^^M THE ILLINOIS SOCIETY Sons of the Jfinerican Revolution APPENDIX ...to the... Eighteen Hundred Ninety-Six Year Book. CHICAGO May. Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven. )Ia7\V*^^ .^ Officers and Committees For the year ending December 3, 1897. SAMUEL EBERLY GROSS . President GEORGE VIEIvE LAUMAN . First Vice-President HORATIO LOOMIS WAIT Second Vice-President JOHN DEMMON VANDERCOOK Secretary FLETCHER BARKER GIBBS Treasurer FREDERICK CLIFTON PIERCE Historian . ALBERT JUDSON FISHER . Poet WILLIS JOHNSON RIPLEY . Registrar Rev. THADDEUS A. SNIVELY Chaplain JOHN CONANT LONG . Sergeant-al-Arnts Board of Managers ROBERT W. McCLAUGHREY H. LOOMIS ^_ Maj. JOHN o- CHARLES H. REQUA FRANK P. BLAIR CHARLES D. DANA MARTIN M. GRIDLEY Delegate at Large ISAAC S. BLACKWELDER Delegates DANIEL GOODWIN FRANK B. TOBEY RT. Rev. CHARLES E. CHENEY ROCKWOOD W. HOSMER Hon. frank BAKER Membership Committee Isaac S. Blackwelder, John S. Sargent Seymour Morris J\ Chairman r\ Entertainment Committee i^ Francis T. Simmons, Col. George V. Laumau Major Edgar B. Tolman -v^ Chairman James H. Gilbert Albert E. Snow Asahel F. Bennett Press Committee Albert Judson Fisher, Major Moses P. Handy Edfward Scott Beck Chairman Committee on Necrology Rockwood W. Hosmer, Andre Matteson Albert Judson Fisher Chairman Auditing Committee John H. Loomis, Chairman Charles H. Requa Frederick L. Merrick I I 1 436b Committee on Local Chapters Martin M. Gridley, Chairman Col. Joseph H. Wood Paul W. Linebarger, Secretary J. W. Slosson Cyrus K. Wilber William Butterworth, Moliue James H. Hackett, Jacksonville Daniel Goodwin Walter H. Bradish, Springfield Fletcher B. Gibbs W. B, Jerome Col. J. M. Rice, Peoria Committee on Headquarters and Library Charles Durkee Dana, Chairman Wilbur F. Hagans Edward M. Teall John H. Trumbull John Turner Long George S. Marsh George Butters Edson W. Lyman Ways and Means Committee Frank P. Blair, Chairman John Alden Spoor John S. Sargent Edwin F. Abbott Madison B. Kennedy Warren L. Beckwith Henry B. Ferris William W. Vernon Hon. Frank Baker Courtlandt Babcock Hon. Lambert Tree Paul W. Linebarger George W. Cass Edwin F. Gillette Marvin A. Farr Nicholas G. Iglehart Committee on Advancement and Recruiting Porter B. Fitzgerald, Chairman Henry R. Pebbles Henry C. Fuller, Secretary Frederick L. Jewett John C. Long Harry Hammond Frank B. Tobey George R. Plumb Robert P. Walker Henry S. Vail Judge C. W. Raymond, Watseka Joseph H. Clark Dr. Homer Wakefield, Bloomington Charles P. Whitney Amos J. Harding Anson T. Hemingway Thomas M. Sechler, Molina Frederick W. Upham Charles H. Requa Valentine H. Surghnor Dr. Charles R. Parke Springfield Charles P. Spiuing Thomas S. McClelland Roger S. Pitkin Herman H. Rose Nelson A. McClary Oliver P. Dickinson John Turner Long George W. Scott, Wyoming John D. Vandercook Officers of the National Society, S. A. R. ELECTED AT CLEVELAND, OHIO, APRIL 30, 1897. President General, Edwin Shepard Barrett, of Massachusetts. Vice Presidents General, Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross, of Illinois, Hon. John Whitehead, of New Jersey, James M. Richardson, of Ohio, Col. Thomas M. Anderson, of Washington, Gen. Joseph C. Breckenridge, of the District of Columbia. Secretary General, Hon. E. J. Hill, of Connecticut. Treasurer General, C. W. Haskins, of New York. Historian Gerieral, Henry Hall, of New York. Registrar General, A. Howard Clark, of District of Columbia. Chaplaiji Getieral, Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, D. D., of Illinois. Executive Cotnmittee of the National Board of Managers, Edwin Shepard Barrett, of Massachusetts, Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross, of Illinois, Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey, Henry Hall, of New York, Hon. E. J. Hill, of Connecticut, Nathan Warren, of Massachusetts, C. W. Haskins, of New York. Committee on Conference, (appointed to meet a like Committee from the Sons of the Revolution for the purpose of arrattfr- ing terms of amalgamation betiueen the two Societies, and to report to a joint meeting to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in October, 18^7,) James M. Richardson, of Ohio, Hon, E. J. Hill, of Connecticut, Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross, of Illinois, George H. Shields, of Missouri, Nathan Warren, of Massachusetts. LOCAL CHAPTERS OF THE Illinois SocietySonsof the American Revolution Under its Jurisdiction. Springfield Chapter, of Springfield, 111. ORGANIZED FEB. I, 1S97. President, Gen. JOSEPH WAMPLER VANCE, Springfield Vice-Preside nl. WALTER HORACE BRADISH, Springfield Secretary, ANDREW MEARS BROOKS. Springfield Treasurer, JUDGE CHARLES PHILO KANE, Springfield The George Rogers Clark Chapter, of Bloomington, 111. ORGANIZED MARCH 13, 1S97. President, DR. CHARLES R. PARKE, Bloomington Vice-President, COL. JOHN REED, Bloomington Secretary, J. M. SHACKFORD, Bloomington Treasurer, GEORGE W. STUBBLEFIELD, Bloomington Historian, DR. HOMER WAKEFIELD, Bloomington Evanston Chapter, of Evanstou, 111. ORGANIZED APRIL 26, 1897. President, NELSON C. GRIDLEY, Evanston Vice-President, GEORGE M. SARGENT, Evanston Secretary, CHARLES P. SPINING, Evanston Treasurer, JOSEPH F. WARD, Evanston Other Local Chapters are being organized throughout the State. Amendments to By-Laws since the of tKe Year Book. Adopted publication 1896 SECTION SKCOND. ANNUAL, MEETING. The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held on the third day of December (the anniversary^ of the date of admission of the State of Illinois into the Union), except when such date falls on Sunday, in which event the meeting shall be held on the following day. The place of meeting shall be within the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and shall be designated by the Board of Managers. The annual election of officers shall be held on the same day as the annual meeting. Nominations shall be made in manner as provided by Section III of these By-Laws, The Board of Managers shall cause the names of all legally nominated candidates to be printed on one ticket under one head, alphabetically arranged, indicating thereon the office for which the candidates are severally nominated, which ticket so printed, to- gether with a printed copy of this and Section III of the By-Laws, shall be mailed to each member at least one week before the elec- tion. No other form of ticket than the one herein provided shall be voted or counted by the judges of election. Each member voting shall place a cross beside the name of each candidate for whom he votes for each of the various offices to be filled, and only the names so indicated shall be counted by the judges of election. The Board of Managers, at a meeting held at least thirty days prior to the election, shall appoint three or more members (who shall not be members of the Board of Managers) to be judges of the annual election. Such judges shall receive and count the bal- lots cast at such election, and certify the result to the Secretary, who shall report the same to the annual meeting. The polls shall be open from 7:30 to 9:00 o'clock on the evening of the annual meeting. A plurality of votes shall elect, and in case of a tie between two or more candidates for any one office, the judges of election shall decide the same by lot. No member in arrears to the Society shall be entitled to vote. Adopted by the Society, May zSth, 1897. SECTION THIRD. NOMINATIONS. At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held at least thirty days prior to the Annual Meeting, a Nominating Committee of five shall be appointed to nominate candidates for the several offices to be filled. Said Nominating Committee .shall make their report to the Secretary at least twenty days before the Annual Meeting. The Secretary shall then mail such list of nominees to each member of the Society at least two weeks before the Annual Meeting. Such nominations by the Committee shall not preclude other nominations being made, but each of the tickets proposed shall be recommended by at least five members of the Society in writing, and such other nominations shall be reported to the Secretary at least ten days before the Annual Meeting, and, in case there are such other nom- inations, the Secretary shall mail a list, giving the names of all nominees to each member of the Society at least one week before such Annual Meeting, and shall certify thereon that the nominees are recommended by at least five members of the Society, as pro- vided herein, and only members so nominated in accordance with this section shall be voted for at the annual election of officers. Adopted by the Society, January 23nd, iSgj. .ADDRESS. Delivered in Christ Church, Chicago before tbc Sons • of the American » Revolution .an^... Sons of the Revolution an^ other jpatrtotic Societies, in Commemoration of THE BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Sunday Afternoon. February 21, 1897 CHARLES EDWARD CHENEY. D. D. Chaplain Oeneral of the "Rational Society Sons of tbe Kmerican IRevolution. •.Hbbress^^. An anniversary is, in its purpose and intent, a monument. Men carve upon a day, as upon material bronze or marble, some great name or some historic event. But the same law which bids Time to crumble granite into dust, and wear away the inscription on memorial brass, holds sway even where an annually recurring day is deeply graven with some record which we try to make imperish- able. Some of the Emperors of Rome decreed that their birthdays should be celebrated while the world should stand. Yet in this closing decade of the nineteenth century, does any living man know or care on what day of the year a Nero, a Caligula, or a Vespasian, first saw the light of this world ? A few years ago, and this unchangeable law of history seemed to have half obliterated from the twenty-second of February the memory of Washington. True, in our almanacs the day was marked as that which gave to the world the Father of his Country. Here and there an individual might casually recall to mind the event connected with the day.