THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE 1227 16TH ST., N . W. WASHINGTON 6, D . C. Entered as secoad.dass mattet at the postoffice at Washington, D . C.

VOLUME XLIV FEBRUARY, 1950 NUMBER 3

Quarterly Bulletin Of The National Society

NEW YORK STATE FREEDOM TRAIN RECEPTION ORGANIZED BY SAR COMPATRIOTS IN NEW YORK

GEORGE WASHINGTON "THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY" Born February 22, 1732- Died December 14, 1799 2 SA R February 19 50 3

men" play for dancing, luncheon has a The [laridge Hotel [hosen for [ongress After French flavor in a buffet service where Plan Now to Attend SAH cold and hot dishes are displayed on [areful [onsideration of Advantages buffet tables, though served by waiters. Diamond Jubilee Prepared by French Chef Pierre Mald­ Behind the desk of one of the offices lines have enhanced Atlantic City's jian, it's a noonday favorite, and the [ongress at Atlantic City's Claridge Hotel is a beachfront, helped bring it up to date. Louisiana Shrimp with a tangy dressing huge drawing of the Claridge Hotel in It is situated in one of the most en­ named after Maitre d'Hotel Pero is one President General Finger and Vice London. Beneath it are the words, viable Board walk spots in the resort. If of its best dishes. President General Edgar Williamson, "Recognized by Royalty as the First you remember the game of "Monopoly" Every Boardwalk hotel in Atlantic ] r., of the North Atlantic District have Hotel in Europe." The American ho­ which was a popular parlor pastime in City takes advantage of the view of sea made several trips to Atlantic City in tel's Mayfair Cocktail Lounge is named the building-booming twenties, you re­ and sand that brings 15,000,000 visi­ preparation for the Sixtieth Annual Con­ after the fashionable Mayfair section of member that against a Parcheesi-like tors annually. The Ocean Dining Room gress of the Sons of the American Revo­ London, and over the bar is a pano­ background of Atlantic City properties, at the Claridge was designed so that lution which, by act of the last Annual ramic skyline of London. the area of Indiana Avenue and the guests could enjoy breakfast looking out Congress, was officially designated. They From this aristocratic and continental Boardwalk was the most expensive and on a sun-shining sea, and dinner directly carefully studied the facilities of the vari­ if you could get a monopoly on that source comes the name for Atlantic facing the moonlit water. The guests, ous hotels and, as this magazine indicates, property you were practically a million­ City's newest hotel which, in its sixteen many of whom have dined in the world's chose The Claridge for many outstand­ years as one of the seashore's top beach­ aire. Well, the Claridge was the winner, grandest hotels, find an unequalled ing reasons that will appeal to you when for at this spot it is equally distant from front hotels, has done exemplary justice charm in this setting. you arrive. to its imposing forebear. the two ends of town, and it inherited as Though the Claridge may not be its front yard a city-owned park which The Mayor of Atlantic City Many of us who attended the Fifty­ lauded by royalty in this democratic has given it the double advantage of Welcomes You! Ninth Annual Congress at Jacksonville country, it has been a favorite of beach-proximity and park-privacy. "This is your welcome to Atlantic last year felt that every other Congress America's Who's Who, and has played Once inside the Claridge you can­ City. Officially, I extend to you the hos­ would be an anti-climax after enjoying gracious host to international big-wigs. not mistake its continental flavor. From pitality of our city during your visit to the typical southern hospitality of Florida Tallest structure in the world ever the highly individual Chinese Chippen­ the World's Greatest All-Year Resort. and exceptionally well-planned sessions. THE PARK LOUNGE built near the sea on sand, the Claridge dale bedroom furniture, designed for Our long stretch of unbroken Board­ This constitutes a challenge to the North The Park Lounge is just one of the several delightful lounges of The Claridge Hotel where soon came to be known as the "Sky­ the Claridge and patented for its exclu­ walk promenade, facing the gently slop­ Atlantic District in general and to the Com patriots and their Guests will gather to renew old friendships and meet new 'me;,bers from across the country. scraper-by-the-Sea." It was opened offi­ sive use, to the French Empire suites ing beaches of the Atlantic Ocean, forms State of New ] ersey in particular. Your cially on December 17, 1930, and hap­ and the Italian marble beauty of the a unique boundary line for our city. Per­ Editor has been allowed to sit in on pily did not succumb to the lure of angles Park Lounge, it speaks of Old World fect boulevards and their trails at our some of the preliminary meetings, and and cubes which were as popular in the distinction. city gates and unsurpassed air travel and from where he sits in his ivory tower, railroad facilities make this invitation late 1920s as gingerbread architecture In the Mayfair Lounge, where very the raec is still neck and neck. Be sure was in the 1890s. Its sleek, uncluttered British red-coated "Mayfair Guards- more complete." to be in on the finish! Make your personal plans now. Notify your Chapter Secretary of your plans so that you may become a delegate. And a special appeal to all Compatriots plan­ ning to present Resolutions for action at the Congress. Please send your Resolu­ tions well in advance to the Secretary General at Washington. In this connec­ tion it seems appropriate to reprint a quotation from the D.A.R. regulations. "It is both unwise and difficult to crowd the careful consideration of subjects as important as those which appear in Reso­ lutions into a few hours preceding and during a Congress. The Society an­ nounces to the public its stand on many important subjects in its resolutions, therefore it is imperative that they re­ ceive the greatest care. "Send 3 copies of resolutions, type­ written and double spaced, with three signatures. Send resolutions, as many as you wish, but be sure that subjects are TRIMBLE HALL divided, and treat one subject only." We The banquet room of The Claridge Hotel is known as Trimble Hall. The business sessions of the concur! Society will take place in The Hall, and of course the final banquet will be held in this beautiful The Claridge is Literally the Center of Atlantic City Skyline and Water Front room. SA R February 1950 5

Bill of Rights Broadcast Continued HON. OSCAR CHAPMAN Bill of Bights Day Observed by [ompatriots Secretary of Interior For one hundred and fifty years this Today, December 15th, is a mem­ on [oast-to-[oast Broadcast republic has extended to its citizens the orable date in the history of the age-old The Honorable Oscar L. Chapman, MESSMORE KENDALL privileges and blessings of a free people. struggle of man to secure fundamental Secretary of the Interior, was Guest of Past President General For a century, we have taken our indi­ and individual human rights of freedom vidual freedom for granted, but we can Honor on a coast-to-coast radio program To understand the importance of this of religion, speech, and the press; of the take it for granted no longer. over the American Broadcasting net­ day we celebrate, I must explain how right to bear arms; of the security of the Bill of Rights came into being, that MQst peoples of the earth have no the home and person; and of the right work being jointly sponsored by the SAR you may see what it means to you as Bill of Rights. Human freedom has been to life, liberty, and equal protection un­ and Bill of Rights Commemorative So­ Americans. challenged by an ideology which con­ der the laws. This is the 158th anni­ ciety. Gardner Osborn presided on this In 1 7 8 7 a proposed Constitution for cedes nothing to the individual-except versary of the adoption, by the States, of Bill of Rights Day program. a United States was issued to the origi­ to be a cog in a dictatorship-a dictator­ the first ten amendments to the Federal nal Thirteen States for their ratification. ship that rules slaves, with the iron hand Constitution, which together constitute It met with fierce opposition from the of a Secret Police. the American Bill of Rights. FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN radical patriots of the day who opposed Even the right to think is denied. The specific event marked by these it for they feared that it would not offer Commuqism is working with frantic ceremonies at Federal Hall Memorial is Today as we stand at the top of time, sufficient protection against despotism. haste to return the whole civilized world the ratification of the first ten amend­ on the sunlit summit of the ages, look­ Cecil B. DeMille, Chairman ments by the State of Virginia, on De­ They remembered the blood which had to bondage. It is using every trick of ing down the steep slopes which hu­ been spilled to bring about their liberties Bill of Rights Day Committee cember 15, 1791. Their act gave ap­ Messmore Kendall, President bribery and terror to destroy religion manity scaled from base slavery to right­ and they were unflinching in their de­ proval by the necessary three-fourths of Bill of Rights Commemorative Society and to warp or conceal the truth. ful liberty, we thank God that we, His termination to keep them. They knew the States and thus the Bill of Rights This nation is no safer from Com­ the pulsing heart that sends the blood of children, are freemen in this land of it had been a constant struggle to retain One never fully realizes the blessings was forever incorporated into the Con­ munism than any European country. freedom through the arteries of this na­ liberty. Freemen we are, by God's will their freedom since 1215 when at Run­ of the use of an arm, until it is gone. stitution of the United States. Therefore, we should unite against those tion's life. and America's laws-and freemen we nymede their forefathers wrested from The joys of sight are coveted by few­ This notable achievement was the re­ who abuse their privileges as American If the principle of freedom and private shall always be--{)r die mingling our King John the Magna Carta which is save the blind. sult of a long struggle both in England citizens. We must act against those who enterprise in the Bill of Rights is to sur­ blood with the blood of our sires who the basis of all human liberties. And so it is with liberty and human and America. Its attainment is the mov­ would impose on this country-through vive, we ourselves need to reaffirm our chose a thousand deaths to slavery. We They believed that their liberties rights. To gain them, men fought the ing story of the many unsung men who intrigue and infamy- the Communist faith in it. More than ever before, our dare not betray their sacred trust, our should be set forth in plain unmistakable outrages of despots. Once won, and have fought during the past for a charter language as a part of the Constitution pattern of serfdom, bloodshed, bar­ daily lives and the acts of our leaders of man's liberties. The roots of man's nation's heritage and the world's hope. seemingly secured, they are left to the and thereby made the basic written law barism, suppression and slavery-a pat­ must be chapters in the history of free­ strivings for individual human rights We dare not sell our freedom either for care of everyone in general and no one of our land. So they enumerated the tern contrary to every ideal fashioned dom. may be sought in the history of the gold or conquest, proving ourselves un­ in particular. This is well and good protections they demanded: Freedom of when no enemy menaces, but now the for us in the Constitution and Bill of Paragraph 8 of the last will and struggle for English freedom and may worthy heirs to God's bequest of his Ten Worship; Freedom of Speech; Free­ scene has shifted, time has passed and Rights. te tament of Andrew Jackson, the 7th be traced as far back as the grant of the Laws on Mount Sinai; betraying the dom of the Press; the right to peaceably our hard gotten gains are attacked from If we give ground to Communist President of the United States, reads: Magna Carta in 1215. After this, cen­ hardy patriots of old who blazed the turies elapsed before the English Parlia­ assemble and to petition the Government without and from within and are in dan­ trickery, if we surrender to little pockets "To my grandnephew- Andrew trail to freedom by the Magna Carta; for redress of grievances, trial by jury ment adopted in 1689 a document which ger of being swept away. Unless we of opposition, if we soften in little areas Jackson Coffee-I bequeath the elegant betraying our ancestors, America's pa­ and all the other rights they deemed has become known as the English Bill keep a watchful eye we may find this of compromise, we will have germinated sword presented to me by the Rifle Com­ triots who framed the Bill of Rights on essential for a free people who had Nation in the same unhappy situation pany of New Orleans-and with this of Rights. Although these two events the walls of history. escaped from domination of a state or a powerful force that respects no law signalized advances in the struggle for of slavery half the people of the world but its own. A force that respects no injunction: individual. English freedom, they primarily insured The Bill of Rights is America's bea­ are in today. individual right but its own. A force that "That he will wield it in defense of Their demands became the first ten certain specific political rights. con flaming from every hill and spire, "God grants liberty only to those who seeks to destroy all who believe in God. our beloved country, against all invad­ amendments to our Constitution and are It was not until the Eighteenth Cen­ proclaiming man's inalienable rights, de­ love it and are always ready to guard A force that fights with weapons of slan­ ing foes, or intestine traitors, who may known as The Bill of Rights. They are tury that English and French philoso­ claring man's imperishable urge to exer­ and defend it." der, calumny and lies. A force that arise to destroy our glorious Union­ a statement in plan language of Ameri­ phers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques cise those rights under God and Amer­ So protect the priceless heritage we knows no religion or justice but its own and that Republican System, secured to can liberties and are set forth so clearly Rousseau and the American statesmen ica's law with full freedom and security. celebrate today. will. A force that seeks to enslave man­ us by the blood of our revolutionary fa­ that all may understand. of the Revolutionary Era developed the The Bill of Rights is America's pledge kind under the pretense of freeing thers, and perpetuated to us by the Fed­ There is only one kind of freedom new and exciting idea that men had cer­ to peoples yet unborn both near and far CECIL B. DeMILLE mankind. eral Constitution-the g1·eatest wisdom and it is found only when government is tain immutable and inalienable rights­ to pass on God's torch of liberty -its SA R Chairman every displayed by man." limited by a Constitution which pro­ In this hour of challenge to free gov­ fundamental rights of the individual that light undimmed by the mock light of tects the sanctity of the home and the Fellow Americans: ernments everywhere, I urge all Ameri­ (I looked up the word "intestine" could not be changed nor taken from alien minds. The Bill of Rights is freedom of the individual against inter­ The Bill of Rights is the first great cans to protect the great truths of Amer­ and it means: internal, especially with them. regard to state or country.) America's glory, for in this land liberty ference not only from other individuals, expression of the dignity of the individ­ icanism. We can preserve these truths Perhaps the most noted expression of was born, in this land freedom to exer­ but from slavery by centralized power. ual. Lose it, and every American free­ at home-and give them roots in other Don't trade the American Way for this idea in America was contained in cise rights was won, in this land hunted These precious rights we enjoy seem dom is at the mercy of whoever can lands-if we use our influence and per­ the way of any other country on earth. the Virginia Declaration of Rights, of minorities found haven and home, in this so obvious, so seemingly commonplace, grasp the power to sweep it away. suasive voice wherever there is opportu­ Our faith in freedom was the driving June 12, 1776, which was in a large land enterprise and labor prosper. The that we have taken them for granted. And mark this well-no one's free­ nity to do so. force behind the arms that raised our part the work of George Mason, the Bill of Rights is God's gift to America. There is no greater truth than that man dom is safe unless everyone's freedom is The Bill of Rights must be kept and banners over the ruins of tyranny in Virginia Constitutional leader and states­ The Bill of Rights is pledge of God's fails to appreciate what he already pos­ safe. When individual freedom dies, the handed on to our children, not as a dead Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo- America man. This document stated plainly cer­ hope in America. For the Bill of Rights sesses and that things seldom are prized nation's freedom is on its deathbed. ~elic but as a living reality. It is not will endure as the house of the brave, tain permanent and fundamental truths America thanks God! until lost. (Con-tintud on next page) JUst a document on musty paper. It is as long as we keep it the land of the free. (Continued o• pag1 6) SA R February 19 50 6 7

Bill of Rights Broadcast Continued PRESIDENT GENERAL acted the Bill of Rights. Today that resistance movements began to form JOHN W. FINGER corner is a National Historic Site and First Naval Battle of the Revolution and support began to arrive in the form which were to be used as a basis for a you, as Secretary of the Interior, hold of sympathizers from Jonesboro, Pleas­ new society and a new government to be Mr. Oscar Chapman, to you, as Sec­ title to that sacred land upon which By [apt. Davis G. Marsapin ant River and Moosabec Reach. After independently organized first in Vir­ retary of the Department of the Interior stands "Federal Hall Memorial," the considerable discussion a rna jority de­ ginia and ultimately in all America. The of the United States, it is my privilege, former Sub-Treasury Building. cided upon a plan of action and a band adoption of Mason's principles by Vir­ as President General of the Sons of the The Sons of the American Revolu­ Massachusetts, including the present Egery and Pope, a Drummer and of volunteers was collected for the pur­ ginia set an example that was followed American Revolution, to present the tion are deeply grateful for the far­ State of Maine, prides itself on laying twenty-five men put off from the wharf pose of meeting on board the "Mar­ by most of the other states formed in Gold Medal of our Society upon this, the sighted action of your Department and claim to many of the "Firsts" of the at Fairhaven. garetta." America at the opening of the Revolu­ one hundred and fifty-eighth anniver­ particularly aware of your own special American Revolution. Amongst these During the night, which was calm tion. His ideals reached their highest Jeremiah O'Brien, with forty men, interest in this National Shrine which we are the engagements which took place and foggy, the sloop was allowed to drift expression when they were drawn upon sary of the ratification of the first ten was to take charge of a sloop while call "the Birthplace of the Bill of off Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and off upon the currents of the Bay. With the by Thomas Jefferson when in phrasing amendments to the Constitution, known Colonel Faster was to go to East River Machias, Maine, in the interval between breaking of dawn a sloop was discovered the American Declaration of Indepen­ as the "Bill of Rights." Rights." No more appropriate action to prepare a schooner. These two ves­ the battle of Concord and Lexington at anchor about a cable's length from dence, he wrote: It was the First Congress under the could be taken by our Society, upon this sels were to meet, pursue and capture the and the battle of Bunker Hill. them and directly under their lee. The "We hold these truths to be self-evi­ Constitution, meeting in old Federal anniversary, than the presentation to you "Margaretta" if possible. Foster's Hall in New York City, at the corner of this Gold Medal as our way of saying Shortly after the battle of Concord tide carried the "Success" down upon schooner ran aground, leaving O'Brien dent, that all men are created equal, that and Lexington the village of Fairhaven her and heedless of commands to sheer of Nassau and Wall Streets, which en- "Thank you, Mr. Secretary." with an undisciplined crew, short of wa­ they are endowed by the Creator with (then part of Dartmouth) put two dis­ off, she swung in to board. This was certain inalienable rights, that among ter and rations and no more than three tinct military companies in training un­ accomplished, the men swarmed up rounds of ammunition per man to carry these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit der the supervision of a "Committee of from below, and overran the British of Happiness. That to secure these Safety." One of these was composed of sloop, making prisoners of the thirteen out the undertaking. They approached rights, Governments are instituted mechanics and farmers who were com­ officers and men aboard. the "Margaretta" and her Captain, un­ among men, deriving their just powers der threat of fire, demanded O'Brien's manded by Daniel Egery, a ship builder, Captain Pope, one man and the boy from the consent of the governed." and the other consisted principally of took charge of these prisoners while both purpose. O'Brien thereupon called on This eloquent expression of the ideals seamen, under the command of a­ vessels made sail and worked up to a Captain Moor to surrender. Moor ap­ of human liberty did not immediately thaniel Pope, a sea captain. point about three miles from town. It peared desirous of avoiding conflict and become a part of the Constitutional On the afternoon of the 13th of May, was decided that the prize should be sent endeavored to prevent a collision but guarantees of the new national govern­ 1 77 5, these two little military com­ into port and the "Success" start out in carried away the "Margaretta's" boom. ment which was formed in America fol­ panies, each composed of twenty-five search of the other cruiser. This was He worked into Holmes Bay, effected lowing the Revolution. The need for men, were in a field just outside the vil­ soon discovered at anchor in a nearby repairs and set out with the apparent the adoption of a bill of rights for the lage where they were paraded for drill­ cove, sail was immediately made and the hope of escaping O'Brien's sloop. Being new nation as a whole was discussed at ing. While so engaged, a rider brought cruiser started out into the Bay with overtaken, she cast off her boats and the Constitutional Convention of 1787, news that a twenty-ton ship had come the "Success" in pursuit. A well-placed when this was ineffectual, opened fire. but the Founding Fathers were more into Vineyard Sound, captured two shot killed the commander, confusion The fire was returned with determina­ immediately concerned with the creation sloops (one of which he owned in part), resulted and the Colors were struck to tion the two vessels swung together of a strong central government than manned and armed them, and sent them the "Success." This prize was taken into and' the Americans attempted to board with the guarantees of individual free­ into Buzzard's Bay as decoy cruisers. port where the arms and equipment the "Margaretta." This effort failed as dom. Also he said that it was his purpose to were divided, and Captain Egery started they swung apart but on a return swing The Constitution as drafted at Phila­ appraise the Committee of Safety of the with 15 of the prisoners for Taunton and the death of Captain Moor, the delphia secured certain traditional liber­ true character of these vessels. where he lodged them in the jail. Con­ "Margaretta" was captured and taken ties, but did not include a specific Bill of Upon receiving this news it was im­ tinuing to Watertown, he made a report with her crew into Machias. Rights. George Mason, and many of mediately agreed that the parties present of these activities and the situation in It will be seen that each of these en­ the other delegates, were outspoken in give whatever bonds might be demand­ Dartmouth to the Provincial Congress. gagements differed greatly from the considering this a dangerous omission. ed for the forty-ton sloop "Success," Drisko, in his narrative of the Town other. The battle of Fairhaven preceded The delegates and the people felt that which was then lying at the wharf, and of Machias, states that taking of the cut­ the one of Machias by nearly a month, they deserved not only a Constitution as to put out in her to intercept the Brit­ ter "Margaretta" on the 12th of June, the sloop "Success" was manned and a symbol of their strength and unity but ish. It was believed that twenty-five men 1775, was the first naval battle of the commanded by regularly organized mili­ also a Bill of Rights as a symbol of their would be sufficient for the purpose and Revolution (p. 4 7), and a tablet erected tia acting under the authority of a Com­ freedom. A popular movement took were as many as could be kept out of in that town about twenty years ago mittee of Safety, while the engagement shape in the States' ratifying conventions sight on board. The men of both com­ carries a legend to that effect. off Machias involved an American sloop to incorporate guarantees of individual panies were informed. that twenty-five The "Margaretta" was a British cut­ manned and commanded by a group of freedom in the new Constitution and volnteers were desired for an immediate ter, carrying four four-pound guns and volunteers operating on their own mo­ many states ratified it only on condition and secret expedition. This announce­ sixteen swivels. Shortly after arriving at tion and without the sanction or control that it should eventually include a Bill ~ent was greeted by all fifty volunteer­ Machias, Captain Moor of the "Mar­ of a recognized governmental body. of Rights. mg, and it was necessary to ballot be­ garetta" ordered that the liberty pole in Thus each community, depending This impressive demand for Constitu­ tween the men to eliminate the excess. the town be taken down on the threat upon a consideration of the elements in­ tional guarantees of individual liberties Parties were then formed to collect sails, of firing on the community. This threat volved, may lay claim to a "First Naval became the initial order of business at rigging, provisions, etc., and instructions was received with indignation, a town Battle of the Revolution." In so doing, the first Congress organized under the given that they not report at the vessel meeting held, and a unanimous vote of however, it should take the additional Until after dark. By 9 P.M. all was in Constitution in 1789. From the mass President General John Whelchel Finger presenting Gold Medal of the National Society to "No" given to a motion to remove the step of carefully defining its interpreta­ readiness and the sloop, with Captains (Continued on page 2 3) Honorable Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior, U.S.A. pole. Shortly after the town meeting, tion of the name it uses. SA R 8 February 19 50 9

Alexander Hamilton Continued on the docks of Boston only 17 years was then called "the code of honor." Story of Alexander Hamilton as Told before. Hamilton hated dueling, but honor was his dueling assassin. Shortly he was to At 36 he dominated America's first the touchstone of his life. He fell at the by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg be acknowledged as the leader of his great decision in foreign policy. He de­ first shot. The tears of a nation fol­ nation's bar. manded neutrality in the war between lowed him to Trinity churchyard. At 30 he was in the New York As­ England and revolutionary France­ This is the bare chronology of as great In my impetuous youth I set out to Hamilton was born on Nevis in the sembly struggling for full, free, public squarely colliding with ] efferson. Wash­ an American as ever lived. Ten thou­ right an historical wrong. I felt that West Indies, ] an. 11, 1 757. His father education and for easier debtors' laws. ington agreed with Hamilton. In the sand pages would be required to fill in America owed a long-overdue debt to was a Scottish ne'er-do-well. His de­ Here, too, he first enlisted in the mighty light of this episode it is easy to trace the the memory of Alexander Hamilton. I voted mother was a French Huguenot the full story of his talents, his genius conflict which produced the Constitu­ source of the eloquent warnings in determined to make a small payment on divorcee. The legitimacy of their union and his impact upon the foundation of tion. He forced his state into the An­ Washington's "Farewell Address"-an account. So I wrote a book in 1921 to is still a subject of controversy. It never America. He was ever the subject of napolis Convention from which came address which Mrs. Hamilton, the lovely prove that Hamilton was THE GREAT­ ceased to be a scandalizing weapon of white-heat controversy-in death even the call, which he wrote, for the Con­ Betsy Schuyler, later testified came al­ EST AMERICAN-meaning the greatest Hamilton's enemies. It could have as in life. But for myself, summing it stitutional Convention in Philadelphia. most exclusively from her husband's in­ all up, I say that five words might be his in the widest variety of contributions to crushed a lesser soul. his country's welfare. He was the most Then he sat in the Philadelphia Conven­ candescent pen. epitaph: THE REPUBLIC Is His MoNu­ At 14 years of age young Hamilton constructive statesman, the profoundest tion-the only New Yorker to sign the At 40 he chose to strip the veils from MENT. was successfully managmg Nicholas Constitutionalist, the greatest lawyer, Constitution. He wrote the major por­ every last detail of the only incidental Cruger's general store and counting­ author, orator and economist, the great­ tion of the Federalist Papers, the greatest scandal that ever blemished his private est political leader of his time and one house on neighboring St. Croix. exposition of the Constitution ever life, his affair with a Mrs. Reynolds, of its greatest soldiers. His was the most At 15 he emigrated to Boston-with­ penned. It was, and is, the "bible" of rather than leave a shred of suspicion Editor's Note. This article by Com­ brilliant mind in an era of amazing out a friend in this New World. At 16 Bust of Alexander Hamilton the Constitution. Then came the terrific against the integrity of his public works. patriot Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg genius. He was Washington's right he entered King's College, now Colum­ contest over ratification, chiefly center­ He spared nothing and pleaded no pallia­ originally appeared in Life Magazine ing in the New York Convention. arm in both war and peace. He was the bia, in New York. At 17 he was push­ personal heroism brought him to Wash­ tion. His sole purpose was to put his where it attracted nation-wide interest. brains in the Pilot House when the ing his unbidden way to the rostrum at ington's attention. At 20 he became At 31 he led a forlorn hope in this public honesty beyond attack. Being the finest, brief biography of Alex­ Ship of State set out into the perilous seas New York's famous "Meeting In The Washington's first aide and military sec­ New York Convention at Poughkeepsie, At 47, he was killed in a duel with ander Hamilton, your Editor reques.ted of history. Field" to help promote the First Con­ retary and in the final victory at York­ facing a hostile majority through six Aaron Burr, his lifetime enemy. Burr and secured permission to reprint the ar­ I have lived to realize that no one tinental Congress. "It is the battlefield town he led the first victorious American guerrilla weeks. At the end he won. chose a relatively inoffensive remark of ticle from both Life Magazine and Sen­ patriot can be called THE GREATEST or slavery," he cried-a full year ahead assault. It was little short of a miracle. "The Hamilton's as an excuse to invoke what ator Vandenberg. AMERICAN in a land blessed with so of Patrick Henry. At 25 he qualified as a lawyer in four overwhelming eloquence of Hamilton," many leaders of sublime and heroic stat­ At 19 he was captain of New York's months of study, exciting the envy of wrote Chancellor Kent, "was exerted to its utmost pitch and shook the most COMMEMORATING 193RD BIRTHDAY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON ure. To that extent I overshot my first company of artillery, destined for one Aaron Burr, a fellow student, who resolved in the majority." In the light mark. For example I now freely con­ 10 months of bitter combat in which his subsequently became his lifetime foe and cede that young America equally need­ of this reality I wonder if it isn't fair to ed Thomas ] efferson and his basic rival­ say that without him there would have ries with Hamilton. ] efferson would been no Constitution? have been cheated of the presidency by At 32 he was called to President Aaron Burr in 1800 but for Hamilton's Washington's first Cabinet as Secretary refusal to permit his Federalists to con­ of the Treasury. By now he was the done the thought. ] efferson himself dominant figure in the Federalist party, said of Hamilton, "He is really a colos­ which held power for the first 12 years sus; without numbers he is an host with­ of the new nation's political life. He in himself." But I have not outlived the immediately became the master crafts­ conviction that Hamilton never has been man of the great American adventure. given his historic due. Lord Bryce in Not only did he chart the basis for re­ his admirable work, The American storing federal credit and for the re­ Commonwealth, said, "One cannot note demption of the public debt but also, in the disappearance of this brilliant figure, flashing succession, he recommended the most interesting in the earlier history navigation laws, drafted the first bill for of the Republic, without the remark that the postal system, proposed the means his countrymen seem to have never, for handling public lands, establishing either in his lifetime or afterward, duly the Mint, advised the decimal system for recognized his splendid gifts; equally our currency with the dollar as the unit, apt for war and civil government, he recommended the beginnings of the stood in the forefront of a generation tariff system, proposed the patent system never surpassed in history." and generally charted the republic's We Americans love Horatio Alger structure. John Adams said he was "all heroes-brave young men who rise the time the commander in chief of the Great-Great-Grandson Alexander Hamilton (Left), Past President New York Chapter SAR, at above adversity to win great place and Bouse and Senate, of the heads of de­ wreath laying ceremony at Trinity Church grave of the Revolutionary War hero. American partments and of the President himself." Legionnaire with American Flag and New York Chapter Flag held by Compatriot Nelson Tower. fame. Well-here is the top prodigy of Col. Montgomery Schuyler, descendant of Gen. Phillip Schuyler, Spencer C. Young, New York them all. Compatriot Senator Arthur Vandenberg of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee This, mind you, is that immigrant boy City Treasurer and Hon. George McAneny. SA R February 19 50 IO II Tributes Paid by United States [ongress The Speaker addressed the President George Washington Parke l:ustis Account of the Death of in the following words: Upon Passing of George Washington Sir, George Washington One Hundred and Fifty Years Jlgo The House of Representatives, pene­ CONGRESS than any other could contribute to the trated with a sense of the irreparable loss House of Representatives establishment of that system of policy sustained by the nation, by the death of Twenty-eight years have passed since "Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy and for many sad, yet endearing cere­ Thursday, December 19 which will, I trust, yet preserve our the great and good man, the illustrious an interesting group were assembled in sleep," was destined no more to visit his monies with which we delight to pay our 1 peace, our honour and our independence. and beloved Washington, wait on you, the death room, and witnessed the last couch; yet the manly sufferer uttered no last duties to the remains of those we Mr. Marshall, with deep sorrow on Having been twice unanimously chosen sir, to express their condolence on this hours of Washington. So keen and un­ complaint, would permit no one to be loved. his countenance, and in a low pathetic the Chief Magistrate of a free people, melancholy and distressing event. sparing hath been the scythe of time, disturbed in their rest, on his account, The patient bore his acute sufferings tone of voice, rose and addressed the we see him at a time when his selection To which the President of the United that of all those who watched over the and it was only at daybreak he would with fortitude and perfect resignation to House as follows: with the universal suffrage could not States made the following answer: patriach's couch, on the thirteenth and consent that the overseer might be called the Divine will, while as the night ad­ The melancholy event which was yes­ have been doubted affording the world Gentlemen of the House of Represen­ fourteenth of December, 1799, but a in, and bleeding resorted to. A vein was vanced it became evident that he was te rday announced without doubt, has a rare instance of moderation, by with­ tatives: single personage survives. opened, but no relief afforded. Couriers sinking, and he seemed fully aware that been rendered but too certain. Our drawing from his high station to the I receive with great respect and af­ On the morning of the thirteenth, the were despatched to Dr. Craik, the fam­ "his hour was nigh." He inquired the Washington is no more! The hero, the peaceful walks of private life. fection the condolence of the House of general was engaged in making some ily, and Drs. Dick and Brown, the con­ time, and was answered a few minutes sage, and the patriot of America-the However, public confidence may Representatives on the melancholy and improvements in the front of Mount sulting physicians, all of whom came of ten. He spoke no more-the hand of man on whom in times of danger, every change and the public affections fluctuate afflicting event in the death of the most Vernon. As was usual with him, he with speed. The proper remedies were death was upon him, and he was con­ eye was turned and all hopes were with respect to others, yet with respect illustrious and beloved personage which carried his own compass, noted his ob­ administered, but without producing scious that "his hour was come." With placed, lives now only in his own great to him they have, in war and in peace, this country ever produced. I sympa­ servations, and marked out the ground. their healing effects; while the patient surprising self-possession he prepared to actions, and in the hearts of an affec­ in public and private life, been as steady thize with you-with the nation, and The day became rainy, with sleet, and yielding to the anxious looks of all around die. Composing his form at length, and tionate and afflicted people. as his own firm mind, and as constant as with good men through the world, in the improver remained so long exposed him, waived his usual objections to medi­ folding his arms on his bosom, without a If, sir, it had not been usual, openly his own exalted virtues. this irreparable loss sustained by us all. to the inclemency of the weather as to cines, and took those which were pre­ sigh, without a groan, the Father of his to testify respect for the memory of Let us then, Mr. Speaker, pay the last JoHN ADAMS. be considerably wetted before his return scribed without hesitation or remark. Country died. No pang or struggle told those whom heaven had selected for its tribute of respect and affection to our to the house. About one o'clock he was The medical gentlemen spared not their when the noble spirit took its noiseless * * * instruments for dispensing good to man; departed friend. Let the grand council A message was received from the seized with chilliness and nausea, but skill, and all the resources of their art flight; while so tranquil appeared the yet such has been the uncommon worth, of the nation display those sentiments Senate informing the House that the:r having changed his clothes, he sat down were exhausted in unwearied endeavors manly 'features in the repose of death, and such the extraordinary incidents which the nation feels. had agreed to the appointment of a joint: to his indoor work-there being no mo­ to preserve this noblest work of nature. that some moments had passed ere those which have marked the life of him whose For this purpose, I hold in my hand committee, to consider a suitable manner ment of his time for which he had not The night approached-the last night around could believe that the patriarch loss we all deplore, that the whole some resolutions which I will take the of paying honor to the memory of the· provided an appropriate employment. of Washington. The weather became was no more. American nation impelled by the same liberty to offer to the House. man, first in war, first in peace, first ilb At night on joining his family circle, severely cold while the group gathered It may be asked, Why was the min­ feelin gs, would call with one voice for "Resolved, That this House will wait the hearts of his country, and that they the general complained of a slight in­ nearer to the couch of the sufferer, istry of religion wanting to shed its a public manifestation of that sorrow on the Presidents of the United States, in had appointed seven members to join a disposition, and after a single cup of tea, watching with intense anxiety for the peaceful and benign lustre upon the last which is so deep and so universal. condolence of this mournful event. committee for that purpose. repaired to his library, where he re­ slightest dawning of hope. He spoke but hours of Washington? Why was he, to whom the observances of sacred things More than any other individual and "Resolved, That the Speaker's Chair mained writing until between eleven and little. To the respectful and affectionate TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE were pnmary duties throughout life, as much as to one individual was possible, be shrouded with black, and that the twelve o'clock. Mrs. Washington re­ inquiries of an old family servant, as she UNITED STATES without their consolations in his last mo­ has he contributed to found this our wide Members and Officers of the House tired about the usual family hour, but smoothed down his pillow, how he felt (John Adams) ments? We answer, circumstances did spreading empire, and to give to the wear black during the session. becoming alarmed at not hearing the ac­ himself, he answered, "I am very ill." The Senate of the United States re­ not permit. It was but for a little while Western world, its independence and its "Resolved, That a committee in con­ customed sound of the library door as it To Dr. Clark, his earliest companion-in­ spectfully take leave, sir, to express to that the disease assumed so threatening freedom. Having affected the great ob­ junction with one from the Senate, be closed for the night, and gave signal for arms, longest tried and bosom friend, he you their deep regret for the loss their a character as to forbid the encourage­ ject for which he was placed at the head appointed to consider on the most suit­ the rest in the well-regulated mansion, observed, "I am dying, sir-but am not country has sustained in the death of ment of hope; yet, to stay that summons of our armies, we have seen him convert able manner of paying honor to the she rose again, and continued sitting up, afraid to die." To Mrs. Washington he General George Washington - This which none may refuse, to give still the word into the plough share and vol­ memory of the man, first in war, first in in much anxiety and suspense. At length said, "Go to my desk, and in the private event, so distressing, to all our fellow farther length of days to him whose untarily link the soldier in the citizen. peace, and first in the hearts of his coun­ the well-known step was heard on the drawer you will find two papers-bring citizens, must be peculiarly heavy to you, "time-honored life" was so dear to man­ When the debility of our federal sys­ try." stair, and upon the general's entering his them to me." They were brought. He who have long been associated with him kind, prayer was not wanting to the tem had become manifest and the bonds Resolved, That this House when it chamber, the lady chided him for stay­ continued-"There are my Wills-pre­ in deeds of patriotism. Permit us, sir, to throne of Grace. Close to the couch of which connected the parts of this vast adjurns, do adjourn to Monday. ing up so late, knowing him to be un­ serve this one and burn the other," mingle our tears with yours; on this oc­ the sufferer, resting her head upon that continent were dissolving, we have seen These resolutions were unanimously well, to which Washington made this which was accordingly done. Calling to casion it is manly to weep. To lose such ancient book, with which she had been him the chief of those Patriots who agreed to. Sixteen members were ap­ memorable reply: "I came as soon as my Colonel Lear, he directed-"Let my a man at such a crisis is no common ca­ wont to hold pious communion a portion formed for us a Constitution which by pointed on the third resolution. business was accomplished. You well­ corpse be kept for the usual period of lamity to the world: our country mourns of every day, for more than half a cen­ know that through a long life, it has three days." preserving the union will, I trust, sub­ * * * her Father. The Almighty Disposer of tury, was the venerable consort, ab­ Generals Marshall and Smith were been my unvaried rule, never to put off The custom of keeping the dead for stantiate and perpetuate those blessings human events has taken from us our sorbed in silent prayer, and from which appointed to wait on the President to till the morrow the duties which should the scriptural period of three days, is our revolution had promised to bestow. greatest Benefactor and ornament. It she only arose when the mourning group know at what time it would be con­ be performed today." derived from remote antiquity, and In obedience to the general voice of becomes us to submit with reverence to prepared to lead her from the chamber venient to receive the house. Having first covered the fire with arose, not from f~ar of premature in­ his country, calling on him to preside' Him who "maketh darkness his Pa­ of the dead. Such were the last hours of care, the man of mighty labors sought terment, as in more modern times, but over a great people, we have seen him Generals Marshall and Smith having vilion." Washington. repose; but it came not, as it long had from motives of veneration toward the once more quit the retirement he loved, waited on the President with the first With patriotic pride, we review the been wont to do, to comfort and restore deceased; for the better enabling the re­ and in a season more stormy and tem­ resolution, reported, that the President life of our Washington, and compare Excerpt from "Recollections and Mem­ after the many and earnest occupations lations and friends to asse01ble from a pestuous than war itself, with calm and would be ready to receive them at 1 him with those of other countries who oirs of Washington" by George Wash­ of the well-spent day. The night was distance, to perform the hiri'eral rites; wise determination pursue the true in­ o'clock this day. The house accordingly have been pre-eminent in fame. Ancient ington Parke Custis passed in feverish restlessness and pain. for the pious watchings of the corpose; terests of the nation and contribute more waited on him. (Continued DtJ p.rge 12) February 1950 12 SA R 13

Congressional Tributes Continued to prepare for retirement, I feel myself was no more. That great soul was gone. General John Stark's Revolutionary Record John Stark as ". . . a rather obscure alone, bereaved of my last brother; yet His mortal part was there indeed; but Revolutionary brass hat," so will it soon and modern names are diminished before I derive strong consolation from the ah! how affecting! how awful the spec­ Defended by New Hampshire Sudety President become to characterize others whose him. Greatness and guilt have been too unanimous disposition, which appears in tacle of such worth and greatness, thus, names are also inseparably linked with to mortal eyes fallen ! Yes! fallen! often allied, but his fame is whiter than all ages and classes, to mingle their sor­ Dr. J. Duane Squires, prominent his­ In De<;ember, 1776, he crossed the Bunker Hill, Trenton, Bennington, fallen! it is brilliant. The destroyers of nations rows with mine, on this common calami­ torian and President of the N. H. Delaware with General Washington, and the heroic beginnings of this nation. stood abashed at the rna jesty of his vir­ ty to the world. In the long and lofty Portico, where Chapter of the Society of the Sons of the and shortly thereafter participated in the For a magazine published in Indepen­ tue. It reproved the emperance of their The life of our Washington cannot oft the hero walked in all his glory, now American Revolution, has filed an offi­ battle at Princeton. dence Square, Philadelphia, this is an inapt and inept position . Surely more ambition, and darkened the splendor of suffer by comparison with those of other lay the shrouded corpse. The counte­ cial letter of protest in the name of the 4) On July 18, 1 77 7, with the victory. The scenes closed and we are countries, who have been most celebrated nance still composed and serene, seemed society to a remark appearing in a recent ominous facts of "Gentleman Johnny" careful reflection alike by the Pringles no longer anxious lest misfortune should and exalted by Fame. The attributes to express the dignity of the spirit, which article in the Saturday Evening Post by Burgoyne's ad vance from Canada star­ and by your own editorial staff will lead sully his glory; he has travelled on to and decorations of Royalty could only lately dwelt in that lifeless form. There Katherine and Henry Pringle on Con­ ing our nation in the face, the New to a different conclusion. John Stark the end of his journey, and carried with have served to eclipse the majesty of those who paid the last sad honours to cord, N. H., which characterized New Hampshire legislature responded to a was not merely an intimate companion­ at-arms, of the immortal Washington; him an increasing weight of honour; has those virtues which made him, from the benefactor of his country, took an Hampshire's great Revolutionary hero call for help from the brave people of deposited it where misfortune cannot being a modest citizen, a more resplen­ impressive view. as "a rather obscure Revolutionary Vermont, and named John Stark a he was not just a notable figure in the tarnish it; where malice cannot blast it. dent luminary. Misfortune, had he lived, On the ornament, at the head of the brass hat." brigadier-general. He was instructed to annals of this state; he was and ever Favoured of heaven, he departed with­ could herellfter have sullied his glory coffin, was inscribed SURGE AD Dr. Squires' letter follows: raise an expeditionary force and proceed will remain among that honored com­ out exhibiting the weakness of human­ only with those superficial minds, who, JUDICIUM-about the middle of the The Editor, with all speed across the Connecticut pany of extraordinary men without ity; magnanimous in death, the darkness believing that character and actions are coffin, GLORIA DEO-and on the The Saturday Evening Post, River and across the Green Mountains whose devotion, sacrifice, and valor our of the grave could not obscure his bright­ marked by success alone rarely deserves the silver plate, Independence Square, and try to parry any British thrusts east­ United States of America could never have been established. ness. to enjoy it. Malice could never blast his Philadelphia 5, Pennsylvania. ward. In twenty days the dauntless and Very sincerely yours, Such was the man whom we deplore honour and envy made him a singular GENERAL Dear Sir: magnetic Stark raised and equipped a -Thanks to G od, his glory is consum­ exception to her universal rule.-For GEORGE WASHINGTON In an article entitled "Concord," by brigade of a thousand men and had ]. DuANE SQUIREs, President, the New Hampshire mated. Washington yet lives on earth in himself he had lived enough, to life and Henry F. A. and Katharine Pringle them in the neighborhood of Manches­ Departed this life, on the 14th December Society, Sons of the American his spotless example-his spirit is in heav­ to glory. For his fellow citizens, if their appearing in The SATURDAY EVE­ ter, Vermont. It was a movement as 1 799, AEt. 68 Revolution. en. prayers could be answered he would NING POST for October 22, 1949, on swift and sure in its day as was Patton's have been immortal. For me his depar­ Let his countrymen consecrate the Between three and four o'clock the p. 58, appears a statement which is in­ sweep across France in 1944. ture is at a most unfortunate moment. memory of the heroic General, the pa­ band of artillery from a vessel in the felicitously couched and historically in­ On August 16, 1 7 7 7, John Stark and Trusting however in the wise and triotic Statesman, and the virtuous Sage; river firing minute-guns, awoke afresh correct. I refer to the characterization his combined forces attacked the raiding righteous dominions of Providence, over let them teach their children never to our solemn sorrow - the corpse was of a statue on the lawn of the New column led by the British mercenary THE L. G. BALFOUR CO. passions of men, and the result of their forget that the fruits of his labours, lind moved-a band of music with mournful Hampshire State Capitol as that of Colonel Baum along the W alloomsac counsels and actions, as well as over his example are their inheritance. melody melted the soul into all the " ... Gen. John Stark, a rather obscure River about five miles northwest of their lives, nothing remllins for me hut Revolutionary brass hat." tenderness of woe. Bennington and utterly crushed the in­ humble resignation. John Stark "rather obscure"? John vader. In this decisive action for the Manufacturers ol PRESIDENT'S ANSWER When the procession had arrived at His example is now complete, and it Stark a "brass hat"? Consider the facts. first time since the "Flag Day" action the bottom of the elevated lawn, on the Gentlemen of the Senate, will teach wisdom and virtue to Magis­ 1) Before he was thirty John Stark, of Congress on June 14 previously that Badges Medals banks of the Potomac, where the family born on August 28, 1 728, had served in Rings Cups I receive with the most respectful and trates, citizens and men, not only in the summer the Stars and Stripes flew in vault is placed, the cavalry halted, the the French and Indian War as a leading battle. Favors Trophies affectionate sentiments, in this impressive present age, but in future generations, infantry marched towards the Mount member of the unforgettable "Rogers' Programs Medallions address, the obliging expressions of your as long as our history shall be read. If a 5) In October General Stark aided Trajan found a Pliny, a Marcus Aure­ and formed their lines-the Clergy, the Rangers," winning by virtue of gallantry in forcing the total capitulation of Bur­ Stationery Plaques regret for the loss our Country has sus­ Door Plates Emblem Insignia lius can never want Biographers, Eulo­ Masonic Brothers and the Citizens, de­ in action the rank of captain. goyne by blocking any possible line of tained in the death of her most esteemed, Memorial Tablets I scended to the vault, and the funeral 2) Honorably discharged after that retreat after the great American victory gists or Historians. Athletic Figures beloved and admired Citizen. service of the Church was performed­ struggle and busy with family responsi­ JoHN ADAMS at Saratoga. Fraternity Jewelry j In the multitude of my thoughts and The firing was repeated from the vessel bilities and business affairs, John Stark, 6) In the closing stages of the War recollections, on this melancholy event, * * * in the river, and the sounds echoed from after the initial clashes of 1 77 5 at Lex­ for Independence John Stark served as Washington , D. C., Headquarters you will permit me only to say, that I ington and Concord, volunteered his the woods and hills around. commander of the Northern Depart­ 1319 F Street, N. W., Suite 204 have seen him in the days of adversity, in W ASHI GTON E TOMBED Three general discharges by the in­ services and reported for duty in Cam­ ment of the U.S. Army; he was one of some of the scenes of his deepest and Georgetown, Dec. 20 fantry, the cavalry, and 11 pieces of bridge, Massachusetts. There he was the board of general officers who tried most trying perplexities; I have also at­ named Colonel in Command of the New Major Andre for treasqn; and he was STEPHEN 0 . FORD On Wednesday last the mortal part artillery which lined the banks of the tended him in his highest elevation and Hampshire men who were gathered in raised by Congress to the rank of Major Manager of George Washington the Great-the Potomac back of the Vault, paid the last most prosperous felicity; with uniform anticipation of the imminent war. At General in 1783. Father of his Country and the friend of tribute to the entombed Commander in j admiration of his wisdom, moderation Bunker Hill on June 1 7, John Stark 7) He had a flair for stirring lan­ man, was consigned to the tomb, with Chief of the Armies of the United States and constancy. ~ommanded the American left, having guage which made some of his sayings i solemn honor and funeral pomp. and to the departed Hero. Among all our original associates, in In his Granite State contingent the national epigrams for generations fol­ I A multitude of persons assembled, The sun was now setting. Alas The largest number of troops from any one the memorable League of the Conti­ lowing the struggle for independence. Indices for the S.A.R. from many miles round, at Mount Ver­ Son of Glory was set forever. NO­ State which participated in that famous nent in 1774, which first expressed the 8) At the time of his death in 1822, Magazine covering vols. non, the choice abode and last residence the name of WASHINGTON-the struggle. in his ninety-fourth year, he was believed 28 through 39 are avail­ I sovereign will of a Free Nation in Amer­ of the illustrious Chief. There were the American President and General-will 3) In May, 1776, he was with the to be the last surviving Major General ica, he was the only one remaining in the able. Send 25c for the triumph over Death! The unclouded American fares in Canada and played a of the Revolutionary era, esteemed and General Government. Although, with groves-the spacious avenues, the beauti­ complete file to National brightness of his Glory will illuminate !eading role in maintaining army morale admired by the entire nation. Headquarters. a constitution more enfeebled than his, ful and sublime scenes, the noble man­ the future ages! In the depressing retreat which ensued. If it is now fashionable to describe I at an age when he thought it necessary sion-but alas! the august inhabitant I .... SA R 14 february 19 50 15

.HISTORIAN OF VIRGINIA SOl:IETY PRESENTS HISTORY OF VIRGINIA SOCIETY CONTINUED Among the various projects of the Erie Chapter of the Pennsylvania so­ IMPRESSIVE Blll:IliJROUND OF ITS FOUNDING I Compatriot Jones has held the office of ational Trustee for one term. He ciety of the S. A. R. that have been un­ was Genealogist General of the National Society for five years and its Historian dertaken during the past year was one General for two years. When the North Carolina State Society was chartered he CoMPATRIOTS: designed to further the nation-wide ef­ acted as the personal representative of the President General in forming that society. fort to translate into Law the bulk of It may be well to remind ourselves that t~e first ~rgan.ization of descendants He was the fifteenth State President of the Virginia Society and was made Honorary the recommendations to Congress in of revolutionary patriots occurred in San Fran~Jsco, Cahf?rma, October ~2, 18 7 5. President of the Richmond Chapter. the recent Hoover Committee report. This was purely a local society. Through seemg some Circulars and cop1es of the For your information I am enclosing constitution of this first organization certain patriots in New York met and organ­ When his eyeseight became such that he could no longer conduct his genea­ a copy of a full-page spread which we ized an independent society in 1883. This society was called "S.ons o~ the R~volu­ logical work he donated all of his office furniture and a valuable collection of revo­ had prepared for us by a local advertis­ tion." Other states followed and in 1888 a society was formed m Ph1ladelph1a: lutionary records to the Virginia Society. In spite of infirmities he has continued to !n ing firm and which appeared Sunday, 1889 societies were organized in several of the central s:ates. These SOCieties manage the affairs of the State Society's Headquarters office. I am paying this November 27th, in the Erie Sunday objected to being considered "auxiliary:' either to ~a~ Fran~1sco or ~e': York.. A tribute to our beloved Secretary, and making it a part of our historical records, be­ Times and the Erie Dispatch Herald National Convention was called to wh1ch every ex1stmg Society was mv1ted. Thir­ cause I believe it is due him while he is yet with us. Why reserve all the flowers Sunday Edition. You will note that it teen of the twenty State Societies responded and sent representatives.to Washington, for one's grave? bears a small insignia of the well-known D. C. There a National Society was planned, eighteen states bemg represe~ted. Your Historian would call the attention of Virginia's Compatriots to an issue Colonial Fife and Drum Corps which The history of National Society of Sons of the Ame.rican R~volution begms w1th. a of The Empire Minute Man, publication of the SAR of New York, containing a we have adopted as our Chapter insig­ convention held in Fraunce's Tavern, New York C1ty, Apnl 30, 1889. In the.hst picture of the New York Society's library in Room 105 of the Sub-Treasury Build­ nia. The spread should have had the of distinguished officers of the first National Society appears the name of Hon. Fitz- ing. Please note the clean, orderly arrangement of the books, pictures and flag and insignia of the Pennsylvania Society but hugh Lee, of Virginia. . the furniture; then compare this with the room now occupied by our State Head­ the plates were tied up for some other The Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was orgamzed quarters in Richmond. Of course, you may say that the New York Society is a project at the time. The appearance of at Richmond July 7, 1890, where the state headquarters have been since .th~ ?~­ rich organization; but I ask whether the membership of the Virginia Society is so this advertisement was preceded by the ginning. On the roster of charter members appear names of many of V1rgm1a s t~e. poor that it cannot afford to provide a decent office for its headquarters, and a safe publication in each issue of both papers most distinguished citi~ens, few of whom are now. h:1~g. ~here were 62 charter repository for its historical documents, pictures and flags? It seems to me that this for three days with small inserts bear­ members. The leaders of the movement for a V1rgm~a Soc1ety were membe:s of should have your serious consideration and action. Perhaps some corporation which ing our Chapter insignia asking people Congress, and on February 28, 1890, a committee re-assembled .at the NatJOnal to watch for this important announce­ Capitol, adopted a constitution and by-laws, and selected the followmg officers: enjoys freedom from taxation for its property because of its religious or patriotic character, could be prevailed upon to provide a room for the headquarters of the ment. These were scattered through sections of the various papers. President, Hon. William Wirt Henry, of Richmond, a grand­ State SAR. Why not? The total cost for this effort will sur­ son of Patrick Henry. Also there is an item in the SAR National News Letter for September which pass $400.00 and obviously could not be Vice-Presidents, Gen. William H. F. Lee, M. C. of Burke's is worthy of your attention, entitled PUBLIC RELATIONs, as follows: taken out of the dues. We therefore Station and Colonel George Washington Ball, of Alex­ "A Public Relations study this summer revealed the most important factors in financed it by a contribution from one andria,' the nearest male relative of George Washington forming public opinion are: ( 1) Newspaper headlines and new stories (in forming of our past presidents who prefers to re­ then living. day-to-day opinions), (2) schools and churches (in forming long-range social main anonymous in the matter, and the Secretary, Thomas Nelson Page, of Richmond. attitudes) .... The most effective technique-continuous repetition of an idea. small preliminary inserts were financed Treasurer, Joseph Poryall, of Ric~mond. through the generosity of Compatriot Registrar, J. William Jones, of R1chmond. "Study indicates SAR must aim its public relations effort toward getting more newspaper publicity, and toward reaching teachers, preachers and other community John Kuhns of this city. Following this action, in June the National Soci~ty sent .its duly qualified rep­ leaders with information about SAR, its work and its ideals. We respectfully suggest that this resentatives to Richmond to reorganize the State Society, wh1ch was done o.n July "Our publicity goal this year is: The name of every Chapter in local news­ project receive a little publicity so that 7th. The National Register of 1902, to which I have had ~ccess, contams the papers at least once a month. A fast-moving Chapter program and a live-wire other chapters throughout the country Old South Church, Boston, Mass. names of 73 members of the Virginia Society. Among these IS the ~arne of our publicity chairman will make this goal easy." can make some effort to further the faithful State Secretary, William Macfarlane Jones. May I here remmd yo~ that cause of the Hoover Report. 602 W. Colter St. It is the aim of your Historian to conserve every item of historical interest Compatriot Jones is the oldest living member,. as regar?s act~al membe.rsh1p, m the Incidentally, during my year as Phoenix, Ariz. ~·elating to the American Revolution or to members of the SAR, especially such President of the local Chapter we have Virginia Society? On the register of the Nat10nal SoCiety h1~ nui_IJber IS 1590 and 26 Dec. 49 Items as have reference to Virginia or to Virginia members. In this effort I not on the State roster, No. 40. When he joined the State Soc1ety m 1893, the first appointed a Finance Committee with Dear Ed. Osborn: only welcome, but solicit the cooperation of every member of our State or local President, William Wirt Henry, was still in the chair. Compatriot Jones h~s been the responsibility of securing funds to Enclosed is another one of the pies I took in Societies. Students of history know how important it is to collect every fragment of carry out a more active program which an active and diligent member ever since. In the early years of the Society he historical information for the use of future historians. Boston last summer, If you can use it ok-if our modest dues could not possibly served as Chairman of the Board of Managers, later as Secretary, and when the not, just dump it. headquarters office was opened he was put in charge of it. Findi~~ the rec?rd~ of Respectfully submitted, finance. So far, our more well-to-do the Society in bad shape he set about clearing them up. Wher.e ongmal app~JCa~JOns It is of "Old South Church"-allegedly where members have responded gloriously. It FREDERICK W. BuRNHAM, were lost or burned he sent to Washington and secured cop1es of all apphcatJO~s, the local hotbloods held their sub rosa meetings. would seem to me that the National, then bound them in volumes of 100 each for permanent record. He has been active It was here they gather prior to strolling down Historian, Virginia Society, State and local units of our great Society to the bay for a gigantic tea party one night a Sons of the American Revolution. in securing new members for the Society. It was ~e who induced me :o ~.ake might do likewise in order to be more few years back. England furnished the tea, effective against the growing threat of application for membership, traced my a~cestry, ~nd mtroduce? ~e as a ':1~gm1an, God the water, and the Colonists the heat. taking the ground that since I was born m Illm01s a.nd that Illmms. was ongmall~ a socialism to our Government structure. Regards, part of Virginia, its first territorial governor hav1~g been. a~p?mted ?Y. P~tnck COATS OF ARMS Henry, then governor of Virginia,. I .am really a native of V1rgm1a-a d1stmct10n I HARRY P. ORCUTT, ARIZ. SOCIETY Family armorial bearings hand painted to order Editor's Note. The full page adver­ am, of course, happy to claim. S1m1lar servJCe he has rendered for many of our For particulars write: tisement mentioned above made such a p.s. Have some others that will send from time deep impression upon your Editor that members. to time. CHARLES TOWN STUDIOS 2636 Walton Way Augusta, Georgia he has reproduced it on the following (Co11tintted on page 15) ho pages. - - --·------. .

Are We Spending More Than We Have?

I F we Americans are to avoid the disgrace and subsequent misery of "going broke," we must study and understand the steps that must be taken to cut down on the cost of government. The Erie Chapter of The Pennsylvania Society of the Sonuf the American Revolution* publishes this page recommending that every reader study the comments below carefully and act at once, to expedite a more definite action from our Congress. Little has been done! Columnist Frank Kent in an April 12th article in the Cincinnati Inquirer boiled down to simple facts, the vital findings of The Hoover Commission proposing extensive government reorganization within _the framework of the Constitution to result in cutting government costs without impairing government functions. Read Mr. Kent's recommendations after keen analysis of the problem we face today as individuals and as a nation ••• Then Act ••• Write to at least one of the men whose address is given below today.

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FRANK R. KENT says, "The sluggish indifference in "0 PPOSITION comes from the intrenched Federal Congress to the Hoover Commission's recommendation bureaucracy and the labor lobby. Powerful as these are, for reorganization of the Federal Government, gro­ they should be easy to override on so tremendously essen­ tesquely swollen and incredibly bungling, wasteful and "T HESE statements are by no means too strong. The tial a matter as this. Yet, incredibly, it lags. inefficient, is a direct reflection of the inertia and un­ truth is they cannot be made too strong. For here are the facts- far, indeed, from those-ideal conditions, intelligence of the American people. There is no other "Already it is being said that Congress will evade re­ financially, the nation is in an appalling state. Instead way to explain it. The present situation is as complete sponsibility itself and merely authorize Mr. Truman to of being free of debt, the debt - now more than $260,- an indictment of our unfitness to govern ourselves as reorganize to the extent he desires. That, of course, 000,000,000- is far greater than anyone dreamed could has been made. means nothing at all. Most Congressmen shrink from be sustained. The annual interest alone is twice as much doing anything to disturb the constituents whom they "These may seem harsh words, but they are justi­ as the total cost of government 20 years ago. Instead of have on the pay roll. Their disposition is to run away from fied by the facts. If this nation were free of debt; if being lightly taxed, the tax burden is unprecedentedly the drastic steps they are now asked to take in the no~ its citizens were lightly taxed; if there were a depend­ heavy. It bears grievously upon rich and poor alike. We tional interests. ab\e sur11\us \n t\\e Treasury; \f tbere were no war clouds have reached the point where to gain acutely needed rev- ., ... ,... _... cow•••••••••:r run ...~n.-.y-...... - ~ . VI'IG•w not to enact the Hoover recommendation which not only such conditions any business, big or little, would be try's future is not pleasant -...-----to contemplate. Easily it is would save $3,000,000,000 a year but, through the elimi­ marked insolvent, branded as bankrupt. In other words, the most important matter before Congress. Its fate will nation of duplication, waste and absurdities, restore our Federal fiscal structure is strained to the limit. affect every project upon which we are engaged, abroad reason and efficiency to a machine close to bogging down as well as at home." of its own weight ..• "Literally, there is eve r y t h i n g to commend the "It is a hopeful thought that the people are being "Under conditions as they really are, not to act Hoover Commission. The idea was not originated by Mr. aroused on so vital and simple an issue." swiftly and favorably is more than stupid-it is wicked. Hoover, but by Congress itself. It was Congress which It comes close to national insanity. It would be the unanimously passed a resolution creating the commission most shocking demonstration of popular incapacity in and asking it to do the job. The commission has done the all history. job. Neither the accuracy of the report's figures nor the soundness of its recommendations are questioned by any­ "It would exhibit this nation as having, first, gone on one. Virtually every newspaper in the United States has record as realizing the necessity of regaining control of approved. There isn't so much as a trace of politics any­ its governmental machinery; second, as having its request where. No one connected with the commission has any­ to be shown the way fully complied with; third, with full thing even remotely to gain. No one in any party disputes knowledge of the danger, as having turned its back, shut the vital necessity of the proposed reorganizations, which its eyes and done nothing. every President since Theodore Roosevelt has ur~ed. In­ •FOOTNOTE:------, formed men know that if it fails this time it will never be The Penns~lvania and National Soc ieties of the Sons of the done. This is the last chance. American Revolution of which the Erie Chapter is the local unit, is a patriotic organization mode up entirely of individ­ u•ls who have proven their descendency from the patriotic participants in the American Revolutionary War. The Price of FREEDOM Is Eternal Vigilance!

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Senator Edward Martin, U. S. Senate-Washington, D. C. Senator James Myers, U. S. Senate-Washington, D. C. Representative Carroll D. Kearns, House of Representatives-Washington, D. C. Representative William J. Green, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Representative James E. Van Zandt, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

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Red Hill Memorial Continued pass upon the validity of federal laws." almost as folklore, yet through the ages His forceful argument ended with the Lima, Ohio, l:eremony "Bed Hill," Patrick Henry's Home and Burial his fame as America's most fluent and Patrick Henry's most dazzling display words that Americans today may heed articulate orator remains unchallenged. of oratorical genius was at Richmond, as he was heeded then, when he pro­ Place in l:harlolle l:ounty, Virginia He was the greatest orator of his time, Virginia, when before the Convention of claimed that "if ever you recur to an­ and probably the greatest orator of all THROUGH THE GENEROSITY of patriotic ing place. His body lies buried in a sim­ 1775, assembled in St. John's Church, other change, you may bid aclieu forever time. he again took the initiative with ch~r~c­ Americans a perpetual memorial in com­ ple grave on the grounds of his home, He may be said to have first found his to representative government." memoration of the life and character of "Red Hill" in Charlotte County, Vir­ teristic decisiveness. Henry, reahzmg That same year Henry was elected to transcendent talents as an orator when that war was inevitable, shattered the Patrick Henry is to be established at ginia, and neither here in his native defending the Virginia planters in the the General Assembly of Virginia, but complacency of the delegates by declar­ "Red Hill" in Charlotte County, Vir­ State, nor elsewhere in this country that court proceeding knowns as "The Par­ was too infirm to take his seat. Previous­ ing that "Gentlemen may cry 'peace, ginia, this being Henry's home and he served so well, is there any important sons' Cause" at Hanover Court House ly he had declined to accept the nomi­ peace,' but there is no peace. The war burial place. Thus, will this hallowed memorial to his memory. in Virginia in 1763. Here Henry lighted nation to the Federal Senate; had re­ is actually begun. The next gale that spot be forever set apart as a National the torch which kindled the fires of the fused the tender of the post of Minister will sweep down from the North will Shrine, dedicated to the aims, ideals and Revolution, and led the fight which was to Spain and also to France; and had bring purposes for which Patrick Henry lived later to result in the establishment of re­ rejected the offer of the Secretaryship of and labored-that the liberty which he ligious liberty in America. Later he was advanced to the rank of State and the Chief-Justiceship of the envisaged and proclaimed with matchless This episode has been termed the first commander in chief of the Virginia Supreme Court. It was one hundred eloquence may be preserved in the hearts scene in the drama of the American forces as a whole. However many mem­ and fifty years ago, on June 6th 1799, of men everywhere. Revolution, and on this memorable oc­ bers of the Committee of Safety were that Patrick Henry died with the words The average person thinks of Patrick casiOn the young barrister's words dubious of his military talents. They be­ of religious faith on his lips. "How Henry principally as a great orator who flashed like sword thrusts as he hurled lieved as Washington believed, that wretched I should be at this moment,'' pleaded for liberty or for death; how­ defiance at the British Crown, proclaim­ Henry lacked experience in the field of he said, "if I had not made my peace ever, he was much more than that, and ing that through his acts, the King, battle, and that his place was "directing with God." His body reposes in the to use the words of George Mason, "from being the father of his people, has the formation of the government to be, garden of "Red Hill,'' and the sole in­ "His eloquence was the smallest part of degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits lending his genius to that end." So scription upon the face of his tombstone his merit-he was the first man on his all rights to his subjects' obedience." Henry acquiesced to their wishes and is "His Fame Is His Best Epitaph." Lima Chapter, Sons of the American continent, as well in abilities as in public Two years later, Patrick Henry's resigned his commission, at which his Revolution, joined with Lima Chapter, virtues." troops put on mourning and would have * * * Daughters of the American Revolution, "torrents of sublime eloquence," to use "Red Hill,'' Patrick Henry's home Historians agree that Henry was the deserted the ranks in a body had he not in impressive patriotic ceremonies at another of Jefferson's expressions, effec­ and final resting place, was recently of­ spiritual leader of the American Revolu­ persuaded them to remain. Bluffton, Ohio, July 10, 1949, at 3:00 tively fixed in men's minds the possibility fered for sale to settle the estate of the tion-that he hastened its inception and Patrick Henry then became . the first P.M. The occasion was the dedication of a revolt against the chafing British last owner, a descendant of Henry. The contributed mightily to its success. He Governor of Virginia under the new of a new government marker at the rule, when he introduced his famous property, consisting of some nine hun­ has been rightfully called "the genius regime, and as Governor authorized the hitherto unmarked grave df Joseph De­ resolutions against the Stamp Act in the dred acres, was purchased by a group of of liberty," and as such, he holds the George Rogers Clark expedition into the Ford, Revolutionary soldier. A native House of Burgesses in session at Wil­ patriotic men and women, now organ­ supreme admiration of every true Amer­ Northwest. This conquest added a vast of France, Joseph DeFord had served liamsburg, Virginia. ized as the Patrick Henry Memorial ican. But have Americans shown their territory to the Union, comprising now with the Fifth Maryland Regiment dur­ Henry's speech on this occasion, which Foundation. admiration by other than lip service? To the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, ing the Revolution. He settled in Bluff­ was eleven years before the signing of The house in which Patrick Henry our shame, we have not. Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of ton about 1832. the Declaration of Independence, was spent his last days was destroyed by fire This unpardonable neglect in honor­ Minnesota. This expedition is considered In the photograph surrounding the the first to be raised against the attempt some thirty years ago. However the ing the memory of the man whom the greatest achievement in the history marker are (left to right) Harry B. of Parliament to impose taxation with­ foundation remains, his law office still Thomas Jefferson termed "our leader in of America from a military standpoint, Longsworth, past president Lima Chap­ out representation. T.hrough this speech stands, and his body rests in the ground the measures of the revolution" was c::onsidering the small number of men ter; James Jacobs, Allen County Com­ Henry became leader of the people by he marked for his resting place. It is called to the attention of the American engaged, and the importance of the re­ missioner; John E. Breese, Lima Chap­ his fearless declaration that "Tarquin one of the hallowed spots of America. people more than a century ago by Wil­ sults. ter historian and. genealogist; Clarence and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles Funds are needed with which to pre­ liam Wirt, whose words are as follows: That we have thus neglected to pay N. Breese, Lima Chapter president. the First, his Cromwell, and George the After serving as Governor of Virginia serve the grave, rebuild the house, re­ "Had his lot been cast in the republics proper tribute to Patrick Henry is a re­ Shawnee Boy Scout Troop acted as Third-( cries of 'Treason, treason' re­ for three terms he declined reelection, store the law office, and fully develop of Greece or Rome, his name would proach to succeeding generations who color guard at the dedication. sounded from all parts of the chamber) and was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson. the natural charm and beauty of this have been enrolled by some immortal have been the beneficiaries of his labors, JoHN E. BREESE and George the Third may profit by Five years later the people of Virginia place that Patrick Henry termed "one pen, among the expellers of tyrants and and making amends for this neglect is the their example." again elected him their Chief Executive, Lima Chapter, S.A.R. the champions of liberty; the proudest aim and purpose of the Patrick Henry of the garden spots of the world." As a delegate to the Continental Con­ and as such he served his fourth and fifth In seeking these funds the Patrick monuments of national gratitude would Memorial Foundation. terms of office, and again declined re­ gress in Philadelphia in 1774, Henry Henry Memorial Foundation appeals to If your ancestors were among have risen to his honor, and handed The Foundation's program includes again rose to the heights of his powers of election. down his memory to future generations. the acquiring of the home and grave of the generosity of all patriotic Americans, the First Settlers of Utah a new eloquence, impressing on the minds of The last scene in Patrick Henry's As it is, his fame, as yet, is left to rest for only through their financial support book can be had for $5, beauti­ Patrick Henry at "Red Hill." The grave his fellow men that "We will never be eventful and brilliant career occurred on upon tradition, and on that short notice is to be given perpetual care; Henry's will the aims and purposes as outlined be fully and substantially bound, let­ taxed but by our own representatives. the tenth day of March, 1709, when he accomplished. tered in gold, with a list of all fam­ which general history can take of him; house, long since destroyed by fire, is to United we stand, divided we fall." His left his sick bed at his home, "Red Hill,'' Patrick Henry is worthy of all re­ ilies in 1850-their names, date while no memorial, no slab even, raised be rebuilt; his law office, now standing, declaration that "I am not a Virginian, by the hand of national gratitude, points is to be restored and preserved for pos­ and journeyed some twenty miles to membrance and appreciation by every and place of birth. but an American" was the keynote to Charlotte Court House to address an as­ true American, for he was one of na­ us to his grave, or tells where sleep the terity; and the grounds appropriately his plea for unity, and after Henry's in­ ANNIE WALKER BURNS ashes of the patriot and sage." semblage there. Once again his voice ture's great who championed the rights beautified. spiring call to action, Congress adopted PO Box 683, Washington, D. C. Nor to this day has there been but Although Patrick Henry's famed elo­ unleashed, lashed out as he warned his of common men with dauntless courage a Declaration of Rights. listeners that "no State has the right to and abiding faith. scant notice taken of Henry's final rest- quence has come down to this generation (Continued on page 19) 20 SA R February 19 50 21

of two and three they assembled behind Convention, and, when the latter New [hapter at Utica, N. Y. Named After trees or other points of vantage. They Emergency Laymen's [ommittee Attack on opened, it appeared with two lobbyists met and assailed the enemy with clubbed and with nine delegates ready to speak rifles, with tomahawks, with knives. For Radical [lergymen Reported by [ompatriot from the floor. Battle of Oriskany five hours this continued with about 200 killed on each side and with many more But the lobbyists got nowhere, and the speakers failed to rise. Said The New Prime Minister, Lord George Ger­ demand for surrender was met by a wounded. Lee Hagood of NewYork York Times, there was "no debate and maine, on March 26th, 1 7 7 7, instructed prompt refusal. At length firing was heard in the di­ scarcely a murmur of protest" when the General Carleton, British Commander The patriotic people of the Mohawk rection of Fort Schuyler. The messen­ The beginning of the end is here eluded were Rev. William Howard Melish Case Defense resolutions were .at Quebec, to prepare to send a force of Valley, warned in time of the approach gers sent forward the day before had wherein laymen and clergymen of Prot­ Melish, and four of the directorate of defeated. And, said The Lroing Church, 7000 men up Lake Champlain and of St. Leger, were ready to throw reached the fort and immediately Gan­ estant churches will tolerate a small the Church League for Industrial De­ "During this triennium the Episcopal proceed with speed to Albany to form themselves in his path and save the fort, sevoort organized a sortie, composed of organized minority of radical clergymen mocracy. The latter were: Rt. Rev. Church awoke out of the strange leth­ junction with Sir William Howe, com­ their farms and their homes. At the first. 250 New York and Massachusetts to advance socialism in the form of a Edward L. Parsons, its President, for­ troops under the lead of Lieut. Col. merly Bishop of California; Rev. Wil­ argy that had held it in its grip for mander of occupying force at New alarm the militia turned out, eight hun­ religious program which is not only op­ Marinus Willett. The party made a liam B. Spofford, its Secretary, and the many years and the laymen once more York. This Canadian expedition to be dred in number, and marched to the re­ posed to the principles of the government rapid dash into St. Leger's camp, where Editor of The Witness; Prof. Vida D. took over." •under command of Lieut. Gen. Joseph lief of Gansevoort with the veteran and to the Constitution itself but renders only a guard remained, and captured Scudder, a Vice-President and formerly Such a dismal failure was due, in part, Burgoyne. The troops assembled at the General Nicholas Herkimer at their aid and comfort to America's enemies. flags, baggage, stores and papers. Thus Dean of Wellesley College; and Rev. to each delegate and others-a total of north end of Lake Champlain on June head. This old soldier had so heartily The awakening was touched off by the sound of their firing relieved Her­ Guy Emery Shipler, of the Executive 3000 individuals-having received the 20th. The combined maneuver was a identified himself with the popular cause, the discharge of two radical clergymen kimer of the enemy on his front and Committee and the Editor of The "Interlocking Chart Showing Radical ·diversion to capture New England. was so well known through central New as rectors. They were the Rev. John flanks. Churchman. Connections" and other documented Burgoyne's plan of campaign in­ York, and well esteemed among his Howard Melish and his son and assist­ The Indians, having lost many of Totwithstanding the radical records evidence; which had been sent them by cluded a cooperating force to go up the neighbors, that his leadership was itself their warriors, were the first to run at ant, Rev. William Howard Melish. of the two Melishes, the "Melish Case the Emergency Laymen's Committee, St. Lawrence river into Lake Ontario, an element of strength. the sound of Willetts' musketry and the The elder Melish had a long radical Defense" was organized and it raised a organized by members of the Sons of to land at Oswego, then drive through On the 4th of August the militia whole British force soon followed, leav­ record as vice-president of the socialist large fund. Thereupon, it flooded the the American Revolution and members the Mohawk Valley, there to join the crossed the Mohawk where Utica now ing the American in possession of the Church League for Industrial Democ­ nation with newspaper releases, it at­ of other patriotic societies. This group main body. The purpose was to distract stands and the following day Herkimer field. It was a complete check to St. racy, operated by more than a dozen tempted to invalidate the Bishop's re­ had the foresight to realize that, if the the Americans on their flank, crush out sent word to Gansevoort of his approach Leger's proposed movement although he Episcopal clergymen. The Allied Pa­ moval order by a civil court action, it Melish Case Defense were defeated de­ Tebellion in the Valley, secure the co­ and proposed that the garrison should still persisted in the siege of the fort. triotic Societies, an alliance of forty circulated a 68-page booklet to the dele­ cisively, it would mean the beginning of <>peration of the large Tory population meet him at an appointed time, by a sor­ However, rumors reached St. Leger patriotic groups in which the writer rep­ gates of the pending triennial General the end of radical clergymen. and thus bring all western New York tie. This plan was abandoned through of the approach of Arnold with a second resented the Sons of the American Revo­ under control of the British, by the time delays in the march. relief party of Continentals, whose lution, had exposed it in 193 7 by a the Burgoyne expedition should reach St. Leger had heard of Herkimer's strength was magnified by messengers booklet and, again, in 1938 by an "In­ Albany. approach and had taken measures to in­ sent designedly into the enemy's camp. terlocking Chart Showing Radical Con­ The force sent upon the expedition to tercept it. Having failed in his first plan, This so alarmed the Indians that it com­ nections of Certain Organizations." The the Mohawk Valley was composed of Herkimer should have advanced with pelled St. Leger to abandon the siege Chart displayed documentary evidence 700 white troops, of all arms, including caution, but permitting his better judg­ and retreat to Oswego. that the League's directorate was inter­ regulars, Sir John Johnson's "Loyal ment to be overruled by the reproaches This was the first of two disasters to locked with other societies and move­ Greens," many of whom had their of younger officers who accused him of Burgoyne's plan. The second was the ments in a nationwide network by which homes along the Mohawk, and about lack of energy and spirit, he ordered a victory of Gen. John Stark at Benning­ a few radical leaders could exercise a 1000 Indians under Joseph Brant, rapid advance. This militia, whose ex­ ton on August 16th, followed by his self-perpetuating authority; whose aim Chief of the Mohawk tribe. Barry St. perience of Indian warfare should have surrender at Saratoga of all British is socialism, and whose strategy includes the promotion of pacifist societies and the Leger, Lieut. Colonel of the Thirty­ taught them better, marched carelessly troops on October 1 7, 1 7 7 7. along the banks of the river and through injection into their "peace" programs of fourth Regiment of the British Army, ravines till a deep wooded hollow was a fight against capitalism. All of which had the full comand. His corps about reached near Oriskany. At one end the Utica, New York, Friday evening, plays into the hands of the Communist 1800 strong reached the vicinity of Fort British regulars lay in ambush and the January 27th, 1950, will be the as­ Party; as planned by Lenin, who had Schuyler (formerly Fort Stanwix) on Indian allies were in concealment on sembly point for Compatriots from all said, "Communism will be put across the 3rd of August 1777. both sides. When Herkimer and his men over New York State, the occasion being not by communists ~ut by non-commu­ This old fortification built during the were well in this defile, a destructive fire the Institution Ceremony of the new nist aid-societies." French and Indian War, on the Mo­ was opened upon them, the rear guard Utica Chapter named after the Battle In its April issue, Life used a caption hawk River, was a few miles east of the was cut off from the main body, driven of Oriskany. entitled "Dupes and Fellowtravellers present city of Rome. Realizing the back and dispersed, many taken prisoners The Prescribed Form of Chapter In­ Dress Up Communist Fronts," displayed importance of the post, the Americans and the provision train captured. Her­ stitution Ceremony, prepared by Dr. fifty photographs, and stated: "They had garrisoned it with about 7 50 New kimer was mortally wounded and his John A. Fritchey II of the SAR Execu­ are not the most notorious 50 but a rep­ York and Massachusetts Continental horse shot from under him. tive Committee and published on pages resentative selection ranging from hard­ troops under command of Colonel Peter Seated upon the saddle at the foot of 18 and 19 of the November Issue of the Working fellowtravellers to soft-headed Gansevoort, of New York, who had a tree, where he could overlook the field, QuARTERLY, will be followed at this do-gooders who have persistently lent served in the Montgomery expedition to he smoked his pipe and continued to give Utica ceremony of presenting the Char­ their names to organizations labeled by Quebec. He had put the post in excel­ orders. This stiffened his men to be rer and giving the oath to the new offi­ the U. S. Attorney General and other ( L to R) Clare E. Cook, President, Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Columbus, Ohio; President General lent shape for defense and St. Leger's brave as they had been rash. In groups cers. government agencies as subversive." In- John W. Finger; and Dr. Joseph B. Heidler, President, The Ohio Society. 22 SA R February 19 50 23

BOY S[OUT [OMMITTEE ON THE JOB Bill of Rights Continued DUB BILL OF GBIEVAN[ES of amendments proposed by the State ratifying conventions, James Madison Report of Harold L. Putnam, Chairman of Committee on Americanization Chairman Clarence E. Shriner, Cin­ The territory listed below is assigned produced a set of amendments, drawn cinnati, Ohio advises that all members to each member of the Committee: largely from the Virginia Declaration of the National Society Boy Scout Com­ of Rights, which were to form the basis Now that Congress is again in session Congressional Record. Important con­ The Bill of Grievances is an unusual Dr. George Albert Smith of Salt mittee have been given assignments to Lake City, Utah: Utah, Nevada, New of our present Bill of Rights. After con­ we expect some definite consideration tacts have resulted. document of importance to all of our make effective the program of coopera­ Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, siderable debate, the Congress accepted, of our petition entitled "A Bill of Griev­ There is evidence of a growing de­ members at this time. It contains an tion between the Sons of the American Texas. on September 25, 1789, twelve Articles ances." A report by your Committee mand for printed copies of the Bill of outline of the evidence showing the na­ Revolution and the Boy Scouts of R. A. McDermott of Milwaukee, to be added to the Constitution, ten of on Americanization is therefore in or­ Grievances. It is extremely encourag­ ture and extent of the subversive text­ America which was adopted at Jackson­ Wisconsin: Wisconsin, Michigan, Indi­ which subsequently became a valid part der. ing to note the extent to which organiza­ book problem, which is now plagueing our public school system. It includes an ville, Florida in May, 1949. ana, Minnesota, North Dakota, S. Da­ of the Constitution, upon their ratifica­ Since this document was filed with tions and individuals outside our Society analysis of the activities of communist In his letter to members of the Com­ kota. tion on December 15, 1791, by Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary are obtaining copies of this document as fronts involved in that situation. Your mittee, Compatriot Shriner wrote as fol­ John C. Truitt of Milford, Dela­ and today they form the Bill of Rights Committee and the chairman of the a means of going over the evidence in Committee recommends that our mem­ lows: ware: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. as we know it. House Un-American Activities Commit­ this case for themselves. bers take the opportunity to get a copy "You may have read the report of the John A. Dawson of Chicago, Illinois: tee we have been working in every prop­ The distribution of printed copies of This, our supreme charter of a free of this document and read it themselves. Boy Scout Committee which I presented Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, er 'way to obtain favorable consideration. this document has imposed a heavy man's rights, is basically an affirmation Much of the criticism to date has at the National Congress in May and Kansas, Louisana, Nebraska, Arkansas. Our first report in this matter was made burden on your Committee. The appro­ of the essential dignity of man as an in­ been the result of action by individuals which was adopted and printed in the at the last annual congress of the Na­ priations made by the National Society Myron R. Wilson of Helena, Mon­ dividual-a fundamental principle for who have not even read the evidence, first issue of our National Bulletin fol­ tional Society at Jacksonville. A limited covered the original cost of setting type tana: Montana, Washington, Wyoming, which all free governments exist. It is a number of copies of the Bill of Griev­ or taken an opportunity to investigate lowing that meeting. Now it becomes Idaho, Oregon. and printing a limited number of copies. this matter for themselves. Our National specific declaration of individual rights ances has since been printed under an our responsibility, as members of the Boy It is necessary to carry further expense Society has a unique opportunity to take William H. Pouch of New York, and binds and limits the power of the appropriation made available by the E~­ Scout Committee of our National So­ on the basis of a reasonable charge that the lead in defense of better teaching of New York: New York, New Jersey, National Government over the people. ecutive Committee. This document IS will provide reimbursement for print­ ciety, to make this report as effective as Pennsylvania. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time: now printed and available for_ distribu­ American principles in our schools. ing, mailing and other distribution ex­ possible. Harry F. Morse of New London, tion to members and other mterested Every member of this Society is a Min­ "A bill of rights is what the people pense. We also have the problem of ute Man, who should be personally ac­ "In order to expedite this I wish to Connecticut: Connecticut, Maine, Rhode parties. are entitled to against every govern­ providing for secretal;ial expense m quainted with this matter, and able to request that each member of the Com­ Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, ment on earth." Your Committee has taken necessary handling correspondence. discuss it intelligently with individuals mittee be responsible for a number of Vermont. Our Bill of Rights therefore guaran­ steps to place copies of the Bill of Griev­ Your Committee has decided to make and organizations in his own community. states. What I wish to request is that Carson D. Baucom of Raleigh, North tees freedom of religion, speech and ances in the hands of members of the a charge of $1.00 per copy for single Our program at this time is to work you write a personal letter to the State Carolina: North Carolina, Georgia, various committees in Congress, and key copies of the Bill of Grievances with a with key people in Congress and else­ Presidents and Secretaries and to Chap­ Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, press, right of assembly and petition; the people in other organizations able to graduated scale on large orders. This where to develop a real understanding ter Presidents and Secretaries in your Mississippi, Florida. right to bear arms; the security of the support our position in this matter. A home against military and arbitrary civil will enable us to operate on a financially of this problem in support of an effective assigned territory, calling attention to Clarence E. Shriner of Cincinnati, great deal of correspondence has al­ sound basis, and we can then put this investigation by Congress. Our State the work of our committee, the program Ohio: Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. search and seizure; the right of the in­ ready been handled and processed in important document in the hands not Societies and individual members can do dividual not to be deprived of life, lib­ this matter. We have received evidence adopted at Jackson ville and ask their only of our own members but of other an important job in this respect. An or­ complete support in making it effective. erty or property, without due process of of strong support on a national basis. law; the right of trial by jury; the equal individuals and groups. The printer has der form is inserted in this issue of the "This Scout activity is tremendously Within our own Society, we are been instructed to hold the type on this QuARTERLY for your convenience in rights of accused persons under the law; worthwhile. It is exactly in line with pleased to report that supplemental peti­ job so we can place orders for additional obtaining copies of the Bill of Griev­ the right to reasonable bail and punish­ our main objective to foster patriotism OFFICIAL BADGES tions have been filed in Congress by the copies as needed. ances. ment; and defines the fundamental and good citizenship. All of us recognize ol the National Society following State Societies of SAR, in ac­ Sons ol the American Revolution rights of the individual, as distinct from today, more than ever, the great job cordance with the plan outlined at the the rights reserved to the States. we have to do to build anew in the hearts • Jackson ville meeting by Delaware, Flori­ ORDER FOR BILL OF GRIEVANCES da, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kan~s, of many of our people, an appreciation CEREMONIAL BADGE These are the rights that we celebrate HAROLD L. PuTNAM, Chairman, of the fundamental principles of our 14 K gold ______$46.00 now and, with the background of their Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mis­ Committee on Americanization, country as set forth' by our founding Gilded silver______18.00 great truths, we should look upon today sissippi, New Jersey, New York, Okla­ 1115 Hobart Bldg., homa, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South San Francisco 4, Calif. fathers and which must continue to un­ MINIATURE BADGE as one of rededication to those funda­ Carolina, Virginia, Washington. dergird our Republic it we are to endure 14 K gold. ______$23.00 mental principles by which we govern Enclosed find $------(cash, check or money order) to cover cost of Those St;te Societies which have not as free and independent people. The Gilded silver______8.00 and are governed and which should be ---·------copies of Bill of Grievances. place to start is with our young people. yet taken independent action by filing a Prices include liO% Federal Taa; applied to all groups irrespective of I hope, when you write our fellow Com­ Pleas• add l18c for insured delivery petition with Congress in support of ~he N arne ------creed, race, or class. It is a time to re­ Bill of Grievances are requested to bnng patriots that you will emphatically point member that, because of these living this matter up at the earliest opportuni­ Street Address ·------out this fact as a means of energizing J. E. CALDWELL & CO. principles, we are in America guaran­ them into action. ty. The separate petitions ·already filed City------·------Zone ______Jewelers • Silversmiths • Stationers teed human liberty, human decency, and by those State Societies which have acted human self-respect. It is a time to re­ State ------"The most fruitful period of the year CHESTNUT AND JUNIPER STREETS to date, have had an important eff~ct is ahead when Chapters and State So­ member that human freedom is being PHILADELPHIA 7, PA. in bringing this matter to the attention Price scale: Single copies $1 each; 5 to 10, 7?c each; II to 25, 65c each. cieties will be holding annual meetings blotted out in large portions of the earth of members of Congress. Some of these Quotation for larger orders furnished on request. and when this program may well be Official Jewelwra, N, S. S. 4. R . and that all Americans must be willing petitions have been introduced in the Presented for discussion and action." to defend these fundamental rights. 24 3 A R February 1950 25

be developed in this interesting and in­ The National SAR Library structive manner. ------IN MEMORIAM------. G N HENRY H. ARNOLD, Pennsylvania, January lS, 19S0 GLENN G. GORDON, Iowa, December 20, 1949 SMITHER MERRILL, Texas, September 2), 1949 R!Y~OND I , BACHTEL, Ohio, December 26, 1949 CHARLES N. GOULD, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1949 GEORGE W. MERWIN, Connecticut, October 8, 1949 Donations to the S. A. R. Library Since the November, 1949, Issue: RICHARD T. GREENE, New Jersey, October 30 1949 "Origin of the Counties of the United CLIFFORD M. BALKAM, Massachusetts, May 14, 1949 1 VERNON G. MORROW, Massachetts, December 15, 1949 WILLIAM A. BARRELL, Massachusetts, December 11, WILLIAM F. GRIGG, Virginia, November 29, 1949 GEORGE W. OVERLY, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1949 States Giving Present Name, Date HARRISON L . HARRINGTON, Massachusetts, 1949 FRANCIS M. PETERS, West Virginia, October 3, 1949 }AMES H. HfNSDALE, Connecticut, October 28, 1949 FRED ER ICK S. BEACH, Oregon, November 3, 1949 W. SCOIT RADECKER Pennsylvania, February 18 1948 TITLE Formed, Parent County, and County 0THN1EL HITCH, Indiana, November 24, 1949 1 1 DoNoR GEORG E H. BECKWITH, New York, No~ember 9, 1949 jOHN L . RIDINGER, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1949 STARR L. BECKWITH-EWELL, Connecticut, December 31, MILES C. HOLDEN, Massachusetts, September 9, 1949 Seat." Compiled by F. Douglas Hal­ CARL T. HOLLENBACK, Nebraska, December 20, 1949 RICHARD T . RIVES, Alarnaba, April I, 1949 The Stonington Chronology 1649-1949 Pequot Press 1949. . b 11 verson & assisted by Eva H. T. Hal­ CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN, District of Columbia, Decem er S. WREN HOWARD, District of Columbia, December 31, LAWRENCE B. SHEPPARD, Pennsylvania, July, 1949 Elements of Investigative Techniques Captain James S. Eiseman, RICHARD M. BLANCHARD, Iowa, January 7, 1949 1949 WILLIAM C. SHOLES, District of Columbia, October 9J verson. HAROLD M. BOWMAN, Massachusetts, November 23, 1949 ROBERT W. HUMPHREYS, Texas, January 1, 1950, Pa.rt 1949 M.I. Reserve ELMER E. BUTZ, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1949 St4te President HARRY W. STACY, Massachusetts, August 14, 1949 GEORGE C. CABELL, Virginia, November 27, 1949 Rov D. ]ONES, Massachusetts, January 8, 19SO EUGENE E. TERRELL, Wisconsin, 1949 Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut State Library }AMES A. THOMPSON, Massachusetts, january 27, 1949 This is a most interesting work which HAROLD W. CONNELLY, Massachusetts, September 8, 1949 LESTE R S. KElLHOLTZ1 Ohio, November 1949 E. CLARK KING, Ohio, November 1949 HAROLD V. TROITER, New York, December 8 1949 Volume XXV EDWIN H. COURTNEY, Virginia, January 3, 1950 1 lists under the state the present name of ROBERT S. CRUMP, Virginia, October 31, 1949 WILLrAM E. KNAUS, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1949 WILUAM A. TROW, Massachusetts, November 17, 1949 Firewater and Forked Tongues M. I. McCreight counties followed by the date formed, EDWARD N. DASHIELL, Ohio, October 7, 1949 SAMUEL H. KULP, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1949 HAROLD G. WASHBURN, Connecticut, October 31, 1949 WILLIAM L. DAVIS, Wisconsin, December 13, 1949 GEORGE R. LAYTON, SR., New Jersey, November 6, 1949 HARRY G. WATERBURY, Connecticut, January 3 1 19S0 Origin of the Counties of the United States giving F. Douglas Halverson and the parent county and the present county ALVl N B. DEPUY, New York, December 14, 1949 CHARLES K. LfNCOLN, Arkansas, January 9, 19)0 jEREMIAH E. WATKINS, Texas, February 7, 1949 H. SPENCER EDMUNDS, Pennsylvania, January 1, 19)0 LEROY C. LONGFELLOW, Delaware, January 9, 1949 E. STANLEY WELLES, Connecticut, January 2, 1949 present name, date formed, parent county, and Eva H. T. Halverson seat. Long, painstaking effort has been ARTt-I UR J. EDWARDS, New Jersey, December 10, 1949 WALTER J, MCCLINTOCK, Pennsylvania August 10, 1949 WILLIAM L. WHITE, Connecticut, November 14 , 1949 SANFORD T. FERRY, Utah, November 19, 1949 ALBERT H. McKENZIE, Massachusetts, june 17, 1949 }OHN A. WILLEIT, }R., Virginia, December 13, 1949 County Seat W. CLIFFORD WILLIS, New York, October 22, 1949 expended in the preparation of this book DA LLAS FLANNAGAN, New jersey, October 19, 1949 CHARLES MCKNIGHT, Pennsylvania, December 19, 194) 1 Short History; Massachusetts Society of the Sons of William W. Obear EDWIN M. FOGEL, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1949 Ov~rs4a/ RUFUS R. WILSON, New York, December 14, 1949 which certainly fills a real need. An­ HARRI SON C. FROLKING, Ohio, January 3, 1950 HENRY B. MANVILLE, Connecticut, November 6, 1949 FREDERICK R. WOLFF, Nebraska, November IS, 1949, the American Revolution IRVrNG I. GARDNER, Connecticut, October II, 1949 ARTHUR D. MARKEY, Pennsylvania, January 8, 19)0 Part Chapter President other most excellent tool for the research FRANK L. GARRARD, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1949 CLAUDE N. MARTIN, New Hampshire, December 21, 1949 HORACE L. WOODBURY, Connecticut, September 12, 1949 Fort Charlotte on Savannah River and Its Signifi­ Mrs. James C. Hemphill worker is presented by this publication. ARTHUR J . GOFF, New Jersey, November 24, 1949 DARWIN W. MAURER, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1949 WILLIAM I. ZYNER, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1949 cance in the American Revolution by Nora Mar­ shall Davis ELEMENTS OF INVESTIGATIVE He said that each of the 16 states, in­ Niagara Frontier Miscellany edited by Robert W. Frank B. Steele TECHNIQUES. By Captain James cluding Delaware, whose legislatures Bingham, published-Buffalo Historical Society S. Eiseman, M.I. Reserve. McKnight have memorialized Congress on the mat­ The First Scientific Exploration of Russian America Frank B. Steele & McKnight Publishing Company, ter, should receive a gold star. and the Purchase of Alaska by James Alton Bloomington, Illinois. Mr. Finger congratulated the Society James on its award program. He asked the Frederick \Villiam Von Steuben and the American Frank B. Steele This is a basic manual of investigative members not to be hesitant at congratu­ Revolution by Joseph B. Doyle techniques reviewing various methods lating the members of Congress for re­ Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society Vol. 1 Frank B. Steele and tools employed by the skilled in­ sisting the pressures applied to them by American Statesmen-Ahraham Lincoln by Joseph Frank B. Steele vestigator and inspector. The proper members of pressure groups which he did T. Morse, Jr.-Vol. II investigation and inspection techniques not identify. Drums Along the Mohawk hy 'Valter D. Edmonds are the foundations of our public safety The president general also revealed Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by James and security. Emphasis is placed on pre­ Frank B. Steele that the national board of trustees has Parton vention as our chief concern. Every under consideration a plan to sell the na­ An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffa- qualified citizen should be familiar with Frank B. Steele tional headquarters on Scott Circle in lo Vols. I & II hy 'Villiam Ketchum "what to report" and no one can read Washington and he said that this would American Patriotism by Putnam P. Bishop this interesting dissertation without being Frank B. Steele be on the agenda at a meeting in St. Benjamin Franklin hy Carl Van Foren a better and more intelligent observer. Frank B. Steele Louis on Feb. 25. 'Var and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Frank Steele With the increase in crime this book B. Mr. Finger suggested that if this were Encyclopedia of American Biography New series is most timely and can fill a real need. Official S A R Frank B. Steele done-with the SAR taking advantage Vol. XXI FIREWATER AND FORKED of a high offer for the present property Grave Markers State of Conn. Register & Manual 1949 American Historical Society TONGUES. By M. I. McCreight. Delaware Day l:elehrated -it would be reasonable to choose a na­ You can now secure from the Na­ Co., Inc. Trail's End Publishing Co., Inc. tional site for a new headquarters. Boston-Cradle of Liherty 1610-1 776 by John Conn. State Library tional Headquarters Office, 122 7 16th Pasadena 10, California. He disclosed that application forms for Jennings, publisher-Doubleday & Co., Inc. At Wilmington Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C., membership in the SAR were being sim­ the new and official grave marker which This book presents an interesting ac­ John W. Finger, president general of plified in some respects and he congratu­ measures six inches in diameter and one the Sons of the American Revolution, count of certain phases of United States lated the Delaware Society for winning quarter inch in thickness. A detachable history from the viewpoint of the Indian. called for redoubled effort to amend the the Colorado Flag, the prize awarded rod is, of course, part of the marker. The BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS The Indian feels with justification that fede ral constitution by placing a 25 per for largest percentage of membership in­ standard price for this newly designed he has not been well treated by his­ cent limit on the amount of tax which crease during a year. marker is five dollars to Compatriots. Copies of these recently published books have been donated to the SAR Library torians. His victories are described as can be levied on income. The principal by the author or publisher Indian massacres wherein the massacres speaker at the an~ual meeting of the DAILY EUROPEAN PLAN ROOM RATES of Indians are described as great victories Delaware Society, President Finger, said "The Stonington Chronology-1649- New England town and area to the of the White Man. The picturesque, that Americans made a mistake in per­ Claridge Hotel 1949" hy "'illiams Haynes. Pequot present date. Of most noteworthy at­ historical accounts given by the Indian mitting approval of the 16th Amend­ Each Room Has Twin Beds, Bath with Tub and Shower, Fresh and Sea Water Press--Stonington, Conn. tention are the many references to local Bay Side Ocean Bay Ocean Chiefs were gotten by one who has a ment without limitation. View View Front Corner Corner "The Stonington Chronology" is an events which give natural color to the sympathetic understanding of the Indian That amendment, he told his audience 1st to I Oth Floors -Single $6- $7 $8 $9-$10 $10 $14 interesting historical account of this town scene. Genealogists will welcome the and his problem and one who definitely in the DuBarry Room of the Hotel Du­ Double $9-$10 $11 $12-$13 $13 $17 which was conceived as a means of cele­ index which, among other things, lists has the full confidence and respect of the Pont, gives Congress the power to tax I I th to 19th Floors -Single $7- $8 $9 $10-$11 $11 $14 brating and commemorating the Ston­ women under their maiden names with Indians. The faithful portrayal by the citizens of the United States to the ex­ Double $11-$12 $13 $13-$14 $15 $17 ington tercentenary. Of especial interest a cross reference to their married names. tent that our philosophy will be shifted author presents an interesting and Address Room Reservations to Miss Ada Taylor, Hotel Claridge. is the chronological development of a It is hoped that other town histories will worthwhile picture. from free enterprise to the welfare state. 26 S A R February 19 50 27

RAY BARBER FRYER, SR., Portland, Ore. (69597). THERON ROBINSON HOWSER, JR., Portland, Ore. RICHARD HOYT MERRILL, N. H. (70680). Supple­ JOHN MILTON ROOP, Dayton, 0. (716SO). Great"­ Records of 236 New Members and 56 Supplementals Approved and Enrolled by mentals. Great4,;-grandson of Th~odor• Hoyt, private, grandson of Thoma.J Jon~t, Recognized Patriot; member Great2-grandson of L~onarJ. Fartar, private, Penna. Mili­ (69S9S). Great'-grandson of Noah Miller, II, private the Registrar General from October 1, 1949 to January 1, 1950. tia. &: Scout Mass .• Me. Militia, Mass. Militia; great4-grandson of Abiiah Gat•, corporal, 1st Constitutional Convention, Pa. WILLIAM SCOTT GALLAHER, JR., Pa. (67477). OHN ARTHUR HOWELL HUNT, N. Y. (621S5). Sup­ Mass. Militia. JAMES BERT ROSS, JR., Kenmore! N. Y. (72131_). J. WEBSTER MERRITT, Jacksonville, Fla. (71421 ). Gre:lt3-grandson of John Harris, pnvate, N. ]. MtltUa. Supplemental. Great3-grandson of John DtnJil, private J plemental. Grear'"-grandson of Thomas Conull, private, WALTER DICKSON ADAMS, Forney, Tex. (72101 ). GEORGE EDWARD CHITTENDEN, Jersey City, N. J. Penna. Militia. ' N Y. Militia. Grear'-grandson of John Barn~7, on War Committees, LUCIUS SCOTT RUDER, Clearwater, Fla. (72078). 2 Vt. Gre:lt -graiidson of Joseph DickJon, Colonel, N. C. ( 7179 S ). Great3-grandson of CorneliuJ P•krson, Cap­ ORLO LORING GARD, Indianapolis, Ind. ( 71467 ). GEORGE W. HUTCHINS, Sioux City, Ia., (70358). Great3-grandson of Geort• Brown, sergeant, Va. Line. Great!!-grandson of Noah HutchinJ, sergeant, Mass. CLINTON CROMWELL MILLS, Detroit, Mich. ( 71113 ). Militia. tain, N. ]. Militia. Great6-grandson of Henry Putnam, Sr., private, Mass. RALPH SANBORN, Hampton Falls, N. H. (71661 ). HAROLD JOSEPH ALLBEE, Falmouth, Mass. (70949). GLANNIN ALEXIUS CLOWARD, Washington, D. C. Militia. Greata..grandson of A1a Heald, private, Mass. Militia. Great!!-grandson of lam#J Sanbot"n, corporal, N. H. IJne. Militia. CLEVELAND OSGOOD MOSS, Tulsa, Okla. ( 713S 3). Greatl-grandson of Ebenezer Al/.0.-, private, Vt. Militia. (Utah 69274 ). Great•-grandson of l•mer Ch•pm..,, IVAN 0. GARDNER, SR., Pa. (66647). Supplementala. DEVANE KING JONES, Tuscaloosa, Ala. (71491 ). Great'­ STANLEY FRANCIS SEARS, Fillmore, Ind. (71466). gnndson of Peter Forn•y, Captain, N. C. Line. Grest~Lgran dson of l~ts• Mou, Captain, Conn. Militia. JOHN CARLIN ALLEN, Oakland, Calif. (71877). Great2- private, Va. Cavalry. Great3-grandson of SeblZJtian Gr••fl, Clerk, Penna. Mili­ Great3-grandson of Willi4m Rttm.~ey, Lieutenant, Penna. KENNETH MAIN JONES, Bloomfield, N. J. MINOR CLAIR NEWLIN, Newark, N. J. (Dela. 71Sl6). grandson of lamer Allen, private, Md. Line. LEOPOLD CHARLES COLEMAN, Philadelphia, Pa. tia; great3-grandson of Georg• Michael SiZylor (Syler} (7178S). Militia. Greatl-grandson of Enoch Jone1, pnvJte, N. ]. M1ht1a; Great3-grandson of louph N•wlin, Recognized Patriot, LEON BALLORD ALLEN, New York, N.Y. (72134). (Fla. 71423). Great'-grandson of Phil

JOSEPH SMITH McGUIRE, Logan, W . Va. (719SS). Oath of Allegiance, Md. 1778. mentals. Great2-grandson of John HaaJ, Jr., serge~t, Great3-grandson of William Litz, private, Va. Militia. Penna Militia, great3-grandson of John Haat, Sr., L.teu­ GORDON KENNER BUSH, Athens, 0. (716H). Great'­ U. ( 7215 J ). Grent3-grandson of Dl%Uid Epp~r~on, tupr•. (71336). Great•,gran

JOHN HERMON TERRY, JR., Westmoreland, N. H. ADDITIONS TO MEMBERSHIP ( 71660 ). Great2-grandson of Peter Yarnal, Surgeon's lisher, scientist, philosopher, diplomat, Mate, Penna. Line. There have been enrolled in the office of the Registrar --DIBEI:TOBY OF OFFICERS-- General from October 1, 1949 to January 1, 1950, 236 founder of the University of Pennsyl­ JOHN HENRY THOMAS, York, Pa. { 71980 ). Great3- Past New Members and 56 Supplementals, distributed as fol­ grandson of G~org~ Weik,rt, Sr., Captain, Penna. Mili­ vania, founder of the first hospital in tia. lows: Al3bama, S; Arkansas, 2; California, 10; Connecti­ cut, 3; Delaware, 2,; District of Columbia, 3; Florida, 9; America, first Postmaster General of the Presidents General LACY GLENN THOMAS, Groveland, Fla. (Ga. 70767). Georgia, 9; Idaho, 4,; Illinois, 10; Indiana. 8; Iowa, 4; Great2-grandson of Jam6s Walk•r, private, S. C. Militia. General Officers Elected at the Jacksonville, 2 Kansas, 1; Louisiana, 3; Maine, 2; Maryland, 4,; Mas­ United States and a true American JOHN FRANK THOMPSON, York Pa. (7198S). Great - sachusetts, 7; Michigan, 6; Mississippi, 4; Missouri, 1; •LuciUS P. D.!MING, Connecticut, 1889 grandson of Joseph Thompson, private, Penna. Militia. Nebraska, J; New Hampshire, 3; New Jersey, 13; New patriot; and LYNDON HICKUK TRACY. Evanston, Ill. (7186S). Mexico, 1 ; New York, 31 ; North Carolina, 3; Ohio, 12; *DR. WILLIAM SEWARD WEBB, Vermont, 1890 Florida, [ongress May 18, 1949 Great2-grandson of John Fay, private, Vt. Militia. Oklahoma, 6; Oregon, 4; Pennylvania, 2 3; South Carolina, WHEREAS, recogmt10n and cele­ *GEN. HORACE PORTER, New York, 1892 RALPH EDWARD UNDERWOOD, Jersey City, N. ]. 8; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 4; Utah, 3; Vermont, 1; Virginia, (71789). Great"-grandson of A.rchihald A-lexander, 2,; Washington, 2; West Virginia, 18. bration of Franklin's birthday has been *EDWIN SHEPARD BARRETt, Massachusetts, 1897 Surgeon, Va. Line. Supplementals have been approved from the following WARREN MORRIS VANDERBURGH, Winthrop, Mass. States: Indiana, 3; Kentucky, 1; Maryland, 1; Missis­ urged of the Congress of the United *FRANKLIN MURPHY, New Jersey, 1899 President General (72054). Great2..grandson of John Strong, Captain, Mass. sppi, 2.1 Missouri, I,; Newk Hampshire, 3; New Jersey, 2; }OHN W. FINGER, 960 Park Ave., New York 28, N. Y. Militia. New York, 9; Ohio, 7; Pennsylvania, 11; Rhode Island, States by the National Societies of Sons *GEN. J, C. BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN ELI VARNEDOE, Jacksonville, Fla. ( 72079). 2; South Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 1 ; Texas, 1 ; Virginia, and Daughters of the American Revolu­ District of Columbia, 1900 Great2-grandson of Henry Varnadow, private, S. C. Mili­ 1; Washington, I 0; West Virginia, 2. tia. tion. *WALTER SETH LOGAN, New York, 1901 ERNEST DEWOLFE WALES, Indianapolis, Ind. (71461 ). *GEN. EDWIN WARFIELD, Maryland, 1902 Vice Presidents General Great~tgrandson of Nathaniel Waler, private, Mass. Mili­ EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT NOW, THEREFORE, I, WM. Secretary-Registrar General tia. *GEN. EDWIN S. GREELEY, Connecticut, 1903 ARCHIBALD WILSON WALKER, Spartanburg, S. C. ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVER­ DOUGLAS SLOANE, Rindge, N. H. FRANK B. STnu, I 227 16th St., N. W., Waohlngton, (71141 ). Great2-grandson of Ebenezer Sperry, sergeant, *}AMES D. HANCOCK, Pennsylvania, 1904 New England District (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, D. C. Conn. Line. GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION NOR OF THE STATE OF MARY­ Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. *GEN. FRANCIS H. APPLETON, Massachusetts, 190S CHARLES TEMPLE WALKER, Oklahoma City, Okla. -"BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LAND, do hereby call upon the citizens EDGAR WILLIAMSON, JR., 786 Broad St., Newark, N. ], ( 7 I 3 S5 ). Great2-grandson of William Kelly, private, *CORNELIUS A. PUGSLKY, New York, 1906 N. C. Line. BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY" of our State to observe January North Atlantic District (New York and New Jersey). DAVID TUTHERLY WALKER, Spartanburg, S. C. *NELSON A. McCLARY, Illinois, I 907 Treasurer General (71140). Great3-grandson of Humphrey Willard, pri­ January 17, 1950 17th "BENJAMIN FRANKIN'S EDWARD D. SHRINER, }R., Frederick, Md. vate, Mass. Militia. *HENRY S'I'OCKBRIDGK, Maryland, 1908 Middle Atlantic District (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary­ GEORGE S. ROBERTSON, I S08-9 Fidelity Bldg., Baltimore, WHEREAS, January 17th will mark land, and District of Columbia). Md. CHARLES SMITH BROWN WARD, Pittsburgh, Pa. BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY" with *MORRIS B. BEARDSLEY, Connecticut, 1909 ( 71817 ). Great2-grandson of Robert Elliott, Adjutant, Penna. Line. the 244th anniversary of the birthday special programs planned to impress upon *WILLIAM A. MARBLl:, New York, 1910 RAY 0. EDWARDS, 934 Sorrento Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. JAMES GADDY WARD, Charleston, S. C. (71 146). of Benjamin Franklin, one of our three us the contribution of this great man to South Atlantic District (Virginia, North and South Great'-grandson of John MacCormiclt, private, N. C. *DR. MOSES GREELEY PARK£R, Massachusetts, 1911 Carolina, Georgia, Florida). Line. Historian General greatest Americans and affe-ctionately the welfare and glory of our Country. *JAMES M. RICHARDSON, Ohio, 1912 HAROLD STANIFORD WARREN, San Francisco, Calif. COL, WM. T. CARPENTER, 1018 Myrtlewood Drive, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ( 7188 3 ). Great6-grandson of Ahrallmn Warren, private, known as the "Father of Our Liberty"; Given Under my Hand and the *R. C. BALLARD THRUSTON, Kentucky, 1913 DAVID W. RtAL, 70S Pitt St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. Conn. Line. Southern District (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, JAMES HENRY WARREN, San Francisco, Calif. (71884). and Great Seal of the State of Maryland, *NEWELL B. WOODWORTH, New York, 191S Tennessee). Grear'-grandson of Abraham Warren, supra. WHEREAS, Benjamin Franklin was At the City of Annapolis, this 3rd *ELMER M. WENTWORTH, Iowa, 1916 THOMAS WEBB WATERS, Jacksonville, Fla. (7142S). FR!:D I. WILLis, 2S16 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Great2-grandson of Caleb Gates, corporal, Conn. Militia. renowned for his contribution toward day of January, in the Year of Our Ind. Chancellor General LOUIS ANNIN AMES, New York, 1918 Central District (West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and ARTHUR LEE WATSON, Martinsburg, W. Va. (7062S). 8S Fifth Ave., New York Great3-grandson of Johu Michael Bolt'Z, private, Penna. the drafting of the Constitution of the Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Indiana). WALLACE C. HALL, 29S0 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich_ Militia. *CHANCELLOR L. ]ENKs, Illinois, 1919 SAMUEL GRAHAM WEBB, Dunedin, Fla. (72076). United States and a signer of the Decla­ and Fifty. JOHN H. BABB, Suite 1608-11 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Great3-grandson of Aaron Brown, Sr., private, Va. Line. *}AMES HARRY PRESTON, Maryland, I 920 Ill. ration of Independence, and among (Signed) Wm. Preston Lane, Jr. Great Lakes District (Michigan, Illinois, and Wis­ JAMES ALBERT WHEELER, JR., Newton, Kans. *WALLACE McCAMANT, Oregon, 1921 (72001 ). Great4-grandson of John Maxson, on War many other accomplishments as a pub- (By the Governor) consin). Genealogist General Committees, R. I. 1780. *W, I. L. ADAMS, New Jersey, 1922 MARCUS A. WHITEHEAD, New York, N.Y. (72128). COL. HAROLD D. LEMAR, 1123 Jackson St., Omaha, W. GUY TETRICK, Clarksburg, W. Va. Great4-grandson of Bela Strong, Jr., private, Mass. Mili­ *HARRISON L. LEWIS, Kentucky, 1924 Nebr. ita. North Mississippi District (Minnesota. North and South *ARTHUR P . SUMNER, Rhode Island, 1923 GEORGE ALEXANDER WHITESIDE, New York, N. Y. Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska). ( 71710 ). Great~tgr:mdson of Pliny MoortJ, Lieutenant, *HARVEY F. REMINGTON, New Yorlc, 192S N. Y. Troops. JOHN W. GIESECKE, 1 0 1 0 Title Guaranty Bldg., St. Louis, Chaplain General FREDERICK ABBOTT WHITNEY, Ridgewood, N. }. *WILBERT H. BARRETI, Michigan, 1926 Mo. (N. C. 71198). Great3-grandson of Eliioh Flint, pri­ South Mississippi District (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, vate, Mass. Militia. *ERNEST F. ROGERS, Connecticut, 1927 Oklahoma and Texu). DR. MaTT R. SAWYUS, 4801 Ewing An. 6, Minneapolio, Minn. EMERSON MILLS WILLIAMS, Clinton, Ill. (718S7). *GANSON DEPEWJ New York, 1928 Great:G-grandson of William Hutchin, private, N. J. Mili­ CKORGE E. TARBOX, 439 William St., Denver, Colo. tia. HOWARD C. ROWLEY, California, 1929 Rocky Mountains District (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, JOHN WILSON WILLIAMS, Wilmington, Dela. (71SIS). 40S Montgomery Street, San Francisco Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana). Grea~grandson of Amos Alexander, Recognized Patriot, A. WALTER S. BEAR, 193S S. E. 21st Avenue, Portland, Librarian General gave material aid, Dela. *t]OSIAH VAN 0RSD£L 1 HAROLD EDWARD WISNER, SR., Grosse Pte., Mich. District of Columbia, 19JO Ore. (71118 ). Great:1-grandson of Thomas Wisner, Lieut. Pacific Coast Distritc (California, Nevada, Washington, DR. W. HARVEY WISE, 1227 16th St., N. W., Washina­ Colonel, N. Y. Militia. *BENJAMIN N. ]OHNSON, Massachusetts, 1931 Oregon and territories of Alaska and Hawaii). ton, D. C. HAROLD EDWARD WISNER, JR., Grosse Pte., Mich. *FREDERICK W, MILLSPAUGH, Tennessee, 1932 (71117). Son of 71118 supra. FRANK ERNEST WARD WOLFE, Chicago, Ill. ( 71861 ). ARTHUR M. McCRILUS Rhode Island, 19Jl Grear'-grandson of G•orge Turner, Captain, N. H. SOO Angell St., Providence 6 Artillery. JAMES WATSON WOLFE, JR., Chicago, Ill. (71864 ). *H~NRY F. BAKER, Maryland, I 9JS Same as 7186 3 suprtJ. MESSMORE KENDALL, New York, 1936 WILLIAM WARREN WOODRUFF, III, Chattanooga, 1639 Broadway, New York Tenn. ( 68993 ). Great!lgrandson of Gedor Woodruff, private, Conn. Line. LOREN E. SOUERS, Ohio, 1940 EMMETT HULING WOODWORTH, Spartanburg, S. C. I 200 Harter Bank Bldg., Canton ( 71144 ). Great3-grandson of Ephraim Woodworth, Cap­ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1949-1950 tain, N. Y. Militia,; great3-grandson of Garrett Waldron, *G. RIDGELY SAPPINGTON, Maryland, 1941 private, N. Y. Militia,; great3-grandson of John Ruling, private, N. Y. Militia; great'grandson of Tunlr Smith, STERLING F. MuTZ, Nebraska, 1942 private, N. Y. Militia; great3-grandson of Judah Pad­ I 104 Sharpe Bldg., Loncoln THE following were nominated by the President General and Jack SpootUr, private, Conn. Militia, seaman & Clerk, Coast Guud. SMITH L. MULTER, New Jersey, 1941-46 confirmed by the Board of Trustees at Jacksonville, Florida, CLARENCE TRESSLER WORSLEY, Riverside, Calif. 219 3rd Ave., N., St: Petersburg, Fla. (71876). GreatS-grandson of John Jones, private, Va. ALLEN L. OLIVER, Missouri, 19-46 Militia. S06 H-H Bldg., Cape Girardeau DONALD BACKUS WRENSCH, Schlater, Miss. ( 70924 ). BON, SHERMAN ADAMS, Concord, N. B. WHEATON B. BREWER, 89 Stennoon St., Saa Great"-grandson of Josiah Ste•le1 Ir., sergeant, Conn. A. HERBERT FOREMAN, Virginia, 19-47 Francisco, Calif. JOHN G. BALLORD, 1038 Midland Bank Bldg., Line. Western Union Bldg., Norfolk RAY CAWLEY YOUNG, N. H. (49140). Supplemental. Minneapolis, Minn. DR. lORN R. FRITCBEY II, 1800 North Srd St., Greatl-grandson of Thomat Cawley (Calley), private, *CHARLES B. SHALER, Pittsburgh, Pa., 19-48 Harrisburg, Penna. N. H. Militia. ALONZO N. BENN, 5000 Eaot End Ave., Chicago, FURMAN B. PEARCE, S2o&O Pitt St., New Or!...,.., WILLIAM WHITE YOUNGBLOOD, Birmingham, Ala. B~N H. POWELL, III, Texas, 1948 Ill. La. (71494). Great3-grandson of Thoma.s Youngblood, pri- HAMILTON GRANGE 702 Brown Building, Austin 1'ate, S. C. Militia. HAROLD M. BLANCHARD, Raymond-Commerce BEN B. POWELL Ill, 702 BroWD Bldg., Auotln, ALBERT ZAREFOSS, Somerset, Pa. (71806). Great0- Country home of Alexander Hamilton, built in 1802, as it now appears in its present location, at Bldg., Newark, N. ], Texas grandson of Benjamin Zarefou (ZeltP'--) private, Penna. No. 287 Convent Avenue, near 141st Street, New York City. It now stands about 500 feet south Militia. of its original site, but is still within the limits of the original Hamilton Farm. It is open to the •Deceased. Col"'"eetlon: Nov. '-49, p. 42, for G. B. Crees1, read public as a museum of Hamilton and his time, conducted by the American Scenic and Historic tServed also from February 22d to May 18, 1912. JOHN W. FINGER, Pre&ident General Cree•T· Preservation Society, the owner. CluJirmon, Es-Officw ------DIBEI:TOBY OF OFFII:EBS------DIBE[TOBY OF 0 F F I I:EB s,----:---- GEORGIA SOCIETY-Cont'd KNOX COUNTY CHAPTT.R-Prerident, Homer £. Robinson, KENTUCKY NORTH DAKOTA Rockland; Secretary, Leforest A. Thurston, 468 Old State Societies Officers President, LAWRENCE A. CASSIDY, Wood Rd., President, GEORGE F. WILL, Bismarck. Local [hapter Officers ATHENS CHAPTER, Athens-Prerident, County Road, Rockland. LA GRANGE CHAPTE.R, No. 5, La Grange-Prerid•nt, Lyndon. Secretary, MAuRICE E. McCuRDY, Washburn. Hudson Maddox, Box 216; SecrettJry, Clayton Bowers. KENNEBEC VALLEY CHAPTER, Waterville- PreJitl.nt, ALABAMA ALABAMA SOCIETY ---; Secret..,,.,, Charles M. Demers. Secretary-Treasurer, DowNEY M. GRAY, 315 OHIO EDWARD }ACKSON CHAPTER, La Fayette- Prerident, President, JoHN T. BRADFORD, Stratford Apts., Guthrie Street, Louisville. MooRESVILL£ CHAPTER, Mooresville--Pr•Iid,:nt, Henry James j. Copeland, DaltonJ Secretary, David J. D. Tuscaloosa. President, DR. JosEPH B. 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Alder St., Secretary, SAMUEL R. ToDD, 30 North La Salle Chestnut St., Roselle. Barnett Banlc Bide. GEORG£ ROGERS CLARK CHAPTER, No. 3, Winchester­ McLean; Secretary, Carl Kelly. TAMPA CHAPTER, Tampa._..:_.,secretary-Tre4/urer ---. Street, Chicago. Secretary, SAMUEL R. DoBBs, 33 Lombardy St., Walla Walla. 1 President, John M. Stevenson, 243 Boone Avenue; S•c• PtNSACOLA CHAPTER, Pensacola-Pr•sident, James H. r•tary, Boswell Hodgkin, 2 S 1 S. Main Street. NEBRASKA SOCIETY INDIANA Newark. WEST VIRGINIA Look, 422 Gibbs Rd., Warrington, Secretary, James C. JACKSON CHAPTER, No. 4, Jackson-President, Herbert LINCOLN CHAPTER, Lincoln- Prerident, George W. Dun~~, President, GEORGE L. CLARK, 412 Peoples Bank NEW MEXICO President, CHARLES C. McCAMJc, Nat'! Bank Bruington, 520 N. 6th Ave. W . Spencer; Secretary, James S. Hogg. PALM BEACH CHAPTER-President, Charles B. Watkins, Jr., 3748 Mohawk St.; Secretary, L. T. Shirk, llS N. Bldg., Wheeling. THOMAS WHITE CHAPTER, No. 5, Glasgow-Prerid•nt, llldg., Indianapolis. President, FRANCIS 0. WooD, 710 E. Central 285 Cordova Rd., West Palm Beach; Secretary, Regin­ lith St. Guy Van Beatty; Secretary, C. Clayton Simmons. F. Mutz Secretary, ]AMES G. CECIL, 4709 Broadway, Secretary-Treasurer, WILL H. DANIJ:L1 Box ald F. Bradley, 324 Walton Blvd., West Palm Beach. 1ST jR. CHAPTER, Lincoln- President, Sterling 1 Ave., Albuquerque. CHARLES DUNCAN CHAPTER, No. 6, Bowling Green­ GAIN ESVILLE CHAPTER, Gainesville--Prerident, Dr. E. D. Jr., 2946 Cable St. 1 S•cr.tary, Wayne C. Panter, 1216 Indianapolis. Secretary, GoRDON STEVENSON, Box Ill 0, Santa 271, Huntington. Pr6sident, Simon D. Settle; Secr•tary, Wayne A. Pat­ Hinckley, 2007 Univ. Sta. J s.cretllry-TreQ/Urer, Dr. North 4lrd St. terson. IOWA Fe. WISCONSIN James E. Chace, Language Hall. OMAHA CHAPTER,-Prerident, George N. Mecham, 310 President, MILTON M. LoRY, 3809 3rd Ave., NEW YORK President, RoBERT B. ELLS, 3727 N. Palmer South 57th St.; SecrettJry, Harold D. LeMar, 12th and LOUISIANA SOCIETY Jackson. Sioux City. President, HAROLD H. WILLIAMs, 605 Erie Co. St., Milwaukee. GEORGIA SOCIETY Secretary-Treasurer, HARRY A. SHAVER, 1422 Bank Bldg., Buffalo. Secretary, A. H. WILKINSON, 803 E. State St., ]Oii~ MILLEDGE CHAP'T!:R, Milledgeville--Pr#Jid.fnt, £r. BATON ROUGE CHAPTER, Baton Rouge-Pr•sident, Percy NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY Win Sibley; Secret.llry Dr. E. H. Scott, 110 Columbia Doherty, 441 Lafayette St.; S•cretary-Tre41urer, Pres­ John St., Sioux City. GARDNER OsBORN, Federal Hall, Milwaukee. 1 Secretary, Ave. cott Murphy, 414 Raymond Bllig. COL. NATHAN HALE CHAPTER, Rindge-Presid.tni, KANSAS Sub-Treasury, New York. WYOMING A.l"LANTA CHAPTER, Atlanta- President, Henry A. Alex­ Charles M . Mills, Jaffrey; S•cretary-Treasurer, Howard President, NATHAN B. THOMPSON, 1248 Clay NORTH CAROLINA President, RALPH W. SMITH, 2622 Maxwell ander, 3440 Peachtree Rd. N. E., Decatur; Secretary, MAINE SOCIETY H. Elliott, Box 182, Winchendon. St., Topeka. President, HENRY A. GRADY, New Bern. Ave., Cheyeenne. W Charles T. Roan, 991 Oakdale Rd., N. E. OLD FALMOUTH CHAPTER, Portland-Pr•sident, Wilbur COL. GORDON HUTCHINS CHAP'Tl.R, Concord-Presid_,, INDER CHAPTER, Winder-Prerident, George Thomp­ W. Philbrook, 107 Elm St.; S•cr•tll"1, Albion Keith, Dixon H. Turcott, 136 N. Main St.; Secr•tllry, We.._. Secretary-Registrar, A. W. DEATRICK, 726 Lin­ Secretary-Registrar-Treasurer; H. ]. GRADY, Secretary, HARRY C. PuRCELL, Box 94, Chey· son, Sr. 1 Secretary, ]. D. Watson. SOl Congress St. dell D. Crowell, Tilton. coln, Topeka. 303 Raleigh Bldg., Raleigh. enne. ------DIREI:TORY Of Offii:ERS----- ~------DIRE[TORY Of Offi[ERS,----- .LOCAL CHAPTER OFFICERS-Cont'd NEW YORK (E. S.) SOCIETY--Cont'4 OREGON SOCIETY CHAPTER OFFICERS-Cont'd Board of Trustees, 1949-50 MOHAWK VALLEY CHAPTER, Herkimer-Pr•riJ,,t , --1 PORTLAND CHAPTER, Portland-P.. r/J.ne, Frederick TENNESSEE SOCIETY NEW JERSEY SOCIETY S•c ..t.ry, Albert J, Woodford. Young, S•cr.u.,, H. D. Bagnall, Box SIBS. ANDREW jACKSON CHA PTER , Nash vi l le - - jj,.esit~m t , A. P . The General Officers and the Past Presidents General, together with one mem~ HUNTINGTON CHAPTER, Huntington, L. 1.-Pr.rsUlmt, ouarsou, J r., _ Glenwood Av e.; Secret•ry, Littell Rust, EuzABKTHTOWN CHAPTER, No. 1, Elizabeth-Presid411nt, SOUTHERN OREGON CHAPTI:R. Medford - Joel K. Skidmore, 230 Main St. , S•cr•Wry, Wm. W. George R. Carter, 821 E. Jackson St. 1 S•crot.ry, commerce Umon Ban k. Bldg. ber from each State Society, constitute the Board of Trustees of the National Robert C. Crane, c/ o Daily Journal , Secr.tary, Henry G. Shay, 7S 3rd Ave. ' Nulton, H Beechwood Pl., Hillside, ter H. Jones, 1113 S. Oakdale St. JOHN S_EVI ER ':H A.PTER, Ch:n tanooga--:-P r,.sidmt, John E. BINGHAMTON CHAPTER, Binghamton-Pr.rsiJent, Ceo. R. . Fontatne, 6U 1 F.. Brow Rd. , Loo kout Mt. ; Secretary Society. The following Trustees for the several States were elected May 18, 1949, · ORANG& CHAPTER, No, 2, Orange-P,.esid• nt, Arthur WILLAMETI'E VALLEY CHAPTER, Salem - Beers, City Hall; Se cret.rry, Walter V. Irving, City Charles A. Sprague, 42S N. 14th St., S•c ..t.ry, M:alcolm j. R:twlings, Fleetwood Dr., Chattanooga. W. Greason, Hotel E. Orange, East Oranae i S•cret4rJ, Hall. at the Congress held in Jacksonville, Florida, to serve until their successors are V. Pope, 106S Church St. VPPER C Ui\ I B~R~ANO CHA PTF.R 1 Cookevill_e--Preridmt, Edpr Williamson, Jr., 786 Broad St., Newark. TOMPKINS COUNTY CHAPTER, lthaca-PresiJ4tnt, Fred­ elected. MONTCLAIR CHAPTER, No. 3, Montclair-Presid•nt, erick R. Stevens, 207 Delaware Ave., S•cr•t.ry, Leolie Austi n w. :;mn ~·E;c;:stnrS~i~!i:-: · w1n. Geo. P. Oslin, 7 Mead ~er., Glen Ridge) S• cr• t~~ry, N. Broughton, 931 N. Tioga St. GALVESTON CHA I'Tt:R, No . I, G alveston- Presidmt, Rt~b ­ MISSOURI Jameo G. Hammer, 83, Wildwood Ave., Upper Mont­ OLEAN CHAPTER, Olean-Pr.rsident, Leslie R.. Quirin, PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY ALABAMA clair. ert W . H u111 phteys,* 2 52H Ave. K.i Sec retary , Walter 0 Guy M . Wood, 6756 Chamberlain St., 808 E. State St., S•c ..t_., , Walter W. Strait, 32S Mayer, PO Box 9 1, Alta Lom a. Dr. Peter A . Brannon, /o Dept. of N&WA&E CHAPTER, ~o . 4, Newark-Pr•si4• nt, -- PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER, Philadelphia-P.. rld•nt, Wll. s. 1 Laurel Ave. DALLAS CH .-\I'Tt:R, No. 2, D:allu--Pr6sid•nt, E rne ~t B. Archives and History, M ontgomery. University City. 8•~. Dong!u S. Colyer, 124 Sussex Ave. liam H. Heffner, Sr., 3408 Warden Dr. 1 S•cr•...., Edward J. Van Dyke, 2814 Mid-Vale Ave. ' (.;o :-n stocl.:, 621 ~ lllY OI II Pk .v . i s. cr.tary, Ear le D . Beh­ MONUOU'I'Il CHAPTER, No. S-Pr•sid.mt, John D. Alden, MONTANA 40 J.exiDatoa St., Newark, S•cr•f4r1, Henry D. Brinley, NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY McKEESPORT CHAPTER, McKeesport-Pr•siJmt, Marta. rends, P. 0 . Box 12i1. ARIZONA 12 Bro.d fv! . Ginn, 1914 Jenny Lind Street, S•cr•t.ry, Dr .. Hor. IAN AN TONIO CH:'l'Tt:R, No. 4, S:m Antonio--P r#tiJnat, Read Mulla n, 28 E . V an Buren St., Phoenix. D . C. H . Luebben, 924 S. P acific St., llillo11. St., Red Bank. RALEIGH CHAPTER, Raleigh-Pr.rsid.rnt, Leonidu P. Den~ PARAMUI CHAPTER, No. 6, Rldgewood-ProJ/aml, Hon. ace C. Cope, 721 Beech Street. Putt D. Ma this, 1\It:- d ical Prof. Bl da.; S•cr•tary , · mark, Highway Commission• Secr.rf4r1-Trus"rn-, Henry Thomas L. Puwt:ll, H utd Plaza. NEBRASKA Tb- S. Douchty, 12 Chestn)lt Rd. , Soc ..t.ry , John F. Faucette, 132 W. Martin St. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, Washington-Pr.rsiJ•nt, Chua. ARKANSAS M. Ewing, 1 S West Beau St. J S•cn,.,.,, Charlea 1. P.A UL C.A.R RI!'riTON C H :\ 1,1 t: R, No . S, Houston- Presid,.nt, R. Hlll, 614 Cliff St., Hohokus. MECKLENBURG CHAPTER, Charlotte--Pr•sidmt, Prank 0 . M ason E . M itchell, 5366 Cen te r St., Co nway. J ohn H. A gee, 2945 Van D o rn A ve., Lincoln. Uoam CoUNT!' CHAPTER, No. 7, Morrlstown---­ Lowrey, II S Church St. W arren S. Bellows, 7 16 N. Eve rton St. Pasa.d ena; Alford, ht Nat'l Bank Bldg., S•c.,t.ry, Harry C. S•crtt tdry, Cha rlt:ti H. Lan e, 4820 Travis St., Houston . PAIIAJC VALLEY CHAPTER, No. 8, Summit-Pr•ritl41 nt, VALLET FORGE CHAPTER, Bethlehem-Pr CJIAI'TE R, Richmond- Pr,e sidmt, Donald N. de Villa rs, Paris VII, France. Clifton Ratliff, Hales Bldg., Oklahoma City. Woodbridge, 20S Wm. H. Taft Rd.f S•cr•t.ry, Robert ERIE CHAPTER, Erie-Pr.rsidmt, Dr. R.. S. Andenoa. Frazier, 121(, Mutual Bl dg. i Sur•tary , H. Ragland Ntrn.&1' CIIAPTK.a, No. 19, Nutley-Pr•.rld.nt, George M. Booth, 801 Times-Star Tower. 391S Parkside Ave., S•cr.t.ry, Floyd L. Alexander, 411 Eub ank, I I I Nurth 5th St. GEORGIA OREGON RICHARD MONTGOMERY CHAPTER, Dayton-Pr•sUUn:l, W. lith St. TH O.\L-\S N F. I .!'OS jR ., CHA rTER, The V:t . Peninsula­ ll. B. IJ-da, 66 Washington Ave. , S•cr•'"'' Charles Col. James D . W atson, 11 5 Church St., Winder. Geo rge D. Dryer, Public Service Bldg., B. VII'OOIII, 2J9 Hillside Ave. Dr. 0 . B. Kneisly, 1102 American Bldg. , S•crot.ry, HARRIS FERRY CHAPTER, Harrisburg-P~•tid4tnt 1 Charlet Prendent, W:d!:lce !--li cks, 4 Bayley St., Hampton• S•c­ COL. llJcaAIUI SoMERS CHAPTER No . 20, Atlantic City Donald F. Chase, 2613 N. Main St. W. Simmons, 332 S. 16th Sto~ S•c._t.ry, John R, retary, \ Villi:nn Heltzel, ~ 4 Milford Rd. , Hilton Vilbge. HAWAII P ortland. -Pr.U.,, Paul C. Burgess, 1307 Atlantic Ave. J S•c· TARHE CHAPTER, Lancaster-President, Byron L. Cave, Conglo&, 2100 Greenwood St. THO MAS j H' fi' ERSON CHAPTttR, Ch:ulottesville--Prnid•nt, 124 East Sth Street1 S•cr•tM-J• Hubert B. Eyman, 228 I. P:m l Perkins, 106 Minor Rd.1 Secr,.t•ry-Tr•,zsur,er, PENNSYLVANIA r_,.,, Hlnm Steelman, 1421 Atlmtlc Afto 1 SHENANGO CHAPTJtR, Meadville-Pr•sid.mt, Dr. Orrla Loltll lrau.JNo CHAPTER, No. 21-Prula•nt, Jsmes J. Mulberry St. 0 . Bashline, 220 Pine St., Grove CitYI S•cr•UrJ• Linwood H. W :uwic k. , Box 1428. IDAHO Albert C. Brand, 301 E. Durham St., LA FAYETI'E CHAPTER, Atron-Pr.rsidmt, Rev. H. B. GEN. G EORGE \·VASH INGTON CHAPT[K, Alexandria­ llaDcker, 1.. 2, Morristown ; Secrd1Jr1 Clarence L. Wayne C. Byham, S68 Washington St. Philadelphia. Sauollq, S Hillcrest Ave., Gladstone. Diefenbach, 3S6 Rose BIYd., S•cr•t.ry, Allen B. Diefen­ FT. JACKSON CHAPTER, Waynesbura--Pr<~ld.mt, HaroW Pre.r idmt , Francis H. Vv' hitaker, 401 S. Wuhington St. Albert W. Conner, 301 Mansion Drive, bach, 2nd Nat'l Bank Bldg, Bell1 S•cr•t.ry, H. L. Lecky. LT. - D AVID Cox CHA PTER, Galax- Presid,.nt, Oscar A. Alexandria, Va. RHODE ISLAND GEORGE • ROGERS CLARK CHAPTER, Springfield-Pr.riReisinger, 21 Frellan Road. DA NIEL BOONE CHAPTER, Charleston-Pr•.ri4•nt1 Oliver New Orleans. Wells Crandall, 81 Westmont Ave. ; Secretary, Sherman GEN. DANIEL MORGAN CHAPTER, McConneliiYille­ S. Ha)le rman , 11 2 5 Loudon Hts. Ro:ad; Secr• t•r1 , R. K. VERMONT H. Hill, lOS Evergreen Ave. PretUlmt, Albert G . Coulson, Malta1 S•cr•t.ry, Wm. Talbott, Uni ted Fuel Gas Co. · MAINE Charles L. Woodbury, Burlinfton. LJ:MUJ:L COOK CHAPTER, Albion-Pr.rsld.rnt, Fred W. Brownell Porter, Malta. RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY ClN, ADA J\ 1 STEPH EN CHAPTER , Martinsburg·-Prui­ Harry K. Torrey, P . 0 . Box 46, P o rtland. Tanner, 225 W. Bank St. f Secr.ta,.,, Raymond D. NORTHEASTERN OHIO CHAPTER, Ashtabula-Pr•tidmt, VIRGINIA PROVIDENCE CHAPTER, Providence-Pnrtd.nt, AdditoD d6nt, Dr. A. B. Eag le ; Secrdary , E. W. Miller. Fuller. · ~ • John A. T alcott, JefienonJ S ~ cr.e.,., , Jack R. Evans, ]AMES El.LI SON CHAPTER, Beckley-President, Warren MARYLAND Crawford S. Rogers, ShipBldg, & Drydoclr. LONG ISLAND CHAPTER, Freeport- Presidu at, J. Ray RUJ'US PUTNAM CHAPTER, Zanetville-Pr.rsiUttt, Prank P. Munroe, 66 Paterson St. J S.rer•t4ry, Harold W. Jollie, 276 Gano St. M. Reeser, 2 1 3 Gra"'·ille· Ave.; Secrnary, A. D. Cook , Edward D. Shriner, Jr., Frederick. Corp., Norfolk. Johnson, 7 Dalston Circle, Lynbrook f Secret4ry, Henry C. Dunzweiler, 703 Lexineton . Ave.J S•er•,.,.,, R.oy R. 521 W ood lawn Ave. D. Butler, 67 Union St., Freeport. Nowell, 104S Lindsay Ave. BRISTOL CHAPT£R-Pr611dme, Hezekiah C. Wardwell, CoL. ZACQ UI LL MORGAN CHAPTXR, Morganto\Yn- Pre.ri­ .Bristol} S•er.rUry, Benjamin M. MacDougall, 12 Brad· MASSACHUSETTS WASHINGTON STATE NIAGARA F ALLI CHAPTER, Niagara Falls - Pr.rsiUnt, NATHANAEL GREENE CHAPTER, Xenia--Pnlidmt, Ches­ ,. , dent, Wm. M. B:lrrick, 2 12 Park St. J Su retar-y , Charles Charles C. Egbert, Roosevelt Ave., R. No. 47, s,,.,._ ter Hinkle; S•crdary, Victor Anderson, R. R. 1, Yellow ford St., Bristol. _,, B. Campbell , 6?R N. High St. Col. Frederick G . Bauer, 50 Congress St., William L. McCormick, 509 N . Tacoma Ave., '-7, Donald B. Ladd, Mountain View Dr., Lewiston. Springs. KENT CouNTY CHAPTER-P.. r/J..,t, F. Richmond AileD, WEST AUGUST:\ CHAPTER, Loga.n - Pr•Jid•nt, Lester D. Boston, Ma8S. T acoma. 38 Fairview Ave., W . Warwick• S.rcr.rUry, Henry G. JAMESTOWN CHAPTER, ]amestown-Pt'6tldmt1 Dr. George ,. H:arer ; Secr,.tArv, Robert W . P o·vrer. M. Shearer, Hotel Jamestown Bldg., S•cr•t.ry, H. J. Jackson, Box 181, Providence. MICHIGAN WEST VIRGINIA OKLAHOMA SOCIETY ANTHON Y ROGF.R CHAPTER, Buckhannon- Pr•tid•nt, Dr. Buchanan, 411 Eaot Sth · St., Jamestown. Wallace B. Fleming, 1 Cleveland Ave. ; S•cr.tary, Wil­ Ralph D. Johnson, 996 Nottingham Road, Buford C. Tynes, Box 301, Huntington. OSWEGO COUNTY CHAPTER, Oswego--P,ridmt, Charles OKLAHOMA CITY CHAPTER, Oklahoma City-P~•sid.rnt , lilm T . O'Brien, 43 S. Florida St. Grosse Pointe Park. W. Linsley, S2 E. Utica St. , Secr.t.ry, Robert L. Frank D. ~eli&, 912 Mid-West Bldg., Secr.u...,, SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY ZAN~ CHAPTI!:R, \Vheelina-Pre.rident, Charles McCamic; WISCONSIN Allison, Sl, West Sth St. Charles T. Walker, P. 0 . Box 203. THOMAS TAYLOR CHAPTER, Columbia--Pr•sidmt, Dr. l•cr•t4ry, Rohert Ewinf . MINNESOTA John E. Dickinson, 555 Highland View Dr., GANI&VOORT-WILL&Tr CHAPTER, Rome-Pf'l lldmt, Wil­ TULSA CHAPTER-Pr.rsiclmt, Dean E. Foster, 143S S. WISCONSIN SOCIETY lis W . Byam, 102 W . Dominick St. , S•cr•t.ry, Ed­ Carson Aveo~ S•cr•t.ry, Earle H. Amos, 3 H Richard William Weston, Jr.J S.cr,.,.,, Dr. Austin T. Moon. Albert H. P . Houser, 5529 Queen Ave., S., West Bend. WnLIAM BRATI'ON CHAPTER, York--8•cr•t.f7 A. T. fANES MoRGAN CHAPTER, Milwaukee County- Pr•ti• ward P. Scheidleman, 724 N. James St. Bide. 1 J.urt, Robert B. Hartman, 406 So. 76th St., Milwaukee; Minneapolis. MONTJ'ORD STOKES CHAPTER, Muskogee- Pr4f.lithnt,_ Hart. WYOMING ITATRN ISLAND CHAPTER, S. 1.-Pr.rldme, Roswell S. l•c,.et•ry, Robert B. Ells, R. No. 2, Thlennille. Coleo, J7 Ellicott Pl., S•cr•t.ry, William Tyler. 311 Robert L. Williams, Bryan Hotel, Durant 1 S•c~•'IM7- CrrADE.L CHAPTJtR, Charleston-Pr•si4mt, Charlel P. MISSISSIPPI Dr. Galen A. Fox, 204 East 22nd St., . Summerall, S•cr•tM'y, Granville T. Prior, the Westervelt Afto 'r~UJurn-, Roy H. Cox, 2112 Oklahoma Ave. Cl~ *Dec. 1/ 1/SO. Horace Y. Kitchell, G"enwood. Cheyenne.