OFFICIAL BULLETIN

OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

OF TH!!: SONS OF THE President General Organized April 30, 1889 R. C. Ballard Thruston, Louisville, Ky . Incorporated by Act of Coo11reu June 9, 1906

Volume IX MARCH, 1915 Number 4

Published at the office of the Secretary General (A. Howard Clark. Smithsonian Insti· tution), Washington. D. C.. in June. October. December, and March. Entered as second-class matter, May 7, 1908, at the post-office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of July 16, 1894.

THE OFFICIAL BULLE'fiN records action by the General Officers, the Board of Trustees, the Executive and other National Committees, lists of members deceased and of new members, and important doings of State Societies. In order that the OFFICIAL BuLLETIN may be up to date, and to insure the preservation in the National Society archives of a complete history of the doings of the entire organization, State Societies and Local Chapters are requested to communicate promptly to the Secretary General written or printed accounts of all meetings or celebrations, to forward copies of all notices, circulars, and other printed matter issued by them, and to notify him at once of dates of death of members.

OFFICIAL NOTICES. TwENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CoNGREss.-A pro forma session of the Congress will be held at Portland, Oregon, on the third Monday in May and adjourn, without the transaction of business, to the third Monday in July. The regular business sessions will be held at Portland on Monday and Tuesday, July 19 and 20, 1915, and on the 21st there will be a trip on the Columbia River. A few days later the Congress is expected to reassemble for a patriotic session at San Francisco. Compatriot Wallace McCamant, vice-chairman of the National Com­ mittee on Arrangements, announces that the Oregon Society is anxious that there shall be a large attendance at the Congress. All members of the Society, whether delegates to the Congress or not, are cordially 2 OFFICIAL BULLETIN N .\TIO"'.\L 0 IETY, S. A. R. 3 invited to be present and to bring their ladies with them. All visitors The price of a lower Pullman berth on any of the railroads from are urged to reach Portland not later than the morning of Sunday, Chicago to Portland is $14.00. July 18. There will be a Sunday service in one of the churches. The Members of the Empire State Society have arranged for a special business meetings of the Congress will be held on Monday, July 19, train to take them and their friends to the Pacific coast in July to at­ and on Tuesday morning, July 20. On Monday evening the Daughters tend the Congress, making stops at Denver, , the Yellow­ of the American Revolution will entertain the delegates and visitors. stone Park, Portland, San Francisco, , and the Grand All ladies attending the Congress are invited to be present al an after­ Canyon, a trip of thirty-one days at an expense of from $350 up, ac­ noon reception at the home of Mrs. A. E. Rockey. cording to the accommodations desired, for each person. The itinerary On the early afternoon of Tuesday, July 21, delegates and visitors has been printed and may be had on application to Mr. T. D. Huntting, will be taken on a trip around Council Crest by trolley. Following this 220 Broadway, City. Persons from the eastern Stales can there will be an automobile excursion about the city, which will termi­ join the train at Albany, N. Y., while those from , Mary­ nate at the Waverly Golf Links, where afternoon tea will be served. land, Delaware, and the District of Columbia can entrain at Buffalo, if On the evening of July 20 a banquet will be served at the Portland they should choose to make such an arrangement. As there must be Hotel. July 21 will be taken up with a trip up the Columbia River; at least 125 in the party to obtain the special rate and train, member­ the trip will be taken one way by train and the other way by boat. ship is not restricted to members of the Society. The Portland Hotel is the official headquarters of the Congress, and Acting on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, that the Masonic Building, at which the meetings will be held, is two short delegates en route to Portland accept courtesies extended by the blocks from the hotel. Other hotels in the order of their desirability and Washington State Societies by spending one day at Salt Lake City are: The Benson, Multnomah, Imperial, Oregon, Seward, and Cor­ and one day at Seattle, the chairman of the Committee on Arrange­ nelius. ments, Mr. Elmer M. Wentworth, Des Moines, Iowa, announces that Hotel accommodations will probably be in demand at the time indi­ the official party will move on approximately the following schedule: cated and it is earnestly requested that all delegates and visitors com­ Leave Chicago ro a. m., Monday, July 12; leave Omaha 12.30 a. m., municate with Gen. Charles F. Beebe, Worcester Building, Portland, Tuesday, 13th; arrive Salt Lake City 8.25 a. m., Wednesday, 14th; leave Oregon, on the subject of the reservations desired by them. General 12.30 a. m., Thursday, 15th; arrive Portland 11.40 a. m., leave 2.10 Beebe is chairman of the Committee on Hotel Reservations and he will p. m., and arrive Seattle 8.30 p. m., Friday, 16th; leave Seattle 11.15 be glad to answer all questions with reference to side trips. p. m., Saturday, 17th; arrive Portland 6-45 a. m., Sunday, 18th; leave The Passenger Associations have granted exceptionally low rates to Portland 8.30 p. m., Wednesday, 21st, or 1.30 a. m., Thursday, 22d; the coast. The rates from Chicago and points west and southwest of arrive San Francisco 7.30 a. m. or r.ro p. m., Friday, 23d. Chicago are as follows: To Pori land To San Francisco AuDITING AND FINANCE CoMM1TTEE.-To fill the vacancy caused by and and rf!'turo via the death of George Clinton Batcheller, LL. D., chairman of the com­ return. Portland in one din:ction. mittee, the President General has appointed Mr. George D. Bangs as Chicago ...... $62 . so $8o.oo its chairman, and has appointed Mr. Norman P. Heffley to membership Peoria ...... 59.25 76·75 thereon. St. Louis...... 57. so 75-00 Omaha ...... so.oo 67.50 THE PERMANENT FuND.-By vote of the Executive Committee, the Kansas City ...... so.oo 67.50 sum of $350.32 has been transferred from the General Fund to the St. Paul ...... so.oo 74·45 Permanent Fund and added to the uninvested balance in the latter fund Minneapolis ...... so.oo 74·45 for the purchase of a 4 per cent $1,000 railroad bond, thus increasing Denver ...... 45-00 62.50 the Permanent Fund to $7,000, invested in 4 and 4~ per cent bonds. Memphis ...... 69.8s 81.20 WEARING oF lNSlGNIA.-Article XV of the By-Laws provides that ...... 75·00 83.75 Oklahoma City ...... s8.oo 72.30 the cross "may be worn by any member of the Society on ceremonial Ft. Worth ...... 6s.oo 76.25 NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN 5 naturalization, urging them to make the ceremony of naturalization as oq:asions only, and shall be carried on the left breast, or at the collar impressive as possible. if an or Past President General of the National Society, or the President, active or past, of a State Society." The makers of the OFFICE OF PRESIDENT GENERAL, CoLUMBIA BUILDING, badge, J. E. Caldwell & Co., , under the direction of the LouiSVILLE, KY., January 25, I9IS. President General, have designed a fiat loop for suspending the cross DEAR SIR: The importance of impressing upon those who are becom­ ing American citizens through the process of naturalization a due sense from the neck ribbon and a spring fastening for attaching the cross to of what they are doing and the duties and obligations they are assum­ the breast ribbon, so that officers may adjust the cross to wear either ing is becoming more and more manifest with each succeeding year. at the collar or breast, as occasion may demand. Too often it has been regarded as perfunctory merely, and the proceed­ ings, including the oath administered to the new citizen, have been characterized with an apparent indifference, suggestive of a disagree­ PAY-ROLL OF THE . able duty to be gotten through with as speedily as possible. No one \1 will question the proposition that in some manner such an attitude upon In the December issue of the OFFICIAL BULLETIN (page 6) attention the part of court officials is to be deprecated, and therefore as far as was called to "Pierce's Register," the Paymaster General's record of practicable, should be obviated. ' certificates issued to the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has had occa­ (not including State Militia) who were in service at the close of the sion to observe the conditions as they have existed and, as looking to the improvement of the situation, respectfully, but urgently, invites and war, representing payments aggregating $ro,6so,ooo. An alphabetical asks your assistance. copy of this Register, prepared by the National Society of the Daugh­ Several suggestions have been made, such, for example, as that those ters of the American Revolution, will be published in the Seventeenth of foreign birth who have shown themselves qualified for admission to Annual Report of that Society, recently communicated to Congress cit_izenship should all be assembled upon a set occasion, when, after a bnef address by the presiding judge or some other citizen of high through the Smithsonian Institution in accordance with law. When standing in the community upon the importance of the act of the completed, this report will be for sale, as are all Congressional docu­ transfer of allegiance from one nation to another and the obligations ments, by the Public Printer, Washington, D. C. which such an act carries with it, the prescribed oath should then be administered in a solemn and impressive manner. In some cases such a procedure may not be practicable, but in nearly TRAVELING BANNER AND PRIZE INSIGNIA. all cases, with the co-operation of the presiding judge, it is possible, and this Society believes will be of important practical value, that the The Traveling Banner will be awarded at the Portland Congress to oath shall be thus administered. the State Society of roo members or more which, during the official year May we not have your co-operation in the accomplishment of this as ending March 3I, I9IS, shows the greatest percentage of increase in a step toward the elevation of American citizenship? membership. A gold ceremonial badge will be awarded to the State Sincerely and earnestly yours, R. c. BALLARD THRUSTON, Society which, during the same period, enrolls the greatest proportionate President General. number of s·ons of present members. It is the wish of the donor of the badge that it be presented through competition or otherwise to one There was also sent to State Societies and Local Chapters a letter of of the sons of members thus enrolled. the following form : OFFICE oF PRESIDENT GENERAL, CoLUMBIA BUILDING, ./ COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION FOR ALIENS. LouiSVILLE, KY., Jan!tary 20, I9IS. To State Societies and Local Chapters. Commander John H. Moore, U. S. N., chairman of the Committee on CoMPATRIOTS: The Sons of the American Revolution began a most Information for Aliens, reports a continued demand for the National important work of practical patriotism when the National Executive Society leaflets, particularly No. 2, on "Naturalization,'' and No. 3, Committee on October I I907, approved a form of leaflet on "The "The Constitution of the ." Leaflet No. I, on "The United St~tes : Its Oppo;tunities, Government, and Institutions,'' a?d United States, its Opportunities," etc., has been likewise much in established a Committee on Information for Aliens to arrange for 1ts publication in various languages and its distribution among immigrants demand. and children of foreign-born parents throughout the land. Several In January the President General sent the following letter to about hundred thousands of the above leaflet in English and thirteen foreign fifteen hundred Federal and State judges having jurisdiction over 6 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAl, SOCIETY, S. A. R. 7

languages, and of a later one on " aturalization," and copies of the already equipped for effective work in this -!'. ·~.: tion. No general plan "Constitution of the United States," have since been widely distributed could be formulated that would find favor with all State Societies and among aliens in industrial centers and in night schools in many parts Chapters, but each one, upon investigation, must find for itself the of the country. "Americanism is not determined by race or place of birth, but by the most effective manner of operation. For example, in the Washington spirit that is in a man." The were settled by peoples State Society individual members have joined the civic societies and of several tongues, and in I775 one-fifth of the inhabitants could not are giving their time to the preparation of the alien for taking his ex­ speak English, while one-half was of other than Anglo-Saxon descent. amination for citizenship, while the Society itself makes an appropria­ During succeeding decades immigration brought to our shores hun­ dreds of thousands of many nationalities, culminating in some ten mil­ tion of money to further the good work. lion arrivals during the Ia t decade and resulting in a present propor­ Our National Society has been interested in this work for the past tion of as much as 30 per cent of foreign-born inhabitants in some of seven years and has been of great help to many, but it has remained the States. for the various civic societies led by the Y. M. C. A. to make great To bring about the early and intelligent assimilation of this immense host imbued with high ideals and a full sense of the personal respon­ advances in this work which has to a very large extent been brought sibility of each individual in a government like ours, is a most patriotic about during the past three years. endeavor. The entry of these masses into the full privilege of citizen­ From the varied correspondence with our Societies, individuals, and ship should be made an impressive event in their lives. civic societies, the chairman of the Committee on Information for Upon the recommendation of the Syracuse Congress and of the Na­ Aliens is led to believe that the plan being followed by the Washington tional Executive Committee, your President General ~ails upon e'!'ch State Society and Local Chapter of Sons of the Amencan Revolution State Society is the best that has so far been indicated, and would to take such measures as may be feasible through conference with recommend it to the consideration of other State Societies. (See ac­ Bar Associations and Judges of United States Courts and of other counts of doings of the Detroit, Syracuse, and other Chapters in present courts having jurisdiction thereof to establis~1 simple but d!g~ified and Bulletin.) impressive ceremonies when oaths of allegiance are admmistered to groups of new citizens, in order that these may most fully comprehend The President General has received a large number of letters from the solemnity and importance of the duties assumed by them as they judges who administer the oath to the new citizens, and they all heartily become members of the body politic. approve of his endeavor to have the occasion made a solemn and im­ It is further recommended and urged by your President General that pressive ceremony. local committees be appointed to initiate. methods. to benefit _the f?r­ The attention of this committee has been called to the work of eigners in our midst, or. to co-op<:rate _wit~ ag~ncie_s alre~dy 111 exist­ ence, equipped for effective work. 111 _th_Is directiOn, 111 their most com­ Wilson L. Gill, LL. D., one of the Assistant Secretaries General of the mendable systematic plan of ma111tammg classes a~d lectt;re cours~s National Society in I889, who for many years has earnestly promoted for teaching new-comers the English language;_ for mst.ructmg: them I_n the development of more efficient citizenship through the organization the rights, duties, and obligations. of citi.zenship; for ~mp~ovmg the~r living conditions, and for promotmg their general uphft m every di- of the "School Republic." Its operation has proved peculiarly bene­ ficial in several large public schools in , attended chiefly rection. · G 1 · 11 The Executive Committee and your President . enera specJa Y. re- by aliens, developing "in the child's heart habits and character, inde­ quest that this letter be read befor.e the next meet~ng of ~our Society, pendence, initiative and love of justice, cleanliness, order, and obedience and that action be promptly had eitht;r by the. Society. or Its Board of to all lawful authority." The plan of work and its benefits are explained Managers to give effect to the suggestions herem contamed. Cordially yours, R. C. BALLARD T_HRUSTON , in "The Boys' and Girls' Republic"-a text-book to aid in organizing Prestdmt General. and maintaining a school republic-and in "A New Citizenship," which are published by the American Patriotic League, Independence Hall, The chairman of the committee makes the following comments on Philadelphia, Pa. the plan proposed in the foregoing letter: ,/ The Sons of the American Revolution as a Society could hardly by HISTORICAL LECTURES. itself take up and carry to a successful issue the great question of In addition to the various papers on historical topics mentioned in preparing the alien for citizenship and establishing si~ple but digni~ed previous OFFICIAL BULLETINS as available for the use of State Societies and impressive ceremonies when the oaths of allegiance. are admm­ upon payment for cost of copying, the Historian General reports the istered. It can, however, join forces with other agencies that are following delivered before the Orange Chapter: 8 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 9

" in the Revolution": "Red Bank," Rev. Edward S. Ferry; 46; Indiana, 4; Iowa, II; Kansas, 3; Kentucky, 3; , 2; Maine, "Trenton," George W. Priest; "Princeton," C. A. Coddington; "Mon­ 6; Maryland, 3; , 33; Michigan, 9; Minnesota, I; N e­ mouth," M. De Forrest Soverel; "Springfield," William J. Conkling. braska, II; New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 6I; New York (Empire "Men of New Jersey in the Revolution": "Rev. James Caldwell," Wil­ State), 23; North Carolina, 2; North Dakota, 3; Ohio, 28; Oklahoma, liam J. Conkling; "Captain Frederick Frelinghuysen," De Witt C. Mat­ 2; Oregon, 8; Pennsylvania, 14; Philippine , I; Rhode Island, I5; Ten­ thews; "General William Alexander" (Lord Stirling), J. Thornley nessee, I; Texas, J; Utah, 4; , 5; , 4; Washington, 26; Neff; "Colonel Jacob Ford," Oscar S. Thompson; "General Hugh I• Wiscon in. I6. Mercer," Henry Hall Duncklee. "The Continental Line": "Its Descrip­ tion," Gen. Henry W. Freeman; "The Officers," Rev. Charles B. Bul­ DOINGS OF STATE SOCIETIES. lard; "The Artillery," Capt. Harry L. Harrison. The Arizona Society held its nineteenth annual business meeting and For copies of above writ~ to the Historian General, Mr. David L. its eighteenth annual dinner at Phcenix on February 23. It was de­ Pierson, East Orange, N. J. c•ded that, inasmuch as in that part of the country "it is not possi­ ble for the Society to take part in the usual activities, such as mark­ FLAG COMMITTEE. ing historic places or making pilgrimages to them, the attention of The Flag Committee, of which Mr. W. V. Cox of Washington, D. C., the members be given to what might be called present-day patriotism. is chairman, recently aroused increased interest in the enactment of a. To that end it was left with the Board of Managers to offer and award Federal law "to prohibit the use of the United States flag for adver­ prizes of gold medals to contestants from the high-school classes of tising purposes, its public mutilation, defacement, and defilement." the State for essays on patriotic themes to be announced later, the Thirty-six States and the Territory of Hawaii have such laws but awards to be made at the close of the school year." Congress has not enacted a United States statute, although bills 'have The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Roy E. Thomas; passed either Senate or House in several Congresses. The Senate Vice-President, Dr. John Dennett, Jr.; Secretary, Dr. Charles A. Van <:luring the late Congress passed such a law, but final action was not der Veer; Treasurer, Lloyd B. Christy; Registrar, Prosper P. Parker; taken in the House. Public sentiment has been quite as effective as Chaplain, Rev. J. Rockwood Jenkins. Mr. George D. Christy was nom­ law in preserving respect for the flag when attention has been called inated for Trustee of the National Society. to cases of unintentional abuse of the flag, particularly for advertising At the annual meeting in I9I3 Joseph L. B. Alexander was elected purposes. The attention of the committee has been called to an ap­ President and Rt. Rev. J. W. Atwood Vice-President; and in I9I4 the parent disrespect to the flag by permitting a design resembling the President was Rt. Rev. J. W. Atwood and Dr. Roy E. Thomas Vice­ "Stars and Stripes" to be worked into the basement floor of one of President, instead of names printed in the National Year Books for the State Capitol buildings . those years. ./ The Arkansas Society held its annual banquet at Little Rock on COMMITTEES ON ORGANIZATION. February 22, and has published the address of the toastmaster, Secre­ The Organization Committees are encouraging the healthy growth tary Fay Hempstead, on "Arkansas and the American Revolution," in of State Societies, especially through the formation of Local Chapters, which he refers to "the Spanish governor of that date, the gallant which have been found to promote interest in the work of the entire Bernardo de Galvez, then only twenty-two years of age, who was o-rganization. friendly to the American cause and gave aid to the struggling colonists." His name still subsists in the name of that Texas city which in earlier ADDITIONS TO MEMBERSHIP. years was called and spelled "Galvez Town." From December I, I9I4, to February 28, 1915, there was enrolled by The California Society has issued a small pamphlet of thirty-five the Registrar General a total of 397 new members in 38 State Societies pages on the origin of the Society, qualifications for membership, as follows: Arizona, I; Arkansas, 4; California, 5; Colorado, I; Con­ sources of record, constitution and by-laws, and roll of members, Jan­ necticut, II; District of Columbia, I8; Hawaii, 3; Idaho, 6; Illinois, uary, I9IS. A joint reception and ball was given by the Sons of the N A'l'ION AL SOCn:TY, S. A. R. II IO OIIFICIAL BULLBTIN Thruston Ballard, brother of President General R. C. Ballard Thruston. American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution and to his associates of the Industrial Commission. of San Francisco on the evening of Thursday, February 18, I9IS, in The third annual patriotic meeting in commemoration of George honor of the State Regent, Officers, and Delegates of the Daughters Washington and Abraham Lincoln was held at the Denver Auditorium of the American Revolution of California on the occasion of their on the evening of February 20, under the auspices of "The Washington­ State Conference. Lincoln Memorial Association," Dr. Clarkson N. Guyer, President, and The Colorado Society at its annual business meeting in Denver, on chairman of Educational Committee of Sons of the American Revolu­ February 22, elected the following officers: President, Charles B. Top­ tion. Several hundred of the National Society leaflets were distributed pan, 3905 Zenobia street, Denver; Vice-Presidents, William H. Seeds, among the foreign element of the large audience. The program in­ Denver, Merton E. Stubbs, Colorado Springs, Charles E. Little, Greeley, cluded the following features: Recitation, '"Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad­ T. J. Warren, Fort Collins, John J. Jacobs, Greeley; Secretary, )arne dress," Mr. Daniel G. Holland; Flag Ritual and Song "Columbine," P. Willard, 210 Masonic Temple, Denver; Treasurer, Walter D. Wyn­ Denver Public-school Pupils; Address, "To Our 1ewly Made Citizen ." koop, Mountain States Telephone Co., Denver; Registrar, James P. Dr. N.]. Myers; Presentation of Peace Banner (purchased by penn) Willard, 210 Masonic Temple, Denver; Historian, W. W. Kirby, 1239 contributions of children in elementary grades, Denver public schools) ; Downing street, Denver; Chaplain, Ernest Neal Orr, 1123 Sherman Marshalling the Colors, "Flag Evolutions"; Songs and Tableau, "Land­ street, Denver. ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock"; Patriotic March, "Spirit of The annual banquet was held at the Adams Hotel, Denver, with the '76"; Motion Picture, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Drill and Tab­ following program: President William H. Seeds, toastmaster; Dipping leau, "Cohorts of the Red, White, and Blue"; National Anthem, "The of Colors; Invocation, by Rev. William A. Philips; Star Spangled Star Spangled Banner"; Tableau, "Peace Enshrined." Banner, with tableau, quartet; addresses on "One Hundred Years of THE DENVER CHAPTER held its regular monthly meetings at the Adams Peace," by Gov. George A. Carlson, and on "Our Canadian Border, Hotel on the evenings of December 17, January 21, and February 18, 1814-1914,'' by Mr. P. ]. Edwin Robinson; toasts on "The Patriotic when addresses were delivered on "The Franco-Prussian War of 1870," Fathers of 1776," by Henry Johnson Hersey; "The Mothers of the by Clinton Enos; "The Battle of Gettysburg," by W. W. Dale, and Revolution," by Joseph Farrand Tuttle; "The Daughters of the Ameri­ "Abraham Lincoln," by Rev. Ernest N. Orr. can Revolution," by Rev. John H. Houghton; introduction of President­ elect. The Connecticut Society omitted its usual annual banquet on Wash­ One of the features at the banquet was a representation of the birth ington's Birthday. At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held at of the "Star Spangled Banner," which consisted of a picture, 12 feet Hartford, January 16, it was suggested that "the amount members by 4 feet, constructed along the lines of a stained-glass window, using would expend for a ticket and traveling expenses be given to a charita­ colored papers and cardboard lead lines. It was illuminated with elec­ ble fund of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revo­ tric lights controlled by a rheostat run by clock-work. The lights in lution, naming whatever object they would wish their contribution to the hall being extinguished, miniature lights were flashed, representing be paid to. This decision was made because of the unsettled condition the "bombs bursting in air," daylight gradually and almost imperceptibly of business in this country and because of the disturbed feeling owing approaching, so that it requires seven minutes for full daylight, when to the great European war, which have lessened the interest of people Frances Scott Key was seen standing on the deck of the vessel facing in gatherings of a festive nature. On the other hand, the great sym­ the fort where the flag is seen "floating in the air." The banqueters pathy among the American business and professional people with those were supposed to be standing on the deck behind Key. who are suffering in as a result of the war is ready for ex­ Fort McHenry was represented as from a picture of the same, re­ pression in the way of concrete help. If no object is mentioned, the ceived from the President of the Maryland Society. The entire work amount will be paid to the Belgian Relief Fund." was the effort of two young men, who will in time become members Ex-President William Howard Taft has been elected a member of of the Sons of the American Revolution. the Connecticut Society. The Board of Managers of the Colorado Society gave a banquet at The Society has authorized the conducting of numerous essay con- the Adams Hotel on December 7, 1914, in honor of Compatriot S. NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 13 12 OFFICIAL BULLETIN a. Original research. tests along the Jines on which the contests were conducted two years b. General treatment of the subject-matter. ago. The pu pose of the competition is to encourage a study of history c. Literary merit in composition. pertaining to the struggle for American independence among our school Note.-Essays should be in the handwriting of the contestant, but a children and to foster patriotism in our public schools. typewritten essay will be received if the work of typewriting and To further encourage the interest of the school children and to punctuating is done by the contestant himself. stimulate the competition, the State. Society itself offers two prizes­ 7. The award will be made by a local committee appointed by the donor of the prize for that purpose. Should the committee, however, one for the best essay from the public high schools of the State, the be of the opinion that no one of the essays submitted is worthy of prize for which is to be the National Society's gold medal and fifty receiving the prize, it may, at its discretion, decline to award the prize. dollars cash, and one for the best essay from the grammar schools of THE STATE PRIZE COMPETITION. the State, the prize to be the National Society's silver medal and fifty dollars cash. r. The essays receiving first place in the local competition will be entered in the competition for the State prizes offered by the State The committee in charge of the competition, of which Mr. Earnest C. Society, which are: Simpson of New Haven is chairman, has issued the following set of For the best essay from the public high schools, the National Society's rules: gold medal and fifty ($so) dollars cash. LOCAL PRIZE COMPETITION. For the best essay from the grammar schools, the National Society's silver medal and fifty ($so) dollars cash. I. .Any m~mber of the Society may offer in the name of the Con­ 2. The essays winning first prize in the local competitions must be ~ecticut Society, Sons of the American Revolution, a prize, or prizes, delivered or transmitted by the local committee of award to a member Ill any public school of t~e State. of either the high school or grammar of the Prize Essay Committee on or before May rs, 1915. The essays, s~hool grades, the. pnze m the h1gh school to be the National Society' when so delivered or transmitted, must be signed by an assumed name Silver medal and. m ~he grammar school the National Society's bronze and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the assumed nal?e. on medal, accompamed m each case by such cash as the donor of the prize the outside and the competitor's true name and address on the ms1de. may see fit and proper to offer. 3. In awarding the prize, credit will be given in the same order of 2. The subject of the essay must relate to the struggle for American merit for the different matters as stated in paragraph 6 of the rules independence. governing the awarding of the prizes in local competitions. 3· No essay must excee~ twenty-five hundred words in length. 4· The award of the State prize. will be made by a spec!al committee 4· Each essay must be signed by an assumed name and accompanied of three, appointed by the President of the State Society fo; that by a sealed envelope bearing that name on the outside and the author's purpose; and the winner will be announced at the annual meetmg of true name and address inside, and must be delivered or mailed to the the State Society in June, 19IS. donor of the prize, or such person as he may appoint, on or before April 10, 1915. THE CoL. JEREMIAH WADSWORTH BRANCH, at its meeting at the 5· In the preparation of the essays the student is, of course, invited 1 Hartford Club, on December r6, was addressed by William Webster to study his subject from any authorities he may have at hand or can Ellsworth, President of the Century Company of New York. The obtain, and may use any information which he may obtain by research or from public records, monuments, private or public papers or letters. lecture, "The Making of Europe," was illustrated with stereopticon etc.; but the essay, to receive a high grade, must not be composed of view of Europe from the days of Julius Cresar, interspersed with re­ merely extracts or "cribbings" from the writings of others, and each productions of some of the more famous paintings of the different contestant must certify at the end of his essay to the following effect: events which shaped the destinies of the countries now at war. About I hereby certify that I have received no assistance in the actual preparation of the above essay other than assistance in the search of roo members of the Society attended the meeting and partook of the information and material, and have read and consulted the following dinner, which was served before the address. authorities and books (giving list of books, etc., including page num­ Mr. Ellsworth gave an exposition of the changes made in the map ber when any extract has been taken or included in the essay), and of Europe by various wars. have also received ·information from the following sources (here mention other sources of information which may have been consulted, The District of Columbia Society has declared its intention of or­ such as public records, monuments, private papers, etc.). 6. In grading the essays importance will be given to the research ganizing an auxiliary society to be known as the Washington Guard involved in their preparation, and credit will be given each essay upon and enrollment is being made of the sons and grandsons and other the following matters in the order named: boy eligible to membership. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. IS

The customary .. Ladies' Night" meeting was held on January 20. In the forenoon of February 22 there was held at Memorial C~nti­ Col. Frederick C. Bryan presided at the exercises preceding the supper nental Hall a joint celebration by the Daughters of the Amer~can and dancing. Addresses were made by Mrs. William Cumming Story, Revolution the Sons of the Revolution, and the Sons of the Amencan President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Revolution: under the direction of a Joint Committee on A~rangements, by Compatriot Henry S. Breckinridge, Assistant Secretary of War, of which Commander John H. Moore, U. S. N., .was cha1rma.n. The who spoke of the present strength of the United States. He President General of the Daughters of the Amencan RevolutiOn ~re­ urged the members of the Society to study the question of national sided. The celebration was attended by the President of the Umted armament and take a leading part in the determination of the con­ States, members of the Cabinet, Ambassador a~d M~e. Jusseran?, and troversy as to whether or not there shall be greater preparedness for others of the diplomatic corps, and a large pubhc aud1ence. Mus1c was war. He asked them to remember that nothing is more commendable rendered by the United States Marine Band. The program was as fol­ than to seek peace, and also to recall the advice of , lows: Invocation, Rev. Randolph H. McKim, Chaplain of Sons of the that nothing is more prudent than to prepare for war. Revolution; Presentation of the Colors; Address of Welcome, by Mrs. The annual business meeting was held in the afternoon of February William Cumming Story, President General of the Daughters of the 22, when the following officers were elected: President, Rear Adm. American Revolution; Reading of Washington's Fa1 ewell Address, by 'Colby M. Chester. U. S. . (retired); Vice-Presidents, Henry L. Mr. Barry Bulkley, of the Sons of the Revolution; Music, ''Stars. an.d Bryan, W. A. De Caindry, and Edwin A. Hill, Ph. D.; Secretary, John Stripes Forever;" Address, by Senator .Charles. E. Townsend of Mlclu­ B. Torbert, U. S. Geological Survey; Treasurer, Philip F. Larner; gan, introduced by Mr. Albion K. Parns, Pres1dent of the Sons o~ the Revolution; Music, "Hail, Columbia;" Address, b~ Rev. Jolm Bntton Registrar, Albert D. Spangler, 72 S St., N. W.; Assistant Registrar, Henry P. Holden; Historian, Selden M. Ely; Librarian, Charles W. Clark, introduced by Col. Frederick C. Bryan, Pres1dent of the So~s of Stewart; Chaplain, Rev. George H. McGrew. Rear Adm. C. M. the American Revolution; Music, "My Own United States;" Dehvery Chester, U. S. N., was nominated for Trustee of the National Society. of Gold Medal, by Gaillard Hunt, chairman Committee of Judges, Sons Professor Ely, Historian, presented a report which included biographies of the Revolution; President Wilson, with a few remarks, handed the of sixteen members who died during the year. In conclusion he said, medal to Walter S. Smoot, of the Central High School, for the best in part: essay entitled "The Course of Events that Led to. the Surren~er. of Yorktown;" Music, Singing of "America" by the Aud1ence; Bened1c~1on, We have just reviewed the life work of ministers, soldiers, busine s by the Rev. George H. McGrew, Chaplain of the Sons of the Amencan men, attaches of the Government, constructors, scientists, statesmen. They were typical Americans all in name, character, and achievement. Revolution; l\1usic, "Red, White and Blue." It is as fitting that we commemorate on this day their deeds as it is The Empire State Society celebrated its twenty-fifth an~i:ersary by that we honor the services of their ancestors or General Washington. We are more than justified by the personal lessons we may learn and a dinner and "Ladies Night" meeting at the Hotel MartJmque, New transmit to the public. York city, on the evening of February 16, when short addresses ~ere We find that the patriotism and heroism of the forbears lived in made by President W. I. Lincoln Adams of the New Jersey Soc1ety, these their grandsons, and to their credit by the virtue of the sons themselves. President Ames of the Empire State Society, and Treasurer General Plutarch wrote: "It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended. Burroughs. The annual church service was held at the Church of the but the glory belongs to our ancestors." But Goethe has since written: Divine Paternity on Sunday afternoon, February 21, t~e. Pastor and "That which thou didst inherit from thy sires, Chaplain of the Society, Rev. Frank 0. Hall, D. D., offic1atmg. In order to possess it, must be won." Under the auspices of the patriotic societies of ::\IOt~nt Ver~on, ~· Y., We have discovered that our compatriot dead defended, continued. Washington's Birthday was observed by h?lding pubhc e~erc1ses m the and thus won for themselves the inheritance making it their honored new high-school building, when Compatnot Frank Per~1val Woo~er, possession. Such is the obligation and opportunity for each generation. on belfalf of the Empire State Society, presented a portra1t of W;~.shmg­ As long as succeeding lines do their duty as these men have done. ton to the high school. America will be safe and mankind better. How secure the future would look could we but know that blood and spirit like theirs would THI; BuFFALO CHAPTER, on February 23, presented to the Buffalo continue. There would be no immigration problem. State Normal School an engraved copy of Stuart's portrait of Wash- I6 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. I7 . p 'd t Newell B. Woodwortjy; Vice-President, ington. The exercises were attended by representatives of the Sons of were electe d · res! en ' (: reasurer Harry the American Revolution and of the Daughters of the American Revo­ Charles P. Wortman; Secretary, Charles C. C))O.' T D H' h p · · D W Tr Wickes· Registrar r. ug · lution. Secretary Frank B. Steele of the Chapter presided and told of Allen Flint; H1stonan, r. · n... ' ' the objects of the organization, reading the preamble of the Constitu­ Cl 1 · R Dr E P Burnham. tion of the National Society. Rev. Carl D. Case presented the portrait Ba~~~~ c~::t:~nhas e:~ted. on. th~ proposition discusse~ a~ th.e Sy~a~u:: and it was accepted by Principal Daniel Upton. Mrs. John Miller Congress 1n. M ay last by formulating a plan for the mstltutwn· k. o r n Horton, regent of the Buffalo Chapter of the Daughters of the Amer­ lectures on civic subjects and social .cent.ers for foreign v:or mgme ' d has adopted the following resolution m regard thereto. ican Revolution, gave an address on the work of that Society and told an . of the advantages of patriotic education. Ch t of the Sons of the Amencan Resolved, That the Syracl!se ap er. f h. Cha ter to be ap- On January 21 the Buffalo Chapter and lady guests were entertained Revolution invite to meet with a committee o t ~~r P;esident of the by Compatriot Eugene T. Tanke. There was exhibited a collection of pointed by the P:eside~t ~f the ~h~~~eCh;?:ti~a~s~ociation, Syracuse jewels and colored stones and a talk was given on precious stone color­ Board of Education. t e , oung . · ~ d the Chamber of Commerce ing. An address was made by Col. D. S. Alexander and a recitation University, Manufacturers ~ssoclatlti~g. a~dult educational training,. to for the express purpose 0 . promo . m lo ees in shops, factones, by Mr. Charles Francis Adams. Mrs. John Miller Horton presented meet the needs of non-Enghsh . speaking em~niiy. in promoting lecture the greetings of the "Daughters." and other lines of empl~yment :n. oul c~t1 State ~nd Federal laws; es­ courses on .h:story, oc ' of and develop­ THE NEWBURGH CHAPTER met on January 25. A committee was ap­ Ameri~an ~!VIC, et~couraging tablishing ~nd mamtamtug soctal {ei~i~s.;. aid in the principles of natu­ pointed to carry out the plan proposed by the President General in pro­ ing fratermty between a races, '? t ~ £ the duty and the value result­ 10 1 0 moting the education and naturalization of aliens. Renewed efforts are ralization, and of a proper appre~t~ ~ ters in our government; being made to secure State legislation for the preset vation o£ the Gen­ ing fr?m the privi~eges ~~ Pt{t~cl::~\~~ti~~lSv~hat are interested in t.he eral Knox headquarters at New Windsor. At a meeting, on February of act1ve co-operatiOn Wt t 1r ical and civic welfare of the c1ty work that affects th\ mbrat, 1l~erican traditions and ideals be im­ 23, Rev. Albert S. Stewart read a paper on "Holding the Hudson­ toward the end that .t e es 0 d articipating in our govern­ Treason's Tragedy," reviewing the story of Benedict Arnold and Major parted to those see~mg here a hom.e a~he pbest of their traditions and Andre. ment, and that we m btnrn maydrec~~':,~ the other and work toward a ideals that each may etter un ers ,.., ' THE RocHESTER CHAPTER held its quarterly meeting on January 13, perpetuity of this nation and the brotherhood of man. when George W. Aldridge was named as delegate and Harvey F. Rem: President Woodworth described to the Chapter the "Pilgrimage" n:ad~ ington, President of the Chapter, was chosen alternate to attend the b the National Society in June last over the route of General Washmg National Society at Portland, Oregon, in July. After the business ses­ y C b 'd . 177• He has since prepared a lecture on ton's Journey to am n ge 111 :J· • f sion an address was made by Principal Charles E. Finch, supervisor of the sub· ect under the title, "Following the Footsteps ~f Washmgton rom the teaching of English to the foreigners of the city. He urged the Philad~lphia to Cambridge," illustrated by a coll:ctlon M about 75 la~­ need of establishing schools throughout the country for the teaching of tern-slide views. He delivered th~ lecture early m Febru.ary be,!o~~r~h~ English to adult foreigners. Mr. Finch would not have the adult for­ Men's Club of the First Presbytenan Church. On Washmgton d b eigner educated as a child but as a man, and in the things in which he cia the lecture was a feature of the annual observance of that ay y is interested, such as how to secure citizenship and what its full mean~ th: Chapter, when the usual banquet, with speech~s, ga~;.~~a~o~~~ !~ ing and duties are. "The aim of the work we are doing in Rochester," the reading of a paper by Prof. Edgar C. Morns on he said, "is to teach coming Americans to speak, read, and write Eng­ Our Forefathers." lish, to give practical information, to prepare for intelligent and patri­ otic citizenship, to make the foreign-born familiar w·ith our customs, J The Hawaiian Society, on November 25, conducted .patriotic ~xe;- home ideals, our eminent Americans and the fundamental facts.of our ises at the Punahou Academy and the orman School, m Ho~olu u, m history, to make better, happier, and more useful citizens." celebratiOnc . of the centenma· 1 o f thPr "Star Spangled Banner and dof one hundred years of peace with Great Britain. An addr~ss w~s :­ THE SYRACUSE CHAPTER held its annual meeting on November 23, livered by the President of the Society, Dr. S. D. Barnes, m which e 2ttended by more than eighty members, when the following officers I8 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. told the story of Francis Scott Key and the .. song. wntmg of the national Church, Pocatello, William H. Eldridge, Twin Falls, Stanley A. Easton, DOnhDecember 21 the ~awaiian Society and the Aloha Chapter of th Kellogg, Rev. Winfield S. Hawkes, Caldwell, and Marion H. Brownell, aug ters of the Amencan Revolution held a joint banquet to e Hailey; Secretary-Treasurer, Edward L. Wells, Boise; Registrar, Frank G. Ensign, Boise; Historian, Allen B. Eaton, Boise; Chaplain, Rev. ~~;:~~a~f t;hee '~:~~~~ ~: g~ec,~:~ aife~~~~erD=~~~~;;_ 2~-t ~~:~· a~~::;s Reuben B. Wright, D. D., Boise. a~ a arge number of officers of the army and and public officials The Illinois Society held its quarterly meeting at the Auditorium . d guests. Dr. Samuel Denham Barnes President of ti S . t stded as Toast t d d ' 1e octe y, pre- Hotel, Chicago, on the evening of January 22. The 140 new members . . mas e_r, a_n a dresses were delivered as follows. "E - of the year were urged to be present and to respond when their names penence~ wtth Puntamsm," Governor Lucius E p· kl . ;,F x were called, stating, in seven words or less, their answers to the ques­ fathers m Hawaii," Ron. Sanford B. Dole Fede;al Jmudg1aem, p•or~­ dent of th S · ' , ex- rest- tion, "How I became interested in the Society," or "Why I joined." e octety and ex-Governor of Hawaii. "The G d Sh' nppl " M · G · · · oo tp For several years this has proven a most interesting feature. An ad­ "s . y, aJ. en. Wtlham H. Carter, Dept. Com d U S . Puntan and Ca ,. " H l\ man er, . . A.' dress was delivered by Rev. Dr. John P. Brushingham of Chicago. Port. "The Ma fiva ter, p o~.H1alcol~. A. Franklin, Collector of the ' y ower act, on. Wtlham R Cast! I d . Trn: OAK PARK CHAPTER of the Illinois Society held its annual busi­ citizen; "The Good Shi Welcom , ·. . e, awyer an chtef ness meeting and banquet at the Unity House on Saturday evening, of Hawaii· "TI T p e, Prof. Wtlham A. Bryan, College ' 1e reaty of Ghent a Permanent Peac " D W'Jb January 30, when about roo were present. The following officers were Ferguson, President of Mills School. e, r. I ert P. elected: President, Frank C. Caldwell; Vice-President, Addison L. Gardner; Secretary, Willis J. Gallup; Treasurer, Louis A. Bowman; R~~ !~a~~ s;cie? h~d its ann_ual mef!ting and dinner in the Jungle Historian, William E. Barton, D. D. 'th wy 1ee otel, BOise, n the evening of February 22 Rev. W. W. Johnstone, D. D., offered the invocation and H. W. WI an attendance of twenty. The guests were ex-Gov. James H. Austin was toastmaster. Chancellor L. Jenks of Evanston, President Hawley, former Attorney General Samuel Hubbard H . d S . of the State Society, referred to the large value the Oak Park Chapter Senator Ravenel McBeth. a} s. an tate had been to it and spoke of the broader patriotism which is now com­ th;o~low.:g :h~ dinner a business session was held, when reports from ing to be understood as the spirit wherein each finds his own best good rest en ' ecretary, Treasurer, and Registrar were received and in the highest welfare of all. accepted. The committee appointed to supervise the award of W. H. Hatch told of the prizes awarded to Oak Park schools for for essays on patriotic subjects by high-school pupils reported ~e~:~~ the best essays upon some theme pe~ning to the American Revolu­ cessful contest about to be concluded d . . for next year. Col M W W d' an a stm~ 1ar contest was ordered tion by pupils in the eighth grad)¥' Isaac E. Brown gave an address N . . · · · oo was nommated Trustee for the on "Faith of Our Fathers." He referred to the stern traits of our tt:~nak So:tetyS The Se~retary was authorized to invite the members colonial ancestors, but showed, notwithstanding this, their love of o e mptre tate Soctety tour to stop in Boise en route to the recreation and their love of home life and their faith in God and in ~ort!Gand Congress. Telegrams of greeting were read from the Presi­ immortality. ent en~ral and from the President of the Oregon S . t Former Gov. Charles S. Deneen delivered an address on the history, Followmg the ?usine_ss session an interesting progra:c\::~ rendered resources, laws, and achievements of Illinois and her people. ~~rry_Keyser, Ftrst Vtce-President-elect, acted as toastmaster, and th~ o owmg persons responded to toasts . Col M W W d All The Indiana Society held its twenty-sixth annual business meeting E t E E · · · · oo , en B a on, . . Bowen, F. S. Harding, Hon. James H. Hawlev Ron. at the University Club, In9ianapolis, on the evening of February 25, Samuel Hubbard Hays, Ron. Ravenel McBeth · ' · the anniversary of the Battle of Vincennes. Officers were elected as W The following office~s were elected: President, Lieut. Col. M. W follows: President, Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis; First Vice-Presi­ ~od, u_. S. A. (rettred), Boise; Vice-Presidents Harry Keyser. dent, Earl H. Payne, Rushville; Second Vice-President, Joseph E. :otse, Mtles S._ Johnso~, Lewiston, Asher A. Getchell. Silver City' Vail, Kokomo; Third Vice-President, Hamilton A. Mattison, Evans­ rank S. Hardtng. Wetser, Bowen Curley, Idaho Falls. Daniel ville; Secretary, Austin H. Brown, Indianapolis; Treasurer, Felix T. w: McWhirter, Indianapolis; Registrar, Garvin M. Brown, Indianapolis; NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 21 20 OFFICIAL BULLETIN rtman discussed the "Necessity of National Defense" C ongress. Mr · Ha d p " Chaplain, the Rev. M. C. Wright, Terre Haute. Theodore P. Stein and Mr. Kennedy read a paper on "Revolutionary Songs an oems. was nominated for Trustee of the National Society. The banquet is President Grout exhibited the cherry-tree hatchet gavel presented to held on thQ> anniversary of the Battle of Vincennes, the only encounter the Society by President General Thruston. which connects Indiana directly with the Revolutionary War. ]. R. Morgan, retiring President, was toastmaster. The speakers The Kansas Society held its annual meeting at Topeka on Ja~uary were R. C. Ballard Thruston of Louisville, Ky., President General of r6 and elected the following officers (r~ent~ of Topeka): Pres1dent, the National Society, who spoke on "The Work of the National So­ J M Meade· Vice-President, Harry McM1llan; Secretary, D. W. ciety"; Capt. J. ]. Toffey, Jr., who spoke on "The Army," and Henry Nelli~; Treas~rer, Col. J. D. Norton; Registrar-Historian, A. H. Lane Wilson, who spoke on "Mexico." Bennett. Captain Toffey was a member of the brigade which relieved the The Kentucky Society met on January 19 to celebrate the 134t~ marines after the capture of Vera Cruz. He gave an account of the anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781), when Presi­ expedition and praised the excellent discipline of the American troops. dent General Thruston and Mrs. Julia Black~ur~ were ~osts of the Mr. Thruston made a plea for greater care of Government and State Society. President Albert M. Henry of the M1ch1ga~ Soc1ety, a mem­ archives and urged the creation of a Department of Archives, with ber of the National Executive Committee, was a spec1al .guest of ho~~r appropriations to suitably house the mass of valuable documents. He and made a brief address on the Society's work. Bng. Gen. P~lhp lamented the careless method of administering the oath to foreigners, R d u S A (retired) Historian of the Massachusetts Soc1ety, asserting that a more dignified ceremony should be used to impress ead e, · · ·"The in the War of the Revolution." General rea a paper on Negr~ . h the foreigner when he was forswearing allegiance from another country Reade said ,000 negroes served as soldiers dunng the war. In t e to that of the United States. 3 course of his address he said: The Iowa Society has protested against the apparent disrespect to When Washington went to Cambridge and took command of the 1 the American flag by permitting a design resembling the flag to be aErmy he fohnd soade wnh!:eoMaj ?W.1£it~~~~. ':~s Bn:~~~ ~i~l~r sl~~u~~d worked into the basement floor of a public building, and it is hoped very one

Many who left their own country to avoid military service are men of in this country were shown, accompanied by interesting lectures. A ability and have made good. The type of man who comes over here small admission fee was charged and the proceeds were devoted to co~es out of an environment that is wholesome and good and is equ1pped to make a splendid citizen. The difficulty is that he is not charitable purposes. properly taken care of when he arrives. He is often the victim of his The lectures were as follows: "Camp, Canoe, and Camera," Prof. own countrymen of unscrupulous nature, who take him in charge and George R. Swain; "Forest Scenes," Prof. Filibert Roth; "The Wash­ keep him in bondage. The salvation of the situation is to teach the burn Yellowstone Park Expedition," Prof. W. W. Florer. Professor foreigner the English language. The Ford Company is doing this with 1,100 men enrolled all the time. The teachers are volunteers, workmen Swain showed some wonderful pictures of various canoeing and camp­ who give their services on their own time. The company also assists ing trips. Prof. Filibert Roth, head of the Forestry Department of the those deserving to purchase homes by advice and information. The University of Michigan, showed some fine views, and Prof. W. W. profit-sharing plan is extended to those who use their money con­ Florer told the story of the Washburn Yellowstone Expedition, illus­ structively. We withdraw it from those who misuse it. Our investi­ gation into the character of our employees has had the most beneficial trating it with views of Yellowstone Park. Additional interest is lent effects, according to the testimony of disinterested parties in contact by the fact that Professor Florer is a descendant of Mr. Washburn with them. and is intimately acquainted with the history of the explorers who Reciprocally, the workmen do better work for the company and are made the first exploration of what has since become the Government's more regular in their attendance and have better health. They ap­ preciate the privilege of working for the company. most spectacular park. There is in the foreigner when he comes to us all that we could want At the annual meeting and banquet of the Ann Arbor Chapter, on or desire in the way of a citizen, of a workman, and of a man, and to February 22, the following officers were el~ed: President, Prof. W. what extent he shall develop in these three particulars rests entirely W. Florer; Vice-President, Col. H. S. Dean ; Chaplain, Junius E. Beals; with us. Historian, H . H. Johnson; Secretary, W. H. Butler; Treasurer, Robert The chairman of the Committee on Naturalization and Citizenship, Hemphill. Judge Hosmer, stated that he approves of the plan to take more care KALAMAZOO CaAPTF.R was provisionally organized on Washington's in the making of citizens. Formerly citizens were naturalized for the Birthday under the chairmanship of Edward C. Parsons. purpose of voting them for political purposes; now a United States examiner ascertains whether they are competent for citizenship. The Tall IsABELLA CouNTY CHAPTER, at Mt. Pleasant, on February 8, held passage of the Warner-Cramton act increased the number of citizens its first regular meeting since the granting of its- charter and elected admitted, as did also the breaking out of the present war. All praise the following officers: President, Walter Franklin Newberry; Vice­ is due to the Ford Motor Company for its efforts to bring the foreign President, Kendall Page Brooks; Secretary, Sheridan Ellsworth Gardi­ citizen into harmony with the American people. ner; Treasurer, Warren Charles Perry; Historian, Harry Graves Dr. Rosinger of the City Recreation Commission responded with an Miller. A banquet will be held April 19. account of the school in citizenship for Germans. ./ The Minnesota Society, at its annual business meeting, on January Washington's Birthday was observed in the of Art by a II, elected the following officers: President, Hon. Winfield Scott Ham­ program under the auspices of the Detroit Chapter, consisting of pa­ mond, St. Paul; Vice-Presidents, Gideon S. Ives, St. Paul, Robert D. triotic addresses and music. Hon. Harry A. Lockwood, Vice-President Cone, Minneapolis; Secretary, Charles H. Bronson, 48 East Fourth of Detroit Chapter, spoke on "Washington and Patriotism"; Compatriot street, St. Paul; Assistant Secretary, Earnest A. Countryman, St. Paul; Charles Moore, Director of the Museum and Secretary of the Michigan Treasurer, Charles W. Eddy, 404 Capitol Bank, St. Paul; Registrar, Historical Commission, gave an illustrated talk on "The Life and Times Charles Stees, 165 East Seventh street, St. Paul; Historian, Rev. Sam­ of Washington"; Compatriot John L. Dickinson, the well-known Detroit uel W. Dickinson, St. Paul; Chaplain, Rev. M. D. Edwards, D. D., St. baritone and operatic singer, sang patriotic songs, accompanied by Com­ Paul. patriot Henry Riley Fuller. The meeting was open to the general ... The By-Laws of the Society having been amended to provide for public and was largely attended. Local Chapters, the George Washington Chapter has been organized ANN ARBoR CHAPT!lR held an entertainment in High-school Hall on in Minneapolis. Monday evening, December 14, when some beautiful views of scenes NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. OFFICIAL BULLE'fiN

The Society, at its annual business meeting, at t. Louis, Chapter are: President, Fred Hills Richards; Vice-President, Burnell on March 4, re-elected President Walbridge and all its other officers. Colsen; Secretary, Charles Hills Lyman; Treasurer, William Moulton Ashley Cabell was nominated for Trustee of the ational Society. Dame. The Montana Society held its twenty-first annual business meeting The New Jersey Society held its annual meeting in the rooms of the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, on January 2, 1915, pre­ and banquet at Helena on February 22 at the home of its President, John Scott Harrison, where an interesting display was made of memo­ ceded by a luncheon for members and guests and a reception to the rials of his great-grandfather, Gen. William Henry Harrison, and of retiring officers. Presiding officers of other patriotic societies in the his great-great-grandfather, , Signer of the Dec­ State were guests of the Society and extended greetings. The Wash­ laration of Independence. Addresses were made by Lieutenant Gov­ ington-hatchet gavel received from President General Ballard Thruston ernor McDowell and Compatriots Collins, Crane, Harvey, and Liv­ was formally presented to the Society by President John Lenord Mer­ ingston. The following officers were elected for the coming year: rill. The reports of the officers and committees showed great activity President, Oliver T. Crane; Vice-President, Orin T. Walker; Secre­ throughout the year and the largest increase in membership in the tary-Treasurer, Leslie Sulgrove; Registrar, W. Rush Burroughs; His­ history of the Society. Hearty congratulations and words of apprecia­ torian, C. Hedges; Librarian, R. H. Howey; Chaplain, P. B. Bartley. tion were extended to retiring President Merrill for his faithful service during the two years of his administration. Under the provisions of The Nebraska Society held its annual meeting at the Pioneers' the Constitution, Mr. Merrill was not eligible to re-election this year. The following officers were elected: President, Washington Irving Rooms, Omaha, on February 22, when the following officers were Lincoln Adams, Montclair; First Vice-President, John Lawrence Boggs, elected: President, Herbert M. Bushnel~ Lincoln; Senior Vice-Presi­ dent, Fred H. Richards, Fremont; Junior Vice-President, Clarendon E. 44 Spruce street, Newark; Second Vice-President, Samuel Craig Co­ Adams, Omaha; Secretary-Registrar, Edwin 0. Halstead, Box 4o6, wart, Freehold; Secretary, John Randel Weeks, 756 Broad street, Omaha; Historian, Clarence S. Paine, Lincoln. ewark; Treasurer, Arthur Metcalf Morse, Montclair; Registrar, Resolutions were passed asking the State Legislature to pass a bill George H. Richards, 424 Main street, Orange; Historian, Prof. William appropriating funds for the erection of a fire-proof building for the C. Armstrong, 345 Rahway avenue, Elizabeth; Chaplain, Rt. Rev. Ed­ Iowa State Historical Society and a bill providing for a commission win S. Lines, D. D., 21 Washington street, Newark. to design and adopt a State flag for Nebraska. After the election the officers came forward, President-elect Adams The Society has installed the Fremont Chapter and will very soon being escorted by members of Montclair Chapter, of which he is a member, and the color-bearers. Retiring Pre ident Merrill congratu­ install a Chapter of 75 to 100 members at Lincoln. The Lincoln Chapter will have as a charter member Nelson Moore, a real son of a lated Compatriot Adams, placed around his neck the insignia of his Revolutionary sire. Mr. Moore is 84 years of age, and his father, office, and presented him to the Society. This ceremony was followed King Moore, of Connecticut, enlisted November, 1779, at West Point, by the singing of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." President Adams then New York, and served three years and seven months in the Third expressed his appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by the Continental Artillery, dying in 1836. Society and assumed the chair. Retiring Treasurer Oscar H. Condit was also warmly thanked for his long and faithful service. Compa­ THE FREMONT CHAPTER was in tailed at Fremont, Nebraska, on Feb­ triot John L. Merrill wa appointed chairman of a committee to perfect ruary 18. The ceremonies took place at Odd Fellows' Hall and were the organization of the Washington Guard of this Society. very interesting and impressive, and the many addresses full of pa­ The twenty-sixth annual dinner of the New Jersey Society was held triotism, Americanism, and loyalty to all the best interests that can at The Washington, in Newark, on Saturday evening, March 6, at­ help our Society' cause. There is a, very sturdy body of successful tended by abom: 150 members and ladies, including representatives from men at Fremont, which city was originally largely settled by Americans the seven Local Chapters in various parts of the State and guests from with Puritan ancestry, and already a movement is on foot in the new other patriotic societies. The principal speakers were former Governor Chapter for the erection of a monument of John C. Fremont in that Franklin Murphy, Rev. Dr. George P. Dougherty, Judge William H. city by the members of the Society there. The officers of the Fremont Speer, and President Loui Annin Ames of the Empire State Society. 30 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 31 President W. I. Lincoln Adams presided as toastmaster. Former President General Murphy said in part: C. Matthews on Capt. Frederick Frelinghuysen; John T. Neff on Gen. William Alexander; Oscar S. Thompson, Sr., on Col. Jacob Ford, and I believe in these societies. They were organized back in the '8o's Henry H. Duncklee on Gen. Hugh Mercer. and early '90's of the preceding century, when it seemed the fashion t-o At a meeting on January 14, 1915, the literary exercises of the evening rememb~r .that. tl.le cou~try was 100 years old in many ways. It was the .Patno~IC SJ?mt, I t~mk, that gave birth to our Society. The result took the form of a debate on the question, "Resolved, That women had of 1t all IS th1s : It d1sclosed who Americans were. It disclosed the more influence than men in promoting and concluding the ~evolution." fa~t that there were tens of thousands of men and women throughout Gen. Henry W. Freeman acted as judge, with the ladies present serving. th1s land whose grandfathers and even whose fathers were soldiers in the Revolution. as jurors, and Howard Marshall, F. Edwin Elwell, Dr. Geo. H. Rich­ . It developed th~s feature which has gone into our lives; we believe ards, and David L. Pierson spoke for the affirmative side, while John m ~he reasons wh1ch founded our Government; we glory in our Revo­ T. Neff, S. Carl Downs, and John Lenord Merrill took the negative. lutiOnary ancestry, and because of these societies we are able to feel The question was decided in favor of the affirmative side. assured that there are a s.ufficient number who believe in the principles On January 29, on behalf of the Chapter, David L. Pierson, Presi­ of our Government and w1ll stand for those principles against socialism, demagogism, and against any assault on the principles which you and dent, presented a handsome silk flag to the new Central School of I believe in. Orange. On Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, the President represented the Chapter and presided at exercises at the Lincoln Statue, Parkway, The last three receptions to the Traveling Banner were held during East Orange. A reception was tendered President W. I. Lincoln Adams­ the month of December, 19r4, and like the earlier one included social by the Chapter on the evening of February 3 at the home of Dr. George features. H. Richards, Orange. During the evening President Adams predicted On December 2 the Banner was received by MONMOUTH CHAPTER, that after the war immigration from European countries would be in­ No. 5, in the rooms of the Chapter in Asbury Park. An address was creased, and suggested that patriotic organizations should not only be delivered by Rev. Charles E. Brugler. The Chapter presented President interested in the welfare of the foreigners in this country, but should John Lenord Merrill with a handsome silver-headed rosewood cane as avail themselves of every opportunity to prepare for the responsibili­ a token of appreciation and esteem. ties of citizenship the people who will come to America. Messages The reception by PARAMUS CHAPTER, No.6, was held at the home of were received from national officers and of other State Societies. Hon. Cornelius Doremus, President of the Chapter, in Ridgewood, on Exercises at the Orange Valley Congregational Church on Sunday December rr. Rev. Isaac]. Lansing, D. D., addressed the gathering on afternoon, February 21, in commemoration of Washington's Birthday, "The Larger Patriotism," in which he said that the greater patriotism under the direction of Orange Mountain Chapter, D. A. R., were attended comprehends a larger education and not the mere brutal idea of the by the Chapter. The President gave the pledge to the flag, a part of the survival of the fittest. It is founded on righteousness. A beautiful ritual of the New Jersey Society. In the evening the President gave an silver loving cup was presented to President John Lenord Merrill at address at the Trinity Congregational Church, East Orange, on "Mary, this meeting. Paramus Chapter will present prizes aggregating $ro in the Mother of Washington." A delegation of members of the Orange value to Ridgewood scholars writing the be t essays along lines to be Chapter attended the annual exercises at Washington's Headquarters, laid out by the Chapter. 1\Iorristown, on Washington's Birthday. The address of the day, by TnE IlfoRRIS Cou:NTY CHAPTER gave the final reception on December Compatriot William Howard Taft, former President of the United 16 in the Blue :\loon Tea Room, Morristown, when Compatriot Wil­ States, on "Neutrality" was a noble effort and a splendid tribute t() liam P. Tuttle spoke on the local topic, "Morris County in Revolution­ Washington, as well as present-day patriotism. The Chapter held its ary Days." The charter from the State Society was presented to the final meeting of the season, the sixtieth, at Grace Church Parish house, Chapter at thi time. Orange, on March II, when the subject was "The Continental Navy." THE 0RANGt CHAPTER held a meeting on December 18, 1914, when a The New Mexico Society held its annual meeting at the Alvarad() series of papers on "Officers of the Revolution from New Jersey" were Hotel, Albuquerque, on February 22, and was well attended by local read, Dr. George S. Bangert speaking on Rev. James Caldwell; De Witt members and several visitors. The following officers were elected: President, Charles A. Eller, Albuquerque; First Vice-President, R. E. 32 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 33 Twitchell, Las Vegas; Second Vice-President, H. F. Robinson, Albu­ the business meeting and the banquet the plans for the approaching querque; Third Vice-President, John Lee Clarke, Albuquerque; Fourth Congress were discussed, and great interest was manifested by the Vice-President, J. F. Hinkle, Roswell; Secretary, George R. Craig, Society. Albuquerque; Treasurer, Orville A. Matson, Albuquerque; Registrar, The Pennsylvania Society held its annual business meeting at the Frank W. Clancy, Albuquerque; Historian, Edmund Ross, Albuquerque; Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh, in the afternoon of February 22. Chaplain, Meldrum K. Wylder, Albuquerque. Patriotic addresses were Reports were received from the officers and various committees and delivered by Compatriots R. E. Twitchell and George S. Klock. from the Philadelphia and New Castle Chapters. Major Veale, as a v The Ohio Society promotes patriotism through the activities of its member of the Flag Committee, spoke on "The Respect Due to the Chapters. At the annual ceremonial of the trooping of the colors of Flag," and described his trip when as a representative of the Sons of the Western Reserve Society at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Decem­ the American Revolution he delivered an oration before 6,000 people ber 13, 1914.. commemorating Washington Crossing the Delaware, De­ assembled on the occasion of the transfer of the State flags to the new cember 2S, 1776, the anniversary sermon was delivered by William F. Capitol Building at Harrisburg. The Flag Committee was requested to Peirce, D. D., President of Kenyon College and former President of study t}le Federal and State laws in regard to the use of the flag and the Ohio Society of Sons of the American Revolution. The sermon to print them for distribution among the schools of Pennsylvania. has been printed in a pamphlet of 18 pages. Officers were elected as follows: President, Thomas Stephen Brown, Berger Building, Pittsburgh; Vice-Presidents, Omar S. Decker, Pitts­ THE ANTHONY WAYNE CHAPTER of Toledo holds noon-day luncheon burgh, John Boyd Duff, Pittsburgh, Col. J. S. Du Shane, New Castle; meetings once a month. At the meeting of December I6 the attendance Secretary, Frank G. Paulson, SIS Wood street, Pittsburgh; Treasurer, numbered 33 members. Various business was transacted. A paper was Clifford F. McCombs, Third National Bank, Pittsburgh ; Registrar, read by Compatriot Wiles on "The ," in which his Francis Armstrong, Jr., SIS Wood street, Pittsburgh; Chaplain, Rev. grandfather was one of the leaders. At the meeti11g on January 30 W. E. Howard, D. D., Pittsburgh; Historian, Thomas Wynne, S100 Capt. Harry Kirtland gave an illustrated lecture on "Team Work in Lancaster avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Col. R. W . Guthrie was nomi­ War." nated for Trustee of the National Society. THE Or,ENTANCY VALLEY CHAPTER of Delaware, Ohio, held its annual The annual banquet was held in the evening at the Union Club, at­ meeting on January S and elected the following officers: President, tended by 200 members and guests, including several Chapter regents R. H. Kellogg; Vice-President, ]. F. Dodd; Secretary, R. B. Powers; of the Daughters of the American Revolution and other ladies. Presi­ Treasurer, B. P. Benton; Registrar, E. D. Van Deman. dent Thomas Stephen Brown introduced the toastmaster, Dr. Harry C. The Chapter has located the graves of 49 Revolutionary soldiers in Westervelt. The speakers of the evening were Major Moses Veale, Delaware and Morrow counties, and has filed with the National Society John Lenard Merrill, former President of the New Jersey Society, and .a list of the names, with records of service in each case. Rev. Dr. George W. Montgomery. "No man looks for peace more than the real soldier," said Major The Oregon Society held its annual business meeting and banquet Veale. "Washington was a man of peace, and when forced to become un February 22. The following officers were elected (residents of a man of war he was equal to the occasion; but how different a war Portland) : President, Wallace McCamant, Northwestern Bank Bldg. ; was that from the one now raging. Why there can be such a war in Vice-President, D. W. Wakefield, Henry Bldg.; Secretary, B. A. Thax­ Europe is easily explained in the history of this country-there are no ter, 994 Bryce Ave.; Treasurer, A. A. Lindsley, Henry Bldg. ; Regis­ Sons of the Revolution in those countries; there is no freedom of trar, Alfred F. Parker, Northwestern Bank Bldg. Mr. B. E. Sanford thought, no freedom of action. There can be no liberty where one man was nominated for Trustee of the Nati onal Society. or a few rule. If the rising generations will but study, revere, honor, At the banquet 6S were present. The addresses were: "Washington emulate Washington and his principles America will be safe." as a Public Servant," James F. Ewing; "George Washington, Con­ "The most important study for our school children of today," said servator of Anglo-Saxon Liberty, vs. George III, Foreign Despot," Dr. Mr. Merrill, "is American history." He responded to "The American Henry Waldo Coe; "Replacing the Old," Hubert H. Ward. Both at Spirit." The trouble in America today is that there are too many cries ~ I

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for so-called 'rights'-woman's rights, labor's rights, and rights this Dr. George Thurston Spicer, 158 Broadway. Mr. Robert Perkins and rights that. Let all of us-mothers, too-get back to a realization Brown was nominated for Trustee of the National Society. Retiring of our duty and forget this endless crying for 'rights.' May God spare President Henry Clinton Dexter presided at the meeting. Prof. Wil­ us the day when America shaH cease to glory in the God of the men fred H. Munro made an appeal for greater recognition of Gen. Na­ who founded the Republic." thanael Greene, and former Governor Lippitt reported on progress President Brown appealed for a broader celebration of vVashington's made toward obtaining a memorial. A contribution of $100 was made Birthday throughout the Nation. Dr. Montgomery spoke on "Our Alien to the General Greene Memorial Association and a like amouht to the Citizenship." General Varnum Memorial Fund. Reports of officers showed the At an evening meeting of the Society at the Fort Pitt Hotel on Janu­ Society to be increasing in membership and in good financial condition. ary 7 papers were read on George Clymer and George Ross, two of the At the conclusion of the business meeting the members of the Society Pennsylvania Signers of the Declaration of Independence, thus con­ were escorted by the Varnum Continentals of East Greenwich to the clud1ng the series of papers on the nine Signers from that State. These Old Marine Armory, where the annual dinner was in order. President papers are to be printed in pamphlet form. The Society is assisting in Dexter served as toastmaster. Addresses were made by Lieutenant the maintenance of boys' clubs among the foreigners "to teach and incul­ Governor San Souci, Mayor Gainer, William Chace Greene, and Mar­ cate in them the true American spirit and citizenship." "The boys seem shall Putnam Thompson of Broolrline, Mass. A poem was read by to be hungry for this information and willing to do their part." Mr. Farnsworth. Compatriot Thompson took for his ubject "The THE Ntw CASTI.£ CHAPTER of the Pennsylvania Society celebrated Fifth Musketeer." He reviewed in detail the life of La Fayette and its fifteenth anniversary as a Chapter and the rooth anniversary of told of his role in the American Revolution. the on January 8 at the Lawrence Club. Presi­ At patriotic exercises to which the Society was invited in Sayles Hall, dent Scott D. Long presided. The following officers were elected: Brown University, in the morning of February 22, Compatriot David President, Attorney Hamilton A. Wilkison; Vice-President, Prof. Ed­ Jayne Hill of the District of Columbia Society, former Ambassador to win McCormick; Secretary, J. Ed. Duff; Treasurer, Thomas H. Hart­ and other countries, delivered an addre s in which he re­ man; Registrar, Col. ]. S. Du Shane. viewed the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the prepara­ At the banquet following the business meeting addresses were made tion of the first written Constitution, and the application of the Con­ by ex-President General, Judge James Denton Hancock, on the Treaty stitution in such a way that the happiness and contentment of the indi­ of Ghent; by Thomas Stephen Brown, President of the State Society, vidual more than the affairs of the State were emphasized. on the objects and present activities of the organization and of the The establishing of the United States did not mean the existing of European war; by Attorney James A. Wakefield, Compatriot Duff, the individual for the State, but the State for the individual. The real Attorney S. W. Dana, and Col. R. W. Guthrie, who spoke on the Battle danger to the United States does not exist in the freedom of thought of New Orleans; by Arthur A. Moore, Attorney C. H. Aikens, and unrestricted, but in the failure of the people to think, and he sounded several others. A number of guests were present from Pittsburgh a warning against real thought being swept away in the undercurrent and other western parts of the State. of ingenious and political maneuvering. The Society was invited to participate in a service at Grace Church The Rhode Island Society held its annual business meeting at noon on the evening of December 20 in commemoration of the signing of on February 22 in Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence. The the Treaty of Ghent, when an address was delivered by President fo11owing officers were elected (residents of Providence unless other­ Faunce of Brown University. wise given) : President, Gen. Charles Wheaton Abbot, Jr., 12 Cole avenue; Vice-President, Frederick Dickman Carr, II8 Richmond street; The Utah Society, at its annual meeting, on December 26, elected Secretary, Christopher Rhodes, 290 Benefit street; Treasurer, Arthur the following officers (residents of Salt Lake City): President, Eddy Preston Sumner, 639 Grosvenor Building; Registrar, Francis Eliot Orland Lee; Vice-President, Albert Raymond Barnes; Secretary, Gor­ Bates, P. 0. Box 1254; Historian, William Chace Greene, 44 Alumni don Lines Hutchins; Treasurer, Alfred Holmes Peabody; Registrar, avenue; Chaplain, Rev. Charles Fremont Roper, River Point; Poet, William Dalton Neal; Historian, Benjamin Le Roy Rich; Chaplain. Levi Edgar Young. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 37

The Society has completed and will install in the on said site and is to proceed in the restoration thereof as funds may a bronze tablet, 3 feet 8 inches by 2 feet, inscribed: "A tribute to the be provided therefor, and heroes of the American Revolution who by their bravery, loyalty to "Whereas the said building is more closely and intimately associated with the founding and the founders of the State of Vermont than any principle, and devotion to the cause of human rights founded the structure now standing upon her soil, now therefore Resolved, That the United States of America which, in the year eighteen hundred and Vermont Society of the Sons of the American Revolution looks u~on !he forty-eight, acquired that great territory of which the State of Utah project for the preservation and restoration of the Old Cons.t1tut10n is now a part." "This tablet is erected by the Utah Society of the House as one deserving the hearty encouragement and substantial sup­ Sons of the American Revolution," 1914. (The names of the officers port of the patriotic citizens and inhabitants of the State of Vermont; and further and managers of the Society are given on the tablet.) "Resolved, That in the opinion of this Society. it is . th~ duty o_f t~e The Society held its twenty-first annual banquet, " the finest and State of Vermont to aid in the restoration of said bl1lldmg and m Its largest it ever held," on Saturday, January 30, 1915. The guests of perpetuation as a permanent and honorable memorial of the great founders of the State and of the extraordinary and notable transactions honor were Ron. Charles W. Fairbanks, former Vice-President of the of the Constitutional Convention in which they participated; that this United States; Governor William Spry, Ron. David N. Straup, Ron. Society hereby respectfully and earnestly urges ?POll the Le~islature of John Dern, and Major Willis Kline, U. S. A. the State now in session the passage of the pendmg House Bill No. II4, President Eddy Orland Lee introduced the toastmaster, Mayor Sam­ appropriating the sum of two thousand dollars to be expended t_ow~rd the restoration of the historic structure known as the Old ConstitutiOn uel Culver Park. Presentations of ceremonial badges were made to House." former President Daniel Samuel Spencer and to Registrar William There wa exhibited at the meeting a silk flag of 15 stars and IS Dalton Neal. Toasts were responded to as follows : "This Country of Ours," Compatriot Benjamin L. Rich; "The Revolutionary Pilgrim stripes, a reproduction of the Port McHenry flag of r8r4, which on July 30 had been presented to the Society by President General Thrus­ East-The American Pioneer West," Compatriot Justin David Call; ton in behalf of the Kentucky Society; also the Washington hatchet­ "The Bar and the Revolution," Compatriot Morris Latimer Ritchie. Addresses were also made by Mr. Fairbanks and other guests. gavel presented by Mr. Thruston. At 8 o'clock in the evening a public meeting was held in the Hall of The Vermont Society held its annual business meeting in the Su­ the House of Representatives, in the State Capitol, which had been preme C~urt room in the State House at Montpelier on February 17, granted by vote of the General Assembly. The retiring President, 1915 (adjourned from November 11, 1914). President Frederick S. Frederick S. Pease, presided. Governor Charles W. Gates, other State Pease presided. Officers were elected as follows: President, Redfield officials, and a large audience were present. In his opening remarks Proctor, Proctor, Vt.; Vice-President, W. H. Jeffrey, East Burke; President Pease told of the gifts to the Society from President Gen­ Secretary, Walter H. Crockett, Montpelier; Treasurer, Clarence L. eral Thruston. He then introduced ex-Governor Curtis Guild of Bos­ Smith, Burlington; Registrar, Dorman B. E. Kent, Montpelier; Chap­ ton, Mass., former Ambassador of the United States to Russia, who lain, Rev. Homer A. Flint, Montpelier. delivered an address on "Our Outworn Consular and Diplomatic Sys­ The following resolutions. offered by Mr. Sherman Evarts of tem." He urged the need of a "United States Diplomatic Academy," Windsor, were unanimously adopted : in line with the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy. "We boast of being the best educated country in the "Whereas an organization has heretofore been formed under the world, yet we refuse expert training to the very body of men who rep­ name of The O_ld Constitution II_ouse Association, which 'has for its w~pose and Object. t~e preservatiOn and restoration in the town of resent us most constantly and conspicuously before the governments . md~or o! the buildmg known as the Old Constitution House as a and peoples of the world," said Compatriot Guild. histone rehc and permanent memorial of the Convention of Delegates from the towns of the that met at vVindsor / The Virginia Society held its annual meeting on the evening of Feb­ July 2 to 8, 1777, and adopted the first Constitution of the free and ruary 22 at the Westmoreland Club, Richmond. The following officers mdependent State of Vermont, and were elected: President, Arthur B. Clarke, 39 Merchants' National ",Whereas the said Associati

Third Vice-President, Dr. George Ross, Richmond; Secretary, Treas­ Lemuel L. Bolles; "The Marking of the Old Oregon Trail," by Mrs. urer, and Registrar, Wm. E. Crawford, 700 Tra\'elers' Building, Rich­ Overton G. Ellis; "Virginia: George Washington's Native State," by mond; Historian, Hon. L. L. Lewis, Mutual Building, Richmond; Chap­ Carter Helm Jones, D. D. lain, Norton R. Savage. On the evening of February 19, at the Broadway High School, President Clarke presided at the meeting, and short addresses were Seattle, there was a Patriotic Oratorical Contest under the auspices of made by City Attorney Henry R. Pollard, Capt. John Lamb, and Dr. the Washington State Society. The subjects of the orations were: George Ross. The topic was ''The American Revolution and the Men "The Economic Causes of the American Revolution"; "The Tory, His of that Time," including particularly and Robert Place in History"; ", the Advocate of the People's Morris. Rights"; "The Common Soldier of the Re\·olution''; "Oratory as a Mr. Pollard presented short sketches of the two men, showing their Revolutionary Force"; "The American Revolution: 's Lesson power throughout the conAict which gave to the Colonists their liberty, in Colonial Government.'' and declared that next to Washington himself these two men were The Wisconsin Society celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of leading forces in the establishment of freedom and a country which its organization by a banquet at the Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee, Wis­ has arisen to the leadership of the civilized world. consin, on the evening of Thursday, February 25, 1915, when an ad­ Captain Lamb referred to the War of 1812 briefly, after following Mr. dress was delivered by Hon. James Edgar Brown of the Illinois So­ Pollard in words of recognition of the great power wielded by Hamil­ ciety on "The Evolution of the American Flag," illustrated by stere­ ton. He took occasion to refer to the part the Virginia Peninsula played opticon views. in the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, and showed The officers of kindred patriotic societies of the city, including the the people of that section had played their part well. "The atrocities Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Society, the practiced in the Revolution and the War of 1812," said Captain Lamb, Colonial Dames, the Society of Colonial Wars, and U. S. Daughters "were as bad as those we hear of now in the European war." Dr. Ross said this is "an occasion of expression of patriotic devotion of 1812, were invited guests. There was an informal supper and smoker at a meeting of the and thoughts of the multitudinous hosts who have performed their Society on Saturday, January 16, at the University Club, Milwaukee. duties and gone before." He paid his respects in beautiful language to those who took the lead in making the country what it is today. The meeting was attended by President Albert M. Henry of the Mich­ igan Society, a member of the National Executive Committee, and by The Washington State Society held its annual business meeting in Mr. Adkins of the Illinois Society. Resolutions were adopted arrang­ the Chamber of Commerce assembly rooms, Seattle, at 1 p. m. on Feb­ ing for a series of lectures to foreigners who contemplate applying ruary 22 and elected officers as follows: President, George A. Virtue, for citizenship, and also for giving prizes to school children for pa­ 216 Boston Block, Seattle; Vice-Presidents, Augustus V. Bell of Seattle, triotic essays. Louis F. Hart of Tacoma, and Thomas H. Brewer of Spokane; Secre­ tary, G. E. Tilton, 719 Leary Bldg., Seattle; Treasurer, C. K. Sturte­ vant, Seattle; Registrar, Guy W. Smelser, Seattle; Historian, Ovid . \. Byers, Seattle; Chaplain, Granville Lowther, North Yakima. Dr. Sam­ IN MEMORIAM. uel Judd Holmes was nominated for Trustee of the National Society. (Deaths reported more than six months after their occurrence are not published in An increase of 70 members was announced, with a total of 286 names this list.) now on the roll. SAMUI!L WH!!I!LtR BALDWIN, Connecticut Society, died December 25, 1914. The annual banquet was held at 7 p. m. at the Hotel Wa hington WILLIAM DICKSON BALDWIN, District of Columbia Society, died March 8, 1915. Annex. The toastmaster, Walter S. Fulton, was introduced by the GtoRG£ CLINTON BATCHI!LLU, Empire State Society, died January 25, 1915. retiring President, Dr. Samuel Judd Holmes. Toasts were responded FRANK F. BATES, Iowa Society, died December 24, 1914. C. C. BI!I!KWAN, Oregon Society, died February 22, 1915. to as follows: "George Washington," by Col. William E. McClure; RonRT HENRY BEGGS, Colorado Society, died December 14, 1914. "The Century of Peace," by Prof. Edward S. Meany; "The Relation RoB£RT BRAGG, California Society, died February 15, 1915. of the Sons of the American Revolution to Our National Defense," by CHARLES H. BRINK, Colorado Society, died January 3, 1915. 40 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIET Y, S. A. R. 41

PAUL BROWN, Illinois Society, died Decembe•· 18. 1914. ]OliN PECK Bt:RT, California Society, died February 22, 1915. EDWIN T. CARRINGTON, ~1ichigan Society, died September 21, 1914. RECORDS OF 397 NEW MEMBERS ENROLLED BY THE REGIS- / AM OS ]AMES CHIPMAN, District of Columbia Society, died January 3, 1915. TRAR GENERAL FROM DECEMBER I, 1914, LEWIS J. CRARY, Illinois Society, died February 2, 1915. TO FEBRUARY 28, 1915. FRANCIS J. CusHING, Vice-President of Illinois Society, died February 20, t915. ]ACOB R. CusTER, Illinois Society, died February n, 1915. JosEPH Tno>tAS .\DAMS EDDY, Rhode Island Society, died January 28, 1915. Ron. EuGENE F. ENDICOTT, :Massachusetts Society, died December to, 1914. BRIGGS KILBURN ADAMS, Montclair, N. J. (26646). Great3-grandson of James HERBERT XICHUL\S FENNER, Rhode Island Society, died January s, 1915. Sweet, private, Capt. Peter Wright's Company Rhode I sland Militia and Col· CHARLEs N. FESSENDEN, Illinois Society, died December 26, 1914. one! Harper's New York Reg!., pensioned; great'·grandson of Peter Wright, ARTHUR GATCHELL, Empire State Society, died January 23, 1915. Captain Rhode Island and Vermont Militia. ]oliN GEORGE GREENAWALT, District of Columbia Society, died December 19, 1914. F. FARNHAM ADAMS, Lynn, Mass. (26834). Great'-grandson of Stephen Far· Rev. LEWIS HALSEY, Ohio Society, died December 25, 1914. nnm, private, Col. Moses Nichols's Reg!. New Hampshire Vols.; great'-grand· Rev. HoRACE :\'ELSON HERRICK, Indiana Society, died February t6, 1915. son of Israel Gli•tes, private, Col. Thomas Stickney's New Hampshire Regt.; Col. CHARLES H. HoBART, :Massachusetts Society, died January IS, I9I5. great•·grandson of Ebenezer Virgin, Lieutenant Second Concord Company New WILLIAM GRISWOLD H ooKER, Connecticut Society, died January 30, I9IS. Hampshire Militia. FRED J. HuTCHINSON, l\Iassacbusetts Society, died ~farch 10, t9IS. CHARLES MILTON ALDEN, Grand Rapids, Mich. (2678o). Great•-grandson of JEROME INGALLS, ~lassachusetts Society, died January 25, 1915. Prince A /den , private First Company Northumberland County Penna. Militia. AsA JusTus J oHNSON, Massachusetts Society, died :llarch 4. I915. Prof. ERNEST LAGARDE, I....ou isiana ociety, died October 25, 1914. ALFRED WILLIAM ALESBURY, Summit, N. ]. (26929). Great'-grandson of [TnoMAS] LEE ~lcCLUNG, District of Columbia Society, died December 19, I9I4. S tephen Woodruff, private Essex County New Jersey Militia. TnoMAS F. ~IANDERFIELD, Pennsylvania Society, died February 24, I915. J OSEPH WALLACE ALLEN, New Castle, Pa. (27130). Great0-grandson of Jolin \VILLI"' BRADFORD MERSEREAU, Oregon Society, died October 26, 1914. Fulkinson, private New Jersey Minute Men, under Captains Hunt, Logan, and HowARD TuCKER liiETCALF, Rhode Island Society, died December 25, I9I4. others, pensioned. HARRY BRYSON PALMER, Montana Society, died January I2, 19I5. ALLEN, Chicago, Ill. (26896) . Great'-grandson of Barnabas CHARLES W. PARKER, Massachusetts Society, died January 24, I915. Allen, private, Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's Mass. Regt.; great3-grandson of CHARL>:S F. PATTERSON, California Society, died February 7, I9I5. Nicholas Camp, private, Col. Benjamin Symonds's Berkshire County Mass. Major A. J. PENTECOST, Pennsylvania Society, died January 23, 19I5. Regt. ANDREW \VHEELER PHILLIPS, Connecticut Society, died January 20, I9IS. CHARLES Q. PIERCE, l\Iassachusetts Society, died January 4, 19I5. F R ANK FAYETTE ALMY, Grinnell, Iowa (27029). Great-grandson of Sanford 0 CHARLES :II. PLuM, California Society, died January 23, 19I5. Almy, Sergeant Newport County Rhode Island Militia; great ·grandson of RoLLAND L. PoRTER, Illinois Society, died January 25, I9I5. Pardon Gray, Lieutenant Colonel Second Rhode Island Regt. Hon. GEORGE II. ROBERTS, Empire State Society, died January I, I915. JOSEPH ROBERT ANDERSON, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (27028). Great•-grandson ]ONES :'IIcGREGOR RoBINSON, California Society, died November 26, 1914. of George F. Helmer, Lieutenant, Colonel Bellenger's Tryon County Regt. New HENRY \V. RoGERS, Massachusetts Society, died January 29, I9IS. York Militia, wounded at battle of Oriskany, I777; great2·grandson of Au­ JEROME WILSON SIMPSON, Missouri Society, died September 30, 19I4. gt~stimt Peck, private Rhode Island Militia. CHARLES CHELSEA TAINTOR, New Jersey Society, died September 25, 19I4. EDWARD JOHN ANGLE, Lincoln, Nebr. (26393). Great-grandson of Robert CHARLES T. THOMPSON, President of Minnesota Society, died November 3, '9'4· Bell, private, Col. John Boyd's Lancaster County Regt. Penna. Militia. HENRY VANDUBILT TuLLOcH, District of Columbia Society, died February 18, 1915. B RIDGEWATER MEREDITH ARNOLD, Orange, N. J. (26639). Grandson of Lewis Arnold, private Middlesex County New Jersey Militia; great-grandson IRVINC S1'RO!'I'C UPSON, New Jersey Society, died February 25, 1915. CHARLES C. \\'ADSWORT H, M. D., California Society, died January t, 19I5. of John Arnold, private Middlesex County New Jersey Militia. AuGUST WATERMAN, California Society, died November 30, I9I4. J AMES STARR ARTER, Lisbon, Ohio (27077). Great0·grandson of Jonatha11 GEORG£ Lurnu WHITE, Connecticut Society, died December t, 19I4. Hamilton, private Eighth Cumberland County Battalion Penna. Militia, Col. PETER ALVERSON WILSEY, ~lichigan Society, died January 24, I9I5. Alexander Brown. ALVA S. \\'ooD, Massachusetts Society, died February 9, I915. SH ERMAN ARTER , Cleveland, Ohio (27083) . Great'-grandson of Edward White, P HILIP S. \VooLSEY, California Society, died November 26, I914. private, Capt. Henry Miller's Company First Regt. P enna. Line. JOEL BAKER, Chicago, Ill. (26897). Great"-grandson of Nathan Smith, Second Lieutenant, Capt. Lemuel Stewart's Company Mass. M ilitia. 42 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 43

J OSEPH BALCH, ]R., Providence, R. I. (z5962). Great•-grandson of Josepl• ROBERT PARSONS BOGGIS, Cleveland, Ohio (26359). Great'-grandson of Balch, Captam, Col. Thomas Craft's Battalion Mass. Train of Artillery. Benajah Strong, Sergeant Thirteenth Regt. Conn. Militia. PRAT1' BARNDOLLAR, Coffeyville, Kans. (26978). Great'-grandson of James J AMES AUGUSTUS BOLTON, Verona, N. J. (26644). Great-grandson of Robert Martin, First Lieutenant Bedford County Penna. Militia. Bolton, recognized patriot, assisted in defense of Savannah, , and was taken prisoner by the British. GEORGE LAWTON BARNES, Ansonia, Conn. (26656). Great'-grandson of Fhilo A lling, I, private Fifth Company Second Regt. Conn. Militia. BEVERLEY WAUGH BOND, Ja., West Lafayette, Ind. (25845). Great2-grandson of Zadock Magruder, Colonel Upper Battalion Montgomery County Maryland WILLIAM ALLING BARNES, Ansonia, Conn. (26657). Great-grandson of Philo Militia. Alli11g, I, private Fifth Company Second Regt. Conn. Militia. JAMES McCULLOH BOND, Evanston, Ill. (26893). Great2-grandson of Christo­ CHARLES ALEXANDER BATTLE, Baton Rouge, La. (26279). Great'-grandson pher Birckhead, Colonel Fourth Talbot County Battalion Maryland Militia. of W illiam Battle, Captain North Carolina Line. GEORGE LYMAN BONG, Brighton, Mass. (26835). Great2-grandson of Jacob LOUIS HAMILTON BAYLY, Washington, D. C. (26807). Great'-grandson of Stodder, private, Col. Rufus Putnam's Fourth Mass. Regt. James Bayly, Justice of the Peace and Wagon Master for Lancaster County Penna.; great'-grandson of David McQ"e1m, Captain Fourth Company, Col: GEORGE MILTON BOOK, San Antonio, Tex. (Ohio 26374). Grandson of Alexander Lowery's Penna. Battalion; great'-grandson of William Hamilton George Book, private Northumberland County Penna. Rangers; great-grandson of Jonathan Harlan, private Chester County Penna. Militia. Fir•t Lieutenant, Capt. Nicholas Bittinger's Company York County Militia; great'-grandson of Nicholas Bitti11ger, Captain York County Penna. Militia. WILLIAM CHARLES BOORN, Chicago, Ill. (26739). Great'-grandson of Na­ tl•aniel Storrs, private in Mansfield Company Conn. Militia at Lexington EDWARD WHITAKER BELL, Chicago, Ill. (D. C. 257 20) . Great-grandson of Richard Whitaker, Corporal, Capt. John Lyon's Company Mass. Militia. alarm. W. FRANK BOWER, East Orange, N. J. (26871). Great-grandson of Jacob GEORGE IIOGLEN BELL, Chicago, Ill. (26737). Great'-grandson of Robert Bacher, private, Colonel Geiger's and Colonel Stroud's Penna. Regts., pensioned. Coles, Lieutenant Second Regt. New York Levies, Colonel Malcolm. EDMUND SWALM BOYER, Somersworth, N. H. (25384). Great-grandson of ARTHUR HENRY DENNETT, Topeka, Kans. (22355). Supplementals. Great'­ Charles B. Boyer, private Berks County Penna. Militia. grand•on of Zebulon Be1111ett, private Fourth Battalion Wadsworth's Conn. Brigade, died in service Sept. 15, 1776; great2-grandson of T1'mothy Pa1'ge, Jr., ERVIN DE MARY BOYNTON, Chicago, Ill. (25135). Supplementals. Great­ private ;\1ass. ;\1inute Men, Capt. 's Company, Colonel Learned's grandson of Daniel Griswold, private Conn. Militia; great8-grandson of Solomon Regt. ; great'-grandson of Thomas Robi11son, Member of Committee of Corre­ Ra11d, private, Col. Nathan Hale's New Hampshire Regt.; great'-grandson of spondence of liard wick, Mass.; great-grandson of Samuel ~Ierriman private Andrew Adams, Corporal, General Ward's Mass. Regt. Lexington Alarm; Col. Ebenezer Allen's Vermont Regt. ; great2-grandson of Abel Merri1:1an, Ca; great2·grandson of John Griswold, private, Colonel Ely's Conn. State Regt.; tain, C<>l. Ebenezer Allen's Vermont Regt. great'-grandson of Anthony Ames, private, Col. John Brown's Mass. Regt. LESLIE DANIEL BENNETT, North Spokane, Wash. (26543). Great'-grandson HORATIO NELSON SLATER BRADFORD, Dedham, Mass. (26519). Great:z.. of J olm W etmore, Captain, Col. Comfort Sage's Regt. Conn. Militia. grandson of Gideon Bradford, private, Capt. Loring's Company, and drummer, Capt. Harlow's Company Mass. Militia. WALTER GREGORY BENT, Rochester, N. Y. (26953l. Great'-grandson of Jonatha11 Bent, private, Capt. Joseph Smith's Company of Sudbury, Mass., ABNER LEACH BRALEY, Edgartown, Mass. (26520). Great:Z..grandson of marched to Concord April 19, 1775, and in Ticonderoga campaign. lames Leach, private, Capt. Abram Washburn's Company Major Eliphalet Cary's Mass. Regt.; great'-grandson of Christopher Dyer, private, Major CHARLES JOHNSON BENTLEY, Freeport, I11. (26738). Great'-grandson of 2 Caleb Wadams (Wadhams), Artificer, Colonel Baldwin's Continental Artillery liphalet Cary's Mass. Regt.; great -grandson of Joseph Cushman, private, Regt. Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Mass. Regt.; great'-grandson of Leonard Hinds, drummer, Col. Thomas Marshall's Mass. Regt.; great2-grandson of Natha114el 2 NOLAN R. BEST, Montclair, N. J. (26931). Great -grand on of Thomas Leedom, King, private, Col. Theophilus Cotton's and other Mass. Regts. Sergeant, Capt. Jacob Humphrey's Company Sixth Regt. Penna. Continenta) Line. HENRY KING BRALtv, Edgartown, Mass. (26836). Great-grandson of Leonard Hinds, drummer, Col. Thomas Marshall's Mass Regt. ROMEO THOMPSON BETTS, Summit, N. J. (26944) . Great'-grandson of Elijal• Betts, private, Major Ezra Starr's Regt. Conn. Light Horse and Fifth Regt. AMOS FISKE BRETT, Oak Park, Ill. (26891). Great'-~andson of William Conn. Line. Brett, private, Col. John Cushing's and other Mass. Regts. NEWTON KURTZ BILLOW, Columbus, Ohio (26367). Great2-grandson of Joh"' BLAINE JACKSON BRICKWOOD, Chicago, Ill. (26892). Great'-grandson of Wunderlich, private, Col. Robert Elder's Lancaster County Battalion Penna. Walker Lewis, private, Lieut. John Curtis's Company Conn. Militia. Militia. JOSEPH W. BRIGGS, Milwaukee, Wis. (27056). Great2-grandson of Basaleel CHARLES WELLS BLAKESLEE, Ja., New Haven, Conn. (26658). Great-grand­ Gould, Corporal Col. Tyler's Mass. Regt. son of latham Blakeslee, private in "Household Band" Conn. Militia, Member LEON WILLIAM BROWER, Providence, R. I. (25963). Great2-grandson of of Committee of Safety. J cremialt Brower, private Second Orange County Regt. New York Militia. AVERY WHITMAN BOARDMAN, Toledo, Ohio (26370). Great-grandson of Thomas Granger, lifer Twelfth Mass. Regt., Colonel Loomis. 44 OFFICIAL BULLETIN • ATIOX.\L SOCIETY, S. A. R. 45 EDWARD EVERTS BROWNE, Waupaca, Wis. (27051). Great'-grandson of Israel Converse, Captain, Col. Wells's Conn. Regt. FRANK JE KS CAPRON, Prov idence, R. I. (25964). Great-grandson of Joseph WALTER SMITH BRUCE, Boise, Idaho (27002). Great-grandson of Charles Caproll, private, Col. George Peck's and other Rhode Island Regts., pensioned. Bruce, Corporal, Col. Thomas CraiCs Regt. Mass. Artillery. HENRY D. CHAMPLIN, Cleveland, Ohio (27084). Great2-grandson of Josl•ua LOUIS HERBERT BRUSH, Salem, Ohio (26365). Great•-grandson of David Champlin, Captain, Col. James Van De Burgh's Dutchess County Regt. New Whitney, Commander of sloop in Conn. Boat Service. York Militia. CARROLL STRICKLAND BUCHER, Salt Lake City, Utah (25985). Great•• BENJAMIN EDWIN CHAPIN, Newark, N. J, (26933). Great-grandson of grandson of Francis Watts, private, Col. Stephen Moylan's Fourth Continental Amos Chapin, Corporal, Col. John Ashley's Mass. Regt. Dragoons, Second Lieutenant, Col. Arthur Buchanan's Cumberland County CORNELIUS KING CHAPIN, Detroit, Mich. (26784). Great2-grandson of John Battalion Penna. Militia. Russell, Sergeant Third Company Eighth Conn. Regt.; great'-grandson of DALE BUMSTEAD, Chicago, Ill. (26739). Great"-grandson of Joseph Bumstead, J olur. C oan, private, drummer, Conn. Militia, and uWhale Boat Service"; drummer, Col. Nicholas Dike's ?tfass. Regt., pensioned; great:-grandson of great2-grandson of Peleg Rose, private, Col. Parsons's Sixth Conn. Regt., David Bolles, private, Capt. James Pinneo's Company Col. Hosford's Conn. widow pensioned. Regt.; great"-grandson of Daniel Trowbridge, Sergeant, Capt. Zebadiah In­ ROY DIKEMAN CHAPIN, Detroit, Mich. (26785). Great2-grandson of Jol•n galls's Company Conn. Militia. R<~sse/1, Sergeant and Ensign Eighth Conn. Regt.; great"-grandson of John CHARLES D. BURTON, New Haven, Conn. (26659). Great-grandson of James Coan, private, drummer, Col. Mather Mead's Conn. Regt., and "Whale Boat Burton, Captain, Colonel Dimon's Conn. Regt. and other service. Service"; great'-grandson of Peleg Rose, private, Col. Parsons's Sixth Conn. JOHN DAVISON BUTLER, Seattle, Wash. (26912). Great'-grandson of A sa Regt., widow pensioned. Daviso11, private Third Conn. Rcgt., 1775, and other service. WILLIAM SWAIN CHILD, Red Bank, N. J. (26857). Great'-grandson of PIERCE BUTLER, Louisville, Ky. (26585). Great-grandson of Percival (or Hernan Hatch, private, Col. Samuel B. Webb's Conn. Regt., pensioned. Pierce Butler, First Lieutenant Third Penna. Regt., Col. Thomas Craig. RICHARD WARD CHILDS, Boise, Idaho (2700J). Great"-grandson of Lemuel CHESTER ARTHUR BUTMAN, Pittsburgh, Pa. (26167). Great"-grandson of V ca.r:ie, private, Col. Jonathan Bass's Mass. Regt. Daniel Barber Tarr, Sergeant, Capt. John Rowe's Company Mass. Militia, CHESTER W. CHURCH, Chicago, Ill. (26894). Great"-grandson of Casper pensioned. Potter!, private, Col. John Boyer's and Col. Samuel Lewis's Penna. Regts., JOHN PAYNE CALDWELL, Louisville, Ky. (26584). Great'-grandson of John pensioned. Caldwell, private Virginia Line; great"-grandson of Armistead Churchill WILLIAM T. CHURCH, Chicago, Ill. (26895). Great"-grandson of Casper Colonel Second Fauquier County Regt. Virginia Militia. ' Potter!, private, Col. John Boyer's and Col. Samuel Lewis's Penna. Regts., ARTHUR DRYDEN CAMPBELL, Dorchester, Mass. (26843). Great'-grandson pensioned. of lob Poole, private, Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Mass. Regt., pensioned. ALLYN NEVILLE CLARK, Toledo, Ohio (26373). Great"-grandson of Samuel CHARLES GEORGE CAMPBELL, Dorchester, Mass. (26844). Great-grandson Everett, private, Lieut.-Col. John Mead's Ninth Regt. Conn. Militia; great'­ of lob Poole, private, Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Mass. Regt., pensioned. grandson of John Strong, Lieutenant Colonel Seventeenth Regt. Conn. Militia. EBEN SAMUEL CAMPBELL, Dorchester, Mass. (26837). Great-grandson of BYRON NATHANIEL CLARK, Burlington, Vt. (9685). Supplemental. lob Poole, private, Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Mass. Regt., pensioned. Great'-grandson of Sam<~el Eastman, private, Capt. Gordon Hutchins's Com­ pany, Col. John Stark's New Hampshire Regt. JOHN CLEMENT KENNEDY CAMPBELL, Washington, D. C. (25 721). Great'-grandson of William Adam Welsh, private, Col. Lewis Nicola's Penna. MILES ELLIOTT CLARK, Renton, Wash. (26548). Great2-grandson of Samuel Regt. Judd, Captain Fifth Company or Train Band Twenty-seventh Regt. Conn. State Troops; great"-grandson of Josiah Cowles, Member of Soldiers' Relief JOHN WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Newark, N. J. (26943). Great'·grandson of Committee of Southington, Conn. Ebenezer N orion, Lieutenant Colonel Seventeenth R'egt. Conn. Militia, 1776. PAUL NEWTON CLARK, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2703o). Great2-grandson of LOUDOUN L. CA .[PBELL, Pittsburgh, Pa. (26169). Great-grandson of James Timothy Clark, private, Col. William Williams's Vermont Regt. and other B. Cooper, private, ":apt. James Armstrong's First Troop, Col. Henry Lee's Legion Continental Army. service. SETH HENRY CLARK, Springfield, Mass. (26518). Great"-grandson of Abel MARK POOLE CAMPBELL, New York, N. Y. (Mass. 26845). Great-grandson Lines, private, Col. Wm. Douglas's Regt. Fifth Battalion Wadsworth Conn. of lob Poole, private, Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Mass. Regt., pensioned. Brigade. SETH. BUNKER CAPP, Devon, Pa. (26173). Great-grandson of John Singer, CHRISTIAN HARWOOD CLARKE, Richmond, Va. (22994). Great8-grandson pnvate and drummer Lancaster County, Penna., Militia, on prison ship of John Guerrant, private Second Virginia Regt. "Jersey"; great'-grandson of George Musser, Captain First Lancaster County Battalion Penna. Militia. GEORGE LUTHER CLAYTON, Washington, D. C. (25722). Great-grandson of Elisha Clayton, private, Colonel Heard's New Jersey Regt., prisoner in "Sugar !-louse," pensioned. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 47

WILLIAM M. CLEVENGER, Atlantic City, N. J. (26855). Great2-grandson of WILLIAM C. DANFORTH, Evanston, Ill. (26742). Great2-grandson of William l~b Clevenger, private First Burlington County Regt. New Jersey Militia, Danforth, drummer, Corporal, Col. Josiah Whitney's and other Mass. Regts. killed in service June 27, I 778. JOHN MARK DARJ)AH, Shanghai, China (Philippines 24961). Great2-grandson FRED WELLINGTON CLIFT, Summit, N. J. (26869). Great:'-grandson of of Jacob Rhoads, Captain Sixth Berks Co"unty Battalion Penna. Militia. Abraham Onderdonck, private Second Orange County Regt. New York ARCHIBALD NAIL DAWSON, Cleveland, Ohio (26357). Great2-grandson of Militia, First Lieutenant of Minute Men. Henry Nail, private Seventh Chester County Battalion Penna. Militia. PERLEY MASON CODINGTON, Somerville, N. J. (26942). Great2·grandson ROE ADOLPHUS DAWSON, Louisville, Ky . . (26583). Great-grandson of Jere· of Archibald (Coddi>Lgto~t) Corrington, private First Somerset County Battalion miah Dawson, private, Capt. Robert Watkins's Company Virginia Volunteers. New Jersey Militia. ARCHIE LEIGH DEAN, JR., Brooklyn, N. Y. (2672I). Great2-grandson of CHARLES HERBERT COGSWELL, JR., Cedar Rapids, Iowa (27033). Great"­ John Torre1tce, private Penna. Militia, pensioned. grandson of William Turner, Colonel Plymouth County Mass. Militia, Aide· ROSCOE MORTON DEXTER, Central Falls, R. I. (25975). Great2-grandson de-Camp to General Gates. of Benjamin Ti11gley, Second Lieutenant, Col. John Daggett's Mass. Regt., JAMES LESLIE COKE, Honolulu, Hawaii (2042I). Great-grandson of William Quartermaster, Col. Isaac Dean's Mass. Regt. Cocke, Captain Virginia Volunteers, captured Fort Thickatty. ADAM HERBER'r DICKEY, Brookline, Mass. (26521). Great2·grandson of FREDERICK VAN CLEVE COLE, Cleveland, Ohio (27082). Great"-grandson Peter Wilder, private, Sixth Mass. Regt.; great•-grandson of Nathaniel Wilder, of Seth Washburn, Second Major First Worcester County Regt. Mass. private, Col. Alexander Scammel's New Hampshire Regt.; great3-grandson of Militia, Superintendent of Mass. recruiting service for Continental Army, David Russell, Sergeant, Col. Ephraim Doolittle's New Hampshire Regt. I78I. EDWIN COURTLAND DINWIDDIE, Washington, D. C. (268o8). Greatl. FRANK IRVING COMEY, Milwaukee, Wis. (26270). Great-grandson of Oliver grandson of John Belford (Brelsford), private, Capt. Augustine Willett's Corney, private, Col. Thomas Poor's Mass. Regt. Company Bucks County Penna. Militia. CHARLES STEPHEN CONEY, Pilger, Nebr. (26399). Great-grandson of HARRY PRESCOTT DOW, Buffalo, N. Y. (26965). Great2·grandson of Reuben Jonathan Delano, Corporal, Col. Theophilus Cotton's Mass. Regt. Dow, Captain, Col. William Prescott's Mass. Regt. and New Hampshire Militia, WILLIAM HOMER CONKLING, East Orange, N. J. (26852). Great2-grandson Member of Committee of Safety, pensioned. of Joshua Conkling, private Essex County New Jersey Militia. ARTHUR BYRAM DRAKE, Cleveland, Ohio (N. J. 26642). Great3·grandson FREDERICK BROWNELL COOK, New York, N. Y. (26724). Great2·grandson cf Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, First Major First Regt. New York City of Hugh Stevens, private Tenth Regt. North Carolina Line. Militia. HARRY HALL COOK, Indian Orchard, Mass. (26846). Great2-grandson of WILLIAM WALKER DUGAN, JR., Portland, Oreg. (26436). Great~· grandson Richard Critchet, private, Capt. Nathan Brown's Company, Col. Perse Long's of Cornelius Ca>tner, Sergeant Thirteenth Virginia Regt., Col. Benjamin New Hampshire Regt. Harrison. DANIEL JACKSON COOPER, The Dalles, Oreg. (26443). Great-grandson of CHESTER FORRESTER DUNHAM, Chicago, Ill. (26743). Great"-grandson of Frederick Cooper, Corporal, Captain Me Ree's Company North Carolina Mili­ Ebenezer D1tnham, priv~te First Plymouth County Regt. Mass. Militia, tia and other service, pensioned. matross, Colonel Crane's Artillery Regt. HAROLD HARLOW CORBIN, Round Lake, N. Y. (26961). Great-grandson JAY MATHEW DUNHAM, Crete, Nebr. (26390). Great2·grandson of Eleazer of Asa Corbin, private Third Conn. Regt., I775· Mather, First Sergeant, Capt. Samuel Mather's Company, Col. Bezaleel Beebe's Conn. Regt. WILLIAM BRADFORD CRANE, Portland, Oreg. (26437). Great2-grandson of Lemuel Minthorn, Ensign, Capt. Jonas Ward's Companl New Jersey State WALTER NORWOOD DURGIN, Lynn, Mass. (26847) . Great2-grandson of Troops. Benjamin Hill, Sergeant, Colonel Wyman's Regt. New Hampshire Militia, Delegate to New Hampshire Provincial Congress, I 77 5· THOMAS CAHILL CUMMINGS, Upper Montclair, N. J. (26867) . Great2• grandson of Daniel Tracey, First Sergeant, Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's Corps of ALLEN BARBER EATON, Boise, Idaho (2700I). Great2-grandson of Ebe,.ezer Artificers, Corporal, Captain Leffingwell's Company Conn. Militia. Eaton, Sergeant, Col. John Nixon's Mass. Regt. RENSSELAER LEIGH CURTIS, New York, N. Y. (26962). Great2·grandson LEWELLYN ORRIN ELDREDGE, Willonghby, Ohio (26358). Great-grandson of Azor Curtis, private, Col. John Bailey's Mass. Regt. of Micah (Michael) Eldredge, private Second Company Third Conn. Regt., Col. . FREDERIC SUMNER CUTLER, Portland, Oreg. (Ill. 26898). Great2-grandson of Shubel Sumner, private, Conn. Line, Sergeant, Col. Ebenezer Allen's BYRON KENNETH ELLIOTT, Pittsburgh, Pa. (27126). Great-grandson of Vermont Regt., pensioned. Samuel Elliott, Captain Fifth Lancaster County Battalion Penna. Militia. WILLIAM POND CUTLER, Chicago, Ill. (2674I). Great-grandson of Shubel FRANKLIN MERRITT ELMS, Montclair, N. J. (26949). Great-grandson of Sun~ner, private, Conn. Line, and Sergeant, Col. Ebenezer Allen's Vermont Ebene~er Elmes, private, Col. Theophilus Cotton's Mass. Regt. Regt., pensioned. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 49

RALPH DAMON EMERSON, Hoquiam, Wash. (26901). Great2-grandson of EDWARD LIVINGSTON FREE:\1.\N, Central Falls, R. I. (25974). Great•• John M a/lard, private, Colonel Jackson's Hampshire County Regt. Mass. _grandson of Ralph Freeman, Jr., private, Col. John .Smith's Mass. Regt. Militia, pensioned. JOSEPH WOOD FREEMAN, Central Falls, R. I. (25973). Great•-grandson of JOSEPH JACKSON ENGLISH, JR., Richmond, Va. (22993). Grandson of Ralph Freeman, Jr., private, Col. John Smith's Mass. Regt. Jolm Clarke, private Virginia Line, pensioned. LOUIS OSBORNE FRENCH, Milwaukee, Wis. (26267). Great'-grandson of SHERMAN EVARTS, Windsor, Vt. (25023). Great-grandson of Roger Sher­ Samuel French, Corporal i\lass. Minute Men; great'-grandson of Daniel mau, Member of the Committee to draft and a Signer of the Declaration Waruer, Member of Committee of Correspondence, private in Hardwick Com­ of Independence. pany Mass. Militia. ALBERT CONANT FAIRBANKS, Allston, Mass. (26838). Great-grandson of ROYAL F. FRENCH, Marshalltown, Iowa (26097). Great'-grandson of 0/it·er Amos Fairbanks, Lieutenant, Col. Asa Whitcomb's and other Mass. Regts. Tyler, private, Colonel Latimer's Regt. Conn. Militia. SAMUEL LORENZO FRENCH, Milwaukee, Wis. (26269). Great'-grandson of HENRY IRVING FAIRBANKS, Dedham, Mass. (26839). Great-grandson of Samuel Fre,.ch, Corporal 1\Iass. Minute Men; greatl-grandson of Daniel War· Adam Fairbanks, private Fourth Suffolk County Regt. Mass. Militia, Col. ner, Member of Committee of Correspondence, private in Hardwick Company Seth Bullard. Mass. Militia. FRANKLIN FARRELL, J•-• New Haven, Conn. (2666o). Great2-grandson of SEARS FULLER, Roxbury, Mass. (26513). Supplementals. Great•-grandson Elihtt Benham, private, General \Vooster's Conn. Regt., pensioned; great"­ of Timothy Fuller, private, Col. Thomas Carpenter's 1\Iass. Regt.; great'­ grandson of Rettbe11 Frisbee, private, Colonel Douglas's Conn. Regt., pen­ grandson of Perez Hamblin (Hamlin), private, Col. \Villiam D. Whiting'> Eioned; great2-grandson of Oliver Chatfield, private Third Company General Seventeenth Albany County Regt. New York Militia. Wooster's Conn. Regt.; great'-grandson of Abner Cable, private, Col. Samuel Elmore's Conn. Regt., pensioned. CHARLES CALVIN GALLOWAY, Washington, D. C. (26809). Great'·grandson of John Haas, private, Col. Stephen Hunt's and other Regts. New Jersey EDWARD CLIFFORD FAY, East Onondaga, N. Y. (26723). Great-grandson of Troops, pensioned. William Fay, private, Capt. Samuel \Vood's Company of ~finute ~len of Northboro, Mass., and other service. FREEMAN WORTH GARDNER, Woodbridge, N. J. (26948). Great•-grandson of Tliomas Hadden, 2nd, Lieutenant Colonel First Middlesex County Regt. JOHN ESTILL FERRIS, Milwaukee, Wis. (26275). Great2-grandson of James I Estill, Member of Capt. John Holder's Company Kentucky County Militia New Jersey Militia. under Col. John Bowman. FRANK EPHRAIM HERBERT GARY, Newton Center, ~lass. (26522). Great­ grandson of James Gary, Garee, private, Capt. Andrew P. Fernald's Detach· WILLIAM TAYLOR FITZGERALD, Washington, D. C. (26802). Grandson of Josep/1 Fit::gerald, private, Major John Patton's Company Col. David Hall's ment Mass. Militia. Delaware Regt.; grandson of Daniel ~Vard, Corporal, Col. Thomas Bartlett's GEORGE WOODWARD GEARHART, Portland, Oreg. (26439). Great'-grandson New Hampshire Regt. of Gideo11 ~Voodward, private, Lieut. Col. Oliver Smith's Regt. New York Militia and First Regt. Conn. Line. JOHN FORDYCE, Butternut, Wis. (27054). Great"-grandson of Benjamin For­ d)•ce, private \Vestern Battalion Morris County New Jersey Militia; great"­ JOHN RISON GIBBONS, Bauxite, Ark. (•887J). Great-grandson of /s(J(Jc grandson of Nathan (Nathaniel) Horto11, Lieutenant Western Battalion Morris Gibbons, Drum Major Fourth P enna. Dragoons. County New Jersey Militia. WILLIA~I HENRY GILES, Portland, Oreg. (26438). Great-grandson of Aquila WILLIAM GUMAER FORDYCE, Butternut, Wis. (27053). Great-grandson of Giles, 1\fajor and Aide to General St. Clair, taken prisoner at Brandywine. Benjami11 Fordyce, private Western Battalion Morris County New Jersey GEORGE BLAINE GILLSON, San Francisco, Cal. (26753). Great"-grandson of Militia; great2-grandson of Nathan (Nathaniel) Horton, Lieutenant Western Michael E<•erly, First Lieutenant Tenth Penna. Regt. Battalion Morris County New Jersey Militia. JOHN GLEISSNER, J•., Abilene, Kans. (26977). Great2-grandson of Jo/u• JAMES BEN OCH FORMAN, Alpena, Mich. (26786). Great•-grandson of Daniel Ca/d,.Je/1, private Virginia Line. Conkli11, private Second Regt. New York Line. THEODORE NORRIS GOBLE, Arlington, N. J. (26874). Great'-grandson of CARL ALSTIEN FOSS, Buffalo, N. Y. (N. H. 25383). Great•-grandson of Morris Greer~, printe, Captain Lamb's Company New York Artillerr on George Foss, private, Capt. John Hill's Company New Hampshire Militia. Expedition, pensioned. CHESTER CURTIS FOSTER, Central Falls, R. I. (25971 ). Great"-grandson ISAAC LEWIS GOFF, Ja., Pasadena, Cal. (R. I. 25967). Great2-grandson of of Israel An10/d, Sergeant, Col. Jabez Bowen's Rhode Island Regt. E11os Dean, Sergeant, Col. Gamaliel Bradford's Regt. Mass. Continental Line. ' ROBERT HALE FOSTER, Norfolk, Nebr. (26392). Great1-grandson of Sa/athitl PHILIP GOODELL, Montclair, N. J. (26868). Great'-grandson of Moses Burpee, Foster, Captain Cape May Battalion New Jersey Militia. rrivate, Col. Josiah Whitney's Mass. Regt. WALTER C. FRANZ, Newark, N. J. (26872). Great2-grandson of John Roll, CHARLES \V AT.TER GOODNOUGH, JR., Bellevue, Pa. (27128). Great'· Sergeant Eastern Battalion Morris County New Jersey Militia. grandson of Car,.;,. Goodr~ough, private, Col. .\lex. Scammell's New Hamp· 'hire Rcgt.

' so OFFICIAL BULLETIN N A'i'ION AL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 51 STEPHEN COLLINS McCANDLESS GOODNOUGH, Bellevue, Pa. (27127). Great'·grandson of Calvi11 Goodno11gh, private, Col. Alex. Scammell's New GEORGE EMLEN HATHAWAY, Gardiner, Me. (26059). Great-grandson of Hampshire Regt. Ephriam Hathaway, Orderly Sergeant, Colonel Brewer's Mass. Regt., pen· sioned. WALLACE JEFFERSON GOODRICH, Chicago, Ill. (26899). Great'-grandson of Edward Goodrich, Corporal Fourth Virginia Regt., Col. Thomas Elliott. JOHN HAWES, Ridgewood, N. J. (26935). Great'-grandson of Shubae/ Hawes, Captain Fifth Company Second Bristol County Regt. Mass. Militia. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY GOODRICH, Chicago, Ill. (269oo). Great'· grandson of Edward Goodric/1, Corporal Fourth Virginia Regt., Col. Thomas RICHARD WILLIAMS HAWES, Ridgewood, N. J. (26945). Great-grandson Elliott. of Slntbael Hawes, Captain Fifth Company Second Bristol County Regt. Mass. Militia. GEORGE MAXWELL GRAHAM, Ja., Fargo, N. Dak. (26553). Great'·grandsou of Joseph Sperry, private, Col. Zebulon Butler's and other Conn. Regts., SIDNEY MOOR HEATH, Hoquiam, Wash. (26916). Great"-grandson of Daniel widow pensioned. M oar, Captain First New ll ampshire Regt. and Fifth Continental Infantry. GRAVELY, Martinsville, Va. (22995). Great-grandson of Joseph HEDGES, Osceola, Iowa (27032). Great2-grandson of Grat•e /y, private, Col. Abram Penn's Virginia Regt. Williatn Fields, private Sixth Regt. Penna. Line. 2 BE~JAMIN WILLIAM GREEN, Little Rock, Ark. (27152). Grandson of Jo/111 GEORGE BEVERLEY HElLNER, Elizabeth, N. J. (26647). Great -grandson of lames, Jr., Captain Militia; great-grandson of Jol111 lame.< Dodd D. Crane, private and :'\Iusician Essex County New Jersey Militia. :'lfajor South Carolina Militia; grandson of Sam11el Grce11, pri\'ate South HORACE NELSON HERRICK, Chicago, Ill. (26746). Great-grandson or lana· Carolina Militia. than Herrick, Jr., Sergeant, Capt. Andrew Marster's Company Mass. Militia. ERNEST ASA GREENWOOD, Salt Lake City, Utah (25987). Great-grandson ALBERT ERNEST HICKOK, Summit, N. J. (26863). Great2-grandson of Daniel of Joshua Greemuood, minute man Col. Enoch Hale's Third New Hampshire Hickok, Captain First Battalion Conn. State Troops and Conn. Militia, pen· Regt.; great'·grandson of William Gree11wood, private, Col. Enoch Hale's sioned. Third New Hampshire Regt.; great2-grandson of Robert Worsley, Jr., private, CHARLES PEEBLES HITCH, Paris, Ill. (27101). Great-grandson of lolm Capt. Benj. Mann's Company Third New Hampshire Regt. George, Sergeant, Captain Ogden's Company First New Jersey Regt. MORRIS ERWIN GREGORY, Corning, N. Y. (26963). Great•-grandson of CHARLES HENRY HITCHCOCK, Honolulu, Hawaii (20420). Great-grandson Eleacer Lindsley, Lieutenant Colonel Eastern Battalion Morris County New of Luke Hitchcock, private, Col. John Moseley's Hampshire County Regt. Mass. Jersey Troops, Member of New Jersey Legislature. Militia. CLARENCE HILL GRIFFITH, Chicago, Ill. (26744). Great'·grandson of FRED ST. JOliN HOFFMAN, Buffalo, N. Y. ·(26719). Great2-grandson of Jol11• Sq11ire Hill, Captain, Col. S. McLellan's Conn. Regt. St. John, Captain Fifth Regt. Conn. Line. WILLIAM HENRY GRINNELL, Beloit, Wis. (26269). Great-grandson of Gil· HORATIO HOLDEN, Morristown, N. J. (26865). Great-grandson of Levi Holden, bert U'eed, private Fourth Rogt. New York Line. First Lieutenant Sixth ~1ass. Regt. and Lieutenant Commander·in~Cbief's SEY:'IiOUR ASHLEY GUTHRIE, Riverside, Ill. (26889). Great'-grandson of Guard, 1781·1783. Amos Chappell, Lieutenant, Capt. Samuel Elmore's Company Conn. Militia, J. I~ESTER HOL;\!ES, Seattle, Wash. (26917). Great'-grandson of Sam!tel Judd, Captain First Conn. Battalion. Captain Fifth Company Twenty-seventh Conn. Regt.; great8-grandson of Josiah GEORGE OMAR GUY, Seattle, Wash. (26546). Great-grandson of Timothy Cowles, Member of Soldiers' Relief Committee of Southington, Conn. G11y, Corporal, Col. Van Veghten's New York Regt. LENNOX R. HOLMES, Seattle, Wash. (26908). Great2-grandson of Samuel Judd, ]Oil~ LIVINGSTON HALL, Schenectady, N. Y. (26725). Great'-grandson of Captain Fiftlt Company Twenty-se,•enth Conn. State Regt.; great'-grandson of Isaac Hall, First Lieutenant, Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Mass. Regt. Josiah Cowles, Member of Soldiers' Relief Co'lnmittee of Southington, Conn. HERBERT HAMMOND, Chicago, Ill. (26745). Great-grandson of Joseph Ham­ CHARLES EMERSON HOOD, Washington, D. C. (2681o). Great8-grandson of mond, lr., Corporal, Capt. Jonathan \Vhitcomb's Company New Hampshire Moses Butler, printe, Col. Benjamin Foster's Lincoln County Regt. Mass. :'11ilitia; great'·grandson of Joseph Hammond, Lieutenant Colonel New Hamp­ Militia. shire Militia. JOHN DUNCAN HOOD, Summit, N. ]. (26946). Great"-grandson of Linton ROBERT :'lfARION HARDY, North Yakima, Wash. (26914). Great'-grandson Doughty, private. Col. Asher Holmes's Monmouth County Regt. New Jersey of Richard Ke11noll, Delegate to ~orth Carolina Provincial Congress, August :Militia, prisoner in "Sugar House Prison,'' New York, pensioned. 17, 1775· CORNELIUS HUNTINGTON HOOKER, Wausau, Wis. (26271). Great'-grand­ HAROLD DU SHANE HARLAN, New Castle, Pa. (26175). Great'·grandson of son of Jonatilau Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut and Aide to General lo11athan Smith, Captain Fifth Regt. \'irginia Line, pensioned. Washington. EMMET WEBB HARRIS, Seattle, Wash. (26913). Great•·grandson of Amasa JOHN GORDON HOUSTON, Evanston, Ill. (26747). Great2-grandson of Thomas Clark, private, Colonel Canfield's Conn. Regt., pensioned. Dorsey, Member of Maryland Council of Safety. RICHARD EARLE HARRIS, Washington, D. C. (268o3). Great'·grandson of JAMES ALMON HOWARD, Benson, Nebr. (26395). Great-grandson of Jonatha1t Thomas Larkum, Seaman on board the "Oliver Cromwell." Morgou , private East Battalion Morris County New Jersey Militia. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NA'l'IONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 53

JOHN WINSLOW HOWARTH, Detroit, lllich. (26781). Great'-grandson of Jo/111 ALFRED T0~1PKINS KENT, Summit, '. J. (26858). Great-grandson of Rice Hathaway, Colonel Bristol County Regt. Mass. Militia. Price, private, Captain Lyon's Company Fourth Battalion ~ew Jer ey L~oe, NEHEMIAH PERRY HOWELL, Newark, N. J. (16617). Supplemental. Great'­ private Second Sussex County Regt. New Jersey Militia. grandson of Archibald Campbell, recognized patriot of Bergen, N. J., active in LIVINGSTON BOND KEPLINGER, New Orleans, La. (26278). Great2-grandson New Jersey campaign. of Alexander Etuing, private, Lt. Col. Samuel Cuthbertson's Fourth Cumber­ CHARLES ERASMUS HULL, Salem, Ill. (271oz). Great"-grandson of Isaac land County Battalion Penna . . \ssociators and Militia. Hull, Quartermaster Sussex County New Jersey Militia, First Lieutenant ARDA ADDISON KESSON, Twin Falls, Idaho (21366). Supplemental. Great•• Colonel Spencer's Continental Regt. grandson of Jo/m Dibble, First Lieutenant First Berkshire County Regt. ll!as•. FRANK AXTELL HULL, St. Paul, lllinn. (25308). Great-grandson of Abel Hull Militia. private Seventh Regt. Conn. Line. ' WILLIAM HARRISON KING, Phcenix, Ariz. (233n). Great-grandson of Samrul HENRY RHODES HUNDLEY, Granville, Ohio (Va. 22992). Great'-grandson of Stet•errsort, private in the "IIIinots Regt.," under Col. George Rogers Clark; John Clarke, private Virginia Line, pensioned. great'-grandson of Jolon Sttr.Jerrson, Captain Eighth \'irginia Regt., 1\Iajor, Col. George Rogers Clark's Regt.; great-grand. on of William G •llon·a_v, private THOMAS ALLEN JENCKES, JR., Cumberland, R. I. (25969). Great'-grandson of Jeremiah Jenks, Lieutenant Newport New Hampshire Volunteers. Cumberland County Penna. Militia 1778. ]ONATIIAN KLOCK, Washington, D. C. (25723). Great-grandson of Johrt J. JAMES DALY JEROME, Detroit, Mich. (26788). Great'-grandson of Timothy Jerome, private Third Berkshire County Regt. Mass. Militia; great•-grandson Klock, First Lieutenant Tryon County New york Militia, Col. Jacob Klock. of Sam~

WILLIAM HENRY McCLELLAN, Chicago, Ill. (26877). Grcat'·grandson of • d f Richard Baxter, pri- Joseph Jones, private, Col. Jacob Gerrish's Mass. Regt. Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Mass. Regt.; great·:~r~n son o vate, Capt. Joshua Gray's Company Mass. M1ht1a. WILLIAM TABER MACFARLANE, Bridgeport, Conn. (z6661 ). Great-grandson of Jeremiah Hersey, private, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's :\Iass. Regt. ROLLIN CHANNING MILES, Burlington, Vt. (25~21). Great'-gr~ndson o~ Samuel Rollins Sergeant, Col. Hercules Mooney s New Hamp~hlr~ Regt., ANDREW CURTIN McLEAN, Sharon, Pa. (26171). Great-grandson of Andrew great•-grandson 'of Samuel Patrick, Sergeant, Capt. John Marcy s ompany McLean, private, Col. James Dunlap's Cumberland County Battalion Penna. Militia. Vermont Militia. HORACE ADELBERT MILLER, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. (26783). Great-grandson LAURENS MAcLURE, Newton, Mass. (26848). Great-grandson of Abdiel Mc­ of John Thwillg, private, Col. Seth Murray's First Mass. Regt. L Lttre, First Lieutenant Flying Camp Penna. Troops; great'-grandson of Isaac ·a ABBOT LOW MILLS, Portland, Oreg. (26442). Great-grandson of Dav1 ow: B~ttler, private, Col. Joseph Spencer's Conn. Regt., pensioned; great3-grandson t Capt Abraham Dodge's Company Seventeenth Mass. Regt., of Samuel Sto11e Butler, Second Lieutenant Conn. Troops, 1776. J r., S ergean ' . .,.. C t R gt Mass great'-grandson of David Low, Captain Third -"

great'-grandson of Josl111a Strout, private, Capt. Briant Morton's Company WELLINGTON PHILLIPS, Indianapolis, Ind. (25847). Great'-grandson Mass. Sea Coast Guards. of Jesse Belnap, private, Col. Jedutban Baldwin's Regt. of Artificers, pen· FRANK M~KEPEACE NICHOLS, Atlantic, Iowa (27026). Great"-grandson of sioned. John N1chols, Captain, Col. Jonathan Holman's Worcester County Regt. Mass. PAUL BISSELL PHILLIPS, Seattle, Wash. (26911). Great'-grandson of Ebell­ Militia. ezer Phillips, Sergeant !\lass. State Troops, pensioned. WA~T~R C. NICHOLS, Buffalo, N. Y. (26951 ). GreatLgrandson of Joseph ELMER SAMPSON PIERCE, Brookline, Mass. (26525). Great"-grandson of Fa~rbanks , Captam, Col. Asa Whitcomb's Mass. Regt. Jonathan Eames, Captain of Mass. Minute Men, April 19, 1775, under Col. BENJAMIN BERTRAM NORRIS, East Saugus, Mass. (26850). Great-grandson Jonathan Warner. of George Fall, Orderly Sergeant Second New Hampshire Regt. EUGENE CLINTON PIERSON, Summit, N. J. (2686o). Great-grandson of HENRY FRANKLIN NORTON, Oak Bluffs, Mass. (26524). Great'-grandson of Ca/e'b Meeker, lifer First Battalion New Jersey Line, in company of his father, Beriah Coffi11, Colonel Dukes County Regt. Mass. Militia. Capt. Joseph Meeker. EDMUND OCUJIIPAUGH, JR, Rochester, N. Y. (26969). Great•-grandson of LOUIS JOSIAH PIERSON, Wilmette, Ill. (26882). Great-grandson of Joseph James 1¥inans, private Fifth Dutchess County Regt. New York Militia. Pierson, private Fourth Ulster County Regt. New York :Militia. STANLEY ~UTZ ORR, Cleveland, Ohio (27085). Great0-grandson of Jolw facv/· SHERMAN IRA POOL, Waverly, Iowa (2610o). Grandson of Eliab Eggleston, Lutz, pnvate, Capt. James Ross's Company First Regt. Penna. Line, Col. private, Col. Henry Livingston's and other New York Regts., pensioned; great­ Edward Hand. grandson of Daniel Ingraham, private, Lieut. Col. Obadiah Hosford's Conn. GEORGE THO)IAS OTIS, North Yakima, Wash. (26547). Great"-grandson of Regt. Antholly Dyer, cornet of Troop of Horse Fourth Providence County Battalion EDMUND DUVAL POOLE. Coshocton, Ohio (27078). Great'-grandson of Jo­ Rhode Island Militia. seph Robbins, private, Col. Theopbilus Cotton's Mass. Regt. SELDEN BUSHNELL PALM, Warren, Ohio (26363). Great-grandson of Alex­ EARL CAMPBELL POWELL, Schenectady, N. Y. (26966). Great'-grandson of ander Bushnell, Ensign, Colonel Beebe's Regt., Sergeant, Captain Hutchins's Ebe11ecer Smith, Corporal, Capt. John Salisbury's Company Kings District Company Conn. Militia. Regt. of Albany, New York. EDMUND LEMU_EL PA_RKER, Kokomo, Ind. (25846). Great-grandson of Lemuel JOHN LESLIE POWERS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (27027). Great'-grandson of Tal­ Parker, Jr., Fife MaJor, Col. John Robinson's Mass. Regt. and other service. cott Gold, Gould, on the "Alliance," Capt. John Barry, pensioned. CHARLES OEHM PARKS, Washington, D. C. (268I1). Great'-grandson of JAMES HUMPHREY PRATT, Jl!ilwaukee, Wis. (26273). Great'-grandson of Reuben Parks, private, Col. David Brewer's Ninth Mass. Regt. Ephriam Pratt, Corpora!, Col. John Greaton's and other Mass. Regts. JAME_S RICHM?ND P~UL, Evanston, Ill. (26879). Great-grandson of Ab11er HOWARD WILLIS PRESTON, Providence, R. I. (25968). Great'-grandson of Rtchmond, pnvate Third Regt. Conn. Levies, pensioned. John Preston, Sergeant, Colonel Hooker's Regt. Conn. Line. CHARLES FLAGG PAXTON, Boise, Idaho (25650). Great•-grandson of Jolm WILLIAM EDWIN PRINDLE, New Haven, Conn. (26663). Great"-grandson of Pa.Tton, Captain Rockbridge County Virginia Militia. David Atwater, defender of West River Bridge at New Haven during Tryon's EDWARD ASHl':R PEARSON, Newark, N. J. (26930). Grandson of David invasion. Gree11leaf, pnvate, Col. Josiah Whitney's Mass. Regt. and Capt. Ephraim ALBERT HUTCHINSON PUTNEY, Washington, D. C. (26812). Great'-grand­ Hartwell's Company of Guards. son of Benjamin Abbot, Sergeant, Col. John Stark's New Hampshire Regt. RANDALL PECK, Little Rock, Ark. (27151). Great•-grandson of John Duffield, CHARLES FREDERICK QUINCY, New York, N. Y. (8344). Great'-grandson Surgeon Third Regt. Continental Artillery. of Edmund Quincy, private Third Suffolk County Regt. Mass. Militia. HERMAN SILAS PEPOON, Chicago, Ill. (2688o). Great-grandson of Joseph JOHN CHESTER RALSTON, Spokane, Wash. (26915). Great'-grandson of James Pepoon, Sergeant, Col. Obadiah Hosford's Conn. Regt. Harris, Sergeant, Colonel Topham's Rhode Island Regt. CHARLES _II. PERRINE, Chicago, Ill. (26881). Great•-grandson of Henry Per­ HENRY THOMAS RANDALL, East Orange, N. J. (26926). Great'-grandson of nne, prn·ate Monmouth County New Jersey Militia. Jacob Johnson, private, Captain Bradley's Company, Colonel Brooks's Mass. WILLIAM GARNETT PERROW, Seattle, Wash. (26909). Great'-grandson of Regt., widow pensioned. W•ll~am Teas, cornet, Col. \Villiam \Vashington's Regt. of Dragoons, widow HAROLD COMER READ, Brookline, ,Mass. (26826). Great•-grandson of William pensiOned. • R6atl. Corporal. Col. John Stark's First New Hampshire Regt. FRANK HERVE: PETTINGELL, Los Angeles, Cal. t!l1ass. 16 52 1). Supple­ GJ\ORGE DAIN REED, Roanoke, Va. (Pa. 26172) . Great"-grandson ot Zacharia mental. Great-grandson of Thomas Clouston, Commander of Mass. brigantine Rice, private, Captain Eyrie's Company Chester County Penna. Militia; great'­ "An~elope," _priso~er in Old Mill Prison, England; great"-grandson of Na­ a:randson of lolm Hartman, Member of Committee of Satety. thantel Harrts,_ Pnze ~ass. ?rivateer "America," Capt. William Coffin; great"­ WILLIAM PETERS REEVES. Gambier. Ohio (z7o8o). Great2-grandson of grandson of Gries Harros, pnvate, Col. Jacob Gerrish's Mass. Regt. Andr6W Peters. Lieutenant Colonel Fifteenth :1\tass. Re&t. JAMES CLINTON PHELPS, Springfield, Mass. (26337). Supplementals. Great•• THOMAS PLUMMER REVELLE, Seattle, Wash. (26549) . Great-grandson of grandson of Elea.oer Gaylord, private, Colonel Wolcott's Conn. Regt.; great"­ RalldaTI Revelle, Sergeant, Capt. John Eccleston's Company Second Maryland grandson of Eliakim Gaylord, private Fifth Regt. Conn. Line. Regt. -,

ss OFFICIAL BULLETIN [I NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 59 HERBER'r FRANKLIN RICE, Allston, Mass. (26827). Great-grandson of Ezekiel Rice, Bombardier, Col. Thomas Craft's Artillery Regt.; great'·grandson of HERBERT COS HAW, Winthrop, Mass. (26831). Great-grandson of Oliver Eliakim Rice, private, Capt. Robert Andrews's Company of Minute Men of Barrett, Quartermaster Sergeant, Col. Seth \Varner's Continental Regt. "Green Shrewsbury, Mass. Mountain Boys," pensioned. CHARLES FRANKLIN RICHMOND, Brockton, llfass. (26830). Great'·grandson JAMES EDWARD SHAW, Washington, D. C. (26805). Great-grandson of Daniel of Samuel Pool, Second Lieutenant, Col. Nicholas Dike's Mass. Regt. Shaw, private, Col. Peter Yates's Albany County Regt. New York Militia. FRED POOL RICHMOND, Brockton, Mass. (26828). Great'·grandson of Sanmel JACOB ALBRIGHT SHAWAN, Columbus, Ohio (26636). Great-grandson of John Pool, Second Lieutenant, c1,). Nicholas Dike's Mass. Regt. Shoun (Shaw11), private, Capt. Patrick Buckhannon's Company Virginia Militia, pensioned. HORACE RICHMOND, Brockton, Mass. (26829). Great'·grandson of Sa1111tel Pool, Second Lieutenant, Col. Nicholas Dike's Mass. Regt. MARSHALL HINGSTON SHELDON, Pawtucket, R. I. (25966). Great"·grandson of Caleb Potter, private Rhode Island Militia and "Captain General's Cavaliers"; BENJAMIN WOODBURY RILEY, Oklahoma, Okla. (23067). Great-grandson of great3-grandson of Charles Cooke, private, Col. John Topham's Rhode Island Jolt" Woodbur_v, Lieutenant, Col. Ebenezer Learned's Mass. Regt. Regt. JOHN WOLCOTT ROBBINS, Hartford, Conn. (26665). Great'·grandson of Fred· CHARLES EDWARD SHEPARD, Huntington, N. Y. (26968). Great-grandson of crick Robbius, I, Orderly Sergeant, Col. John Chester's Conn. Regt. Judah Kellogg, Representative Conn. General Assembly, Nov. 7, 1776-June 8, DAVID MOORE ROBINSON, Roland Park, Md. (25569). Great'·grandson of 1779· George Robinsou, Lieutenant, Capt. Jabez Ellis's Company Mass. Minute ~len. WALTER JUSTIN SHERMAN, Toledo, Ohio (26372). Great-grandson of Stephen WILLARD HOLT ROOTS, Cherry Valley, Mass. (26844). Great"-grandson of Billings, Jr., Ensign, Col. Samuel Matt's Conn. Battalion; great'·grandson of Daniel Judd, private Conn. Troops, wounded at Fort Griswold, 1781; great'· Stephm Billings, Captain Seventh Regt. Conn. Line. grandson of labea Keep, Second Lieutenant Second Worcester County Regt. GEORGE TURNER SIDWELL, Chicago, Ill. (26890). Great2-grandson of Bamard Mass. Militia. HortoJ<, private, Col. Thomas Carpenter's Regt. Mass. Militia. 0 PETE WIKOFF ROSE, San Diego, Cal. (26755). Great ·grandson of lolm Ross, T. JULIAN SILSBY, Dorchester, Mass. (18443). Supplementals. Grandson of Lieutenant Colonel New Jersey :Militia; great'·grandson of Natha" Wheeler, Ozias Silsby (and Frances Congdon Jones), private, Capt. Samuel McClure's First Lieutenant Fourth Continental Infantry and Sixth l\Iass. Regt.; great"­ Company Vermont Troops; great-grandson of Thomas Jones, Ensign, Col. Ben­ grandson of Abraham L)•on, Captain Fourth Regt. New Jersey Line. l jamin Bellows's New Hampshire Regt.; great-grandson of Sylva111ridge, Chaplain Penna. Troops. CHARLES GILBERT SMITH, Toledo, Ohio (27076). Great ·grandson of John Goss, First Lieutenant, Capt. Reuben Dow's Company, Col. William Prescott's LOCKWOOD MATTHEWS SEELY, East Orange, N. J. (26932). Great'·grand­ Mass. Regt., Captain in Colonel Nichols's New Hampshire Regt. son of Gideo11 Seely, Captain Third Westchester County Regt. New York Militia. WALTER CALEF SMITH, Cambridge, Mass. (26517). Supplementals. Greatl. grandson of Perley Harris, private, Col. Andrew Ward's Conn. Regt., pen· FREDERICK LOCRATUS SELDEN, Chicago, Ill. (26883). Great-grandson of sioned; great-grandson of loh" Sawyer, private, Col. John Nixon's Mass. Regt., A11drew Va" Middlesworth, Sergeant Second Somerset County Battalion New Jersey Militia. pensioned.

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JAMES JOHNSON SNIPES, Lincoln, .Nebr. (25I45). Supplementals. Great!.. TAYLOR, Grand Forks, N. Dak. (2655 r). Great2-grandson of grandson of Philip Alston, Member of North Carolina Provincial Congress, John Adams, Jr. , Corporal, Capt. Simon Hunt's Company, Col. Eleazer Brooks's r776, Colonel of Cumberland County Militia; great' -grandson of John Ramsey Mass. Regt. private North Carolina 'froops, pensioned. ' LEWIS OLDS 'l'AYN'l'OR, Montclair, N. J. (z6649). Great' -grandson of B c"­ JOHN VOORHIS SODEN, East Orange, N. ]. (26870). Great'-grandson of Jol"' jamin Ta)'ntor, private, lifer, Col. Job Cushing's Mass. Regt. Van Voorhees (Van Voorhis), private Bergen County New Jersey Militia. SCHUYLER MORGAN TEN BROECK, Bayonne, N. J. (z665o). Great'-grandson THOMAS CLEMENT SOULE, Hoquiam, Wash. (z69o3). Great•-grandson of of Adam Ten Hroeck, Ensign First New York Regt., Col. Goose Van Schaick. Daniel Currier, private, Col. Jacob Gerrish's Regt. Mass. Guards. JAMES SLIFER THATCHER, New York, N. Y. (26955). Great2-grandson of EDWARD SHELDON SPICER, Providence, R L (25972). Great'-grandson of John Donaldson, Sergeant Fifth Penna. Regt., Col. Josiah Harmer, and other Josiah Wood, Captain Third Worcester County Regt. Mass. Militia, Col. Ezra service, prisoner, pensioned. Wood, Member of Committee of Correspondence of Northbridge, Mass. HARVEY C. THOMAS, Baltimore, Md. (25571). Great'-grandson of Thomas ISAIAH FREEMAN SPINDELL, Lynn, Mass. (z6842). Great2-grandson of Abner Edmonsto11, Lieutenant Montgomery County Maryland Militia, Ensign First Robbins, private, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt.; great2-grandson of Isaac Maryland Battalion of Flying Camp. Ellis, Corporal, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt.; great'-grandson of PERCY F. THOMAS, Seattle, Wash. (269ro). Great2-grandson of Natha11iel Thomas Snow, private, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt.; great"-grandson Boman Brow11, Lieutenant Second Lunenburg Company Eighth ·worcester of Thomas Mayo, private, Major Zenas "Winslow's Mass. Regt. County Regt. Mass. Minute Men. LOUIS FREEMAN PIERCE SPINDELL, Lynn, Mass. (z5875). Supplementals. WILLIAJ\1 ANDERSON THOMPSON, Aurora, N. C. (254rz). Great'-grandson Great'-grandson of Abner Robbi11s, private, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. of John Bryan, Colonel Craven County Regt. North Carolina Militia. Regt.; great"-grandson of Jonathan and Deborah (Ellis) Clark; great•-grandson WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, Chicago, Ill. (27ro6). Great•-grandson of Samuel of Isaac Ellis, Corporal, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt.; great"-grandson Tuck, Signer of New Hampshire "Association Test," Member of Committee of of Thomas Snow, private, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt. ; great"-grandson Safety; great<-grandson of Jonathan Tuck, Signer of New Hampshire "Asso­ of Thomas Mayo, private, Major Zenas Winslow's Mass. Regt. ciation Test"; great•-grandson of Philemon Blake, Signer of New Hampshire ISRAEL GILLETTE SPRAGUE, Hartford, Vt. (25020). Grandson of Philip "Association Test." Sprague, private, Col. Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Battalion, pensioned. FRANK BRINKERHOFF TICHENOR, Portland, Oreg. (26440). Great'-grandson VERNON PURINTON SQUIRES, Grand Forks, N. Dak. (26552). Great-grandson of David Hedde,., Minute Man Essex County New Jersey Militia. of Samuel Stent Squires_, private Conn. Line, pensioned. FRANCIS TOWNLEY TODD, South Branch, N. J. (26939). Great'-grandson of HENRY P. STARRETT, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada (N. Y. 26956). Great'­ Richard T otvnle)•, Captain Essex County New Jersey Militia. grandson of Thomas Starrett, Captain, Col. Mason Wheaton's Fourth Regt. JOSEPH PHELPS TOTTEN, Seattle, Wash. (26550). Great2-grandson of Jacob Mass. Militia. Brinckerho/J Totten, private, Col. Anthony Van Bergen's Albany County Reg!. New York Militia; great'-grandson of Samttel Totten, private, CoL Anthony WILSON REIFF STEARLY, Montclair, N. J. (26936). Great2-grandson of Christian Berge, private, Lieut. CoL Christian Shouse's Northampton County Van Bergen's Albany County Regt. New York Militia. Regt. Penna. Militia. ALBERT CLEVELAND TOWNE, Kenmore, N. Y. (26970). Great"-grandson of John Cleveland, private Mass. Militia and Second Regt. Conn. Line. JOSIAH ONSLOW STEARNS, Hoquiam, Wash. (26902). Great-grandson of 2 Timothy Stearns, private, Col. C. Howe's Middlesex County Regt. Mass. Militia. JOSEPH WASHINGTON TRIMBLE, Washington, D. C. (25724). Great -grand­ son of Joh11 Lindsay, private Fourth Maryland Regt. KENNETH GIBSON STERN, Westfield, N. J. (N. Y. 26967). Great2-grandson MATTHEW TRIMBLE, JR., Washington, D. C. (25725). Great2-grandson of John of Benjamin Hoyt, Second Lieutenant, CoL Joshua Wingate's Regt. New Lindsay, private Fourth Maryland Regt. Hampshire Militia. EARL WILLIAM TUCKER, Syracuse, N. Y. (26959). Great'-grandson of Edward CHARLES HENRY STOKES, Washington, D. C. (268o6). Great-grandson of Johnson, private Third New York Regt., CoL James Clinton. Richard Stokes, private, CoL Butler's Fourth Conn. Regt.; great3-grandson of 2 Nathaniel Chapman, Captain Conn. Militia. THEODORE B. TUCKER, Toledo, Ohio (26369). Great -grandson of Jacob Tt

WILLL\M HOWARD WALKER, Providence, R. I. (27176). Great'-grandson of GUY HARMON TUTTLE, Honolulu, Hawaii (20419). Great'-grandson of Tim­ Jo/m Walker, Sergeant in Rehoboth Company of Mass. Minute ;\len and other othy T1tttle, Sergeant and Ensign Eighth Conn. Regt.; great'-grandson of Thomas Farrow, Captain in the South Carolina Partisan Rangers, wounded at service. Ninety-six, May 22, 1781. EDWARD SEY;\JOUR WALTOX, Captain, U. S. Army (Ill. 23469). Supple­ mental. Great'-grandson of Jesse Smith, private, Colonel Elmore's Conn. Regt. SERENO BAYARD TUTTLE, Salt Lake City, Utah (25986). Great-grandson of Consta11tine lltills, private, Captain Mills's and Captain Rice's Company Conn. WILLIAM WALLACE WARD, Park Ridge, Ill. (26885). Great'-grandson of Militia. Jedediah Ward, Second Major First Berkshire Regt. Mass. Militia; great'­ grandson of John McCombs, Lieutenant Sixth Cumberland County Battalion BERT ELIAS UNDERWOOD, Summit, N. J. (26927). Great-grandson of Daniel Penna. l\lilitia; great'-grandson of John Wallace, private, Colonel Reed's New Alvord, private, Col. Jonathan \Yard's Mass. Regt., pensioned. Hampshire Regt., pensioned; great1-grandson of William Wallace, First Lieu­ ELMER JUDSON UNDERWOOD, Summit, N. J. (26875). Great-grandson of tenant Second Regt. New Hampshire Militia. Daniel Alvord, private, Col. Jonathan Ward's Mass. Regt., pensioned. FRANK EDWARD GIFFORD WARNER, Niagara Falls, N. Y. (26958). Great2- HOWARD HALE URAN, Kankakee, Ill. (26884). Great2-grandson of Jo11atha11 grandson of Jacob Rttsten De Witt, Captain, Colonel Klock's Regt. New York Uran, private, Colonel Williams's Vermont Regt. Militia; great3-grandson of Andries Roosa, private Third Ulster County Regt. New York Militia. WILLIAM GRANDISON UTTERBACK, Shubert, Nebr. (26389). Great'-grand­ son of Robert (Robin) Johnson, Member of Virginia Legislature 1782, aided WILLI.\:\! ELLIOTT R . \~lSDEN \\'ARNER, Alameda, Cal. (26756). Great'­ in defense of Bryant's Station; great•-grandson of Jemima Suggett Johnson, grandson of John Wamer, private, Col. Enoch Hale's New Hampshire Regt.; 1 patriot and leader of women in defense of Bryant's Station. great -gran'dson of Amos Eastman, private, Capt. Reuben Dow's Company New Hampshire ;\1ilitia; great'-grandson of Nehemiah How, private, Colonel Ash­ RAWSON VAILE, New York, N. Y. (Ind. 25844). Great3-grandson of Benjamin ley's Regt. New Hampshire Militia; grcat•-grandson of Samuel How, private, Hammond, Lieutenant Colonel Mass. Militia, Member of Committee of Safety. Col. James Reed's New Hampshire Regt. DUDLEY STRICKLAND VAN ANTWERP, Montclair, N. J. (26866). Great'· CHARLES CARROLL WARREN, Ilinsdale, Ill. (27104). Grandson of Nathan grandson of Benjami" McC1tllo11gh, Captain First Regt. Sussex Militia. Warren, private Mass. Militia; grandson of Thompso" Bacon, private, Col. AUGUSTUS SHARP VANHOUTEN, Morristown, N. J. (26873). Great'-grand­ Jacob Gerrish's Regt. Mass. Guards. son of Elihu Gree,., private Essex County New Jersey Militia. DAVID CARLISLE WAY, Pittsburgh, Pa. (N. C. 24511). Great'-grandson of Reading Blount, Major Fifth North Carolina Continental Regt. ALBERT CROLIUS VAN NEST, East Orange, N. J. (26851). Great2-grandson of Daniel Westervelt, Lieutenant, Capt. Peter Ward's Company, Col. Theunis HENRY JAMES LAMAR WASHINGTON, Summit, N. J. (26645). Great•• Dey's New Jersey Regt., died in "Sugar House Prison," New York, October grandson of Anthony Crockett, First Lieutenant, Colonel Morgan's and Col. George Rogers Clark's Virginia Regts., pensioned. 2J, 1777- GEORGE BAILEY VANNOTE, Newark, N. J. (26941). Great2-grandson of John CHARLES MANSON WATERHOUSE, Westbrook, Me. (26o61). Great'-grand­ Chamberlain, private Monmouth County New Jersey Militia, twice a prisoner, son of Joseph Waterhouse, Sergeant, Capt. John Ilastiug's Company, Col. pensioned. Henry Jackson's Ma•s. Regt., pensioned. JAMES M. VANNOTE, JR., Pt. Pleasant, N. J. (26940). Great2-grandson of Jolm HARRISON ROWE WATERHOUSE, Portland, Me. (26o6o). Great'-grandson Chamberlain, private Monmouth County New Jersey Militia, twice a prisoner, of Joseph Waterhouse, Sergeant, Capt. John Hasting's Company, Col. Henry pensioned. Jackson's Regt. Mass. Militia, pensioned. PHILIP SMITH VINCENT, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (26833). Great'-grandson of HUGH HAMPTON WEEDON, Cleveland, Ohio (26361). Great-grandson of Samuel Nortcm, Lieutenant, Capt. Benjamin Smith's Company Mass. Militia. Augustine Weedon, Sergeant Second Virginia State Regt. JAMES WOLCOTT WADSWORTH, JR. , Mt. Morris, N. Y. (26952). Great'­ CHARLES HORACE WELLES, Divernon, Ill. (27105). Great-grandson of Jolm grandson of John No)•es Wadsworth, private, Capt. Stephen Norton's Company Fassett, Jr., Ji'irst Lieutenant uGreen Mountain Boys" and Warner's Addi­ Conn. Minute Men, marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. tional Continental Regt.; great'-grandson of John Fassett, Representative Ver­ mont Legislature, 1778; great-grandson of Moses Boardman, private, Col. S. B. HERMAN EDWARD WALKER, Hoquiam, Wash. (269o6). Great'-grandson of \>Vebb's Conn. Regt. and Invalid Corps; great'-grandson of Zebulon .\1ead, Daniel Thompson, Minute Man of '.Voburn, killed April 19, 1775, during British private, Col. Gideon \>Varren's Vermont Regt. retreat from Concord. WALTER L. WELLS, Hoquiam, Wash. (26904). Great'-grandson of Nicholas JEREMIAH WALKER, Hoquiam, Wash. (26905) . Great'-grandson of Daniel Starr, private Conn. Militia, killed at Groton Heights September 6, 1781. Thompson, Minute Man of Woburn, killed April 19. 1 775· during British re­ HERBERT ALPHONSO WHIPPLE, Waterloo, Wis. (26274). Great'-grandson treat from Concord. of Elijah Sheldon, private, Col. Thaddeus Cook's Regt. Conn. Militia. LEWIS EDWARD WALKER, Austin, Tex. (~5115). Great'-grandson of John JOSEPH LEWIS WHITTET, Buffalo, N. Y. (26954). Great"-grandson of Levi Van Ness, Ensign Fifth Company Seventh Albany County Regt. New York Spaulding, Captain Third New Hampshire Regt., served at Bunker Hill and Militia. Trenton and wintered at \ .. alley Forge. OFFICIAL BULLETIN

BENJAMIN BRECKENRIDGE WICKHAM, Norwalk, Ohio (27081). Great'­ grandson of Timotl1y Taylor, private Merrimac Company New Hampshire Militia; great:"-grandson of Samuel Farrar, Member from Lincoln in First Mass. Provincial Congress, Salem; great•·grandson of Nathan Adams, private, Col. David Wells's Mass. Regt. DIXON C. WILLIAMS, Chicago, Ill. (26886). Great-grandson of William Dillon 1 private Virginia 1\:lilitia. GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS, Baltimore, Md. (25570). Great'-grand­ son of William Whittam, matross Fifth Regt. Maryland Artillery. CHAUNCEY LIVINGSTON WILTSE, Fullerton, Nebr. (23940). Supplementals. Grcat2-grandson of Bela Strang, Jr., private, Capt. Ebenezer Strong's Com­ pany Second Hampshire County Regt. Mass. Militia; great3 -grandson of Bela Strong, Corporal, Lieut. Col. Samuel Williams's Mass. Regt.; great•-grandson of Robert Booth, private, Capt. Gad Stanley's Company Conn. Militia. WILI.IAM DARLING WOODBRIDGE, Parkersburg, W. Va. (D. C. 268o1). Great-grandson of George Morgan, Agent for Indian Affairs, Colonel, Com­ missary General of Purchases, Western District. RUSSELL DORR WOODRUFF, Salt Lake City, Utah (25984). Great-grandson of Riz•erius Rt~ssell, private Conn. Militia, matross, Col. John Lamb's Second Continental Artillery Regt. CIIARLE DANIEL WOODWARD, Providence, R. I. (25970). Great-grandson of Ephraim Woodward, Corporal, Col. John Hathaway's and other Mass. Regts. NORTON LEDROIT WOODWARD, Chicago, Ill. (26887). Great'-grandson of Jolm La11gdou, Lieutenant Third Dutchess County Rcgt. New York Militia; grcat1-grandson of A11drew More/oouu, Lieutenant Colonel ~ew York ~lilitia; great'-grandson of Roger Stillma,., private, Col. Asa \Vbitcomb's Mass. Rcgt., pensioned; great2-grandson of Abel Gillett, private, Major Sbeldon's· Regt. Conn. Light Horse; great-grandson of Beza/cel Woodward, Member of Com­ mittee of Safety of Grafton, New Hampshire; great2-grandson of Elca::er Wht'elock, member of Dartmouth College Company in New York Light Infan­ try under :Major Wheelock; greatZ·grandson of Benjamin Curtis, Surgeo·1 Fir!-.t New York Regt. EDWARD HENRY WRIGHT, Newark, N. J. (26859). Great'-grandson of Thom­ so" Mason, Judge of Supreme Court and Member of Virginia Assembly. HENRY WASHINGTON WYMAN, Hartford, Conn. (26667). Great'-grandson of Jo/111 Wyma,., Lieutenant, Col. Asa Whitcomb's Mass. Regt. and Rhode Island Continental Line, pensioned. ARTHUR GEORGE YEOMANS, West Orange, N. J. (26862). Great'-grandson of Samuel Yeomans, private Second Orange County Regt. New York l\Iilitia. GEORGE STANLEY YEOMANS, West Orange, N. J. (26861). Grcat'-grandson of Samuel Yeomans, private Second Orange County Regt. New York Militia. LUCIEN INGRAHAM YEOMANS, Chicago, Ill. (26888). Great"-grandson of Eliab Yeomans, private Eleventh Albany County Regt. New York Militia; great"-grandson of A sa Bullock, private, Col. Thomas Carpenter's ?.las<. Regt.; great2-grandson of Ebenezer Sleams, private, Col. Nathan Tyler's Tl ird \Vor· cester County Regt. Mass. Militia; great2-grandson of Aaron Ch'Ve/and, re­ cruiting officer at Hartford, Conn.; great'-grandson of Richard Fallt)' Lieu­ tenant Colonel Danielson's Regt. Mass. Militia.