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•' . ' HOTEL GEORGE WASHINGTON JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 100% AIR-CONDITIONED Quarterlv Bulletin. National Societv Sons of the American Revolution CONTENTS OUTLINE OF EVENT OF 59TH CONGRES .. • THE PRESIDENT GENERAL'S MESSAGE • ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP By Stanley • Gillam • THE NATIONAL S.A.R. LIBRARY Donations and Book RevietDS • EVENT OF STATE SOCIETIES • MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE • .. ADDITIONS TO MEMBERSHIP • • INDEX OF ANCESTORS (January, April 1949) • IN MEMORIAM HARVEY F. REMINGTON; GEORGE WINTERS "The Wonder Hotel of the South" • STATE AND CHAPTER OFFICERS Headquarters For NATIONAL CONGRESS of the ... Volume XLIII April, 1949 Number 4 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION May 15-18, 1949 PRISS OP JUDD. DETWEU.ER, I NC,, W.ASRINCTOI"f, D. C· General Officers Elected at the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Congress May 26, 1948 President General • CHARLES B. SHALER, Union Trust Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. BEN H. PowELL, III, 702 Brown Bldg., Austin, Texas Vice Presidents General DouGLAS SLOANE, Rindge, N. H. ALoNzo NEWTON BENN, 30 X . La Salle, Chicago, lll. New England District (Maine, New Hampshire, Great Lakes District (l\licbigan, Illinois, and \\'is Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con consin) . The Sons of the necticut) . CoL. HAROLD D . LEMAR, Jackson & 12th ts. , Omaha, }OHN \\'. FINGER, 960 Park Ave., New York, X. Y. Xebr. A10.eri~an Revolution North Atlantic District (1\ew York and Xew Jersey) . North Mississippi District ( :llinnesota, Xorth and South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska). DR. }OHN A. FRITCHEY II, 1800 orth 3rd St., Magazine Harrisburg, Penna. ]OHN W. GIESECKE, 1010 Title Guaranty Bldg., St. l\Iid Atlantic District (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Louis, l\1o. Maryland, and District of Columbia). South Mississippi District (Missouri, Kansas, Arkan sas, Oklahoma and Texas) . Quarterly Bulletin of the National Sodety of the BENJAMIN I. PowELL, 183 S. E . 14th t., l\liami, Fla. Sons of the Ameriean Devolution South Atlantic District (Virginia, North and South BRIG. GEN. FRANKLIN RITER , 312 Kearns Bldg., Salt Carolina, Georgia, Florida) . Lake City, Utah. Rocky Mountains District ( Arizona, New ~lexico, FuRMAN B. PEARCE, 913 Richards Bldg., New Orleans, t.:tah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana). Published at Washington, D. C., in July, October, January and April. La. Entered Bl second·cla11 matter March 31, 1924, at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., under the act of Southern District (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, BRIG. GEN. H . G. MATHEWSON, 869 Walnut St., Ala Tennessee). meda, Calif. AuJU&l 24, 1912. Pacific Coast District (California, Nevada, Wash RANSOM H. BASSETT, Starks Bldg., Louisville, Ky. ington. Oregon and Territorie of Ala.ka and National Headquarters, 1227 16th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Central District (West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio Hawaii). and Indiana) . Telephone, District 8490 Chancellor General Secretary General WALLACE C. HALL, 2950 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, National Society of The Sons of the American Revolution FRANK BARTLETT STEELE, 1227 16th Street, N . W. , l\lich. Organized April 30, 1889. lneorporated by act of Congress, June 9, 1906 Washington 6, District of Columbia. President General, Ben H. Powell, III, 702 Brown Bldg., Austin, Texas Genealogist General Treasurer General W. GuY TETRICK, Clarksburg, \\'. \ 'a. GEORGE S. RoBERTSON , 1508 Fidelity Building, Balti To Herbert Lamson, S. A. R. Registration Chairman, more I , Maryland. 307 Hogan Street, Chaplain General Jacksonville, Florida. Registrar General YEN. WILLIAM F . BuLKLEY, 75 P t., Salt Lake City, Please make the following hotel reservations for the Fifty-ninth National Congress, S. A. R., FRANK B. STEELE . 1227 16th Street, N . \V., \\'ashing t:tah. Jacksonville, Florida, May 14th-15th, through May 18th, 1949: ton 6, D. C. Librarian General _ ............... _.. _Single- ............. - ..... - Double ..................... _.Twin Bed Room Historian General DR.\\'. HARVEY \VISE, 1227 16th St., N. \V ., Washing Date and Time of Arrival................................................ .. ................................................. Date of Departure.... .. - ...................................... _ DAVID W. RIAL , 705 Pitt St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. • ton 6, D . C. NAME (PRINT OR TYPE) SIGNED • EXEt;UTIVE t;OlUlUITTEE. 1948 -1949 • THE following were nominated by the President General and con· STREET ADDRESS firmed by the Board of Trustees at Minneapolis, Minn., May 26, 1948. .... - ........................................................................................................1949 LOUIS ANNIN A~!ES, 85 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. A. HERBERT FOREMAN, Western Union Bldg., Nor· DATE CITY STATE fo1k, Virginia JOHN G. BALLORD, 1038 ~lldland Bank Bldg., I\linneapolis, l\linn. ROBERT H. i\lcNEILL, 801 Bowen Bldg., WashlnJ• PLEASE USE THIS COUPON ALBERT C. BRA D, 301 E. Durham t., Philadel ton, D. C. phia, Penna. CLARENCE E. SHRI NER, 1309 Carew Tower, Cln· WALKER L. CHAMBERLI ' , 17 Hancock St., Lex cinnati, Ohio COL. JAi\IE D. WATSON, Winder, Ga.** I I, ington, 1\lass. Volume XLIII April, 1949 Number 4 BEN H. POWELL, Ill, Pre•ident General Chairman, Ex Officio • Deceased, December 2, 1948. Appointed by President General Powell. I'' Outline of Events for the 59th Congress, S. A. R. George Washington Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida May 15th to 18th, 1949 .. Sunday, May 15 Tuesday, May 17 4.00 P. M.-Church service and Massing of 9.00 A.M.-Business session of the Congress Colors at Church of the Good 2.30 P.M.-Tour of St. Augustine, oldest City Shepherd. Sermon by Chaplain in the U. S. Return by the General Bulkley. Tea to follow beach highway and dinner at the in Church parlors famous Jacksonville Beaches. 8.00 P.M.-Meetings of the Executive Com mittee and National Board of Wednesday, May 18 Trustees 9.00 A.M.-Final session of the Congress un til business is concluded Monday, May 16 7.00 A.M.-The Annual Banquet in the beau 9.00 A. M.-Opening Session, 59th Congress. tiful auditorium, George Wash 2.30P. M.-Tour of Jacksonville; Visit to the ington Hotel. Naval Air Station. Dinner, with U. S. Navy as host. Re The Florida Committee offers to arrange turn by boat down St. Johns tours to citrus and lake sections for Com River past the site of the land patriots who may be in Florida prior to the ing of Jean Rebault, 1562 Congress, if there is demand. Requests for hotel reservations should he made immediately to Herbert Lamson, S. A. R. Reservation Chairman, 307 Hogan St., Jacksonville. Use Coupon on Title Page preceding. .. Florida's subtropical beauty has made the Oriental Gardens at Jacksonville a flowering paradise which will delight our Congress delegates. '· Jacksonville Skyline . 162 • . 163 . 1. ,, The President-General's Message Organization and Membership: COMPATRIOTS: The Basis of Future Growth and Influence Since my message in the last MAGAZINE, I have been very actively engaged in the work of "In Union There Is Strength." These words, We need to devote ourselves to the matter our Society. My activities have included extensive travels, the writing of numerous letters, and the mobilization of effort and power now to bring our members up to where they which they suggest, are appealing to those of delivering several addresses, sending many telegrams, placing quite a number of long distance should be at this time. We count on the good us who would like to see the Sons of the help of each one of you. calls and caring for much administrative work in connection with National Headquarters. It American Revolution experience a great growth So there you have the keynote of real re has proved practically an all-time task, but one I have greatly enjoyed. I am pleased to report in membership in the year 1949. If every one sults: participation. We invite you, one of our present membership of nearly 20,000 and all, every Compatriot who reads these that, generally speaking, all officers and committees are functioning most satisfactorily. I am brought in, as his special and personal project, lines, to participate with us in a great project, confident the final reports for this fiscal year will be most gratifying to the membership generally. one new member during the year, what power a cooperative enterprise in which we may all for good our Society would quickly become happily share. It is something which every We had a very interesting and successful meeting of our Executive Committee in Cincinnati and how much it would enhance our ability one of us can do and thereby have his share on February 18. The Compatriots there arranged a very challenging program and entertained to carry out the objectives undertaken at our in the ongoing work of our Society. For last National Congress! us most royally. The luncheon and banquet in the evening were most enjoyable. Several every man can do his own part and, by that I suppose that every chairman of a National doing, he will help to provide the strength State Presidents were with us as were several other officers. Committee is thrilled as, in his imagination, and sinew of numbers and influence which will he contemplates the results attainable through make our Society great: great, to do the work It was my pleasure to visit the Massachusetts Society on the same trip and to enjoy their a great joint effort across the nation. His it has before it. t sense of mission, the possibilities before him, banquet in Boston. On this same trip I visited several Compatriots in New York City. Con Many of us feel that the Sons of the Ameri the hope of accomplishment, the sobering re tinuing South, I was the recipient of many courtesies in Baltimore and Washington, D. C. In sponsibility, all of these, and more, grip him. can Revolution as a National Society is enter fact, I was the guest of honor of the Maryland Society on February 22, filling an engagement He turns to his committee and with them ing upon a most significant phase in its his tory. The funds to combat subversive text which had been made some months ago by President General Shaler.