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SouERS, 1200 Harter Bank Bldg., Canton, Ohio. of Trustees of the National Society. The following Trustees for Vice-Presidents General the several States were elected May 22, 1940, at the Congress held at Washington, D. C., to serve until their successors are elected at HENRY D. C. DuBois, 92 Wentworth Ave., Edgewood, ALONZO H. WILKINSON, 110 E. Wisconsin Ave .. R. I. }.filwaukee, Wisconsin. the Congress to be held in 1941. New England District (Maine, New Hampshire, Great Lakes District (Michigan, Illinois, and Wis­ Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con­ consin). necticut). NEBRASKA LEAVITT R. BARKER, 1300 1st Nat'! Soo Line Bldg., ALABAJ'!~ER A. BRANNON, Montgomery. JoEL A. PIPER, 1731 D St., Lincoln. GEORGE WINTERS, 142 Diamond Bridge Avenue, Haw­ Minneapolis, Minnesota. thorne, New Jersey. ARIZONA NEW HA~IPSHIRE HoWARD S. REED, Phoenix. North Atlantic District (New York and New Jersey). North Mississippi District (Minnesota, North and WILLOUGHBY A. COLBY, Concord. South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska). ARKANJ:sFRANcts VINSONHALER, Little Rock. NEW JERSEY RoBERT C. TRACY, 1338 Hemlock Street, N. W., Wash­ H. PRESCOTT BEACH, 376 Upper Mountain Ave., ington, D. C. ALLEN H. OLIVER, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Upper Montclair. L. PUTNAM, 456 Hillsborough Blvd., San Mid Atlantic District (Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Mississippi District (Missouri, Kansas, Ar­ CALIF~~~~L~ NEW MEXICO Maryland, and District of Columbia). kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas). Mateo, Calif. LLoYD B. JoHNSON, Albuquerque. COLOR£.~~H W. McCRILLIS, 824 Equitable Bldg., NEW YORK BuRTON BARRS, 2258 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FREDERICK H. WARD, Kimo Bldg., Albuquerque, New Denver. FRANCKLYN HoGEBOOM, 1240 Pacific St., Brooklyn, Florida. Mexico. New York. South Atlantic District (Virginia, North and South CONN~~~~;RUTH. SPAULDING, 15 Hillside Road, New NORTH CAROLINA Carolina, Georgia, Florida). Rocky Mountains District (Arizona, New Mexico, WILLIS G. BRIGGS, Raleigh. Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana). London. NORTH DAKOTA A. LEE READ, 1601 Carter Street, Chattanooga, Tenn. DELAWARE FRANK S. GANNETT, 724 Bedell Bldg., Portland, ALEXANDER H. LORD, Seaford. ELMOUR D. LUM, Wahpeton. Southern District (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oregon. OHIO Tennessee). Pacific Coast District (California, Nevada, Wash­ DISTRb~~E~!o~~\Y~~~~ELL, 3545 16th Street N. W., VICTOR L. TYREE, 2324 Park Ave., Cincinnati. Washington. RoBERT P. BoGGts, 3171 Coleridge Road, Cleveland, ington, Oregon, and the territories of Alaska and OKLAHOMA Ohio. Hawaii). FLORIDA HAROLD B. DowNING, 200 Local Bldg., Oklahoma BLAINE WEBB, W. Palm Beach. City. Central District (West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio :I!ARQUIS DE RocHAMBEAU, 56 Avenue \'ictor Hugo, FRANCE and Indiana). Paris XVI, France. OREGON MARQUIS DE CHAMBRUN, 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris. VIcToR FINCH, Seaside. Foreign District (Society in France and other foreign GEORGIA territory). DAVID J. D. MYERS, Athens. PENNSYLVANIA Secretary General HAWAII CHARLES B. SHALER, 710 East End Ave., Pittsburgh. MERLE JoHNSON, Honolulu. RHODE ISLAND FRANK BARTLETT STEELE, 1227 16th Street, N. W., Chancellor General Washington, District of Columbia. IDAHO MARLON M. GowDY, 19 Dewey St., Providence. ALBERT H. CoNNER, Southern Bldg., Washington, SMITH L. l\1uLTER, 245 Turrell Avenue, So. Orange, SOUTH CAROLINA D. C. WALTER J. BRisTow, Columbia. New Jersey. ILLINOIS Treasurer General CHARLES B. ELDER, 11 S. La Salle St., Chicago. SOUTH DAKOTA INDIANA SAMUEL HERRICK, Washington, D. C. GEORGE S. RoBERTSON, 1508 Fidelity Building, Balti­ Genealogist General JoHN B. CAMPBELL, 903 S. Main St., South Bend. more, Maryland. TENNESSEE C. WESLEY PATTEN, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. IOWA RoBERT S. HENRY, Transportation Bldg., Washing­ DR. J. A. GOODRICH, 4018 Kingman Blvd., Des ton, D. C. Moines. Registrar General Chaplain General KANSAS TEXAS WILLIAM A. BrBY, Nat'! Reserve Bldg., Topeka. ROBERT W. HuMPHREYS, Galveston. FRANK B. STEELE, 1227 16th Street, N. W., Washing­ REv. CHARLES W. MAus, D.D., Irwin, Pa. ton, D. C. KENTUCKY UTAH RANSOM H. BASSETT, Starks Bldg., Louisville. GEORGE ALBERT SMITH, 47 East S. Temple Street, Librarian General LOUISIANA Salt Lake City. Historian General ARCHIE M. SMITH, Hibernia Bldg., New Orleans. VERMONT Lours C. SMITH, 1227 16th Street, N. W. Washing­ MAINE LEON W. DEAN, Burlington. WILLIAM H. T. SQUIRES, Norfolk, Virginia. ton, D. C. Rov A. EvANS, Kennebunk. MARYLAND VIRGINIA LEwis A. RICE, Frederick. WALTER B. LIVEZEY, Newport News. MASSACHUSETTS WASHINGTON EXE{;UTIVE t:;Ol'U~IITrEE, 1940-41 HAROLD C. DuRRELL, Kennebunkport, Me. CLARENCE L. GERE, Lowman Bldg., Seattle. IIIICHIGAN WEST VIRGINIA LLOYD D. SMITH, 7 31 Grand Marais, Grosse Pte. FRANKLIN L. BuRDETTE, 632 9th Ave., Huntington. THE following were nominated by the President General and confirmed e IIIINNESOTA Park. WISCONSIN by the Board of Trustees at Washington, D. C., May 22, 1940. HERBERT T. PARK, 738 McKnight Bldg., Minne­ ALEMBERT L. PoND, 940 W. St. Paul Ave., Mil­ illiSSISSIPPI apolis. waukee. JA~IES M. BRECKENRIDGE, St. Louis, Mo. ARTHUR M. 1\lcCRILLIS, Providence, R. I. ,., CHARLES L. WooD, Columbus WYOMING ARTHUR A. DE LA HOUSSAYE, New Orleans, La. STERLING F. MUTZ, Lincoln, Nebr. ·••ISSOURI WILLIAM 0. WILSON, Cheyenne. WALLACE HALL, Detroit, Mich. WILLIAM l\1. PETTIT, Dayton, Ohio. G. RIDGELY SAPPINGTON, Baltimore, Md. llloNTf~~EN L. OLIVER, Cape Girardeau. MESSMORE KENDALL, New York, N. Y. (The names of General Officers will be found on CLINTON M. Roos, Helena. LOREN E. SOUERS, President General the second cover page.) Chairman Ex Officio The Sons of the American Revolution Magazine Quarterly Bulletin of the National Society of the .....,. Son111 of the ADierican Revolution .... I! ~ Puhlfshed at Washington, D. C., in July, October, January and April. <:> .. <:l ... Entered as second.. cJass matter March 31, 1924, at the post.. office at Washington, D. C., under the act of .!: "'~ August 24, 1912. ..::.., ..~ ~ '- ~ National Headquarters, 1227 16th Street, N. W., Washincton, D. C. ~ ..;t .... Telephone, District 8490 .!:"" ~ ~ 11 ~ \.)" .., ~ National Society of The Sons of the American Revolution .," Organized April 30, 1889. Incorporated by act of Congress, June 9, 1906 ~ ...: .." CJj President General, Loren E. Souers, 1200 Harter Bank Bldg., Canton, Ohio ...: ~ <I "!1 I! .... .;: <l I!" Qualifications for Membership (Extract from the Constitution) ~ "..~ Q ANY MAN shall be eligible to membership in the Society who, being of the age of eighteen -.: years or over and a citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in loyalty to, and rendered active service in, the cause of American Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militia­ man or minute man, in the armed forces of the Continental Congress or of any one of the several Colonies or States, or as a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, or as a member of a Committee· of Safety or Correspondence,