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Thirteenth
Annual
Banquet
Chester Counb;
Historical Societij
Thirteenth Annual
BANQUET
Chester County Historical Society
New Century Club House
West Chester, Pennsylvania
December 13^ 1917
DR. JESSE C. GREEN, at the end of hit first century
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Thirteenth Annual Banquet
of the
Chester County Historical Society
Introduction by the Toastmaster
R. riinjPS: Guests and Fcllow-AIembers of the Chester
Cniinty Historical Society: We welcome you all here
tonig-ht most heartily. This is the largest attendance at
any banquet that this society has had. and it is due to the
fact that we are here tonight to honor the foremost and most dis-
tinguished citizen of West Chester, Dr. Jesse C. Green. Every one
here is proud of his county, and we are proud of it chiefly because
of such lives as that which has been lived by this distinguished man
at my right tonight. It is such lives as his that have made the
history of this county something to be proud of.
I have not presided at any meeting of this Society in which it
has been so easy to find persons who were willing to speak. They
wanted to speak about the life and career of this man. As a matter
of fact, I have not asked a single person to speak tonight who has
not gladly consented to ap])ear and to speak, not one; and 1 am iirst
going to ask a distinguisJUMl member of Dr. Green's profession to
h>c speak tonight, Dr. Darby, of Philadelphia. He and Dr. Green
i graduated from the same class at the same time, from the Dental
College of Philadelphia, and like our Dr. Green is one of the most
distinguished members of his profession in this state and the United
States.
I have great pleasure in calling upon Dr. Darby.
ST'SSSO
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL UANQUET
Remarks of Dr. Edwin T. Darby
R. TOASTMASER, Guests and Fellow Participants in this
unusual and happy occasion: Some years ago Elbert
Hubbard, who went down with the Lusitania. was makinq;
a lecture tour through the West, and it chanced that he was
obliged to wait for a few hours in Omaha in order to connect with
the train on wdiich he wished to go further West. He said that as
he stepped out of the train he saw a beautiful station, very much in
architectural design like a Grecian temple. As he stepped into the
large and spacious waiting room and took his seat, he heard a train
pull in, and presently there walked in from the platform a woman
from the humbler walks of life, carrying a large l)ag in her hand and
two small children hanging to her skirts. She took a seat in the
station not far from him, and he noticed that she looked care-worn
and perturbed. Presently he saw a woman come through a door
leading into the waiting room. She had on a white cap and a white
apron, and she went to this woman and said a word to her and wem
out. Presently she returned with two pillows and a coverlet. She
beckoned to the woman, and she went and laid down on a settee in
one corner of the room, and was covered up, and the woman with
the white apron and the white cap went out of the room again, and
presently returned with two glasses of milk and a cup of tea and
handed them to the woman and her children. He said, "The thing
was so unlike an}-thing that I had ever seen in the East, that I
pinched nnself to see if I were really alive.'' And since I have been
sitting here tonight, and considered that it is many years since I
have looked forward to this event — I sav many years, some years —
to this event, and now that I am sitting at the table with a man a
hundred years old, I feel like pinching myself to see if I am really
alive.
It is such an unusual occasion. I do not remember to have
ever seen any one who had talked with a person a hundred years old
until now. In the summer, in the August of 1865, I drove into
West Chester with a friend from ]\larvland, let me sav from that
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town whicli is known as a Ciretna Clreen, where so nian\- people go
to get married. I"^ll<tiin. [ droxe into IClkion with Dr. I ling, later
of Paris, and lie said, "1 want to take \()n u]) into Chester County to
see my old preceptor. Dr. McClellan, of Cochranvi'le." We called
on Dr. McClellan, and then he said lo me, "Xow 1 want yon to go
with me to West Chester to call upon Dr. Jesse Green," and he said,
"He is a man that you will be glad to meet." So in August, 1865,
or fifty-two years ago. 1 first met Dr. Green. To show you what a
memory he has, a year ago today I spent part of the afternoon with
him and 1 said, "Doctor, we have known eacli other a good manv
years." He said, "Yes. I first met thee in 1865. Thee and Dr.
Bing called upon me in the summer of 1865." "\'es/' 1 said, '"you are
right."
But I can tell you another instance where his memory was
e(|uall_\- gi)()d. In 1876 Dr. Green and myself were ap])()inted 1)\- the
State Society of Pennsylvania examiners for candidates for their
license from the State of IVnnsylvania. It was our dut\- un (ic-
casion to go to Pittsburgh or to sit in Philadelphia or elsewhere and
examine canrlidates for their licenses. On one occasion we went to
Pittsburgh, and we spent a day or two or more there. When we
retm-ned we werj corivinced that we had been to the dirtiest city in
the world, and it took us some days to get that dirt ofT of us. We
occasionally referred to our tri]) to Pittsburgh and the dirt we en-
countered there, but 1 don't think an\- details of that visit were men-
tirncd. More th'in forty years after tliat 1 sat at dinner with him
on.e night and he said. "Doctor Dar])y. does thee remember that trip
we r.iale to Pitt.-.burgh?" I said. "Yes." "W'ell," he said, "does
thee remember a foreigner, a Russian 1 think he was, whom we ex-
amined, and Udue of us could ask him a (piestion that he could not
answer.'" 1 said, "i do remember that there was a very bright man,
a fcn-eigner, there." "Well." he said. "dt)es thee remember that he
didn't have $30 to pay for his license?" I remembered that be-
cause I was treasurer of the Board, and two or three weeks after-
ward he came to West Chester and ]):iid his $30 and took liis
license. .So a memory like that is something.
When _\(iur president wrote me asking me if I would speak on
this occasion, I replied that 1 would, and he said he would like me to
say something about dentistry in 1S17 and T()1T. but he said. "I
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hope the most of your remarks will be upon Dr. Green." That re-
minded me of a story that I once heard of a man, a good country
deacon, who took a check for a large sum of money to a bank to be
cashed. He handetl it in and the cashier said to him, "What de-
nomination will you have " "Well," he said, I will take some
iMethodist and some Presbyterian, but I will take the heft of it in
hard-shell Baptists." (Laughter.) Dr. Philips wants me to devote
the most of my time to Dr. Green, and I am not going to take very
much of your time. Perhaps I can not make better use of the time
1 have than to devote it to Dr. Green. However, I will say this, to
comply with the promise. When Dr. Green began life dentistry
was not a profession. It was far from it. If I may go back a few
years earlier, during or up to the time of the Revolutionary War,
there was but one dentist in America. Robert Wolfendale came to
this country in 1765, and remained here two years and went Dack to
England. The next dentist that anything was known of in this
country was a man by the name of LeMair, who came over from
the French Army and was cjuartered during the war at Providence,
Rhode Island. While there he taught Josiah Flagg, a young man
of 18 or 20, what he knew of dentistry, and Dr. Flagg located in
Boston soon after the war was over and continued there until the
time of his death. The next following LeMair — I was going to say
Dr. Hudson, but there was one who antedated him. However,
when LeMair came to this country, it was during the War of the
Revolution. After the revolution was over he continued to practice
for a short time, as did Dr. Flagg, his pupil, in Boston. But soon
after that came Gardette, to Philadelphia. Dr. Green I think will
remember the elder Gardette as well as the son, who were in practice
up to perhaps 1835 or thereabouts. It was not until 1839 that it
could be said of dentistry that it was a profession, because no calling
is a profession until it has a literature of its own and until it has
schools for the education of its students. There were no such
schools, there was no literature, to the time that Dr. Green was
born. In 1839 the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was
founded, and then such men as are very familiar to Dr. Green who
were concerned in that were Henry H. Hagen and Chapin A. Har-
ris, and such men as Gardette, of Philadelphia, both the elder and the
younger, and Dr. Robert Arthur, of Baltimore, and men of that
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type. But the man with whom Dr. Green was probably the most
famiHar, or whom he met in the early associations, were men like
Chapin A. Harris, like Joheil and Elisha Palmer, of Syracuse, John
B. Rich, of New York. All of those men were contemporary with
Dr. Green, but Dr. Green has outlived them all. Dr. J(jhn Rich
came nearer to attaining the age to which Dr. Green has attained
than any of those whom I have mentioned. In fact T have never
known a dentist who has reached the age of one hundred. Dr.
Gordon Palmer came very near it. I wrote Dr. Green a year or two
ago saying, "I have just cut a clipping from the 'Dental journal'
which I enclose, stating that Dr. Palmer is the oldest dentist in the
w^orld. I know that this is not true. You antedate him \)y at least
two years I think." I sent this clipping anfl in a few days 1 received
a beautiful letter from him, beautifully written I mean — in which he
said, "The editor or the author of this clipping you sent me is wrong.
I was born in 1817. Mr. Palmer was born in i(S20." He antedated
him by nearly three years.
But now to get back to Dr. Green himself. As I say, I have
known Dr. Green for more than fifty years. He was good enough
when I was a very young man, and I was starting in Philadelphia,
to let me come to his home, and Mrs. Darby and I often spent Sun-
day with him at his own house here in West Chester. His children
were living at his luMiie then. One of the things that impressed me
at that time, and im])resses me now, is that he was a man of great
industry. He was everlastingly at work. If he was not at work in
his profession, he was at work on something equally interesting to
him and equally important to others. He kept the weather record.
With, great diligence and punctuality he made these records. I re-
member that three times a day he would take the wind gauge, the
water fall, the condition of the tliermometer and barometer, note it
down in his book, and at the end of the month that report went to
Washington.
But that was not half that he did. He was collecting all the
time, and he probably has today one of the best collections of Conti-
nental money extant. lie has one of the greatest collections of
"shin plasters" that were issued during the Civil War. He has in
addition to that fractional curroncx of almost ever\- kind and everv
degree, besides bank notes, state notes and the like. In fact, there
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is hardly a thing of interest that he has not gathered together, and
autographs and letters innumerable. Some of the happiest hours I
have ever spent with him were spent with him in a place that you
ladies of the audience prol)ably never saw, and that was his work
shop, a work shop where he did almost everything, from the mak-
ing of a fishing tackle or fishing rod to a microscope; and he made
with his own hands two or three most iK'autiful microscopes, copied
after the best instruments made ])y the great Joseph Zentmayer, of
Philadelphia. They were not amateur work. It was the work of a
skilled mechanic, antl I have no doubt those will go down perhaps
with this very Society as illustrations of his manual skill.
But furthermore, in that shop of his he could show you the his-
tory of dentistry from almost the earliest period, I think, beginning
as he did, before there were dental schools, beginning as he did be-
fore there was anything l)ut a preceptor, who would give you just so
much for so nnich money and no more. He would tell you just how
little he could for so nmch money and that was all. Today dentistry
professes to be a liberal profession. We give everything we know
for nothing. We tell all we know and sometimes we tell a lot more
than we know, and give it to people for nothing. Dr. Green had a
preceptor, I suppose, but the most that he did and the most that he
has done during his life has been reached and worked out of his own
brain. Away back in the early years of his own practice he took
the kaolin and feldspar and the silex from the ([uarry. ground it into
powder, carved his own teeth, and baked them in the oven, enam-
eled them, re-baked them, and riveted them to the gold and silver
plates, and those teeth — I have no doul)t there are scores and scores
or thousands of them buried with those who wear them (Laughter
and applause). That was dental art, that was dental skill, and Dr.
Green possessed that in a wonderful degree.
One moment more. When T came to sec more. When I came
to see Dr. Green in 1865, he was just about as busy a man as I ever
saw. His olHice, his waiting room, was tilled with patients. Most
of them I judge belonged to the Society of iM-iends. because his
practice was made up largely of those sweet-faced old ladies that I
saw in his of^ce. When I say old ladies, I mean ladies of all ages.
His office was filled with them. He was flying back and forth from
his operating room to his laboratory or w<M-k shop, and he went
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back and forth like a flash of Hghtning from one to the other, and
after a little he had time to come and say to me, "Xow just wait a
few minutes, I want to see you. Wait a few minutes and I will give
you all the time there is." We waited and in due course of time
we had a lovel\' conversation with him, and then our friendship be-
gan. I say to you, fellow friends of his, those of you that have lived
with him for many, many years, know that his character is beyond
reproach; that he is a genial, gentlemanl}-, lovely character. And
may I say to you (turning to Dr. Green), my honorable friend, my
dear old friend of fifty years, that my one hope now is that you may
live to see many returns of this glorious day. Way God be with
you and keep you, and may you be a blessing to us as you have been
a ])lessing to all who ha\e known you. (Prolonged applause.)
Dr. Philips: The members of our Society feel that no oc-
casion like this is complete without our having a suitable poem from
our friend and fellow-countian. Professor John Russell Hayes, and
I am sure that he has something good for us tonight.
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Remarks of Prof. John Russell Hayes
ROFESSOR HAYES: Mr. Toastmaster, Dr. Green and
Friends: I rememl)er, forty or more years ago, when I
was a boy, I used to think of certainly what seemed to me
venerable _i^entlemen as the types of the gentlemen of
the old school, of which Dr. Green is the oldest living exam-
ple. — Addison May and Washington Townsend and Frank-
lin Pyle and Joseph J. Lewis and Dr. Green. You know
children look upon middle age as very venerable, and I thought of
Dr. Green and his friends as rather ancient gentlemen then. But
now that I am in middle life myself, comparatively speaking, he
seems to me more youthful than he seemed to the wondering eyes
of childhood.
Our Grand Old Man
Some men resemble comets in their fiijjht, —
They flame a while, then vanish from the sight,
Not so our ccnturicd friend; in him wc find
Ihe long career that crowns the trancinil mind.
The full ripe years of joy and peace that bless
Ilis ordered life of calm and quietness.
And his serene rlnlosoiihy that teaches
As fine a faith as many a i)u1pit preaches.
The Quaker virtues which he learned in ynuth
Have yielded him their beauty and their truth:
Serenity and wisdom, as we know.
And strong good sense, have filled to overflow —
Through decade after decade in its flight —
His classic head so canny and so white.
O for the healtli like his that can defy
The pleasant pains of terrapin and pie,
That laughs at doctors, and that gives such sleep
As ev'ery morning brings thanksgiving deep!
Rugged and ripe and ruddy, still he fares
About his daily tasks, his little cares,
With bonhomie and buoyancy that tell
Of sunny seasons wisely spent and well.
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Sunny! — I think it is the very word
For this Old Bov as bonnie as a bird!
Our sunny-hearted friend, of sunny life,
Knows not the clouds of foolish hate and strife,
Sunshine and cheer and love have had their part
In keeping warm his ever-youthful heart;
And were all men as wise and just as he,
I know that woeful war could never be.
O, would such words were mine that I might say
How much we love and honor him today!
This crowded room, these thronging friends, but tell
How all the land this ni.j;ht is wishing well
To him, the sunny-hearted and serene,
Our Grand Old Man. — our well-loved
JESSE GREEN.
John Russell Hayes.
Dr. Philips: Our next speaker has been a resident of this
county only fifteen or sixteen years, and he is therefore still only a
probationer. Hut we have all learned that when we want to know
something of the history of Qiester Cotmty, or of anywhere else for
that matter, we cannot get it l)etter or more interestingly than from
Professor Buriduim, and we are very glad to have him with us
tonight.
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Remarks of Prof. Smith BurnKam
|R. TOASTMASTER, DR. GREEN, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Dr. Philips has very well said that modesty ought to require
an adopted son of this county to remain quietly seated on
an evening like this. It has not been my good fortune to
know Dr. Green personally very much, and yet I have lived in Ches-
ter County, and in this borough of West Chester, long enough to
appreciate and to feel something of that honor and respect which we
all bring him tonight. Dr. Philips, when he asked me to speak,
said that I should briefly contrast or describe the age in which Dr.
Green appeared upon the scene of life, and our present time. That
is a pretty big jol), to attempt to describe the West Cnester of today
and the Chester County of today and the world of today compared
with the world, so different from the one we now know, upon which
this grand old man appeared a hundred years ago. And yet it
seemed to me that if I were to attempt it at all, for the sake of his-
torical accuracy I ought at least to Ijack up my statements with
documentary proof, and so 1 have a couple of documents here that I
would like to introduce in evidence. I believe. Judge Hause, that is
the way to do it in court?
Judge Hause: Entirely proper.
Professor Burnum: This one, ladies and gentlemen, (unfold-
ing paper) as a picture of the comnumity of West Chester on the
thirteenth day of December, 1917. It is today's copy of the Local
Neivs. I introduce it in lieu of any attempt to describe this borough
at the present time, because if you would know what West Chester
is, who the people are who live in West Qiester, what they do and
the things they don't do, read the Local Nczvs. Moreover, you will
get, beyond that, the news of the world. That is one of the striking
contrasts between now and a hundred years ago. I notice in the
paper of this afternoon late news of Copenhagen and Stockholm
and Rome. You know how long it took to get news from those
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places when Doctor Green was a boy? Xot on the same clav, I
want to assure you. And then there is every other phase of Hfe, —
society and poHtics and business, and the "What Thev Sav"
column, said to be the most read part of the paper. I simplv sul)-
mit this, stopping in passing- to say that I have never seen in the
United States a local paper in a town of this size that can compare
in real merit with the Local A^czi's.
Xow, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce Xo. 2.
This is a picture of the West Chester of a hundred years ago. I
could not get one for the exact day, the 13th of December, 1817,
because they only published a newspaper once a week. But this is
the local paper of West Chester, The Chester and Delaware County
Federalist for Wednesday, December 17th, 1817. the week corre-
spending with tliis week, and the week in which our good old friend
made his Ijow U])()n this mundane s])here. Here, then, it is a verv
different world that you have pictured in this paper. In tlie first
place, there isn't a word of what w^e will call news in it. Tliere are
seven colunuis of the sixteen columns devoted to advertising real
estate for sale. Evidently Chester County is a better place than it
was in 1817. Most of the folks seem to have been trying to sell out
and move away from here, and 1 notice that a number of those who
advertise their property for sale add that the} are proposing to sell
because they want to go to the western country. You see that is
where the good folks all went in those days. Some of them came
back. 11iere was a reason for all this advertising of land for sale.
Times were very hard in 1817, for the war of 1812 had been hitting
this country where it lived then.
Furthermore, the western countrv was just then developing.
The State of Illinois is one year \ounger than Dr. Green. The
State of Indiana is one year older than he is. The State of Missis-
sippi was born the same year that he was, and there were two or
three other states that came into the Union within two or three
years of the time of liis birth. It was just tlu' time when the East
was overflo\\ing into the West. — that great migratory movement
wliich followed the War of i8t2.
There are many other interesting things in this paper. Things
for sale — it doesn't altogether compare with the sort of stuff that
the American Stores Comi)an\- puts into tlie ])aper todav. I notice
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tliat the fact that goods are imported seems to be the main thing,
"Ships just arrived with frish Hnens and skins and coatings and
flannels." After giving a long list of goods of this sort, the adver-
tisement winds up by saying, "We also have in stock queensware,
groceries, medicines, hardware, drugs and paints," — a comljination
you probably wouldn't find in any store in West Chester at the
present time.
There are some other differences between that time and now
suggested by this paper. I don't remember ever having seen the
complete text of the message of the Governor of Pennsylvania in
the Local News. It may be possible. The complete text of the
message of Governor Snyder in in this paper, three solid columns
of it. But President Monroe, who was sending his first message to
Congress in this same month, gets two lines: "The leading Federal
prints speak of the President's message in terms of high approba-
tion." That message had been sent in about two weeks before
that two-line statement appeared in the local paper in West Chester
in those days. More land for sale on page 3; not a single personal
item in tlie whole paper, beyond the two-line statement or two and
a half lines, that "Mrs. Isabella Philips, of this borough, hr^^s just
died in an advanced year of her age, after a long and painful illness."
That is the only item of news there is in the whole paper.
Our friends a hundred years ago had one thing on the
Local Nci^'s. This is a far more literary journal than the Local News.
One fourth of the whole paper is devoted to literature, the real thing.
Half a column is devoted to a local poet. He doesn't choose to
sign his name. Nearly tw^o columns of an essay on the subject of
slavery, or rather anti-slavery. Even at that early time this good
old Chester County stood for the freedom of the slaves. The local
paper a hundred years ago was running a novelized version of the
"The Merchant of A'enice" as a continued story. It has a few
anecdotes about George Whitefield, and then — remember that this
was just after the War of 1812 — it has this interesting news item
from Washington City, with some local comment:
'•November 29th." That is the news from Washington City of
November 29th appears in the West Chester paper of December
T^tli. That shows something of how the news traveled. This is
the item quoted:
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"Mr. Incledon was received last night l)y a fashionable and
overflfnving audience. Mis merits were acknowledged by universal
shouts of applause from every quarter of the house. Though
somewhat impeded in the execution of the final notes from the
efTect of a slight cold which he contracted in coming from Baltimore
(where his voice is reported to have been in the best order) yet his
performance was truly gratifying."
The art critics of West Ch.ester in those days comments on that
subject in the following words:
"The subjoined paragraph is of tt:io momentous and interesting
a nature to pass over without special notice. What a pity that Air.
Incledon should have been so unfortunate as to have taken cold!
How unfortunate for the good people of Washington, but how
charming must have been his voice at Baltimore wlien it was in the
'best order." He had better get a certificate of it. C), exquisite!
I'hilli]>s in Xew York, Incledon in Philadelphia, Tweedledum in the
Xorth, Twcedledee in the South, both just imported. How is
plain Brother jonothan l)ewitched with th.e follies of John Bull!"
That is a picture of the comnnmity a hundred years ago, and I
have no douljt it is a fairly accurate picture of what they thought
and talked aI)out in those days. It is a faint ])icture of West
Chester. You cannot furnish contemporary evidences of all the dif-
ferences, but possibly tradition might be called into service. Doc-
tor William Darlington was res])onsible, I think, for the statement
that in the West Chester of those days, when the winter came on,
the ladies all hibernated until the frost was well out of the ground in
the next spring. We have beautiful evidence here tonight that all
that sort of thing has passed away so far as West Chester is con-
cerned.
It was a wonderful world into wliich our old friend was born
l)ack in 1817. It is very ancient history, from our point of view,
most of it forgotten. — just two years after Napoleon Bonaparte had
fallen from ])ower. He was living on that liltle Rock Island down
in the South Atlantic. It was just two years before Andrew Jack-
son won his famous victory on the field of New Orleans. Dr.
Green was six years old when the Monroe Doctrine was born.
There were nineteen states in the l^nion instead of forty-eight, when
he entered the Union. The European world had just come out of
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a war of a quarter of a century. The United States had just passed
through the War of 1812. We had hardly anything hke the indus-
trial system that we know to-day. In fact, the first high tariff law
was passed the year before Dr. Cireen was born. We were just be-
ginning to build up American manufactures, which had been stimu-
lated by the high-tariff law of 18 16.
However, you don't want to hear me talk ancient history very
long. Let me just suggest very briefly three or four great changes
that this good man has seen come over this world of ours in the
last hundred years. I suspect that the changes in his life time, in all
the fundamantal ways of living and thinking, are greater than the
changes of five hundred years before that time.
In the first place, the most significant of all for the life we all
live, he has lived through the time that we know as the industrial
revolution. He was born into a world of household industries.
There was hardly anywhere in this country in those days what we
would call a factory in the modern sense of the word. He came
into a world where probably 90 per cent, of all the people lived in
country homes. He is today in a country where, by the census of
1910, a little more than 30 per cent, of the people listed in gainful
occupations make a living in agriculture and not more than 50
per cent, of the people live in what you might call rural conditions.
That is a wonderful change in itself, due to the changes in industry,
the outgrowth of invention, the development of power. There was
not in the United States a mile of railroad or a locomotive. The
first successful steamboat had been in operation about eight years
when Dr. Green was born, and if we come down through the years,
McCormick and Hoe and Goodyear and Morse and Field and
Edison, and all the other great inventors who have given us the
machinery that lightens labor and transforms industry, were doing
their work. This man is a contemporary of all the men I have
mentioned. So he has seen our modern industrial world come to he
what it is today.
P.ut after all, there have been other great changes. Perhaps
the most significant political change in the last hundred years has
been the growth of democracy. We were starting here in America,
in his boyhood, an experiment, an experiment, thirty or forty years
of age at that time, an experiment in democratic self-government,
CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ly
which, had hardly touched the rest of the workl. The downfall of
Napoleon in 1815 meant a reaction in favor of absolutism probably
everywhere in Europe. And so the life span of this man, our hon-
ored guest here tonight, covers that period of time when the seed
of democracy, planted down there in Independence Hall in Philadel-
phia, in the immortal statement in the opening paragra])hs of the
Declaration of Independence, has been scattered broadcast, has
taken root in the fertile soil of the love of liberty in the hearts of the
people in the countries of the world, and has given us the great
boon of self-governing nations that are leagued together at tliis
hour to make the last great fight to make democracy safe every-
where. (Applause.)
He has seen the making of the American nation, for the nine-
teen little States of 1817 were not a nation. Men did not think of it
in that way. In those days men used to resign from the Ignited
States Senate to become members of their State Legislature. Who
would think of doing anything of that sort now? The emi)hasis
was on the state. The state was the im{X)rtant thing. But during
the last hundred years the country has been welded together by
common interests, a common past, tied together by ropes of steel
and iron, by its great rivers, arteries of steam])oats. welded together
physically in the awful flame of the war which saved the l^nion and
made the country free from the curse of slavery, and following that
the wonderful development of nationality of the last fifty vears. We
sometimes hear the voice of criticism in regard to the lack of unitv
in America today. I want to say to you, my friends, and I speak as
one who has studied something of the history of the United States,
that while we may criticize, there never was an hour in its history,
certainly never at the opening of any of its historic wars, when the
American people were so united, so possessed of a solidarity of
thought and purpose, as they are today. (Applause.) That united
solidarity, that sense of nationality, is a growth. It did not come all
at once, and this man, our guest, has seen that. He Iras been a
]:)art of it. He has lived through it.
May I mention before I close one other thing? He has seen
one of the most remarkable contributions to the intellectual life of
the world, the intellectual growth of the last hundred years has been
quite as remarkable as its industrial or political growth. In the
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field of literature he is the contemporary of Emerson and of Haw-
thorne, and of Lowell and of Foe and of Washington Irving. He
is a contemporary of Tennyson and of Browning, of Mctor Hugo
and of Tolstoi. The great men whose names make glorious the
Images of literature in the last hundred years are his contemporaies.
And then what a list migiit be given of those who in the field of
science have given us the modern conception of life, the Darwins
and the Wallaces and the Spencers and the Huxleys, and the more
recent great names who have given us antiseptic surgery, who have
developed the germ theory of disease and who have given us all these
recent inventions which have made our world the progressive world
that it is today!
It is a great thing to have seen this, and as we have heard
tonight, to have been no small part in the development of this great
forward movement of civilization, with its amelioration of human
suft'ering, with its phinanthropy and its huinanitarianism. with its
finer spiritual nature, when we compare it with the world in which
we lived a hundred years ago.
And I must not stop without saying one word more, that this
wonderful century through which our friend has lived, this wonder-
ful new century in which he enters tomorrow morning and in which
we hope he will live for a long time and see a great deal more of
this progress, begins at a time when all that has been meant in a
hundred years of democracy and lil)erty and hope for a better day,
is ensfaged in a bitter conflict with the last great enemies in all the
world to these things that made the nineteenth century's growth
glorious. Mav it be his good fortune to live to see the ultimate
triumph, as he has seen the growth of all that America has stood for
since the time of her foundation. (Applause.)
Doctor Pittltps: W^e are glad to see come into our meeting
tonight a former citizen and indeed a native of West Chester and
Chester County, who is temporarily living outside of the county.
But I am sure he is coming back here: he wants to live to be a cen-
tenarian, too, — Dr. Speakmau, of Swarthmore. I know he has
something good for us tanight.
CHESTER COUNTY HTSTOKICAL SOCIETY I9
Remarks of Dr. W. W. Speakman
AM sure that is (lisa])i;()inting- to you, as it is unexpected to
me. Jf Doctor IMiilips asked me to say anything, he
spoke in a very hjw voice, for I have never heard it before.
I don't get a chance to mingle with governors and college
presidents every day, so I am going to take that opportunity tonight.
Mr. Toastmaster, Honored Guest of the Evening and Ladies
and Gentlemen. I have known Dr. Green for many years, ever
since he was a young man (laughter), ever since he was a young
man of sixty years old, and I have watched his growth and his de-
velopment, and I have seen him ripen into maturity, but whether I
will ever see him ripen into an old man is very doul)tful. lUit 1
am sure tonight that I feel it enough honor and enough privilege to
have received an invitation, without the special ]:)rivilege and dis-
tinction of having l^een asked to i)articipate in this most wonderful
occasion. I am sure, now that 1 have removed nuself from the au-
dience, that it is a very handsome audience. You look like a beau-
tiful bouquet, you fair women and you handsome men, and it seems
very appropriate to me that at the head of this beautigul bouquet
should be the century plant. (Applause and Laughter.) A cen-
tury plant which is all green. (Laughter and A])])lause.) And a
century plant which tonight is in full l)loom.
1 have noticed tonight that very few of the ladies have been
asked to speak, and I do not want to usurp the office of the Toast-
master, but I hope that T will be here long enough to hear some of
the ladies tonight speak. It is not hard to get the ladies on their
feet. .A friend of mine, a minister, ( 1 have some friends in that
profession) said that t)ne evening as he was about to conduct his
services a gentleman approached him very hurriedly, and very much
agitated, and wanted to get married. The minister said, "Well,
now, my friend, we are just al)out to commence the services and
there is no time to marry you. The congregation is here, but if
you and xour xoung lad\ will lake a seat in the congregation I will
give vou an o])portunit\' a little later in the service to come for-
ward."" So they took a seat in the audience, and after a while the
minister said, "Here endeth the reading of the first lesson. If there
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are any present who would like to be joined in the holy bonds of
matrimony, they may now come forward." He said seventeen
women and one man got up. (Laughter.) So you see after all the
man had his pick. He came in with one and had the opportunity
of choosing from seventeen.
I am not going to prolong the evening. I generally make my
best speech out of what has preceded me. Tonight I don't feel at
my best. I had two youthful heroes when I was a boy and lived in
West Chester. One was Benny Biddle, the ice cream man, who
used to start them aching, and then Dr. Green, the man who fixed
them. 1 have many things in common with Dr. Green, because
latel}- I often feel a hundred years old, which he is, and it seems to
me that he only feels the age that I am.
Oh, the years that are ^iltled with unalloyed gold,
Are the years that have kept thee from e'er growing old;
For the rose in thy cheek is as blooming, I ween.
As on December 13, eighteen-seventeen.
Thy eye is undimmed. and undimmed is thj- mirth.
Thee has smiled through this life from the day of thy birth;
Thy mind is unclouded, and thy step is as light,
Good digestion still follows a grand appetite.
And many a molar thee pulled, and pulled fine;
Thee pulled one for me, in eighteen-sixty-nine.
Thy brow is unfurrowed. no wrinkles are seen;
Thee has changed not a wit, since 1817.
So here's a good health to our guest of tonight,
May the future to- follow be radiant and bright;
May friends and may friendships be ricnes untold.
To hold thee and keep thee from e'er growing old.
(Prolonged Applause.)
Doctor Philips: T don't need to tell any one here that we
are honored tonight in having with us a man who a few years ago
held the highest position that the people of Pennsylvania can give
to any man, and I know you will all agree with me when I say that
no man who ever was Governar of this State was more honored and
more highly esteemed than Governor Stuart. He has done us a
ereat honor in being with us tonight, and I have great pleasure in
introducing him to you.
CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 21
Remarks of Governor Stuart
R. CHAIRMAN, DR. GREEX, and Ladies and Gentlemen:
I really did not come tonight to make any speech or any
address, and if I had. I would feel less like making one
■than I ever did in my life after listening to the gentlemen
who have just spoken. But I come here upon an invitation sent me
by the President of your Society to be present at this hundredth
anniversary of the l^rth of Doctor Green, whom I have known ever
smce my boyhood. He first came into my life when I was a lad,
and I had the honor of waiting upon him and wra])ping up goods for
him and delivering them at this railroad station for him. I am here
tonight not as a former Governor of Pennsylvania or anything of
that kind, but simply as a citizen of Pennsylvania to show my high
regard and affection for the distinguished guest of the evening
tonight.
Every time I get on my feet I feel a good deal like the man in
the story told of the toastmaster who was waiting for a long while
before he introduced the speaker of the evening, and at last, very
nervously, he turned to him and said, "Will I introduce you now or
let them enjoy themselves a little while longer?" (Laughter.)
That always comes to me, particularly when 1 approach an audience
such as I see before me tonight.
But I do want to say, and say it most earnestly and sincerely
that, after a friendship and acquaintance of very nearly fifty years
v.ith Doctor Green — he has seen me grow from boyhood to man-
hood, and 1 have known him continuously from that time to this —
that it is not so much to me his great success in his profession, the
great love and afTection that everybody in West Chester and every-
body that knows him has for him, but to my mind his whole life is
such an incentive to every young man who will study it and who
wants to grow up to be not only a good man but a good citizen. It
is the greatest incentive in the world for them to be that kind of a
man. It is not the great industries of the state, it is not the rail-
roads and everything of that kind, all necessary and essential; but
after all, the most important thing to develop in this and any other
state, and in the country, is good men and good citizens, and in that
respect with good citizens and good men, the country is safe.
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I was asking" Doctor Green while I was sitting here to give nie
some httle receipts and so forth, because I thought I would like to
live long myself if I could, and he told me some of the things. I
was reminded of a little story that I heard Mr. Davidson, the head
of the Red Cross War Board, tell before I came here to your little
gathering. He was speaking of the great work done by the great
nien of many races to help him in the work of this war. Somebody
said to him, "Afr. Davidson, you nmst worry a great deal." "No,"
he said. "That reminds me of a story. I remember a man who told
me he didn't worry at all. He hired somebody who did the worry-
ing for him. He was asked, 'How do you mean that?' He said, 'I
engage a man and pay him a big salary to do the worrying for me.'
'How is that?' 'I have engaged so and so. and I have agreed to
pa}- him $400 a month in order that he may do all the worrying.' I
said, 'That is remarkable. You can't afford to pay a man $400 a
month to do that or anything else.' 'Well,' he said, "that is the first
worrying he does. That is the first worriment he will have'."
(I>.aughter.)
Now, my friends, I just wish t(^ thank the Society for the
honor and privilege of being here, and as referred to a few moments
ago. Dr. Green has lived all through this hundred years, and today
he is living perhaps in the most critical period in the history of this
country. If you had heard the story today of the great work done
bv the Red Cross, the American Red Cross, you would be glad and
proud to tliink that you were Americans and American citizens, and
probal)ly when the history of this great catastrophe is written the
brightest chapter in that liistory will be the work done by the
women of America in this great world-wide war. Theirs is the
sorrow^ when war spreads its terrors. Have you ever sat at a
railroad station and seen the troops go oiT at this time? I have.
Have you seen the mother walk up with her boy, the wife walk with
her husband, the sister walk up with her brother? And there is not
a tear, not a tear until after they have turned away, all giving them
willinglv as a great sacrifice for you and for me, in order that this
ffreat county may be preserved for the future, for those who come
after us. (Prolonged Applause.)
CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 23
DocToK I '11 imps: Wf must not delay this mectini^ much
longer tonight. We have had before our Society (Uudng its quarter
of a century many lionorcd geusts, but, my friends, we have had
none J am sure who is so generally esteemed and so highly deserv-
edly honored as our chief guest of the evening; and now, before we
separate, I am going to introduce to you Doctor Jesse C. Green,
the honored guest of the evening, on his one hundredth birthday.
Remarks of Dr Jesse C. Green
EXTLEMEX: I am glad to see you all. but I don't know
where I am. 1 seem to have been completely engulfed,
and I don't kncnv hardly what point to get out at. I have
spoken to this Society in reference to some past things
years ago, and it won't do to repeat them lest you think I have but
one idea.
As I sat there I have thought of old Doctor Darlington. He
lived just in this neighborhood. It was the only house that was
here, and we boys at school thought he was a wonderful man be-
cause he could s])eak l'"rcnch. We didn't have an\thing of that
kind at that time, ami as ni_\' friend was speaking about Ualtimore,
1 remember having gone there in 1824. when it was all woods on
the north side of it and a great morass on the front. When I re-
turned I hadn't been there for forty years, and 1 saw a man that was
watching us. At that time when we went there first there was a
good deal of thieving going on, and 1 said to this man. "When I was
here last that was a woods, that was a morass." "Sure, sir. your
n^emory is verv good." That was the answer I got.
There are so many things that crowd into my niintl, but I
thought I might just say one thing or two that will be of some ad-
vantage to this association. I remember very well when Judge
Futhey was writing the History of Chester Count\-. he wrote to me
to know what time the moon rose on the 20th of. September. 1777.
(Laughter.) He said that "Tradition has said that it was a stormy
night." I turned to my almanac of 1777 and there T found the
moon rose at 8.23. It was full on the T7th, and he wrote me back,
"Now, that has settled the question that has bothered historians
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ever since." So you see there is some advantag'e even in old alma-
nacs, and some of us old men may be some use, we don't know. I
have almanacs from 1740 up to the present time, for every year, and
I am frecjuently spoken to to know just what happened, and so forth.
And again, one of my friends here has spoken about the great
West. I heard my grandfather say when I was a boy that one of
his uncles went up and bought all the land where Downingtown
stands. That is not as far West as the place my friend alludes to,
but his father said to him, "Go and throw it up. Who would ever
want to go as far west as Downingtown? Nobody would be fool
enough to go out there. That is no place to go at all." I often
think of what my grandfather told me in reference to the Revolu-
tion. He, together with my other grandfather, was present at the
time of the Batlte of Chadd's Ford, and they were on the south
bank. That is where Rocky Hill was in that day, and an officer
come to him and said, "You better go home." They were then in
their twentieth year, which was a very important year, for we all
know a good many things about that time. He said to them, "You
better go home." My grandfather said they didn't go, but after a
while there was a ball went right along in front of them. He said
they went home then. He told me the people went in the cellars
to avoid the balls, and every horse he had was taken except one,
and that belonged to his mother. They couldn't catch her. She
would go over the fences. Horses would do that in that time as
well as today.
And so it goes. These are just a few things I believe I didn't
tell before, and I don't care to go over them all and tell so many
things. I am very much satisfied and pleased, and ought to be
from what has been said, and I feel that I have said all that would
be advisable tonight. Good night. (Prolonged Applause.)
CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25
Letters of Regret
Doctor Philips: I'.efijre \vc separate I want to read two oi
three Ijrief letters which 1 have received in connection with this oc-
casion. Before I read the letters, let me read a telej^^rani which just
came from Long- Branch, New Jersey, addressed to Mr. Stuhbs, the
Treasurer of the Society. It is from Mrs. Uriah H. Painter, of
you all know. She says:
"It is impossible for Mrs. Cunning-ham (her daughter) and
myself to be present this evening at the banquet. We regret it ex-
ceedingly, and ])lease congratulate most heartily Doctor Jesse
Green for us on his one-hundredth l)irthday, and the Historical So-
ciety in having Ijecn al)le to have had him with them so long.
A. L. Painter."
I have just two or th.ree letters. I haven't tried to have many.
Here is one which will interest the people of West Chester and those
of us who live here, to know that we have a fellow-citizen who is
now nearl}- a hundred and five years old, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth
Phipps Hasting^s, in excellent health, I)ul unable to come out at
night-now. She has sent the following letter declining regretfully
our invitation to l)e here tonight:
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"West Chester, Pa., December 7. 1917.
Dr. Philips: — To you and the members of the Historical
Society which you represent I send most hearty greetings. Be as-
sured that the invitation to grace your banquet as an honored guest
is deeply appreciated, especially in celebrating- Doctor Green's cen-
tenary anniversary. Tt would give me great pleasure to sit at your
festive board, but ntjtwithstanding I am only a little less than five
vears Dr. Green's senior, 1 have limitations, and attending evening
banquets is one of them. To Dr. (ireen I send sincere congratula-
tions, with the hope that if he desires it. he may outstrip nie in the
game of life. Yours very truly,
Ann Eliza Pinrrs TT asttncs."
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This is a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania. It is ad-
dressed directly to Dr. Green, but sent to me to be given to him
tonight:
Executive Mansion, Harris])urg-, Pa., Nov. 23, 1917.
Dear Dr. Green: — I have learned that the Historical Society
will on December 13th tender you a testimonial bancjuet on the oc-
casion of your century anniversar\'. I have been asked to attend,
l)ut onl}' imperative engagements prevent my coming.
1 wish to join your other friends in sincere congratulations to
you ... I pray God to bless you and grant you great peace
and content in your golden years. The Lord has been good to
you, and you have been loyal to Him and His cause, which is the
cause of all true citizens.
That your contimung years may be rich in all things He loves
to bestow upon those that love Him, is my earnest wish, and my
fervent prayer. \'ery truly yours,
M. G. Brumbaugh."
Nearly three years ago, man}- of the people here tonight will
remember, I am sure, that former President Taft was in West
Chester as a guest of the town and a lecturer here. At a little re-
ception given him at the close of the lecture he met Doctor Green
and was very much interested in him. He had, I think, never seen
any one as old as Doctor Green, who was then in his ninety-eighth
year, whose faculties and mind were so bright and keen as his were ;
and when he had gone back to his home in New Haven he wrote a
letter back to West Chester, and among other things he asked par-
ticularly to know how his dear old century plant, Doctor Green, was.
So we wrote to former President Taft and asked him to be here
tonight, and he has sent the following letter, which, with the othei
letters, I will hand over to Doctor Green at the close of our exer-
cises:
"New Haven, Conn., November 27th, 1917.
My Dear Dr. Philips: — I am very sorry not to be able to accept
the invitation of the Historical Society to attend its annual banquet
on December 13th. in honor of Dr. Jesse Green's looth birthday.
Few are permitted to live as long as Dr. Green, and to retain their
faculties as completely as he. He is young because he interests
himself in every activity, and is a most useful and upright citizen.
I hope that Dr. Green may live many more years. It is an inspira-
CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 27
lion to know and see one who stands as high in the estimation of his
fellowmen as does Dr. (ireen, and who l)y simple living-, and re-
straint from sclf-indnlgence, has rounded a century. Please present
to him my warm congratulations and very best wishes.
wSincerely yours.
Wm. H. Taft."
We come to the close, my friends, of what I am sure we all
agree has been a most interesting and successful occasion. The
Society has held many of these banquets, but none so well attended,
and none, it seems to me, quite so successful and interesting as this
one has been. I want to thank the Committee which arranged the
banquet tonight on behalf of the Society. I want to thank the
ladies of the New Century Club for the splendid care they have
taken of us, and I know they will all join with me tonight in wishing
Dr. Green upon the new century that is before him years of ha]:)pv.
successful life and his happiness will be our happiness, for he lives to
make others happy. And now we are closing our evening, and i
bid you all good-night.
Margaret (Henderson?)
d. 1743/4
from Ireland
m. about 1G9G
Gayen Miller
d. 1742 in Kennet
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Miller
b. in Kennett, 1713
J m. 8-25-1732
at Kennet Meeting
Daniel Dickinson,
b. 1674
d. 1709 a 35
John Urubb ^
d. 1708 I
Frances [
Peter Dicks 1
d. 1704; m. 1681 y
Esther Maddock J
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Edward Bezer ^
d. 1688; m. 8-281GG4 [^
Ann Fry J
William Clayton ^
d. 1689 " 1^
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Uobert Pvle
m. 9-16-1681
Ann Stovy
Robert Vernon
m.
Eleanor Minshall
Thomas Green
d. 1691
Margaret
d. 1708
Ann Hedge Cock .
b. 1691
d. 1772 a 81
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Emanuel Grubb .
b. 1682
d. 1767 a 85
Hannah Dicks . . .
m. 12 mo. 1699
Joseph Dickinson ....
b. 1706, in Ireland
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at Chichester Meeting
Jonathan Thatcher
b. 1667, d. 1750
Marv Martin,
m. 1690
James Whitaker.
d. 1721
Elizabeth Bezer. . . .
b. 1666
d. 1738 a 72
m. 12 mo. 1682
Ann Whitaker
m. 12-251713
at Cliichester Meeting
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Robert Pvle
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'Nicholas Pyle
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James .' Dicks
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'David Jones
of Whiteland
d. in 1710
'Cornelius Bowman.
of Derbyshire
married
^.Vnn Tavlor
Xathan Maddock
Alice
TIenrv Tiowman
d. '1714
married
Alice Stubbs
/WATCI^MAL ^NCI:5'ri?Y
From a Registry of some Early Arrivals in Pennsylvania:
The Ship Delaware, from Bristol! in Old England, John Moore
Commander, Arrived here the i ith of the 5 month 1686:
Thomas Greene, husbandman. Margaret, his wife,; Thomas and
John, their sons; Mary Guest, his servant, for 7 years to come from
the third day of May 1686.
Richard Moore, Brickmaker, & Mary his wife, and children,
Mary & John.
Sarah Searle his servant for 4 years to come from the 3rd of May,
1686.
Henrv Guest, sawver, and Marv his wife, & Henrv his sone.
From other sources it appears that the wife of Richard Moore
was the daughter of Thomas Green.
In that day many unmarried women came as servants with
friends and relatives in order to obtain the 50 acres of land which
William Penn had promised to servants.
An old deed, brought from England, now in possession of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, shows that in 1672 some land
in Birmingham. England, was conveyed by Joan, widow of John
Guest, to her son George Guest, afterward of Philadelphia, and that
it was adjoining land of Thomas Greene; ])ut whether the last named
was the settler in Pennsylvania is not known.
Gilbert Cope.
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