OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF 20 OFFICIAL BULLETIN WILLIE EARL WEEKS, New Orleans, La. (31697). Great-grandson of Thomas The National Society Weeks, Captain, Acting Paymaster, Mass. Militia. OF THE CHARLES LEWIS WElT, Port Huron, Mich. (31595) .. Supplementals. Great'. grandson of George Tuttle, Captain, Col. Stephen Evans's New Hampshire Regt.; great'·grandson of Jol"' Gile, First Lieutenant, Col. John \Valdron's Sons of the New Hampshire Regt. CHARLES YATES WILMARTH, Yokohama, Japan (N.Y. 31646). Great3·granct. American Revolution son of Daniel Wilmarth, Corporal, Col. John Daggett's Mass. Regt. CHARLES ADAMS WOOD, Boston, Mass. (31915). Great'-grandson of Abijah Organized April 30, 1889. Incorporated by Ac.t of Cona:ress, june 9, 1906 Wood, private, Col. Samuel Bullard's Mass. Regt. President General 3 RALPH JULIUS WOOD, Chicago, Ill. (31890). Great -grandson of Elisha 'Joker LOUIS ANNIN AMES, gg Fulton St., New York City private, Capt. Hubbard Burrows's Company Eighth Regt. Conn. Militia; grandson of Isaac Griswold, private, Cot. Isaac Wyman's New Hampshire Volume XIII MARCH, 1919 Number 4 JOliN MILL WRIGHT, Grand Rapids, Mich. (31978). Great3-grandson of M >s" Montague, Captain of Minute Men, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Mass. Regt. Published at the office of the Secretary General (William S . Parks, The Farragut). Wash­ PAUL EMERSON WRIGHT, Grand Rapids, Mich. (31979). Great•-grandson of ington, D. C., in June, October, December, and March. Moses ll1o11tagJte, Captain of Minute Men, Col. Ruggles \Voodbridge's Mass. Entered aa aecond-claaa matter. May 7, 1908, at the post-office at Washington. D. C .. Regt. under the Act of July 16, 1694. ROBERT ORVIS YOUNG, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Iowa 31399). Great-grandson of Robert Yormg, private, Col. Walter Stewart's Penna. Regt. COMPATRIOTS: ALLEN KING ZARTMAN, Dayton, Ohio (31570). Great'-grandson of John George Obermeyer, Captain Sixth Northumberland County Battalion Penna. You will observe that our Society was organized just thirty years Militia. ago. Let us review briefly the objects of the Society: To perpetuate CARL G. ZIEGLER, Ishpeming, Mich. (31984). Great'-grandson of Nathaniel the memory of the men who by their sacrifices and services during Hamlin, First Lieutenant, Col. Fisher Gray's Battalion, Gen. James Wads­ the War of the American Revolution achieved the independence of worth's Conn. Brigade. the American people; to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants; to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles of government founded by our forefathers; to encourage historical research in relation to the Ameri­ can Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the war, as well as documents, relics and landmarks; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate memorials; to cel­ ebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; to carry on the purposes expressed in the preamble to the Constitution of our country, and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address; to teach the alien his duty and his privileges as a citizen; to inculcate patrii'tism, love of country, respect and veneration for its flag, national uprightness and personal responsibility for the general welfare. The Society has won and been accorded recognition as a national institution, not as an historic or genealogical association, but as a great patriotic organization. It aims to keep step with the music of the Union-alert, progressive and untiring in the service and for the welfare of the whole country. Lours ANNIN AMES, President General. N .\ TIOX AL SOCIISTY, S. ,\, R. 3 ~. 'otuartl ~lark . •emtarp ~tmral, 1892·3: 1904·16. OFFICIAL NOTICES. / Registrar 6>entral, 1693·1918. The Thirtieth Annual Congress will be held in Detroit, Michigan, The past year brought many sorrows to the Sons of the on May 19 and 20, 1919. Ieadquarters will be at the Hotel Statler. American Revolution, but none that affected the entire mem­ The Committee on Arrangements announces the preliminary program bership as deeply as the death of Compatriot A. Howard as follows: Clark, a victim of Spanish influenza, at Washington, D. C., On Sunday evening, May r8th, the delegates will attend services Decemb~r 31, 1918. at the First Presbyterian Church on Woodward Avenue, at Edmund Compatriot Clark was a true American-a student of Place, conducted by Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. D., Chaplain Michigan American life and institutions, an instructor by example and Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Monday morning, May precept of the duties and obligations of American citizenship; 19th, at the Hotel Statler convention hall, the Congress will assemble his daily life was devoted to the upbuil<;ling of a better Amer. and be welcomed by Hon. Albert E. Sleeper, Governor of Michigan, icanism. Hon. James Couzens, Mayor of Detroit, Brigadier General Charles A. Howard Clark was born at Boston, April 13, 1850, and A. Coolidge, U. S. A., President Michigan Society, and Dr. Stephan H. became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution Knight, President of Detroit Chapter. In the 'evening a reception will upon the organization of the District of Columbia Society, be tendered the delegates by Senator and Mrs. Truman H. Tewberry April 19, 1890. He served in various capacities in the District at their home at Grosse Pointe Farms. On Tuesday, May 20th, the Society and was elected Secretary General of the National sesssion of the Congress will be resumed in the Hotel Statler, and in ociety in 1892. At the next Congress he was elected Regis­ the afternoon the delegates will be taken for an automobile drive trar General, serving as such over a quarter of a century. In about Belle Isle and the city. Stops wilJ be made for inspection at the 1904 he was elected Secretary General and performed the joint plant of the Ford Motor Company, and the Eagle Ship Plant and Trac­ duties until his death. tor Plant at River Rouge. In the enning the banquet will be held at Among other activities, Compatriot Clark was especially the Hotel Statler. An invitation has been extended to General Leonard interested in the work of the Smithsonian Institution, serv­ Wood, U. S. A., to be one of the speakers. ing from 1881 to the time of his death as Curator of the The Congress will be the guests of Detroit Chapter. Division of History and editor of their publications, the latter requiring a very broad knowledge of the varied branches of MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, Science, and Secretary or Curator of the American Historical JA UARY 31, 1919. Association from r889. He had represented his country as Commissioner to the Exposition at Paris in r88g, and as A meeting of the Executive Committee duly called by the President attache to the Exposition at London in 1883, being honored General was held at the rooms of the cw J ersey Society in Newark. by the Government in both countries and received the Dec­ New Jersey, at 3 o'clock p.m. on January 31, 1919. oration of Officier du Merite Agricole from the President of The following members of the Committee were present: The Pres­ the French Republic. ident General, Mr. Ames, of New York; Mr. Wentworth, of Iowa;, Compatriot Clark was a member, by right of descent, in Mr. Curtis, of Connecticut; 1fr. Merrill, of New Jersey, and Judge many patriotic societies, but his energy and affection was Rcifsnider, of Maryland. The President of the New J ersey Society, given to the one that he ever deemed to possess 'the oppor­ Mr. Carl M. \ "ail, and Vice-Pre ident General, T. W. Williams, of New tunity to promote the greatest good to his country, the Jersey, a! o were in attendance. Mr. William S. Parks, of the District National Society of the Sons of the American Re\·olution. of Columbia Society, acted a ecretary. Compatriot Clark married Mis Alice Morrow, who, with The minute of the meeting of the Executive Committee on De­ two sons, survive him. Their grief is shared by every mem­ cember 12-13, 1918, and published in the Official Bulletin for December ber of the Society, who tender them their sincere sympathy in were approved as printed. ' this hour of mutual bereavement. NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN 5 The President General announced formally the death of Secretary ARMENIA. General and Registrar General A. Howard Clark. on December 31 Resolutious Adopted by the Exemtive Committee of the Natiotial 1918, at his home in Washington after a brief illness. Past Presiden~ Society of the So11s of the Ame1·ican Revolution, at Newark, New General Wentworth and Judge Reifsnider of the Executive Committee Jersey, Janttary JI, 1919. presented a memorial on the death of Compatriot Clark, which after brief eulogies of his life and work, were adopted, ordered to be WHEREAS we, the Sons of the American Revolution, lineal descend­ printed and a copy sent to the family of our late Secretary General. ants of men who by their service and sacrifice during the war of the The memorial is published in another part of the Bulletin.) American Revolution helped to achieve the independence of the Amer­ The President General reported the appointment ad interim of ican people, are pledged to maintain and extend the institutions of William S. Parks, President of the District of Columbia Society, as American freedom, the very foundations of which were threatened Secreta:y General. His action was approved by the Committee, and and imperiled during the world war; and on motion duly adopted President Vail of the ew Jersey Society was WHEREAS, regardless of centuries of frightful persecution, incessant directed to cast the unanimous vote of the Committee for Compatriot attack, unspeakable atrocity, and horrible massacre, Armenia during William S.