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OFFICIAL BULLETIN OP' THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OP' THI! SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION President General Oraanized April 30, 1889 M_. Greeley Parker, M. D .. Lowell, Mau. lncor-ated by Act ol eon..- June 9, 1906 Volume VI DECEMBER, 1911 Number 3 Published at the office of the Secretary General (A. Howard Clark, Smithsonian Insti tution), Washington, D. C., in May, October, December, and March. Entered as second-class matter, May 7, 1908, at the post-office at \Vashington, D. C., under the Act of July 16, 1894. T HE OFFICIAL BuLLETIN records action by the General Officers, the Board of Trustees, the Executive and other ~ational Committees, lists of members deceased and of new members, and important doings of State Societies. Secretaries of State Societies and of Local Chapters are requested to promptly communicate to the Secretary General ac counts of all meetings or celebrations. PROCEEDINGS OF MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COl\DIITTEE. NOVEMBER r8, 191I. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, duly called under date of Octo ber 26, rgn, was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York city, at 2 p. m., Saturday, 1 ovember r8, 191 r. Present: President General Dr. 1\Ioses Greeley Parker, presiding; Mr. William A. Marble, of • ew ; Col. Isaac F. Mack, of Ohio; Mr. Lewis Beers Curtis, of Con- icut, and Mr. Elmer 1\I. Wentworth, of Iowa; also Secretary Gen A. Howard Clark and Treasurer General John H. Burroughs. It announced that Vice-President General Thruston was absent in and President Crandon, of :\Iassachusetts, was detained by im business. The minutes of the meeting of the committee at Louisville, Ky., i\hy 19II, were read and approved. The President General briefly re- N.\TIO TAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 2 OFFICIAL BULLETIN 3 viewed the present condition of the Society throughout the country, The Treasurer General reported the receipts and disbursements since calling attention to the general increase in membership. .\pril 26, I9II. The total amount of the Permanent Fund was stated The Secretary General reported the business affairs of the Society to to be $2,_613.02, which includes $625.52 in sa1·ings bank and $r,g87.50 be in satisfactory condition. invested 111 two $r,ooo bonds. The report was accepted. It was announced that since the committee last met there had been On motion by Mr. \iVentworth, it was voted that the Committee on an unusual number of deaths of members of the Society, including Investn~ent of Perma~ent ~und be authorized to purchase one $r,ooo President William T . Dewey, of Vermont; Rear Admiral Winfield bond wtth the amount 111 savmgs bank, supplemented by a sufficient sum Scott Sc.hley, U. S. N.; Hon. William Eleroy Curtis, Hon. Nehemiah to be drawn from the general funds of the Society. D. Sperry, Senator William P. Frye, Gen. Charles R. Greenleaf, U. S The President General reported that the Investment Committee had Army, and Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D. D. recently held a meeting, and had found the Permanent Fund to be It was ordered that the Secretary General make record of the com intact. mittee's deepest regret at the death of so many compatriots. The Treasurer General reported that some of the State Societies had Mr. Marble, in behalf of a committee appointed by the President failed to pay annual dues to the National Society for all members car General to prepare a tribute to the memory of the late William T. ried on their rolls, and it was announced that, under the Constitution Dewey, reported the following memorial, which was unanimously and By-Laws, Societies are properly responsible for the annual dues for adopted, and the Secretary General was directed to send an engrossed e1•ery name on their rolls until membership actually ceases by death copy to the family of Compatriot Dewey: resignation, or other cause. ' A communication, addressed to the Executive Committee by the WILLIAM TARBOX DEWEY a Vice-President of the National Societ: of the Sons of the Ameri~an Revolution, suddenly "passed into tb Bo~rd of Mana~ers of the l\~a s sachusetts Society, was considered, pro great beyond" at his home in Montpelier, Vermont, on May 19, 19 posmg that Arttcle III, SectiOn I, of the Constitution be amended bv He was born September 30, 1852, and was the tenth in line f ~ om substituting the _w_ord "eighteen" for "twenty-one," so as to read, "An~ Thomas Dewey, and also tenth from John Alden, of th_e _Mayflower man sha!l be ehgtble to membership in the Society who, being of the His ancestors in the Revolutionary War were Corporal Wilham Dew y age of etghteen years or over," etc., and it was voted that further con- Zachariah Perrin, Lieut. Solomon Orcutt, and James Tarbox. As a business man he was eminently successful, and was recogntzed ideration ?~ deferred to the next meeting, the committee being of the as one of the leading citizens of Mo!ltpelier. ge_neral op1111?n that a regulation for associate membership by minors His active connection with the rational Soctety began wh n h~ was mtgbt be advtsable should active membership by minors be found to be a delegate to the Congress held in Denver, to which he was a delegate from his State Society, and he had attended every subsequent Congrc illegal in the National Society as a corporate body chartered by the in the same capacity. No member of these. Co!lgresses has ever takl!n United States. a deeper interest in the work of the or~an!zat10n. .. ~~e committee voted to commend the patriotic work of Brig. Gen. He was an ardent patriot, an enthusta.sttc studcn~ of Colom: I and Phtltp Reade, U. S. Army, retired, Historian of the Massachusetts Revolutionary history, and was a recogmzed authonty on ~ ll matters Soci_ety, resulting in the recent erection of a memorial to Massachusetts relating to these S!Jbi ects. At the time of hts death he was Prestdent of the Vermont Soctety of soldters at Valley Forge. The committee also records its appreciation the Sons of the American Revolution. of. General Reade's good work in gathering together valuable data re In temperament he was cheerful and ~ecame endeared to all wtth latmg to Massachusetts soldiers at that historic camp. whom he came in contact. We shall mtss at future Con~resses the genial smile, the warm hand-shake, and the optimism of \iVilliam Tar T~1e Secretary Ge~eral_ submitted letters from Col. Ch. Chaille-Long, Regt tra: of the Soctety 111 France, and it was voted that the committee box Dewey. It may well be said of him, as was said of another: express Its hope that Col. Chaille-Long may meet with success in his one knew him but to love him, effort t~ gr~atly enlarge the membership and broaden the influence of None named him but to praise. the Soctety 111 France. w. A. MARBLE. The President General submitted a letter from Vice-President Gen FRANK L. GREENE. eral ~utler, of Ohio, proposing that the Society aid in securing the \i\T ALTER H. CROCKETT. Washmgton Manor House at Sulgrave, England, at a cost of $so,ooo OFFICIAL BULLETIN 4 N.\TIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 5 for purchase and maintenance, and it was voted that the committe~ lend pointments were approved: President General Moses Greeley Parker. its moral support to the patriotic endeavor of Compatriot Butler, but ~1. D. (Chairman); Hon. Charles Dana Burrage, Hon. Cornelius A. financial aid by the Society would not be feasible. Pugsley, Hon. Henry Stockbridge, Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, and Mr. A letter was read from Compatriot Henry Cabot Lodge, of the United Edwin S. Crandon. States Senate, expressing his appreciation of resolutions adopted by the The informal action of the members of the Executive Committee in Louisville Congress thanking him for his patriotic work in securing the authorizing the printing of Leaflet No. III, "The Constitution of the passage by the Senate of a measure for the erection by the nation of a United States of America," for distribution by the Committee on Infor statue of Alexander Hamilton. There was also read a letter from mation for Aliens, was formally approved. Senator A. 0. Bacon, appreciating like resolutions for his securing an Acting upon the suggestion of President Frederic ]. Flagg and Mr. appropriation by the Senate for a memorial to Thomas Jefferson; and Walbridge, of the Anthony Wayne Chapter, of Toledo, that some method a letter of appreciation was received from Compatriot George A. Loud, of interchange be devised whereby each State Society receive the benefit of Michigan, for resolutions thanking him for his work in securing an of valuable historical papers read before the several Societies it was appropriation by Congress for the completion of the John Paul }one voted that the Executive Committee recommend that State Societies crypt at Annapolis Academy. furnish copies to the Secretary General of all historical papers read at It was voted that the purchase be authorized of 100 fac-simile copies their meetings, with a view to their preservation in the National Society of the Declaration of Independence, to be sold to State Societies for archives and their use by such State Societies as may desire them. presentation to public schools. The Secretary General reported on the proposed removal of the re A communication was presented to the committee recommending mains of Gen. Henry Lee (Light Horse Harry), as considered by the legislation in regard to the preservation and display of the collection of Louisville Congress.