Society ofHmerican wars. foun bc b Sa n i ta ry u tb , 1 89 7 . l N C O I P O R l T I D F E O H U A R Y 1 0 . 4 Mo tto ' Vi c e r u n t vt Vi va m u s . c o lo r s' S a n gui n e a n b S luc . - - b c a bqua t tc r s, Co m m a n bc r y tn c btc t . M i n n a o l i s 9 1 899 . e p , September , 9 CIR CU LA R NO . INSTITUTION OF TH E COM M AN D ER Y OF TH E S TATE OF CA LIFOR N IA ’ ON CA LIFOR N IA S A D M ISS ION DA Y . ' fi I . Companions United States of cers of the Civil or Spanish War , and lineal male descendants of American o fii c e r s of the Colonial 1 7 1 783 f or Revolutionary Wars , from 60 to , and o United States o fi r s 1 8 1 2 . i c e of the War of , Mexican , Civil or Spanish War - fi e . II . The admission fee shall be twenty v dollars The Diploma and bronze Insignia of the Society will be furnished to each Com fi panion as soon as completed . The cost will probably be fteen - dollars 'included in the admission fee of twenty fi ve dollars . ' III . The annual dues of Compan ions residing in Minnesota , Ohio and Cali fornia shall be fi ve dollars and of non - resident companions two dollars . - IV . The dues received from non resident Compan ions and all admis - i - sion fees shall be paid to the Commandery n Chief . V . Companionship gran ted upo n nomination by a State Command ery . VI . Commanderies limited to one in each State of not more than 1 00 Companions are now being organized in DISTRICT OF COLU M BIA , N W Y OR K P Y V A A M A A H V R A E , ENNS L NI , SS C USETTS , ILLINOIS , I GINI , N W R Y M R I W E JE SE , A Y LAND , CO NNECTICUT , T ENNESSEE A N D O A . COMM A N D R Y ~ IN ~ I OFFICERS OF THE E CH EF . - 1 899 1 900. - Commander General , Edward Junius Edwards . Vice - Commander - Ge n e r a l s z - Major General Joseph Cabell Breckinridge , U . S . V . Admiral George Dewey , U . S . N . - M c A l l i s t r S h fi Lieutenant General John e c o e ld , U . - Major General Francis Vinton Greene , U . S . V . - A H i c k n l r Brigadier General ndrew e o o pe , U . S . A . Dr . David Starr Jordan . V D li Willard Clark a n e r p . - Recorder General , Dr . Kendric Charles Babcock . - Assistant Recorder General , Robert Ernest Esterly . - Treasurer General , Charles Buckminster Eustis . - Genealogist General , Herbert Putnam . - Historian General , Dr . Charles Custis Harrison . - Registrar General , Dr . Alfred Gaither . - M h r c P s n . Chancellor General , Dr . John Bayard e o - Chaplain General , Bishop John Haz en White . - Surgeon General , Dr . Ira Remsen . Council - i n - Chief Vice President Garret Augustus Hobart . - Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson , U . Colonel George Bliss Sanford , U . S . A . Dr . Charles William Dabney . Dr . Charles Lincoln Edwards . Rev . Dr . Charles Stanley Lester . Rev . D r . Charles Luke Wells . F rancis Joseph Ross Mitchell . John Cropper . M A N D E Y o r COM PA NIONS OF TH E COM E , STATE S U D U Y MIN NESOTA , IN TIT TE JAN A R 1 1 1 R D G IN , 897, ESI IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA . Melville Weston Fuller , LL . D . , Chief Justice , U . S . Supreme Court . - G . Nelson Appleton Miles , Major eneral , U S A - N . Thomas Stowell Phelps , Rear Admiral , U . S . , Ret - N . Francis Asbury Roe , Rear Admiral , U . S . , Ret - N . John Grimes Walker , Rear Admiral , U . S . , Ret - . N . Francis Munroe Ramsay , Rear Admiral , U . S , Ret . ' - G r n u r . Horatio o ve e Wright , Brigadier General , U S A died , July 1 899 . - . A . David Sloan Stanley , Brigadier General , U . S , Ret Rufus William Peckham , Associate Justice , U . S . Supreme Court . - N Charles Stuart Norton , Rear Admiral , U . S . , Ret . - N D . Edwin Stewart , LL . , Rear Admiral , U S . , Ret ’ N i l - O e . Charles , Rear Admiral , U S N . - Joseph Cabell Breckinridge , Brigadier General , U . S . A . - D D . A . Leonard Wood , M . , LL . , Captain , U S . , Major General , U S V . , Military Governor , Santiago de Cuba . - . A . Asa Bacon Carey , Brigadier General U . S , Ret . Joseph Cuyler Hardie . Milo Colburn Summers . D . 1 1 1897. Gardiner Greene Hubbard , LL . , died December , l . Thomas Ward , Co onel , U . S . A John Brewer Wight John Van Rensselaer , M . D . Thomas Hyde . D . Edward Singleton Holden , Sc , LL D Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley Breckinridge , Lieutenant , U . S . A . Dallas Bache , M . D . , Colonel , U . S . A . Edward Burr, Captain , U . S . A . Herbert Putnam , U . S . Librarian . Charles Brewster Wheeler , Captain , U . S . A . Richard Wainwright , Commander , U . S . N . Robert Leamy Meade , Colonel , U . S . M . C . John Elliot Pillsbury , Commander , U . S . N . - John Charles Fremont , Lieutenant Commander , U . S . N . James Barstow Burbank , Major , U . S . A . - Charles Johnston Badger , Lieutenant Commander , U . S . N . A . George Lippitt Andrews , Colonel , U . S . , Ret John William French , Colonel , U . S . A . Joseph Lee Jayne , Lieutenant , U . S . N . - Otto Louis Hein , Lieutenant Colonel , U . S . A . s Stephen Cro by Mills , Major , U . S . A . George Gordon Greenough , Major , U . S . A . Henry Randall Webb . Henry Heth . A . William Fletcher , Captain , U . S . , Ret Di s trict o f Columbia Francis Preston Fremont , Captain , U . S . A . \Vi l l i a m Co fii n Harrison , Captain , U . S . A . ' ff A Thomas Mayhew Woodru , Captain , U . S . , died , July 1 1 , 1 899 . M i hl r - c e . A Francis , Captain , U S . , Lieutenant Colonel , U . S . V . Hilary Abner Herbert George Washington Ball . ‘ M a c o m b M Il l r - A e . lexander , Lieutenant Colonel , U S . A . J . A . t ohn Sylvanus Loud , Major , U S , Re . James Bowen Baylor . z Eugene Henry Coz ens Leutze , Commander , U . S . N . n B e r n a do u Joh Baptiste , Lieutenant , U . S . N . M c F a r l a n d Walter Martin , Lieutenant , U . S . N . B r di e Alexander y Dyer , Captain , U . S . A . ' G . eorge Henry Sands , Captain , U . S . A COLORADO . M a r m du ke Wh i t s i d e Samuel , Colonel , U , S . A . A . Lyman Walter Vere Kennon , Captain , U S . , Colonel , U . S . V . M c Ca b e D Charles Cardwell , the Reverend , D . , Bishop o f Fort Worth , Ch aplain , U . S . V . i P h . Franc s Huntington Snow , D LL . D P h . Joseph Thomas Kingsbury , D CONNECTICUT . - Fi t a l a n . N . R t . Oscar z Stanton , Rear Admiral , U S , e - . N . Francis Marvin Bunce , Rear Admiral , U S . , Ret R . ichard Anson Wheeler Frederick John Kingsbury , LL . D . M . Charles Dudley Warner , A . , LL D . D . Edmund Clarence Stedman , LL . , L . H . D . Samuel Langhorne Clemens . William Graham Sumner , LL . D . - V D . Joseph Roswell Hawley , LL . , Brigadier General , U S , U . S . Senator . D . Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury , LL . , L H D Lieutenant , U S V William Henry Everett , Commander , U . S . N . B . Clarence Edward Dutton , A . , Maj or , U S A Caspar Frederick Goodrich , Captain , U . S . N . A George Bliss Sanford , Colonel , U . S . , Ret . Harry Shepard Knapp , Lieutenant , U . S . N . D . Henry Larcom Abbot , LL . , Colonel , U S A Ret Francis Burke Allen , late Lieutenant , U . S . N . Jr . Roger Welles , , Lieutenant , U S N Joseph Hopkins Twichell , the Reverend . William Allen Mercer , Captain , U . S . A . ILLINOIS . - l . A . R e t. John M c A l li s t e r S c h o fi e d, Lieutenant General , U S , Lyman Judson Gage , Secretary of Treasury . B . Samuel Eberly Gross , LL . , Captain , U S V . D . Charles Edward Cheney , the Right Reverend , D . , LL . D Bishop Otis Jones . James Fulton Peavey . D . D . Samuel Fallows , the Right Revere nd , D . , LL , Bishop , Colonel , U . S. V . - . o . t s . Ferdinand Wythe Peck , U S C mm General to he Paris Expo ition Frank Arthur Vanderlip , Assistant Secretary of Treasury . P h. D . Andrew Sloan Draper , LL . D . John Merle Coulter , , LL D . P h D . Thomas Crowder Chamberlin , . , LL D Francis Joseph Ross Mitchell , LL . B . Roswell Martin Field . Frank Crane , the Reverend , D . D . Robert Dickinson Sheppard , the Reverend , D . D . fi P h . Cassius Clay Buntain . James Taft Hat eld , D . Thomas Francis Barr , Colonel , U . S . A . Oliver Harvey Horton , LL . D Alexander Hamilton Revell . Stanhope English Blunt , Major , U . S . A . P h Joseph Oscar Calhoun . Frederick Starr , . D . w . Ed in Emerson Barnard , A M Sc D i . Benj amin Warner Wells , J r . , L eutenant , U S N r Charles Bishop Campbell , LL . B . Thomas Philip Fra nklin C andon . INDIANA . Benjamin Harrison , LL D . , late President of the United States . - l Lewis Wallace , late Maj or Genera , U . S . A . - N .