of the coal companies operating in Northumberland
County, involving nine million dollars. The law library of his office,
embracing many rare legal authorities, is one of the most important
collections outside of Philadelphia. Extensively identified with the
civil and social activities of Sunbury, Mr. Wolverton was a trustee of the
First Presbyterian Church, a member of its Country and Grouse clubs,
the Sons of Veterans, the Masonic fraternity and the Northumberland
County Bar Association. His skill as an advocate, the alertness of his
kindly humor, together with his Christian optimism, radiating cheerfulness

and splendid physique make his sudden passing, "ere his prime," a serious
loss to his profession and community. He married Annie J. Cadwallader,
daughter of the late General George T. Cadwallader, and is by her survived,
as he is also by his mother, Mrs. Simon P. Wolverton, and sisters, Mrs.
Biddle Arthurs, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Benjamin Cummins, of Pottsville.

Respectfully submitted,

WfrJ &s

Chairman.

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On motion, the report was accepted and filed.

The Treasurer, Mr. Harrold E. Gillingham, presented his
report :

Harrold E. Gillingham, Treasurer
in account with
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
April 3, 1915, to April 3, 1916

Annual Report

RECEIPTS

General
Fund

Permanent
Fund

Wayne

Monument
Fund

To balance on hand April 3, 1915

To^annual dues

$3485.53

3019.10

70.10

1081.30

314.89

3.00

25.00

17.60
4.00

7.50

$280.25

160.00
850.00

$327.34

To interest on deposits

19 41

To interest on investments

690 00

To church service account from Horace
Magee Memorial Fund

To Evacuation Day subscriptions

To Washington's Birthday guests

To annual meeting expense — returned
supplies

To sale of publications

To initiation fees

To life and hereditary memberships

To sale of Insignia (taken from deceased
member)

Totals

$8028.02

$1290.25

$1036.75

PAYMENTS

General
Fund

Permanent
Fund

Wayne

Monument
Fund

By expenses annual meeting, 1915

By expenses Evacuation Day

By expenses Church Services

$245.54
188.41
267.00
370.00
112.80
239.73
300.00

64.75

63.00
425.17

85.00

8.40

256.25

10.00

300.00

50.00

11.25
5030.72

$1021 . 25
269.00

By Expenses publication of proceedings . .
By expenses Treasurer's office

By expenses Secretary's office

By expenses Secretary's salary

By expenses printing and postage

By expenses Board of Managers

By expenses reception February 22, 1916
By expenses Registrar

By expenses sundries

By assessment to General Society

By initiation fee, one transferred member

By portrait of William Penn, for U. S. S.

" Pennsylvania "

By subscription to Historical Society ....

By investment $1000. Bond 4>^% Penna.
R. R. Co. Gen'l Mortgage, due June
1, 1965 (No. 12505)

By readjustment of interest

By investment 10 shares Philadelphia
Traction Co. Stock

$793 . 75

By balance cash in Logan Trust Co

By balance cash in Western Savings Fund

243.00

Totals

$8028.02

$1290.25

$1036.75

ASSETS

General
Fund

Permanent
Fund

Wayne

Monument

Fund

Cash on deposit — Logan Trust Co

Cash on deposit — Western Savings Fund

Mortgage, N. W. Cor. Wyoming Ave. and
Oxford Turnpike, Philadelphia, at 5%.

Mortgage, 1310 S. Paxon St., at 5.4%. .

Mortgage, 1312 S. Paxon St., at 5.4% . .

Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. 4% Gen'l Cons.
Mortgage Bonds, due 2003— $4000.,
at 93

$5030.72

$269.00

4000.00
1600.00
1600.00

3720.00

1020.00
5000.00

4424.00

$243.00

Penna. R. R. Co. ±lA% Gen'l Mortgage

Bonds, due 1965, $1000., at 102

City of Philadelphia, 3K% loan, due 1934

City of Philadelphia, 3K% loan, due

1931-1934

4000.00

Philadelphia Traction Co. Stock, 56
shares, at 79

Philadelphia Traction Co. Stock, 40
shares, at 79

3160.00

Electric and Peoples 4% Stock Trust
Certificates, $4500., at 81

3645.00

Reading Co. General Mortgage 4% Bond,
due 1997— $2000., at 94

1880.00

Totals

$5030.72

$21,633.00

$12,928.00

Harrold E. Gillingham, Treasurer.

We, the undersigned Committee, duly appointed to audit the accounts of
Harrold E. Gillingham, Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the
Revolution, do hereby certify that we have examined the said account for the
year beginning April 3, 1915, and ending April 3, 1916, have compared the
vouchers and examined the assets, and find the same to be correct as above
set forth in all particulars.

Committee on Audit,

Charles Marshall,
April 3, 1916. Charles T. Cowperthwait.

On motion, accepted and filed.

Mr. Horace Wells Sellers presented the following report of
the Wayne Monument Committee :

The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Wayne Monu-
ment Committee, held at the office of Mr. E. T. Stotesbury, April 3, 1916:

Whereas, The Society of Sons of the Revolution in acceptance of the
recommendations made by the Wayne Monument Committee at the annual
meeting of the Society held April 3, 1914, authorized said Committee with
permission of the subscribers to the fund to decide as to the character of the
memorial, and,

Whereas, This Committee after considering measures to secure such per-
mission is advised by Counsel that as the fund is held specifically for the
erection of an equestrian statue to General Anthony Wayne in Philadelphia it
is doubtful if the trust can be diverted to a different memorial except upon
application to the Court stating the kind of monument it is now deemed
advisable to erect with the funds, and,

Whereas, The Committee is of the opinion that with the funds now
available it would be possible to erect a memorial arch or entranceway to one
of the City squares or other site, so designed as to constitute an appropriate
monument to General Wayne.

Therefore it is resolved, That the Committee shall submit this situation to
the Society at its annual meeting with the recommendation that the officers
be authorized to petition the Court for leave to erect such a memorial other
than an equestrian statue with the funds now on hand and generally to take
such legal or other action as may be authorized by law and that the determina-
tion of the design and the site therefor as recommended shall be referred to the
Committee with power to act.

The Chairman: The report will take the usual course and
will come up under unfinished business.

Mr. Horace Wells Sellers: I move that this meeting authorize
the Officers of the Society to petition the Court to take measures
as advised and set forth in the statement.

Honorable Norris S. Barratt: I would like to clearly under-
stand one thing. I have no objection to the motion. Anything
the committee does I am perfectly willing to stand by, but am I
to understand that this motion means that there is to be a design
prepared, or has it been prepared? Nothing seems to have been
definitely decided upon. I imagine that Wayne's name and
services will appear, and a medallion with bas-reliefs or something
of that character is to be upon it, and that it will be ornate and
beautiful if it is to cost $13,000. Has a site been designated?

Mr. Sellers: Tentatively, Washington Square has been
designated.

Judge Barratt: I see no objection to that. When the site
has been selected, is the building of the memorial to be done by
the Wayne Monument Committee without further reference to
the Society?

The Chairman: So the recommendation read as I heard it.

Judge Barratt: They can put up a shot tower then under
this resolution. However, I am willing to trust the Committee.

Colonel Leach: I do not know that I am ready for the
question. When we started the movement we intended to erect
an equestrian statue to Anthony Wayne, and the proposition
now before us, to change it and to erect a gateway to some park,
is a very different thing. I would not be willing to commit
that matter to any committee until the Society or its Board of
managers had before them the plan that might be considered a
proper one to adopt. I think we ought not to pass away from
the original intention, which was to erect an equestrian statue.
An archway is not a statue in the proper sense of the word. I
am not in favor of the motion.

General Snowden: I agree with the gentleman. In the
first place, I do not see why there should be any hurry. There
was no hurry about the Washington Monument. The result
was they erected the finest monument on the continent. General
Wayne was not a Philadelphia, he represented the troops from
all of Pennsylvania, and there is no possible reason in my judg-
ment why this Society should erect a gateway to Fairmount
Park or to a park in Pittsburgh, or anywhere else. When this
project was started it was immediately after the erection of the
Washington Monument. At all events it was about that time,
and the members of the Society had in mind the erection of a
monument that would reflect credit upon themselves and upon
the State, and give pleasure to everybody who saw it. How
many people will see an entrance to a park? I do not think the
idea is proper at all, and I do not see that there need be any hurry.
The interest on this fund is gradually accumulating. If we do not
erect it ourselves, it will be erected some day. The object is to
extend the honor and fame of General Wayne, and that would be
accomplished to a very limited extent, in my judgment, by putting
a gateway to Fairmount Park or an entrance to Washington
Square.

The Chairman: The motion before the house is the adoption
of the report. Do you suggest an amendment?

General Snowden: I think the question before the Society
is whether the resolution of the Committee shall be adopted.

Mr. Sellers: The idea of the Committee naturally would be
to refer the matter at its various stages to the Board of the

Society, and not proceed to complete plans without taking the
Board representing the Society into its confidence. The inten-
tion has simply been to meet a condition that has existed quite
a long time in the inadequacy of the fund to erect a suitable
equestrian statue, which happens to be an extremely costly form
of memorial, by erecting something which might be made equally
beautiful, extremely dignified and a worthy memorial to General
Wayne. It is not suggested to erect it at an entrance to Fair-
mount Park, but to place it in a conspicuous position on Washing-
ton Square as the most suitable place, and to so improve the
surroundings as to make it in every way a worthy memorial.
That is the intention, and for that means are now available.
The funds have been accumulating now for fifteen or more years
and have apparently reached a fixed position.

Colonel Leach: I think we can afford to wait a few years
for the money. It is accumulating and the time will come when
we will have funds to put up what we contemplated at the
beginning as a proper memorial to General Wayne. Some day
we will get a Chairman of the Wayne Monument Committee
who will take interest in raising funds, even outside of the
Society, that will enable us to carry out our original purpose.

General Snowden: If this resolution is adopted, the Society
is committed to the scheme of the committee. I move that this
subject be postponed.

Colonel Leach: I second the motion.

Mr. Sellers: I only want to add that the action which was
suggested in this report was simply the action taken by the
Society in 1914. We found that there was an obstacle in the
way of reaching subscribers and that has been solved, and we
present the matter for the Society's pleasure in this meeting.

The Chairman: Will the Society permit the Chair to
suggest that the recommendation be slowly read again, for I
confess I did not catch the whole drift of it listening from the
Chair.

The recommendation was again read.

Mr. Sellers: As I stated, that was the action taken at the
Annual Meeting of 1914. They left it with the Committee to
determine the character of the memorial.

The Secretary: I think this is a very proper recommenda-
tion. There were two meetings of this Committee held. They
happened to be in my office. I am not a member of the Com-
mittee, but being present I listened to what was going on as a
member of the Society. Funds have not accumulated to a
sufficient amount to erect an equestrian statue, which would cost
anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000, as we understand, and the
accumulation has stopped at about $12,000. That could be
increased perhaps by a few thousands more by a little effort,
but hardly enough to erect an equestrian statue in the near
future. After waiting so many years and nothing having been
done, it seems that this Society should put itself on record as in
favor of putting up a memorial to General Wayne, who was one
of the most distinguished Pennsylvania officers during the
Revolution. I am heartily in favor of the recommendation
contained in Mr. Seller's report, that an order of Court be obtained,
so that can be done.

The Chairman: The question is on the motion to postpone.
Permit the Chair to say to the gentleman who spoke, that as I
now hear the resolution read it is not to give power to the Com-
mittee now, but only to give power to the Officers of the Society
or the Board of Managers to apply to the Court for authority to
use the funds in the manner suggested.

General Snowden: If that is done, that is the end of the
statue. I understand they will apply to the Court for leave to
use this money, which was raised to erect a statue, in the erection
of a memorial in Washington Square or Fairmount Park, or some
other place, contrary to the understanding that was had at the
time the money was subscribed. It is an improper thing, in my
judgment, to erect a memorial to General Wayne when the
understanding was that it was to be a statue. You do not erect
memorials to military men. You erect statues, even equestrian
statues.

The Secretary: I think an amendment might help the matter.
I would be glad to amend the motion made by Mr. Sellers.

The Chairman: I doubt if you can make that amendment
now, on the motion to postpone.

Mr, Tillinghast: May I ask whether estimates have been
secured on an equestrian statue? $40,000 or $50,000 seems
rather a high price for some of the statues we have.

Mr. Sellers: There was an estimate some years ago of
$30,000.

Mr. Tillinghast: I would rather spend $15,000 for a small
equestrian statue than have an arch or any other type of memo-
rial. I am sure some of those around Philadelphia would not
cost $15,000.

The Chairman: Action on the motion to postpone is now
before the house.

The question being on the motion to postpone, it was
adopted.

Mr. Schall: As I understood the report of the Treasurer,
there was the refund of an initiation fee to somebody who had
left this Society and gone to some other society, or else I am
mistaken. If that is the case, I do not see why we should accept
anybody from some other society without an initiation fee.

The Treasurer: That is not quite right. We had a member
apply for transfer from the New York State Society to the
Pennsylvania. We admitted him through the Board in the
regular way. When it came to paying our initiation fee and
annual dues, he declined to pay the initiation fee, having already
paid it in New York State, and then the Board, to overcome our
by-laws, which said all members should pay an initiation fee, fell
back, as I understand it, on a by-law of the General Society of
which the sum and substance is that all societies should work in
harmony and take no action which is detrimental to another
state society, and inasmuch as four states now admit members by
transfer without an initiation fee, our Board thought it was only
just, proper and courteous to those states that we do likewise,
and they appropriated $10.00 from the general fund to the
permanent fund, to cover this gentleman's initiation fee. That
is what the Board asks the Society to approve.

Mr. Schall: I understood in your report you had remitted
the initiation fee to somebody who had passed from this Society
to another society.

The Treasurer: I read in my report, among payments,
"Initiation fee of one transferred member, $10.00," and I
probably should have said that was transferred to the permanent
fund. It came in under my receipts of the permanent fund,
among the $160.00. We had sixteen new members. It is merely
a transfer of that fund which the Board asks the Society to
approve.

The Chairman: Will you kindly state the motion?

Mr. Gillespie moves that the Society continues to accept
transferred members without asking for an additional initiation
fee.

Colonel Leach: Part of the motion should be that we are to
do it in reciprocity with societies that do the like thing. The
reason the Board did this with reference to this person transferred
from the New York Society was, that if a member of our Society
should go to New York to live and wanted to be transferred from
this Society to the New York Society, the New York Society
would receive that member simply upon paying dues and not
require an initiation fee because he had paid one here. Therefore,
we thought that if members of societies who receive our members
in that manner want to be transferred without paying an initia-
tion fee, we should so receive them.

The Secretary: I am not sure whether this affects our by-
laws or not. The by-laws are not very definite. They say
nothing about transferring members.

The Chairman: I am not instructed about the condition of
the by-laws. If the effect of the motion is to amend the by-laws,
it should be brought forward under the proper rule.

General Snowden: I suggest that the Secretary divide his
motion, and that we first vote on the question whether the action
of the Board of Managers in that case be approved.

The Secretary: I accept the amendment suggested and move
that the action of the Board of Managers be approved.

The motion was duly seconded and carried.

The Secretary: The action having been approved in this
case, can it be repeated as to transfer of members from societies
in any other states without demanding an additional initiation
fee from them?

Judge Barratt: I think the question can safely be left to
the Board. I make this as a point of order.

The Chairman: I think the point of order is well taken.

Judge Barratt: I would like to make a motion, and before
doing so to preface it by a few words, so the Society will under-
stand it. We are all proud of Valley Forge, and this Society is
especially so. The Colonial Dames have undertaken to put there
a memorial window which is to cost $20,000 or $25,000, I do
not know the exact amount. When the women attempt to do
anything I think the men ought to go along with them and help
them, and while I do not think this Society is in a position to
appropriate much money, I think merely to show our interest in
anything they have undertaken it would be well to do something.
I therefore move that $200.00 be appropriated, as a donation by
this Society to the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of
America, for the Martha Washington Memorial Window at
Valley Forge Chapel.

The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously.

Mr. William Macpherson Hornor nominated the following

Officers :

President

Richard McCall Cadwalader

Vice-Presidents

Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennyp acker, LL.D.

Colonel Josiah Granville Leach

Hon. Charlemange Tower, LL.D.

Rt. Rev. James H. Darlington, D.D., LL.D.

Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

Secretary

Geo. Cuthbert Gillespie

203 Walnut Place, Philadelphia

Treasurer

Harrold Edgar Gillingham

423 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Registrar
John Woolf Jordan, LL.D.

Historian
Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

Chaplain
The Rev. George W'oolsey Hodge, S.T.D.

On motion, the nominations were closed andjthe Secretary-
instructed to cast the ballot for the nominees.

Mr. Hornor nominated the following for members of the
Board of Managers: Managers

Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden

Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr.

Edward Stalker Sayres

John Armstrong Herman

Hon. John Morin Scott

Joseph Fornance

William Innes Forbes

William Currie Wilson

Charles Louis Borie, Jr.

The nominees were unanimously elected by'a viva voce vote.
Mr. Hornor nominated the following Delegates to the General

Society for 1916 and 1917:

Delegates

Col. Josiah Granville Leach

Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, LL.D.

Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D.

Geo. Cuthbert Gillespie

Harrold Edgar Gillingham

John Armstrong Herman

Brigadier-General Charles Lukens Davis, U.S.A. (Retired)

Walter George Smith

Richmond Leigh Jones

Clarence Payne Franklin, M.D.

William Copeland Furber

Thomas Hand Ball
Hon. John Marshall Gest

Alternate Delegates
Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson

Lucius Scott Landreth

Theophilus Parsons Chandler

Meredith Hanna

Thomas Cadwalader

David Milne

Samuel Babcock Crowell

Carl Magee Kneass
Joseph Allison Steinmetz

Henry Korn Fox

Richard Wistar Harvey

Joseph Howell Burroughs

George Alexander Davison

The nominees were unanimously elected by a viva voce vote.
The Secretary read the following letter from the Secretary-
General :

March 30, 1916.

To Sons of the Revolution, Society in the State of Pennsylvania:

"The General Society, Sons of the Revolution, greets the Society in the
State of Pennsylvania at the time of its Annual Meeting on the third day of
April in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixteen and hopes that
this, its twenty-ninth year, may be the most successful since its institution.

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION,
By William Libbey,

General Secretary,

W. Hall Harris, Jr.,

Assistant General Secretary."

The Chairman then asked Judge Barratt to address the
meeting.

Honorable Norris S. Barratt: I have not a canned speech
this evening, and will not detain you long. For the information
of the Society, I would first like to say a word in relation to the
last annual meeting. It was snowing, not the next day but that
night. It was, I suppose, such a night as our ancestors had at
Valley Forge, and Colonel Leach came to me and said, "The fried
oysters will not be here for fifteen minutes, and I wish you would
get up and say something." I am supposed to be automatic
and to say something that is really worth listening to without any
preparation, but, to let you into a secret, neither I nor any one
else is capable of it. There is nothing in extemporaneous
speeches. On one occasion I went to Washington as chairman
of a committee to see James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, to ask
him to come to Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, where we
were gcing to start a campaign. I saw him at the old Seward
Mansion, and Blaine said he would be delighted to come, but he
could not so do without a prepared speech. In the innocence of
my heart and youth I said, "Why, Mr. Secretary, anything you
would say we would be delighted to hear. If you do not want to
say anything else, read two pages of your 'Twenty Years in
Congress,' or make an extemporaneous speech." He said,

"There is no such thing as an extemporaneous speech." I had
thought that a man of his eminence could talk in an interesting
way at any time. He said, "I will tell you a story to illustrate
that. When I was speaker of the House of Representatives,
Samuel S. Cox, of New York, whom you know as 'Sunset' Cox,
came to me and said, 'Jim, if a certain motion is made in Congress
this morning I wish you would recognize me, and you will hear
one of the best extemporaneous speeches, which I have had
carefully prepared for three months, that you ever listened to.' "
That was a great surprise to me.

At the last meeting, in an extemporaneous speech, or what-
ever you might call it, I used the term "State House Yard."
I do not know why I did it, but I did it, and it seemed to affront
more than half the Society. Several members wrote to me and
others wrote to our genial Secretary, Mr. George Cuthbert
Gillespie, and it is his custom, if he does not understand a letter,
to refer it to me, and I have to reply to it. As I desire to get this
question settled for all time, I want to read this letter to you
tonight and justify myself in calling it "the State House Yard."
First, "yard" is the old-fashioned way of talking. It is a good
English word. When I was a boy I studied law at 514 Walnut
Street, directly opposite the State House, and we never called it
anything but the State House, and Independence Square the
State House Yard. I never thought of it in any other way, and
naturally, in the innocence of my heart, until I was rebuked for
it, I thought it was the State House Yard. So that the other
members of the Society may be informed, I am going to read this
letter to you. It is interesting, because I found that there was a
historical basis for what I said. I wrote to a member of the
Society and said:

"Mr. Gillespie, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the
Revolution, has handed to me your note of the 22nd instant, in which you state:

" 'In the Proceedings of 1914-15, lately received, I note that Judge Barratt
(p. 56) says that ' Independence Square is merely a newspaper term,' and that
'nobody thought of calling it anything else but State House Yard until the
Centennial.' The learned Judge is certainly in error. My memory is not
only against him, but I have a little pocket map of the city I used in my boy-
hood, sixty years (more or less) ago, containing the designation ' Independence

Square.' Moreover, this map was published in 1836. This information will
doubtless interest Judge Barratt. '

"Mr. Gillespie has asked me to reply to it, which I take pleasure in doing.
I have considered your statement, but I do not think that what I have said is
an error.

"The original square, bounded by 5th, 6th, Chestnut and Walnut Streets,
was vested in individual owners. It was not laid down in Homes' Portraiture,
but was there marked as 'Appropriated to first purchasers.'

"In May, 1729, the Assembly of the Province first considered the advis-
ability of erecting a State House in which to hold their meetings and made an
appropriation of 2,000 pounds for the building.

"William Allen and Alexander Hamilton, in 1730, commenced to purchase
the ground. (See Etting's History of Independence Hall, pages 13-14; Deed
Book H, No. 15, page 112; Miller's Law, 1762, page 145; 2 Hazzard's Historical
Record of Pennsylvania, 229; Deed Book H, No. 10, page 635; 1st Smith's
Laws, 242; Act May 14, 1762; 1st Smith's Laws, 254, Deed Book H, No. 16,
page 111; 1st Smith's Laws, 485). These deeds and statutes of the State speak
of the building of the State House and of the Square as the State House Yard.
In point of fact, the Act of March 10, 1812, authorized the Councils of Phila-
delphia 'to take care of the State House Yard and to pass ordinances for the
preservation of order and decorum therein.' (2 Smith's Laws, 372.)

"The Act passed March 11, 1816, (6 Smith's Laws, 340), by virtue of
which the whole square, for the payment of $70,000 was vested in the City of
Philadelphia by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, provided: 'no part of
the ground lying south of the State House within the walls then built should be
used for erecting any sort of buildings thereon, but the same should remain a
public and green walk forever.' (See Deed Book, M. R., No. 20, page 240,
etc.)

"The Act of March 7, 1871, (7 Smith's Laws, 385), prohibited the Court
of Quarters Sessions from opening a street, lane or alley over the State House
Yard.

"The Act of March 11, 1847, P. L. 471, speaks of the State House Square,
as does the Act of March, 1817, State House and State House Yard.

"In the deeds and statutes of Pennsylvania, as well as the ordinances, I
fail to find it was called anything else except the State House and the State
House Yard until Councils passed an ordinance on May 19, 1825, in which it
provides: 'the square bounded by Chestnut, Walnut, Delaware, 5th and 6th
Streets, shall be called Independence Square,' and that s the only authority
for its being so called.

"Penn Square, Logan Square, Rittenhouse Square, Washington Square
and Franklin Square were given their names by this ordinance.

"When I was a boy I never heard it called anything else than the State
House and the State House Yard. With all due deference I do not think I
was in error in stating that it was called the State House Yard.

"The map you have designating it as Independence Square was published
over ten years after the ordinance which gave it the name. But the term
'Independence Square and Independence Hall' would have been meaningless
to George Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson or any of the Revolutionary
patriots, so that historically I think it is perhaps wiser to call it when speaking
'The State House Yard.'

"It may be interesting to tell you that at least ten of the members of the
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, John Cadwalader and Doctor
John W. Jordan, of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Colonel J. Granville
Leach and others, told me the evening of that meeting that they were very glad
that I emphasized the fact about the State House Yard.

" I am very glad, indeed, that you took enough interest to write about it."

Curiously enough, Charles H. Browing has supplemented
this in a most interesting article, "The State House Yard and who
owned it first after William Penn, " in The Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography, Vol. XL., p. 85. Also see Penna.
Mag., Hist, and Biog., Vol. XXXIX (1915), 505-6.

I am admonished that I have five minutes more. This is
an anniversary which we are celebrating tonight. Edward S.
Sayres, Esq., one of our members of whom we are very fond, told
a story at the Merion Cricket Club the other night at an anniver-
sary, of a man's wife saying to him, "John, this is our fifth
anniversary." He said, "Is it? I don't like anniversaries.
When I married you I loved you so much I could have eaten you.
Now I wish I had." (Laughter). When you come to consider
anniversaries as merely marking the passage of time, there are so
many of them as we get older that they do not arouse the same
enthusiasm that we had in our youth, so I shall refrain from
emphasizing the fact that this is our anniversary; as Judge
Porter has suggested I say something about George Washington ,
I will try and do it in the few minutes allotted to me.

On February 21, 22 and 23, 1915, by invitation, I attended a
meeting of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Association at Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria Lodge No. 39
was working under a warrant issued by the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania February 3, 1783, and as Washington became an
honorary member of the Lodge on June 19, 1784, you will at once
perceive he thereby became a Pennsylvania Mason. Washington
dined with his brethren of No. 39 at the Wise Tavern in Alexan-

dria immediately before his election, so that in some degree we
shared the honor with Alexandria- Washington Lodge. In
addition, Lodge No. 2, the oldest in Pennsylvania, contributed
Doctor Elisha Cullen Dick, Washington's physician and friend^
to Virginia Freemasonry.

Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick, Senior Warden of Lodge No. 39r
was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Marcus Hook, in
Delaware County, about 1753, and died at Alexandria, Virginia,
September 22, 1825. He was the son of Archibald Dick, a
member of Lodge No. 2, at Philadelphia, and joined the same
Lodge September 15, 1779. Elisha C. Dick was a graduate of
the Old Pequea Academy and of the College of Pennsylvania.
He began the study of medicine under Drs. William Shippen and
Benjamin Rush. After graduating he settled in Alexandria,
Virginia, and at once became active in Masonic circles in that city,
and was instrumental in having the petition presented to the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for a warrant, which was granted
under the name and number "Alexandria Lodge No. 39."

Upon the records of the Lodge, Dr. Dick appears as both
predecessor and successor of George Washington as Master.
Dr. Dick was the first consulting physician in Washington's last
illness, and also conducted the Masonic services at Washington's
funeral on December 18, 1799. In their Pennsylvania warrant,
Robert Adam, the first Worshipful Master, was made a Mason in
Lodge No. 2, January 31, 1783, of which I have the honor to be a
Past Master, and he was installed as Worshipful Master on
February 3, 1783, by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, which
was the date of the warrant. At the organization of the Alexan-
dria Lodge, in Alexandria, Virginia, on the twenty-fifth of
February, 1873, Colonel Thomas Proctor, Washington's Chief
of Artillery, Charles Young, Grand Treasurer and Doctor Elisha
Cullen Dick, who were all members of Lodge No. 2, were present;
Young was acting Worshipful Master, Proctor, Senior Warden,
and Adam, Junior Warden, which gave Pennsylvania and Lodge
No. 2 a very deep interest in anything relating to Alexandria-
Washington Lodge and Brother George Washington himself.
I was notified that I was expected to say something at the
banquet about "Washington in Pennsylvania and His Relation to

our Masonic Grand Lodge." The toastmaster was kind enough
to say to me, "There is one thing, you won't be able to say much
about Washington, because he did not do a great deal in Penn-
sylvania." This is the view outside of Philadelphia, because
they do not know our history. In Virginia they think Wash-
ington was born there, he lived there, and everything he did
reflects credit upon the Old Dominion. This is true, but, as a
native of Philadelphia and the great State of Pennsylvania, I
have always felt we had a great claim upon Washington and
divided the honor, so to speak, with Virginia. He was the great
Virginian and the first citizen of America. Pennsylvania sup-
ported him actively and loyally. And now that he is no more,
we revere his memory.

It is most appropriate that we should do so, as Pennsylvania
has the added distinction of being the place where the most
important acts of George Washington's life were performed and
upon which his lasting fame, both civil and military, to a large
extent, rests. Let me enumerate them briefly:

November 15, 1753, Washington was sent by Governor
Dinwiddie to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to warn the French to
get off the land and not to build forts.

April 2, 1754, he returned to our state, and on the twenty-
fifth defeated the French at Great Meadows, near Uniontown, in
Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

On July 4, 1754, at Fort Necessity, Colonel George Wash-
ington was defeated by M. Coulon de Villers. He capitulated and
surrendered the fort. Governor Dinwiddie, upon his return,
reduced him in rank to a captain, and Washington resigned from
the English service.

In 1755, General Braddock was at Alexandria, and Washing-
ton acted as an aide, and guided him to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
where Braddock's 3000 English soldiers were defeated by 855
French and Indians, and Braddock himself was killed. Wash-
ington had two horses killed under him and performed valiant
service.

On November 25, 1757, Washington was with General John
Forbes at the taking of Fort Duquesne, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
There is a Memorial Tablet in Christ Church, Philadelphia,

erected to General Forbes' memory by the Pennsylvania Society
of Colonial Wars. This victory ended the French aggressions;
and, as you will perceive, these events all occurred in Pennsyl-
vania. Then our Brother Washington returned to Mount
Vernon, married and lived a quiet, country life for fifteen years.

September 5, 1774, Washington, mature, wise and sagacious,
was a delegate to the Continental Congress at Carpenter's Hall,
Fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
came from Mount Vernon on horseback, accompanied by Patrick
Henry and Edmund Pendleton.

June 15, 1775, Washington was again a delegate. Met at the
State House, Philadelphia, and, upon motion of Thomas Johnson,
of Maryland, on June 16, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of
the American Army.

As Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker said: "Nine battles
were fought under the personal command of Washington, and
with the exception of Long Island, which was an unrelieved
disaster, and Yorktown, where it was uncertain whether the
laurels ought to cluster about the French fleet or the American
land forces, all of them, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Warren
Tavern, German town, White Marsh and Monmouth, the
purpose of which was to control or defend, to secure or retain
the City of Philadelphia.

Then Washington spent that terrible winter of 1777 with
his army at Valley Forge, which is in Chester County, Penn-
sylvania.

After the evacuation of the City of Philadelphia by the
British, June 18, 1778, on St. John's Day following, Monday,
December 28, 1778, he attended Christ Church, Philadelphia, in
procession with his brethren, where William Smith, D.D., the
Provost of the College, now the University of Pennsylvania,
preached. Dr. Smith was an assistant minister. This sermon
was printed by the Grand Lodge and dedicated to Brother Wash-
ington, "General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the
United States of North America, the friend of his country and
mankind, ambitious of no higher title, if higher was possible."

After the war was over and the Confederacy shown to be a
failure, Washington again came to Philadelphia and presided over

the Convention which framed the Constitution under which the
Government of the United States is now organized. He became
our first President, and lived in the City of Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, on the south side of Market Street, below Sixth, No.
190, next to Wanamaker and Brown's, and lived there seven
years while our city was the Capital of the Nation.

He left Philadelphia March 9, 1797, and died at Mount
Vernon, December 14, 1799. News of his death did not reach
Philadelphia for three days. Congress, the following morning,
ordered an official memorial service to be held Tuesday, December
26, 1799, in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, southeast
corner of Fourth and Cherry Streets, which was attended by our
Grand Lodge and his Masonic brethren by special invitation.
And we must not forget that it was upon that occasion that
General Henry Lee, of Virginia, in delivering the address author-
ized by Congress, spoke of Washington as being "First in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." A full
account of the celebration will be found in Volume II, of Free-
masonry in Pennsylvania, Chapter XIX, page 257, by Dr.
Sachse and myself, so it need not be repeated here.

The official life of Washington as President of the United
States, with the exception of one session of Congress held in
New York City, as well as his official memorial funeral ordered
by Congress, took place in the then Capital of the American
Nation — the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. John Bach McMaster, the historian, does not overstate
it when he says : "Should we write a list of all the public services
which entitles Washington to grateful remembrance, and from
this list strike out such as were performed on the soil of Penn-
sylvania, not enough would remain to make him distinguished
above a score of his contemporaries."

Pennsylvania has a great history. We know it and are proud
of it, and we should tell the world of it. I think you will agree
with me that so important part of the great career of Washington,
civil, military and masonic, took place in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, we are entitled to regard General Washington as par-
ticularly close to us.

The Chairman: Some of the members of this Society are
also members of the Society of the Cincinnati, but all are not.
In the literature which passed through my hands, in connection
with your discussion of the transfer without repaying the initia-
tion fee, I found in a statement by Mr. Cadwalader what is an
error, and lest the error should gain currency, by his permission,
I would like to correct it. In looking for precedents to guide the
Society of Sons of the Revolution, he says that the Society of the
Cincinnati does not seem to have any general rule, but the
matter is left entirely to the states, probably for the reason that
the Cincinnati is a beneficial order, and when a transfer is asked
there comes up the question whether it will be necessary to extend
financial aid. The impression has more than once gone abroad.
It is not a beneficial order. The institution of the Society of the
Cincinnati provides that a portion of our funds may be used for
alleviation or relief of deceased members or the descendants of
deceased officers in commission during the time of the Revolution,
so that whatever we do (and we do do it) in the Cincinnati
distributing funds is in alleviation, but is entirely gratuitous, and
not to members of the Society, save only I think in one case
where one of our immediate membership died suddenly in stress,
and the Cincinnati helped to make his interment fitting and
proper. We are not, therefore, a beneficial society. I asked one
of my confreres of the Cincinnati whether I ought to say this,
and he thought I ought.

Mr. Macpherson Hornor and myself were reminded by
something Judge Barratt said of an amusing incident. The
Cincinnati at one time wanted to put the Washington Monument
down in what is now Independence Square, and Councils gave
the Society permission. Subsequently, Judge Barratt's friends,
the ladies, got after us and got hold of Councils and held a
meeting to revoke that ordinance after we had made all our
preparations, and, as usual, the ladies won. We went through the
Courts with a good deal of that, and throughout that litigation,
which you will find (I think Mr. Hornor can give you the data)
reported, 154 Penna. State Report, page 621 (and I am quite
certain Judge Mitchell did use the expression), "the State House
Yard."

On motion of Mr. Gillespie, a vote of thanks was tendered to
the Chairman.

On motion, the meeting adjourned.

William W. Porter,
Chairman of Meeting.
Richard McCall Cadwalader,

President.

George Cuthbert Gillespie,

Secretary.

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PREACHED BEFORE THE

Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

CHRIST CHURCH

Philadelphia

BY THE

REV. LEIGHTON W. ECKARD, D.D.

11 And ye are not your own: for ye were bought with a
price" — 1st Corinthians 6:20.

The Federal Union as we now have it was not the immediate
outcome of the American Revolution. Yet the spirit of Independ-
ence had formal expression in the stand of the "Minute Men"
at Lexington; and all through the contest to the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown. Ever since the dominant note of our
people has been that of Freedom. This together with the
illustrious results which have marked our National Career, never
would have ensued but for the achievements of those who pledged
lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for those principles which first
gained prominence and then permanency in our midst. There
is no such thing as Chance in the rise or fall of Nations. And if
in our land the peoples Cause has largely prevailed, it is only as
it was worked for, fought for, and paid for in blood and tears by
such as laid upon their Country's Altar all that they were and all
that they possessed.

How reasonable then that such a Society as is now assembled
in this Venerable and Sacred Edifice should definitely recognize
the obligation which all are under to the First Heralds of what
became a glorious triumph day.

The Sons of the Revolution, together with their fellow-
countrymen were obviously bought with a price, even the cost
as paid by the Fathers of the Revolution. It was they who
turned faces to the front, following battle flags ever beckoning
through hazards multipled and difficulties many to ultimate
Victory. And through the struggle, so serious, so disappointing
at times, so fraught with fears; a struggle in which many lost
their Earthly all, only holding their faith, their fidelity and
their dauntless resolution.

Such spirit invites reverence, and has power compelling all
to pay it tribute. We owe it to ourselves to remember that in an
important sense the Past owns the Present. Certainly we should
maintain the ideals which have proved themselves more than an
attitude of the mind and not less than the altitude of manhood.

The 11th Chapter of St. Paul's letter to the Hebrews has
been referred to as the Westminster Abbey of the New Testament.
It is the roll call of names of those of whom "the world was not
worthy." The list is too long. The writer stops, declaring
time would fail him to tell of all "who had subdued Kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths
of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens." Well might the
Hebrews be stirred by such recital of the exploits of their pre-
decessors.

But surely we know another story that acts like a moral
tonic. Our earlier history groups splendid examples. Remember
Patrick Henry in compelling eloquence demanding the repeal of
the Stamp Act. And Otis, of Boston, taking for his slogan
' ' No taxation without representation . ' ' The indomitable Adams ;
Hancock, too, with patriotic fervor, and Paul Revere uttering
his warning cry. What, moreover, of Ethan Allen, claiming
Ticonderoga, in the name of "Jehovah and the Continental
Congress," and Anthony Wayne at Stony Point. What of the
valiant ones at Lexington and Bunker Hill and Valley Forge?
And the devoted ones who followed Washington across the
Delaware? Above all, the immortal Company who signed the
Declaration in Philadelphia, and thus made

"A tumult in the City,
In the quaint old Quaker town/'

It is not enough to rear statues, or unveil tablets to the
memory of those whose devotion and sacrifice meant so much in
the formative days of the Republic. Nor does it suffice that we
annually visit some Mecca where patriotic zeal and valor were
displayed.

Our obligation demands more.

If we have received so much from others, we can only hope
to partially pay by service for others.

Do you ask how? How indeed, save as we join ourselves
to some great principle, or purpose whereby the best in us is
brought out. The lines of our lives must converge to a supreme
motive or aim, and thereby develop the heretofore unnoticed
powers of our nature.

Emerson makes his hero to be the man immovably centered.
The great Apostle is more to the point: "This one thing I do."
So the Master Himself asserted, "If thy eye be single thy whole
body shall be full of light." That is, the moral vision sees the
paramount duty, and such perception involves the proper
endeavor by enlightened character, to perform that duty. Even
modern scholarship adds its dictum by declaring that the
"Psychology of weakness is thinking double."

We happily know, and certainly know an adequate scheme
that can, and should, control all our tendencies. It is a scheme
which we can incarnate in a single Person. So we point to Him
Who calls us today by the ringing summons, "Follow Me."

Why then is His claim thus binding on us? Because we
owe Him so much. True Calvary's tragedy seemed to make
Him a victim rather than a victor. Yet today, we hail Him as
our Champion. Rightly said the Early Church Fathers, "He
came to death, not death to Him." And when He emerged
from the shades of the sepulchre, what trophies did He display,
and with what liberty did He make His people free. Such facts
make us feel we are not our own.

Being what He was — Very God, and yet Man at the best,
He offers personal redemption, and unfolds the principles which
should now, and sometime will control the Nations.

The true patriot, with persistent determination will accept
His leadership. What better boon do we crave for America?
How blessed the Fabric, whose foundation was laid by the
Revolutionary Fathers if haply it shall receive the transfiguring
beauty of the Life, the Law, the Love of the Man of Nazareth.

Our fellow townsman who has gathered his lectures before
the Yale students into a volume called "A Voice from the
Crowd" has strikingly alluded to the Statue of Phillips Brooks
in Boston. That manly man, that man with a message, that
man who being dead yet speaketh. And by him is the Figure of
One who was and who is Lord and Master of all. What would
Brooks have been without the presence and power and inspiration
of that other personality?

Expanding the thought, how life, private or public, is
insignificant, save as we stamp on our hearts, rather than our
coins "In God We Trust." Granted that we have impressive
evidence of a full national exchecquer, and power withal, and
prestige added. And if we ever succeed in getting a Navy we
may in far flung battle line float our flag on furthest oceans.
And meanwhile, Art may be stimulated, and enterprise greatly
triumph. Yet it all will prove misleading and inconsiderable,
unless it co-exist with moral heroism, and a determination to
enthrone Truth and Righteousness and the influence of Christ's
Kingdom on Earth.

Revolutionary Days were days of stern necessity. Our
Era is one of unparalleled opportunity. It is apparent enough
that God has amazing purposes for the Land we love.

Oh, the withering scorn which should be visited upon such,
if any there are, who have no knowledge of the times in which
they live. Men who refuse to recognize the obligation they are
under to their Fathers and their Fathers' God.

Be it ours to show that patriotism can have accumulative
potency. Let us believe that the great deeds of the Past can be
succeeded by greater deeds in the Present and Future.

Nothing is more important than to give our contribution to
this end.

"God cannot make best — man's best, without best men to
help Him."

Sons of Pennsylvania! Your State was founded as a
"Holy Experiment." Should not its established character
continue to be that of righteousness? Christianity not in
semblance but in substance should be brought to bear upon the
State and Country.

You know the word "Enthusiasm" means "In God." An
enthusiast, properly speaking, is one who sees that human acts
can be empowered by Divine strength.

What is descent from men who fought for liberty compared
to ascent with Him who is to conquer the World with Love?
Thank God for heroic memories. But thank Him infinitely more
that we are called to His colors — summoned to a new Crusade,
and enlisted in an army that shall accomplish supreme and
eternal issues.

I do not forget how current sentiment declares :
"Our souls are sick with every days report
Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled."

And it must be admitted that outward conditions indicate
a chaotic world. Yet I dare affirm that such suggestions are the
sheer impertinence of pessimism.

They who are panoplied with God's strength will not be
deterred by difficulties. As purposeful enthusiasts they will be
impelled upward, outward, onward, lured by the vision of that
"far off Divine event to which the whole creation moves."

Better than a Peace Pact signed at the Hague will be the
ultimate surrender of the war worn people to Him who once was
nailed upon the cruel tree.

Never mind who transiently wins, Kaiser or King, the
ultimate Conquerer must be He who was born in Bethlehem.

It is ours to be loyal to the Divine intention with a conviction
which fills and thrills the soul. We are bound to God. Our
business is to note the direction he takes, and then follow His
leadership. His service is not bondage but blessing. Each can
say:

"I'm in the noblest sense my own,
When most entirely His."

Has He not said: " I will be to them a God, and they shall
be to Me a people." This assurance is at once an endorsement
and a spur to endeavor. Fear not that this treaty will ever be
tossed aside as " A scrap of paper." Its purpose and performance
are sure. It behooves us to be alert, ready to report for any duty.
Apathy is treason. The trumpet call is "Forward." Our
energy should result from God's urgency.

So shall the work, yea, and the warfare, of Americans for
America continue. What has been handed down must be
handed on.

Oh, for clear vision to see the Right, and follow it at whatever
cost. So shall the Faith of the Fathers be maintained, their
devotion followed, while yet the supreme endeavor shall be to
make our land " God's Country" indeed.

Sufficient incentive is found in the Great Revolution and in
the Divinely Superior Revelation.

Ye that are men, do your duty in connection with both.

"These are the heroes, men today adore,
These are the valiant ones above all story ;
This is the pathway to modern glory,
Which down the years with added power shall pour."

LIST OF MEMBERS

Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

Abercrombie, Frank Engle Patterson

Acker, Abraham Lincoln

Acker, Durbin Stephen

Acker, James Durbin

Acker, John Henry Radey

Adams, Benjamin

Adams, Joseph Weaver

Adams, Richard Calmet, (L)

Agard, Frederick Tyler

von Albade, Francis Fete Anderson

Anewalt, Lewis Lincoln

Armstrong, Harold Rodney

Arnold, Herbert Alonzo, M.D.

Arnold, William Dorsey Irvin

Ash, John Morgan, Jr.

Ashby, Bernard

Ashhurst, William Henry

Ashley, Herbert Henry

Ashton, Taber

Ashton, William Easterly, M.D., LL.D.

Atherton, Dolph Bennett

Atherton, Fred Bicknell

Atherton, Thomas Henry

Atlee, Benjamin Champneys

Atlee, John

Atwood, Roy Silas, Lieut.

Ayres, Henry

Ayres, Louis Harlow

Bailey, Charles Weaver

Bailey, George Washington, M.D.

Bailey, Joseph Trowbridge

Baird, Edgar Wright

Baird, Oliver Hopkinson

Baird, Thomas Evans, Jr., (L)

Baird, William (Capt., U. S. A. retired)

Baker, George Fales, M.D., (L)

Baker, Joseph Boyd, 3d

Baker, William Boyd

Balch, Edwin Swift, (L)

Balch, Thomas Willing, (L)

Ball, Thomas Hand, (L)

Ballard, Warren Edgar

Banks, George Washington

Bannard, Charles Heath

Barber, Edwin Atlee, Ph.D.

Barnes, John Hampton

Barnes, Paul Henry, Jr.

Barnes, William Henry

Barnsley, John Herman

Barratt, Hon. Norris Stanley, LL.D.,(E )

Bartlett, David Dana

Barton, John Walter

Bartow, Josiah Blackwell

Basehore, Samuel Elmer

Bashore, Harvey Brown, M.D.

Battles, Frank, (L)

Battles, Harry Herbert, (L)

Beale, Horace Alexander, Jr.

Beale, Joseph, (L)

Beard, William K.

Beatty, Robert Lorton Combs

Beaumont, Eugene Beauharnais

(Lt.-Col., U. S. A. retired)
Beck, John Bush
Beck, Thomas J.
Behm, John William
Beisel, Reuben Alvan, (L)
Beitler, Hon. Abraham Merklee
Beitler, Harold Borneman
Beitler, Lewis Eugene, (L)
Belknap, Henry Heston
Bell, Charles Edward
Bell, Davis Bates
Bell, Edmund Hayes
Bell, William Hemphill, M.D., U. S. N.
Bell, William Thompson
Bement, Clarence Swift
Bennett, Frederick Charles
Bennett, Stephen Beers
de Benneville, James Seguin
Benson, Edwin North, Jr.
Bent, Stedman
Biddle, Alexander Williams, M.D.

Biddle, Louis Alexander

Biddle, William Lyman

Bingaman, John Ralston

Bishop, George Conarroe, (L)

Bishop, Rev. Gilbert Livingston

Blackwell, James Magee

Blackslee, Charles Ashley

Blackslee, James Irwin, Jr.

Blight, Elihu Spencer

Bodine, Samuel Taylor

Boger, Charles William

Boger, Edwin Lucien

Boger, John Albert, M.D., (L)

Boggs, David Chambers

Bonnaffon, Sylvester, 3d, (Capt.,U.S.A.)

Booth, Henry Driver

Borchers, Fredric Stickney

Borie, Beauveau

Borie, Charles Louis, Jr.

Bosbyshell, Col. Oliver Christian

Bournonville, Antoine

Bowman, Robert Severs

Boyd, David Knickerbocker

Boyd, Lawrence Visscher

Boyd, Rowland Carlisle

Boyd, Willet Livingston

Boyer, Charles Henry, D.D.S.

Boyer, Herbert Morton

Bradford, William, (L)

Bradway, Edward Tonkin

Brenner, Henry White

Brenner, John Christopher

Brice, Charles Frederick .

Brice, Philip Howard

Brinley, Charles A.

Brinton, Howard Futhey

Brock, Horace

Brock, John William

Brodhead, Albert

Brodhead, Robert Packer

Brooke, Benjamin Hayes

(Paymaster, U. S. N.)
Brooke, John Rutter,

(Maj.-Gen., U. S. A." retired)
Brooke, Mark, (Capt., U. S._A.)
Brown, Andrew Vinton
Brown, Charles Thomas
Brown, Frank Wigton
Brown, George Herbert
Brown, John Douglass, (L)
Browne, Rev. George Israel
Bruner, Abraham
Buckenham, John Edgar

Burnett, M.D., (L)
Buckman, John Wilson
Buehler, William George

(Rear Admiral, U. S. N.)

Bullock, Horace

Bunting, Douglas

Burgin, George Horace, M.D.

Burroughs, Joseph Howell

Burton, George

Busch, Henry Paul, (L)

Busch, Miers, (L)

Bush, George Tome, (L)

Cabeen, Francis von Albad£, Jr.
Cadwalader, John
Cadwalader, Lambert
Cadwalader, Richard McCall
Cadwalader, Thomas
Caldwell, Francis Gustavus
Cameron, Brewster, Jr., (L)
Campbell, Malcolm Graeme
Capp, Seth Bunker, (E)
Carpenter, Edmund Nelson
Carpenter, Edward, (Capt., U. S. A.)
Carpenter, Frank
Carson, Hon. Hampton

Lawrence, LL.D.
Carstairs, Daniel Haddock
Carstairs, John Haseltine
Carver, Charles
Cassatt, Robert Kelso
Castle, Joseph L.
Castle, William Henry
Castner, Samuel, Jr., (E)
Chandler, George Allen
Chandler, George Fritz
Chandler, Theophilus Parsons
Chaplin, William Craig, (L)
Chayne, Horace Augustine
Clark, Charles Edwin
Clark, James Harrison
Clay, Richard Edey, (L)
Cleaver, Albert Newton
Clement, Charles Francis, (L)
Clement, General Charles Maxwell
Clement, John Browning
Clement, John Kay
Clement, Martin Withington
Clement, Samuel Mitchell, Jr.
Clendenin, Calvin
Closson, James Harwood, M.D.
Clyde, Thomas Edward
Codding, Hon. James Hodge
Codding, John Wesley
Colket, Charles Howard, (L)
Colket, George Hamilton
Colket, Tristram Coffin
Colladay, Frank Hicks
Collum, James Walter
Colton, Sabin Woolworth, Jr.

Cook, Gustavus Wynne
Cooke, James Welch
Cooke, John Buyer
Cooke, Miller Horton
Cooke, William Gary
Cookman, James de Waele
Cooper, Frank Gordon, D.D.S.
Cooper, Horace
Cooper, John West Rulon
Corson, Alan

Cowperthwait, Charles Tyler
Coxe, Herman Wells
Coyle, John Aloysius
Craig, Neville B.
Crane, Edward Andrew
Croskey, John Welsh, M.D.
Crosman, James Heron, Jr.
Crosman, Louis Hall
Crothers, Stevenson
Crowell, Samuel Babcock
Crozer, George Knowles
Crozer, George Knowles, Jr.
Curtin, William Wilson
Cuthbert, Allen Brooks
Cutler, George Linden
Cuyler, Thomas DeWitt

Darling, Thomas
Darlington, Rt. Rev. James

Henry, D.D., LL.D.
Darnall, William Edgar, M.D.
Darrach, James, M.D.
Darte, George Lockhart
Davis, Charles Gibbons
Davis, Charles Lukens,

(Brig.-Gen., U. S. A.)
Davis, William Walley
Davison, George Alexander
Deans, John Sterling
DeArmond, James Keyser
Dechert, Henry Martyn
DeCoster, Henry Seymour
Demming, Benjamin Whitman
Detwiller, Dr. Albert Knecht
Detwiller, Frederick Knecht
Detwiller, John Knecht
Dewhurst, Richard Miles
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried
Diffenderffer, Harold Frank
Dilks, Walter Howard
Disston, William Dunlop
Dobbins, Murrell
Dobbins, Thomas Munroe
Dolson, William Strong
Donaldson, Francis

Donaldson, Francis Adams

Donaldson, Wharton Landell

Dorflinger, Dwight Christian

Dorrance, Benjamin Ford

Dougherty, Gen. Charles Bowman

Duane, Russell

DuBarry, Joseph Napoleon, Jr., (L)

DuBois, Patterson (L)

Duffield, Thomas Tillinghast

Dull, Casper

Dull, Daniel Matthieu

Dunlap, Charles Edward

Dyer, William Ashmead

Earle, George Howard, (E)
Earp, John Kirkpatrick
Eastman, Nedom Angier

(1st Lieut., U. S. M. C.)
Eckard, Bayard Gelston
Eckard, Rev. James Mcintosh

Longstreth
Eckard, Rev. Leighton

Wilson, D.D.
Ehrenfeld, Charles Hatch
Ellison, Henry Howard
Ellison, William Rodman
Elwyn, Rev. Alfred Langdon
Ely, Theodore Newell
Emerson, Frederick Bradford
Engart, John Simpson
Ermentrout, Fitz-Daniel
Etting, Theodore Minis
Evans, Charles Thomas
Evans, Frank Brooke, Jr., (L)
Evans, Frysinger
Evans, Herbert Spencer
Evans, Montgomery
Evans, Pennell Coombe
Evans, Powell
Evans, Shepley Wilson
Evans, Rev. William Wilson, D.D.
Evans, Wilson Lay
Everett, Henry Lawrence
Ewing, James Hunter
Ewing, William Beer, M.D.

Fackenthal, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., (L)

Fairbanks, Ernest Hayward

Farrell, Austin

Fassett, Truman Milton

Felton, Edgar Conway

Findley, John Thomas

Fitch, Edwin Oberlin, Jr.

Flagg, Stanley Griswold, Jr.

Fletcher, Edward Cunningham Bergner

Fletcher, Gustavus Bergner
Forbes, William Innes
Fornance, Joseph
Fornance, Joseph Knox, (L)
Forney, James,

(Brig.-Gen., U. S. M. C.)
Foster, Rufus James
Foster, Thomas
Fotterall, William Foster
Fox, Cyrus Garfield
Fox, Henry Korn
Fox, William Henry
Fraley, Joseph Cresson
Franklin, Clarence Payne, M.D.
Franklin, Clinton, D.D.S., (L)
Franklin, Malcolm

Frazer, Reah, (Pay Director, U. S. N.)
Freeman, Clarence Patton, (L)
Fretz, Augustus Henry
Fretz, John Edgar, M.D.
Fretz, John Stover
Frick, William Russell
Fryer, George Gross
Fullerton, Joseph Palmer
Fulmer, Philip Fine, Jr.
Furber, William Copeland

Galloney, Frank Hutchinson
Garrett, Erwin Clarkson, (L)
Gates, Edmund Jayne
Gelder, Charles Cyrus
Gerhard, Albert Pepper
Gest, Alexander Purves
Gest, Hon. John Marshall
Gherst, Emmett
Gibbons, Lewis William
Gillespie, George Cuthbert
Gillingham, Harrold Edgar, (L)
Gilmer, William Wirt,

(Com., U.S. N.),(L)
Gilpin, Charles Monteith
Gilpin, William Partridge
Gleason, John Shriver
Glentworth, Theodore, 3d
Goodrich, Captain William
Gordon, James Gay, Jr.
Gowen, Morris Wickersham, (E)
Graff, Charles Frederic
Graham, Charles Mervyn
Gray, Norman Darlington
Grayson, Charles Prevost, M.D.
Grayson, Clifford Prevost
Green, Edgar Moore, M.D.
Green, Robert McCay
Green, William Houston
Gregg, David McMurtrie, Jr.

Griffith, James Buchanan
Griffith, Robert Eglesfeld
Griscom, Clement Acton, Jr.
Griscom, Rodman Ellison
Gross, Edward Ziegler
Groves, Edward Augustine
Gumbes, Francis Macomb
Gummey, Hon. Charles Francis

Haines, Stanley Kirk, (L)

Haldeman, Donald Cameron, (L)

Haldeman, Col. Horace Leander

Haldeman, Richard Cameron

Hale, Arthur

Hale, George, M.D., (L)

Haley, Edwin James

Hall, Harry Alvan

Hall, Reynold Thomas

Hall, Walter Ferdinand

Hall, William Maclay, Jr.

Hamersly, Edmund Graff

Hamill, Samuel McClintock, M.D.

Hand, Henry Jessop

Handy, Charles

Hanna, John Lowrie

Hanna, Hon. Meredith

Hansell, William Henry

Harmar, William Wurts, (L)

Harper, Henry Van Fossen

Harrington, Walter Eugene

Harris, Wharton E.

Harrison, Charles Custis, LL.D.

Harrison, Charles Custis, Jr.

Harrison, George Lieb

Harrison, Harry Wain

Hart, Gustavus Noel

Hartranft, Samuel Sebring

Harvey, Richard Wistar, (L)

Hathaway, Rev. Harry St. Clair

Hay, Hon. Henry Gurley

Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin

Hayes, Robert Goodloe Harper, M.D.

Heaton, Robert Douglas

Heckman, John Claude

Heitshu, Samuel Parke

Heitshu, William Augustus

Helick, Chauncey Graham

Helme, William Edward, (L)

Hendry, Paul Augustine

Henry, James Palmer

Henwood, Walter Lincoln

Herkness, John Smylie, (L)

Herman, John Armstrong

Hess, Charles Tobias

Hewson, Addinell, M.D.

Heyl, Charles Heath, (Col., U. S. A.)

Heyl, George Anthony

Heyl, Jacob Esher

Hibshman, John Harry

Hickman, Clarence Barratt

Hiester, Isaac

Hill, Albert

Hill, Walter Liddell

Hillard, Lord Butler

Hills, Rev. John Dows, D.D.

Hodge, Rev. George Woolsey, S.T.D.

Hodge, Hugh Bayard

Hoffer, Allen David

Hoffman, Benjamin Rose, (L)

Hoffman, John Rittenhouse

Hohmann, Christian Henry

Hohmann, Samuel Brown

Holland, Rupert Sargent

Hollar, William Henry, Jr.

Holloway, James Donald, (L)

Holmes, Robert John

Hood, Jennings

Hoopes, Edward, (L)

Hooton, Mott,

(Brig.-Gen., U. S. A., retired)
Hopkinson, Oliver, Jr., M.D.
Hopkinson, Walter Waring
Hopper, Harry Samuel
Hopper, William George
Horn, Frank Melchior
Home, Smith Hamill, M.D.
Hornor, William Macpherson
Horstmann, Walter
Houston, Hugh Boyle
Houston, Joseph Frederic
Houston, Samuel Frederic
Houston, William Churchill, Jr.
Howard-Smith, Logan
Howe, Frank Perley
Howe, Herbert Marshall, M.D.
Howe, Rev. Paul

Sturtevant, M.A., LL.B.
Howell, Benjamin Paschall
Howes, Edward Everett
Howlett, Charles Edwin
Hubbard, William Henry
Hubbell, Frederick Brooks, (L)
Hudson, Clarence Walter
Hughes, Henry Douglas
Hughes, William Frank
Huidekoper, Thomas Wallis
Hulburd, David Wendell,
Hulick, Charles Edwin
Hulick, William Henry
Hulme, George Meyrick
Hunt, Charles Parrish
Hutchinson, George Cass
Hutchinson, Syndey Emlen

Hutchinson, Syndey Pemberton

Illig, Edward Smith
Imbrie, Addison Murray, (L)
Irvin, Hugh McNeil
Irwin, John Holmes, (L)

Jackson, Stuart Wells, (L)
Jackson, Theodore Cunningham
Jackson, William Carelton, (L)
James, William Alden
Janney, Price Wetherill
Janney, Joseph Allison
Jeffries, William Keigley
Jessup, Joseph

Johnson, Alba Boardman, LL.D.
Johnson, Edward Hine
Johnson, James Curtis
Johnson, Walter Howard, (L)
Jones, Edward Russell
Jones, Richmond Legh
Jones, William Foster
Jones, Rev. William Northey
Jordon, Ewing, M.D.
Jordan, Isaac Canfield
Jordan, John Woolf, LL.D., (L)
Jordan, Rev. Walter
Judson, Oliver Boyce
Junkin, Joseph de Forest

Kaylor, Adrain Roy

Keasbey, Henry Griffith

Keator, William Chauncey

Keay, Nathaniel Seaver

Keeler, Walter Bradley

Keen, Gregory Bernard, LL.D.

Keen, Harold Perot

Keim, George DeBenneville

Kell, James Alexander

Kelly, Henry Kuhl

Kelsey, Albert

Kelsey, Albert Warren, (L)

Kemmerer, Albert Howard

Kennard, Joseph Spencer, Jr., LL.D.,

D.C.L., Litt.D., (E)
Kennedy, John McCalla, Jr.
Kennedy, William Dewitt
Kent, Everett Leonard
Kent, Henry Thomas
Kent, Henry Thomas, Jr.
Kent, Samuel Leonard
Kent, Stephen Krider, (L)
Keyser, Andrew Davis
Kinney, Charles Clinton

100

Kinsey, John Ingham
Kinsey, William Philip
Kinter, Robert Edwin
Kirk, William Thompson, Jr.
Kirkpatrick, Hon. William

Sebring, LL.D.
Kisner, Allan Oscar, M.D.
Kneass, Carl Magee
Kneass, Strickland Landis
Knight, Bernardo Hoff
Knight, Frederick Henry
Knight, Harry Shoch
Kramer, Frederick Leighton
Krusen, Wilmer, M.D., (L)
Kuhns, Levi Oscar, L.H.D.
Kulp, Harry Eugene, (L)
Kuser, Winfield Scott Merkel

Laird, Herbert Russell
Lamb, Linwood Hauch, (L)
Landell, Edwin Augustus, Jr., (L)
Landis, John Fulton Reynolds,

(Major, U. S. A.)
Landreth, Burnet, Jr.
Landreth, Lucius Scott
Landreth, Symington Phillips,
Landreth, William Linton
Lane, Alexander Henry
Lane, Thomas Wakeman
Laning, John, (L)
Lansdale, William Moylan
Lansing, James Albert
Lardner, James Lawrence
Larrabee, Don Marshall
Lathbury, Benjamin Brentnall, (L)
Latta, James
Latta, John Sanderson
Latta, Samuel Whitehill, M.D.
Latta, Thomas Love
Law, Ernest
Leach, Frank Willing
Leach, Col. Josiah Granville
Leach, Joseph Granville
Leach, Meredith Biddle
Leach, Wilmon Whilldin, M.D.
Lee, Edmund Jennings, M.D.
Lee, Horace Hoffman
Leet, William Charles
Leidy, Joseph, Jr., M.D.
Leisenring, Frank Sheppard
Lessig, Joshua Brooke, (L)
Lessig, Louis Clayton, (L)
Lessig, Othniel Bleim
Lennig, John Lion Gardiner
Leverett, William
Levis, Samuel White

Lewars, George Henry
Lewars, Thomas Belfield
Lewis, Albert Nelson, (L)
Lewis, Clifford, Jr.
Lewis, David
Lewis, Ellis Smyser
Liggett, Dudley Stevenson
Liggett, Sidney Sharp
Lindemuth, Elmer Ellsworth
Linderman, Henry Richard
Linnard, George Brown, (L)
Lippincott, Jay Bucknell
Lippincott, Joseph Wharton, (L)
Lippincott, Walter
Littlefield, Henry Warren
Littlefield, Paul Goddard
Livingston, John Henry
Lloyd, John Eshleman
Lloyd, William McClure, Jr., (L)
Lloyd, William Supplee
Loder, Paul

Longcope, Thomas Moore
Loughead, Isaac Marselis, (L)
Loxley, Benjamin Ogden
Loyd, William Henry
Lutz, Rev. William Filler

Mc
McClary, William Jones, (L)
McClintock, Andrew Hamilton
McCloud, Charles Malcolm
McCord, John Davidson, Jr.
McCormick, Seth Thomas
McElroy, Clayton
Mcllvain, Edward Morton
Mcllvain, William
Mcllvaine, Frank
Mcllvaine, Herbert Robinson
Mcllvaine, John Gilbert
Mcllvaine, Wharton Stockton
McKean, Frederick George, Jr.
McKean, Henry Pratt
McKean, Thomas, (L)
McKee, Thomas McKee
McKibbin, Chambers
McKnight, John William Richard
McPherson, Hon. John Bayard, LL.D.

Macfarlane, James
Madeira, Henry
Madeira, Louis Childs, Jr.
Madeira, Percy Childs
Marcy, Alexander, Jr., M.D.
Markland, Francis Swaby, (L)
Markland, Matthew Beckwith
Marsh, John Creth

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Marshall, Charles
Marshall, Charles, Jr.
Marshall, Samuel, (L)
Marston, John, 3d,

(Lieut., U. S. M. C.)
Martin, Edward, M.D.
Martin, Hon. Jonathan Willis
Martin, Stanley Miller
Matthews, Walter Littell
Maxwell, Henry Dusenbery
Mechling, Benjamin Schreiber
Mechling, Edv/ard Anthony
Medary, Rev. Henry Martyn
Medary, Milton Bennett, Jr.
Meigs, William Montgomery, (L)
Mengel, Levi Walter
Mercur, Edward Guernsey
Mercur, James Watts
Mercur, John Davis, M.D.
Mercur, Rodney Augustus
Mercur, Ulysees
Merrill, Charles Warren
Mifflin, George Brown
Miller, Elmer Clarence
Miller, Elihu Spencer
Miller, Hon. John Faber
Miliiken, John Foster
Mills, Paul Denckla
Milne, Caleb Jones, Jr.
Milne, Caleb Jones, 3rd, (L)
Milne, David, (L)
Milne, Francis Forbes, Jr., (L)
Miner, Asher

Minnich, Rev. Michael Reed
Mirkil, Hazleton, Jr.
Mitchell, Robert
Moffly, Robert
Molten, Robert Potter
Monroe, Josiah

Montgomery, Archibald Roger
Montgomery, Harry Thackara
Montgomery, Joseph Lingle
Morgan, Charles Eldridge
Morgan, Fisher Corlies
Morgan, John Buck
Morgan, Marshall Shapleigh
Morgan, Randal
Morrell, Hon. Edward deVeaux
Morris, Effingham Buckley, (L)
Morris, Frederick Wistar
Morris, Frederick Wistar, Jr.
Morris, Henry, M.D.
Morris, Jacob Giles
Morrison, John Leland
Mossman, Beriah Edwin, M.D.
Muhlenberg, Frank Peter
Muhlenberg, Frederick Hunter

Mulford, Spencer Kennard
Mustin, Henry Croskey,

(Lieut., U. S. N.)
Mustin, John Burton
Myers, David Jay, Jr.
Myers, William Chauncey
Myers, William Heyward

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Nassau, Charles Francis, M.D.
Nassau, Rev. Robert

Hamill, D.D., S.T.D.
Nead, Benjamin Matthias
Nead, Daniel Wunderlich, M.D.
Neff, Jonathan Cilley
Neff, Joseph Seal, M.D.
Neilson, Lewis
Neilson, William Delaware
Nesbit, Edwin Lightner, M.D.
Nevin, David Tenney
Newell, Edward Harvey
Newell, William Clayton
Nichols, Carroll Brewster
Nichols, Henry Sargent Prentiss
Nicholls, Joseph Klapp
Norris, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
North, George Belford
North, Col. George Humphries, (L)
North, Herbert Allibone

Oberteuffer, Herman Freytag
O'Connor, Jacob Miller Haldeman
Osborn, John Annin
Osbourn, Thomas Rehrer
Ovenshine, Samuel, (General)
Owens, James Bowie

Packard, Charles Stuart Wood
Packard, Francis Randolph, M.D.
Packard, John Hooker, 3rd
Page, Louis Rodman
Page, Samuel Davis
Paine, Hendrick Elsworth
Painter, Park, (L)
Pancoast, Warren Lincoln
Parker, Charles
Parry, Oliver Randolph
Parry, Richard Randolph, (E)
Patterson, Christopher Stuart
Patterson, Joseph Emmett, (L)
Patton, John Howard
Patton, James Lee
Patton, William Augustus
Paul, Lawrence Taylor
Paxton, Rev. John R., D.D.

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Peals, Joseph Megary
Pearson, Davis
Pearson, Davis, 3d
Pearson, Frank
Peet, Edward Butler
Peet, Walter Field
Peirce, Caleb Clarence
Penniman, James Hosmer, (L)
Penniman, Josiah Harmar, (L)
Penny packer, Bevan Aubrey
Pennypacker, James Lane
Pennypacker, Hon. Samuel

Whitaker, LL.D.
Pepper, Edward, M.D., (L)
Pepper, George Wharton, LL.D.
Pepper, William, M.D.
Pequignot, James Leddy
Perkins, Edwin Stanley, (L)
Perot, Effingham
Perot, Elliston
Perot, Robeson Lea
Perot, Thomas Morris, Jr., (L)
Perrin, Howard Winters
Persell, Harry Alexander
Peters, Richard
Peters, Richard, Jr.
Phelps, William George
Phelps, Ziba Bennett
Philips, George Morris, Ph.D.
Pollock, William Curtis, Jr.
Porcher, Samuel
Porter, George De Lhorbe
Porter, Hon. William Wagener
Posey, Louis Plumer, M.D.
Posey, William Campbell, M.D.
Postlethwaite, Clarence Elmer, (L)
Potter, Charles Adams, Jr.
Potter, Ernest Felix
Potter, Hon. William
Potter, William Franklin
Potter, Wilson
Potts, George Elwood, (L)
Potts, Horace Miles
Potts, Horace Turley
Powers, Thomas Harris
Price, Eli Kirk
Price, Howard Campbell,

(Capt., U. S. A.)
Price, Samuel Aldrich,

(Capt., U. S. A.)
Prichett, Frederic Wilson
Purves, Guillermo Colesberry
Putnam, Earl Bill
Putnam, Earl Bill, Jr.
Putnam, Ralph Currier
Pyle, Walter Lytle, M.D.

Quay, Andrew Gregg Curtin, (Major)

Raiguel, Henry Reichart, Jr.

Ramsclell, Gardiner Cassius

Rankin, John Hall

Ransom, William Emery

Rawle, Francis, Jr.

Ray, Chester Paul, Jr.

Ray, Lee Miller

Raymond, Henry Warren

Rea, Charles S.

Rea, Samuel, D.Sc.

Read, Washington Dunlap

Read, William Bond, Jr.

Reading, Philip Grandin, (L)

Reed, James Monroe, Jr.

Reed, Joseph Abram

Reed, Willoughby Henry, M.D.

Reets, Edgar Randolph

Reifsnyder, Howard

Reily, George Wolf, (L)

Reynolds, Wilbur Fay

Reynolds, William Frederick

Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

Richards, Joseph Ernest, (L)

Richards, Joseph Thomas

Richardson, Hon. Harry Alden

Ricketts, William Reynolds

Riera, John Hartmann, M.D.

Riter, Charles Jones

Riter, Hon. Frank Miller

Riter, Michael Miller

Riter, Michael Miller, Jr.

Riter, William Gustavus

Robb, Thomas, Jr.

Roberts, Charles Rhoads

Roberts, Elihu Read

Roberts, George Theodore

Roberts, Sidney Lewis

Roberts, Thomas

Roberts, Thomas Williams, (L)

Robertson, Bryan

Robinson, Anthony Wayne, (L)

Robinson, Charles Norris

Robinson, Rev. Lucien Moore, D.D.

Rodgers, John Gilmour

Ross, Dr. George Gorgas

Roth, Grant Christopher

Rouse, Francis Willis

Rowen, John H.,

(Lieut. -Commander, U. S. N.)
Rowland, Benjamin
Rudd, Alexander Holley
Rue, Levi Lingo
Runk, Harry Ten Broeck

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Runk, Louis Bancroft
Rupp, Michael Riter
Rush, Benjamin
Russell, Alexander Wilson, Jr.
Russell, Hubert Hughes

Sadtler, Samuel Philip, Ph.D.

Sahm, William Kopp Tritle, M.D.

Sanderson, Charles Dudley

Sanderson, George

Sanderson, James Gardner

Sawtelle, Edmund Munroe

Sayres, Edward Stalker

Sayres, Harry

Scaife, Oliver Perry, Jr.

Scaige, Walter Bell

Schermerhorn, Clarence Eaton

Schermerhorn, Frank Earle

Schindel, Rev. Jeremiah Jacob

Schnure, Howard Davis

Schnure, William Marion

Schoch, Amon Zeller

Schoff, Frederick, (L)

Schooley, Harry Barnum

Schwartz, John Loeser

Scott, Alexander Harvey

Scott, Henri Guest Thomas

Scott, John Caile

Scott, John Morin, (L)

Scott, Lewis Allaire, Jr., (L)

Scott, Rev. William Reese, (Chaplain)

Searle, Hon. Alonzo Thurston

Selden, Edwin van Deusen

Sellers, Coleman, Jr.

Sellers, Edwin Foote

Sellers, Edwin Jaquette

Sellers, Horace Wells

Sells, John Davis

Semple, Edward Clarke

Shannon, Charles Emery Gould, M.D.

Sharpe, Richard, Jr.

Sharpless, John Robins

Sharpless, William Price

Shattuck, Frank Rodman

Sheahan, "William Henry

Shepherd, George Elwood

Shepherd, Harry Clayton

Shepherd, William Carver

Sheppard, Frank Little

Sheppard, Franklin Lawrence

Sheppard, Howard Reynolds

Sherman, Charles Lester, Jr.

Sherman, Charles Pomeroy

Shewell, George Dunbar

Shick, Robert Porter, (L)

Shimer, Porter William, Ph.D.

Shindel, Will Lincoln, M.D.
Shindel, Jay Martin
Shoemaker, Archie Carver, D.D.S.
Shriver, Frank William
Shriver, George Howard
Shull, David Franklin
Shute, Henry Damon
Siegrist, Henry Warren
Sill, Harold Montgomery
Silvester, Rev. Clarence Clark
Silvester, Learoyd
Simons, George Stuart
Sinex, John Henry, (L)
Sinnickson, Charles Perry
Skilton, Rev. John Davis
Skinner, Robert Wilkinson,sJr.
Slifer, Paul Bringhurst
Small, Philip Albright, (L)
Small, Samuel, (L)
Small, Samuel, Jr., (L)
Smiley, Samuel Ewing,

(Lieut.-Col., U. S. A.)
Smith, Alexis Dupont, M.D.
Smith, Archie DeWitt
Smith, Benjamin Hayes
Smith, Charles William
Smith, James Somers, Jr.
Smith, Persifor Frazer
Smith, Philip Henry Waddell
Smith, Thomas Kilby
Smith, Walter George
Smith, William Butler Duncan
Smith, William Rudolph
Smith, Winthrop
Smyth, Calvin Mason
Smyth, Isaac Scott, Jr.
Snowden, General George Randolph
Snowden Robert Patterson
Snyder, Frederic Antes
Snyder, George Duncan
Snyder, John Andrew
Snyder, John Milton
Solis-Cohen, David Hays
Souder, Edmund Alphonso
Sperry, Henry Muhlenberg
Stager, Oscar W.
Stahler, Horace Crawford, (L)
Stalford, Martin Reginald
Staples, Hon. Charles Boone
Stark, David Scott
Starr, Isaac

Stavers, William Appleton
Stearns, Irving Ariel
Steel, Hon. John Byers
Steinman, George
Steinmetz, Joseph Allison
Stenger, Hon. William Shearer

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Stevens, John Bergen

Stevens, William Chase

Stevenson, Markley

Stewart, James Rowe

Stewart, Lewis Frazier

Stine, Henry Moore, M.D.

Stockett, Rev. Norman

Stockham, Edward Villeroy

von Stockhausen, Thomas George

Stockton, Edward Alexander

Stoever, William Casper

Stone, Frank Sturdevant

Story, Frederick Grosvenor

Stotesbury, Edward Townsend

Stovell, Charles Lewis

Stovell, Frederick Davant

Stovell, Morris Lewis

Streeter, Wilson A.

Stull, Adam Arbuckle

Sturdevant, William Henry

Sutherland, William Coray

Sutter, William Henry

Swearer, Herbert Dayne

Swope, Frederick Emanuel, Jr., (L)

Tasker, Albert Lee

Tasker, Stephen Paschall Morris, (L)

Taylor, John Madison, M.D.

Thomas, Charles Holmes

Thomas, James Frederick

Thomas, Joseph Baylis

Thomas, Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Seymour

Thomas, Robert Carr, (L)

Thompson, Paul

Thorington, James, M.D., (L)

Thorington, James Monroe, (L)

Tingley, Charles Love Scott

Tower, Hon. Charlemagne, LL.D.

Townsend, Frank Evans

Trexler, Hon. Frank Mattern

Trexler, Col. Harry C.

Tryon, Charles Zimmerling

Tubbs, Warren, (L)

Tuller, John J., M.D.

Turnbull, Charles Smith, M.D.

Tustin, Hon. Ernest Leigh

Tutwiler, William Wirt Henry

Twitchell, Arthur Clements

Tyler, Sidney Frederick

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Urquhart, George Gordon
Urquhart, Radcliffe Morris, (L)

Van Baun, William Weed, M.D.
Van Dyke, Theodore Anthony, Jr.

Van Leer, William Mintzer
Vaux, Richard, (L)
Vedder, Edward Bright

(Capt., U. S. A.)
Vinton, Charles Harrod, M.D., (L)
Vogels, Edward Page
Vrooman, William Baker

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Wadsworth, Rev. Charles, Jr., D.D.
Walker, Rev. Joseph Roscoe
Wallace, William Stewart
Waller, Rev. David

Jewett, Ph.D., D.D.
Waller, Levi Ellmaker
Walls, William Cameron
W7aln, Jacob Shoemaker
Walsh, Stevenson Hockley
Waples, Rufus, (L)
Warne, William Budd, Jr., (L)
Warren, Ebenezer Burgess
Warren, Henry Mather
Warren, Gen. Lucius Henry
Washburn, Rev. Louis Cope, S.T.D.
Washington, George Steptoe
Watkins, Clarence Aubrey
Watson, James Cummin
Watts, Hon. Ethelbert
Wayne, William
Weaver, Charles Henry
Weaver, Ethan Allen, (L)
Weaver, Joseph Briggs
Weaver, William Stewart
Webner, Harold Theodore
Weisel, Elmer Preston
Weisel, Oscar Williams
Weitzel, Eben Boyd
Weitzel, Paul Elmer
Welch, Ashbel
Welles, Albert Hunt
Welles, Henry Hunter, Jr.
West, Capt. Horace Breneman
Wetherill, Rev. Francis Macomb, (L)
Wharton, Henry Redwood, M.D.
Wheeler, Col. Homer Webster
Whelen, Thomas Duncan
Whelen, William Baker
White, Rev. Elliot
White, Hugh Lawrence
Whitmer, Robert Foster, (L)
Whitney, Andrew Jackson, Jr.
Whitney, Francis Nichols
Wilbur, Rollin Henry
Wilbur, Warren Abbott
Wilhelm, Calvin Weaver
Wilkinson, Ogden Dungan
Williams, Francis Churchill

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Williams, Howard Chester
Williams, John
Williams, Richard Norris
Williamson, Thomas Armstrong
Williamson, Walter Dickson
Wilson, Alan Dickson
Wilson, James Dale
Wilson, William Currie
Wister, Alexander Wilson
Wister, Lewis Wynne
Wolf, Frank Morton
Wood, Alan, 3d
Wood, Clement Biddle
Wood, Frederick
Wood, Howard, Jr.
Wood, Richard Francis
Wood, Richard Gilpin, (L)
Wood, Thomas Dewees
WToods, Edward Augustus
Woodward, George Stanley, M.D.

Woolston, Joseph Longstreth
Worrell, Thomas Worcester
Wright, Ansom Burlingame
Wright, George Riddle
Wurts, Edward Vanuxem
Wurts, John Sparkhawk

Yeaton, William Newell
Yerkes, Hon. Harman

Zell, Thomas Burd

Ziegler, George J., 3d

Ziegler, Harry Smith

Ziegler, Harry Smith, Jr.

Ziegler, Walter Macon Lowrie, M.D.

Note — (E) Perpetual or Endowed Mem-
bership.
(L) Life members.

The Constitution

Done at the City of Philadelphia, on the 12th day of February,
1890, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred
and fourteenth.

Adopted in the City of New York, March 8th, 18 go.

Section III amended April 23rd, 1892.
Section VIII amended April 21st, 1896.
Section VII amended April 19th, 1905.

It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration Object 0
of the National holidays of the United States of America, that
popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revo-
lution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is
attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly
increasing flood of immigration from foreign countries, as to the
neglect, on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes, to
perform their duty in keeping before the public mind the memory
of the services of their ancestors and of the times in which they
lived; therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has
been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in
the military, naval and civil service of the Colonies and of the
Continental Congress by their acts or counsel, achieved the
Independence of the country, and to further the proper celebra-
tion of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of
prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution ; to
collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records, and other
documents relating to that period ; to inspire the members of the
Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; and to pro-
mote the feeling of friendship among them.

II.

The General Society shall be divided into State Societies, The Gen
which shall meet annually on the day appointed therefor in their Society*
respective by-laws, and oftener if found expedient; and at such

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annual meeting the reasons for the institution of the Society shall
be considered, and the best measures for carrying them into effect
adopted.

III.

fficers of The State Societies, at every annual meeting, shall choose

" by a majority of the votes present, a President, a Vice-President,
a Secretary, a Registrar, a Treasurer, a Chaplain, and such other
officers as may by them respectively be deemed necessary,
together with a board of managers consisting of these officers and
of nine other members, as may be provided by their respective
Constitutions and By-laws.

IV.

iterchange of Each State Society shall cause to be transmitted annually or

tween state oftener, to the other State Societies, a circular letter calling
;cieties. attention to whatever may be thought worthy of observation
respecting the welfare of the Society or of the general Union of
the States, and giving information of the officers chosen for the
year; and copies of these letters shall also be transmitted to
the General Secretary, to be preserved among the records of the
General Society.

owers of the The State Societies shall regulate all matters respecting their

s' own affairs, consistent with the general good of the Society;
judge of the qualification of their members, or of those proposed
for membership, subject, however, to the provisions of this
Constitution; and expel any member who, by conduct unbecom-
ing a gentleman or a man of honor, or by an opposition to the
interests of the community in general or of the Society in par-
ticular, may render himself unworthy to continue in membership.

VI.

^rmanent In order to form funds that may be respectable, each member

shall contribute, upon his admission to the Society and annually
thereafter, such sums as the by-laws of the respective State

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Societies may require ; but any of such State Societies may provide
for the endowment of memberships by the payment of proper
sums in capitalization, which sums shall be properly invested as a
permanent fund, the income only of which shall be expended.

VII.

The regular meeting of the General Society shall be held Meeting of
every three years, and special meetings may be held upon the ande^pre|
order of the General President or upon the request of two of the tation ther
State Societies, and such meetings shall consist of two Delegates
from each State Society and one additional Delegate for every
one hundred (100) members or major fraction thereof; and on all
questions arising at meetings of the General Society each Delegate
there present shall be entitled to one vote, and no votes shall be
taken by States, and the necessary expenses of such meeting
shall be borne by the State Societies.

VIII.

At the regular meeting, a General President, General Vice- Officers of
President, General Second Vice-President, General Secretary,
Assistant General Secretary, General Treasurer, Assistant General
Treasurer, General Registrar, General Historian and General
Chaplain shall be chosen by a majority of the Votes present, to
serve until the next regular General meeting, or until their suc-
cessors are duly chosen.

IX.

At each general meeting the circular letters which have been Recommen
transmitted by the several State Societies shall be considered, g^te sotie
and all measures taken which shall conduce to the general welfare to be consi
of the Society. «£

The General Society shall have power at any meeting to Admission
admit State Societies thereto, and to entertain and determine all State Socie
questions affecting the qualifications for membership in or the
welfare of any State Society as may, by proper memorial, be
presented by such State Society for consideration.

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Salifications Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good

>r Member- character> and a descendant of one who, as a military, naval, or
marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual service, under
the authority of any of the thirteen Colonies or States or of the
Continental Congress, and remaining always loyal to such
authority, or a descendant of one who signed the Declaration of
Independence, or of one who, as a member of the Continental
Congress or of the Congress of any of the Colonies or States, or as
an official appointed by or under the authority of any such
legislative bodies, actually assisted in the establishment of
American Independence by services rendered during the War of
the Revolution, becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason
against the Government of Great Britain, but remaining always
loyal to the authority of the Colonies or States, shall be eligible
to membership in the Society.

XII.

ist of members The Secretary of each State Society shall transmit to the

le^earetar^ General Secretary a list of the members thereof, together with the

f the General names and official designations of those from whom such members

ociety. derive claim to membership, and thereafter upon the admission

of members in each State Society, the Secretary thereof shall

transmit to the General Secretary information respecting such

members similar to that herein required.

XIII.

isignia of the The Society shall have an insignia, which shall be a badge

suspended from a ribbon by a ring of gold; the badge to be
elliptical in form, with escalloped edges, one and one-quarter
inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in width; the
whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, inverted ;
on the obverse side a medallion of gold in the center, elliptical in
form, bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Continental
uniform, with musket slung; beneath, the figures 1775; the
medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points
each upon a border of dark blue enamel. On the reverse side, in
the center, a medallion corresponding in form to that on the

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obverse, and also in gold, bearing on its face the Houdon portrait
of Washington in bas-relief, encircled by the legend, "Sons of the
Revolution;" beneath, the figures 1883; and upon the reverse of
the eagle the number of the badge to be engraved ; the medallion
to be surrounded by a plain gold border, conforming in dimensions
to the obverse; the ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered,
edged with buff, one and one-quarter inches wide, and one and
one-half inches in displayed length.

XIV.

The insignia of the Society shall be worn by the members on all Manner
occasions when they assemble as such for any stated purpose or J^ignLa.1
celebration, and may be worn on any occasion of ceremony; it
shall be carried conspicuously on the left breast, but members
who are or have been officers of the Society may wear the insignia
suspended from the ribbon around the neck.

XV.

The custodian of the insignia shall be the General Secretary, Manner
who shall issue them to members of the Society under such proper S^J^fyU
rules as may be formulated by the General Society, and he shall the insigi
keep a register of such issues wherein each insignia issued may be
identified by the number thereof.

XVI.

The seal of the Society shall be one and seven-eighth inches Seal of t
in diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a Minute-man in oaety"
Continental uniform, standing on a ladder leading to a belfry;
in his left hand he holds a musket and an olive branch, whilst his
right grasps a bell-rope; above, the cracked Liberty Bell; issuing
therefrom a ribbon bearing the motto of the Society, Exegi
monumentum aere perennius, across the top of the ladder, on a
ribbon, the figures 1776; and on the left of the Minute-man, and
also on a ribbon, the figures 1883, the year of the formation of the
Society; the whole encircled by a band three-eighths of one inch
wide ; thereon at the top thirteen stars of five points each ; at the
bottom the name of the General Society, or of the State Society
to which the seal belongs.

By-Laws

(Inclusive of Amendments adopted April 3d, 1907, April 3d, 1913
and April 3d, 1915.)

SECTION I.

This Society shall be known by the name, style and title of Name <
the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution.

SECTION II.

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good Quaimc
character, and a lineal descendant of one who, as a military, naval, s^pmen
or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual service, under
the authority of any of the thirteen Colonies or States or of the
Continental Congress, and remaining always loyal to such author-
ity, or a lineal descendant of one who signed the Declaration of
Independence, or of one who, as a member of the Continental
Congress, or of the Congress of any of the Colonies or States, or
as an official appointed by or under the authority of any such
legislative bodies, actually assisted in the establishment of Ameri-
can Independence by services rendered during the War of the
Revolution, becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason
against the Government of Great Britain, but remaining always
loyal to the authority of the Colonies or States, shall be eligible
to membership in the Society.

Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the
service of an ancestor in the "minute-men" or "militia," it must
be satisfactorily shown that such ancestor was actually called into
the service of the State or United States, and performed garrison
or field duty ; and

Provided further. That when the claim of eligibility is based
on the service of an ancestor as a "sailor" or "marine," it must
in like manner be shown that such service was other than shore
duty and regularly performed in the Continental Navy, or the
navy of one of the original thirteen States, or on an armed vessel T
other than a merchant ship, which sailed under letters of marque

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and reprisal, and that such ancestor of the applicant was duly
enrolled in the ship's company, either as an officer, seaman or
otherwise than as a passenger ; and

Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based
on the service of an ancestor as an "official," such service must
have been performed in the civil service of the United States, or
of one of the thirteen original States, and must have been suffi-
ciently important in character to have rendered the official liable
to arrest and imprisonment, the same as a combatant, if captured
by the enemy, as well as liable to conviction of treason against the
Government of Great Britain.

Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the perform-
ance of which did not particularly and effectively aid the Ameri-
can Cause, shall not constitute eligibility.

In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides-de-
Camp of General Officers in Continental Service, who were duly
announced as such and who actually served in the field during a
campaign, shall be comprehended as having performed qualifying
service.

The civil officials and military forces of the State of Vermont,
during the War of the Revolution, shall also be comprehended
in the same manner as if they had belonged to one of the thirteen
original States.

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying ser-
vice for membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" where
such ancestor, after assisting in the cause of American Independ-
ence, shall have subsequently either adhered to the enemy, or
failed to maintain an honorable record throughout the War of
the Revolution.

No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under one
of the provisions of this article, nor unless he be of good moral
character and be judged worthy of becoming a member.

SECTION III.

omination Applicants for admission to membership in this Society must

'IfmteraBp be proposed by two members in good standing, to whom the
applicant is personally well known.

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The proposers to give the full name, occupation and residence
of the candidate, and other recommendations as to his worthiness
for membership in the Society. This information shall be sent
to the Secretary, who shall submit the same to the Board of
Managers, and if approved by them, he shall furnish application
blanks which must be filled out in accordance with the instructions
accompanying the same, and be forwarded to the Secretary, who
shall submit them to the Committee on Applications, and upon
their approval the Board of Managers shall have the power to
elect the applicant to membership.

Applications shall contain, or be accompanied by, proof of
eligibility, and such applications and proofs shall be submitted
to the Board of Managers, who shall have full power to determine
the qualifications of the applicants who, upon favorable action by
said Board, and upon payment of the initiation fee, shall there-
upon become members of the Society.

SECTION IV.

The initiation fee shall be ten (10) dollars, payable within Fees fo
thirty days after date of election; the annual dues three (3) membe
dollars for members living at a distance of fifty miles, or more,
from Philadelphia City Hall; and five (5) dollars for members
living within a radius of fifty miles of Philadelphia City Hall,
payable in advance. The payment at one time of fifty (50)
dollars shall constitute a life membership. The payment at one
time of one hundred (100) dollars shall constitute a perpetual or
endowed membership, and upon the death of the member so
paying, the membership shall be held by his eldest son, or such
other lineal descendant from the ancestor whom he claims as he
may nominate ; in failure of such nomination having been made,
the Board of Managers may decide which one of such lineal
descendants shall hold the membership; Provided, always , That
the Society reserves to itself the privilege of rejecting, by its
Board of Managers, any nomination that may not be acceptable
to it. All applicants for life or endowed memberships shall be
exempt from the payment of the initiation fee, and annual dues
from the date of their admission; after admission, any member

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availing himself of a life or endowed membership shall be exempt
from future annual dues only.

SECTION V.

•manent All initiation, life, and endowed membership fees, as well as

rid.

donations and legacies, unless otherwise specified by the donor,
which shall hereafter be paid to the Society, shall remain forever
to the use of the Society as a permanent fund.

SECTION VI.

nuai meeting The annual meeting of the Society shall be held in the city
10 of Philadelphia, on the third day of April, at which a general

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election of officers, managers and delegates, by ballot, shall take
place, except when such date shall fall on Sunday, in which event
the meeting shall be held on the following day. In such election
a majority of the ballots given for any officer shall constitute a
choice; but if, on the first ballot, no person shall receive such
majority, then a further balloting shall take place, in which a plu-
rality of votes given for any officer shall determine the choice.

SECTION VII.

derof The following shall be the order of business at the annual

meeting of the Society :

1. Prayer by the chaplain.

2. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting.

3. Reports of officers and committees.

4. Unfinished business.

5. New business.

6. Election of officers — an appointment by the President of
a judge and two tellers to count the votes and declare the result.

7. Reading of the rough minutes of the meeting.

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SECTION VIII.

At all meetings of the Society twenty-five (25) members Quo™
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SECTION IX.

Ayes and nays shall be called at any meeting of the Society Ayesai
upon the demand of five members.

SECTION X.

The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, five officen
Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar, Historian,
Chaplain, and nine Managers, who shall be elected as herein
provided for.

SECTION XI.

The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents, Presidi
or, in their absence, a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all ° ^
meetings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall
preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject
to an appeal to the Society.

SECTION XII.

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of Secreta
the Society. He shall notify all members of their election, and
of such other matters as he may be directed by the Society. He
shall have charge of the seal, certificate of incorporation and
by-laws, and records of the Society, other than those deposited
with the Registrar. He, together with the presiding officer, shall
certify all acts of the Society. He shall, under the direction of
the President or Vice-President, give due notice of the time and
place of all meetings of the Society, and attend the same. He
shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and
orders of the Society; and shall give notice to the several officers
of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Society
affecting them, or appertaining to their respective duties. He
shall be Secretary of the Board of Managers, and shall keep the
record of their meetings in the regular minute-book of the Society.

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SECTION XIII.

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities
of the Society; and so often as those funds shall amount to one
hundred (100) dollars, they shall be deposited in some bank or
trust company in the city of Philadelphia, to the credit of the
11 Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution," and shall be
drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer for the purposes of
the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums as
may be ordered by the Society or by the Board of Managers. He
shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and, at
each annual meeting render the same to the Society. A com-
mittee shall be appointed by the President to audit his accounts.
He shall give such security as shall be required by the Board of
Managers.

SECTION XIV.

The Registrar shall keep a roll of members, and in his hands
shall be lodged all the proofs of membership qualification, and
all the historical and other papers of which the Society may
become possessed; and he, under the direction of the Board of
Managers, shall make copies of such similar documents as the
owners thereof are or may not be willing to leave permanently
in the keeping of the Society. He, if practicable, shall be a mem-
ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

SECTION XV.

The Historian shall keep a detailed record, to be deposited
with the Registrar, of all the historical and commemorative cele-
brations of the Society ; and he shall edit and prepare for publica-
tion such historical addresses, essays, papers, and other documents
of an historical character, other than a register of members, as
the Secretary may be required to publish; and at every annual
meeting, if there shall be a necrological list for the year then
closing, he shall submit the same, with carefully-prepared biog-
raphies of the deceased members.

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SECTION XVI.

The Chaplain shall be a regularly ordained minister of a chapiai
Christian denomination, and it shall be his duty to open all
meetings of the Society with customary chaplaincy services, and
perform such other duties as ordinarily appertain to such office.

SECTION XVII.

The Board of Managers shall consist of twenty, namely: The Board <
President, five Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar, Manag<
Historian, and Chaplain, ex-officio, and nine other members.
Three of the Vice-Presidents, and at least three of the nine
managers, shall be non-residents of the city of Philadelphia. All
of the officers and managers shall be elected at the annual meeting.
Should a vacancy occur among the officers or managers, the Board
of Managers may fill the same until the next annual election.

They shall judge of the qualifications of the candidates for
admission to the Society, and shall have power to elect the same
to membership. They shall have charge of all special meetings
of the Society, and shall, through the Secretary, call special
meetings at any time, upon the written request of ten members
of the Society, and at such other times as they see fit. They shall
recommend plans for promoting the objects of the Society, shall
digest and prepare business, and shall authorize the disbursement
and expenditure of unappropriated money in the treasury for the
purposes of the Society. They shall generally superintend the
interests of the Society, and execute all such duties as may be
committed to them by the Society. At each annual meeting of
the Society they shall make a general report. The Board of
Managers may issue to any enrolled member in good standing
upon his removal to another State a letter recommending his
acceptance to membership in the Society of that State; and, on
receipt of official notice of his election thereto, he shall be recorded
as having been transferred. Such letter shall be issued only
upon the written request of the member and must be presented
within one year from date thereof.

At all meetings of the Board of Managers five members
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

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SECTION XVIII.

The chairman of the Board of Managers shall appoint annu-
ally three members thereof as a Committee on Applications,
whose duty it shall be to pass upon the applications of candidates
for admission to the Society, and report to the Board of Managers.

SECTION XIX.

The Board of Managers shall have power to suspend any
enrolled member of this Society who may, in the judgment of the
Board, render himself unworthy to continue a member: Provided,
That he shall have received at least thirty days' notice of the
complaint preferred against him, and of the time and place for
hearing the same, and have been thereby afforded an opportunity
to be heard; and Provided further, That such suspension shall
become absolute, and such member shall cease to be a member
unless he shall within thirty (30) days after notice of such sus-
pension appeal to the Society, when a special meeting shall be
called to pass upon and decide the case. The dismissal, cashiering
or dishonorable discharge from the military or naval service of
United States, or the conviction in a court of justice of any
criminal offense of any enrolled member of the Society which shall
involve moral turpitude, shall constitute ipso facto expulsion.

The Board of Managers shall also have the power to drop
from the roll the name of any enrolled member of the Society
who shall be at least one year in arrears in the payment of dues,
and who, on notice to pay the same, shall fail and neglect to do so
within thirty days thereafter, and, upon being thus dropped, his
membership shall cease and terminate, but he may be restored
to membership at any time by the Board of Managers on his
application therefor, and upon his payment of all such arrears and
of the annual dues from the date when he was dropped to the
date of his restoration.

SECTION XX.

An annual church service shall be held on the Sunday nearest
to the 19th day of December, commemorative of the commence-
ment of the American Army's encampment at Valley Forge.

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Other commemorative services may be held at the discretion of
the Board of Managers.

SECTION XXI.

No alteration of the By-Laws of the Society shall be made Aitaai
unless such alteration shall have been proposed at a previous y"
meeting, and shall be adopted by two-thirds of the members
present at a subsequent meeting of the Society, at least two weeks'
notice thereof having been given to each member.

SECTION XXII.

There shall be a Color Guard, composed of members of the
Society, the duties of which shall be the care, custody, and proper
official display of the Colors, Flags, and Standards of the Society.

SECTION XXIII.

The Color Guard shall be created by the Board of Managers
of the Society, shall make its own rules for its internal government
and elect its own officers, and thereafter new members shall be
elected by a majority vote of the members thereof present at any
one of the regular meetings of the Color Guard, subject to the
ratification and approval of the Board of Managers of the Society.

CHARTER

OF THE

Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas No. 4,
of the County of Philadelphia:

In compliance with the requirements of an Act of the General
Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled, "An
Act to provide for the Incorporation and Regulation of certain
Corporations," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, A.D.
1874, and the supplements thereto, the undersigned, all of whom
are citizens of Pennsylvania, having associated themselves
together for the purpose of maintaining a Society to keep alive
among themselves and their descendants the patriotic spirit of the
men who, in military, naval, and civil service, by their acts and
counsel, achieved American Independence; to collect and secure
for preservation the manuscript rolls, records, and other docu-
ments relating to the War of the Revolution, and to promote social
intercourse and good feeling among its members now and here-
after, and desiring that they may be incorporated according to
law, do hereby certify

First. — The name of the proposed corporation is the "Penn-
sylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution."

Second. — Said corporation is formed for the purpose of
maintaining a society for patriotic purposes in connection with
the War of American Independence, the collection and preserva-
tion of manuscripts, records, and documents relating to the War
of the Revolution, and for social enjoyment and intercourse.

Third. — The business of said corporation is to be transacted
in the County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania.

Fourth. — Said corporation is to exist perpetually.

Fifth. — The names and residences of the subscribers are as
follows : William Wayne, Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania ;
Richard M. Cadwalader, 1614 Locust Street, Philadelphia,

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Pennsylvania; George H. Burgin, 76 Chelten Avenue, German-
town, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Robert P. Dechert, 406
South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John W.
Jordan, 806 North Forty-first Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
J. Edward Carpenter, 228 South Twenty-first Street, Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania; J. Granville Leach, 2118 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia.

Sixth. — The number of Directors of said corporation is fixed
at nine (9), and the names and residences of those chosen for the
first year are: J. Edward Carpenter, 228 South Twenty-first
Street, Philadelphia, Penna.; Oliver C. Bosbyshell, 4046
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penna.; E. Dunbar Lockwood,
Aldine Hotel, Philadelphia, Penna.; Samuel W. Pennypacker,
1540 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Penna.; Herman
Burgin, 76 Chelten Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia, Penna. ;
Thomas McKean, 1925 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Penna.;
Charles Marshall, Germantown, Philadelphia, Penna.;
William Henry Egle, Harrisburg, Penna.; Clifford Stanley
Sims, Mount Holly, New Jersey. There is also a President of the
said corporation, a Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Regis-
trar, and Chaplain and Historian.

The officers chosen for the first year are: President,
William Wayne, Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Vice-
President, Richard M. Cadwalader, 1614 Locust Street,
Philadelphia; Secretary, George H. Burgin, M.D., Chelten
Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia; Treasurer, Robert P.
Dechert, 406 South Broad Street, Philadelphia; Registrar,
John W. Jordan, 806 North Forty-first Street, Philadelphia;
Chaplain, Rev. George Woolsey Hodge, 334 South Thirteenth
Street, Philadelphia; Historian, J. Granville Leach, 2118
Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

Seventh. — There is no capital stock.

Witness our hands and seals this fourth day of July,
A.D. 1890.
William Wayne Robert P. Dechert,

Richard M. Cadwalader, John W. Jordan,
George H. Burgin, J. E. Carpenter,

J. Granville Leach.

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, )
County of Philadelphia, j '

Before me, the subscriber, Recorder of Deeds of said County,
personally appeared Richard M. Cadwalader, George H.
Burgin and J. Edward Carpenter, three of the subscribers to
the above and foregoing certificate of Incorporation of the
"Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution," and in due
form of law acknowledged the same to be their act and deed.

Witness my hand and official seal, this twelfth day of
July, 1890.

JOS. K. FLETCHER,

Deputy Recorder.

In the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia
County.

In the matter of the Incorporation of the "Pennsylvania
Society of Sons of the Revolution."

And now to wit, this 29th day of September, A.D. 1890, the
above certificate of Incorporation having been on file in the office
of the Prothonotary of said Court since the twelfth day of July,
A.D. 1890, and due proof of publication of notice of intended
application having been presented to me, I do hereby certify
that I have perused and examined said Instrument and find the
same to be in proper form and within the purposes named in the
first class of corporations specified in Section 2 of the Act of
April 29th, 1874, and that purposes are lawful and not injurious
to the community. It is therefore ordered and decreed that the
said charter be approved and it is hereby approved, and upon the
recording of the said Charter and its endorsements and this order
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for said County,
which is now hereby ordered, the subscribers thereto and their
associates shall thenceforth be a corporation for the purpose and
upon the terms under the name therein stated.

M. ARNOLD,

Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 4,
First Judicial District of Penna.

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Recorded in the office for the recording of Deeds, &c, in and
for the City and County of Philadelphia, in Charter Book No.
16, page 413, &c.

Witness my hand and seal of office, this tenth day of
November, A.D. 1890.

GEO. G. PIERIE,

Recorder of Deeds.

ERRATA

Page 25 — William Reed Fisher should be William Read Fisher.
Page 28— William Krusen, M.D., should be Wilmer Krusen, M.D.
Page 69 — Philadelphia should be Philadelphia!!.

Since April 3, 1916, the General Treasurer, Mr. James A. Sample, died.
This occurred early in July. By reason of the death of Mr. Sample,
Mr. Ralph Isham, 1411 Ritchie Place, Chicago, 111., late Assistant General
Treasurer, becomes General Treasurer, and Colonel George Richards,
President of the District of Columbia Society Sons of the Revolution, will
act as Assistant General Treasurer, pro tern.

FORM OF BEQUEST

I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the "Pennsylvania Society
of Sons of the Revolution," a Corporation organized under the Act
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
approved the twenty-ninth day of April, A. D. 1874,

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