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1748-1810
Private in Captain Ralph Hilleary's Company of the Thirty-third Battalion, Frederick County, Maryland, Militia, commanded by Colonel Charles Beatty, stationed at Bash's Ridge, East New Jersey, March 3, 1777.
MERVIN JEREMIAH MONNETTE
ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE
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NICHOLS, ICHABOD
1749-1839
Private in the Company of Captain Benjamin J. Ward, enlisted at Salem, Massachusetts, December, 1776, for a Regiment in the Brigade of Brigadier Michael Farley, raised to re-enforce the Conti- nental Army. On December 17, the Company marched, reaching Boston December 19. From Boston the Company marched to Providence, whence it went to Danbury, Connecticut, arriving there in January, 1777. From Danbury the Company was ordered to New Jersey, and at Morristown, it was under the personal command of Washington.
WILLARD ATHERTON NICHOLS
OAKES, NATHANIEL
1751-1840
Private of Captain Benjamin Hastings' Company in Colonel John Whitcomb's Massachusetts Regiment in the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. Served 18 days.
ORA OAK
OGLE, JOSEPH 1741-1827
Commissioned, June 2, 1777, by Governor Patrick Henry, Captain of the Ohio County, Virginia, Militia. Commanded at the Battle of Fort Henry, Wheeling, Virginia, in 1777.
FRANK ALBERT GARETSON
PARSONS, SAMUEL
1758-1821
Enlisted, 1776, in a Troop of Essex County, New Jersey, Light Horse, commanded by Captain Christopher Marsh, in which Troop he was promoted Sergeant. He participated in the engagements of Short Hills, June 26, 1777, Monmouth, Connecticut Farms and Springfield, June, 1780, and in many other skirmishes.
EDGAR RYDER MILLS
PHILLIPS, JOHN
1759-1839
In July, 1775, he enlisted and served for one month in Captain Fort's Company of Colonel Powell's South Carolina Regiment, and in August, 1775, he enlisted and served for one month in Captain Gillespie's Company of the same Regiment. On October 10, 1778, he enlisted and served six months as private in Captain Joseph Wood's Company of Colonel Philip Alston's North Carolina Regi- ment. He participated in the Battle of Brier Creek, Georgia, March 3, 1779. On August 29, 1837, he was granted a pension by the United States Government, but he lived to enjoy it only until November 20, 1839. He is represented in this Society by his youngest child, born October 2, 1831, in Johnston County, North Carolina, a vigorous member of the Judiciary of California, and literally a living Son of the Revolution.
LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS
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RAYNO, ELIAS 1715-1787
Private in Captain Joshua Abbott's Company from Salisbury, of Colonel Starke's New Hampshire Regiment. Wounded at Bunker Hill.
ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE
REDFIELD, LEVI
1745-1838
Enlisted May 6, 1775, as Drummer of Captain Samuel Gale's Company in Colonel Samuel Holden Parson's Sixth Connecticut Regiment. Served at siege of Boston and was discharged December 19, 1775. Private in Captain Aaron Stevens' Company from Killingworth, of Colonel Samuel Mott's Connecticut Battalion, re- cruited June-July, 1776, to reinforce the Continental Army of the Northern Department. Served under General Gates and returned in November, 1776. Enlisted April 20, 1781, as Drum Major in Captain Nathaniel Edwards' Company of General David Water- bury's Connecticut Brigade. In July, 1781, joined General Wash- ington, then encamped in Philipsburg.
JOHN DANIEL MERSEREAU
REICHELSDORFER, JOHN 1741-1810
Private, 1777-1778, in Captain Ritter's Company of the Third Battalion of the Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia. MERVIN JEREMIAH MONNETTE ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE
RODERFIELD, JOHN WILLIAM HENRY 1760-1793
He enlisted in 1778, for the War, and he served five years as a Gunner in the Third Artillery Regiment, and on June 9, 1783, General George Washington, over his own signature, gave him an honorable discharge. The original discharge document hangs in the Hall of this Society.
ROBERT WILLIS MARTIN, JR.
SCHISSLER, CONRAD 1735-
Private in Captain Martin Weybright's Company of the Eighth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia, 1782. MERVIN JEREMIAH MONNETTE
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SCRIBNER, SAMUEL
1743-1805
Private, 1776, in Captain James Shepard's Company of Wyman's New Hampshire Regiment. Private in Captain Ebenezer Webster's Company of Colonel Nichols' Regiment New Hampshire Militia. Enlisted August 5, and discharged August 27, 1778, having served 25 days. Private for six months and four days in the new levies of 1780 by New Hampshire.
ORRA EUGENE MONNETTE
TEED, WILLIAM 1727-1812
Private in Captain Samuel Haight's Company of the Westchester County, New York Regiment.
FREEMAN GOLDING TEED
TEED, WILLIAM, JR. 1752-1848
Private in the Third Regiment of the Westchester County, New York, Militia, commanded by Colonel Pierre Van Courtlandt.
FREEMAN GOLDING TEED
THOMAS, JOHN
Colonel of the Fair Forest District, South Carolina Regiment, 1775. Taken prisoner by Sir Henry Clinton, at the capture of Charleston, and with two sons confined in Fort Ninety-six. He was succeeded in the command of his Regiment by his son, Colonel John Thomas, Jr.
HARRY LAWRENCE POWELL, JR.
THOMAS, JOHN, JR.
Colonel of the Spartanburg County, South Carolina Regiment, from 1780 to close of the war. He gained the Battle of Cedar Springs, July 13, 1780, and he "made his mark on many a well fought field."
HARRY LAWRENCE POWELL, JR.
THOMPSON, ANDREW 1739-1790
Sergeant in the First New Jersey Regiment, December, 1776. Ensign of Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment, April 3, 1777. Taken prisoner at Brandywine, September 11, 1777. Ex- changed December 17, 1780. Retired, January 1, 1781, with rank of Lieutenant.
TRABUE VAN CULIN
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THOMPSON, JOSHUA
Private in Captain Kinsey's Company, Fourth Battalion of the Second Establishment of the Continental Army.
TRABUE VAN CULIN
THOMPSON, THADDEUS
1762-1829
Bombardier in Captain Jonathan Brown's Company of Colonel Lamb's Second Connecticut Regiment of Artillery. Enlisted in 1777 at New Haven. On May 1, 1779, he was attached to the Tenth Company of the Connecticut Second Regiment of Militia .. He was with his Company during the encampment at Valley Forge and he participated in the siege of Yorktown, where he was severely wounded.
ROBERT LE ROY BEARDSLEY
WALTON, JOHN
1744-1823
Lieutenant of Captain Thatcher's Company of Colonel Gardner's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, which marched on the "Lexington Alarm" April 19, 1775. Captain of the Third (Cambridge) Company of Colonel Thatcher's First Middlesex County Regiment, commissioned April 29, 1776, last record of service October 30, 1778.
CHARLES STRONG WALTON
WEBB, SAMUEL BLATCHLEY 1753-1807
He was Lieutenant of Captain John Chester's Company of the Second Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Spencer, May 1, 1775. Wounded at Bunker Hill. Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Putnam, July 22, 1775. Lieutenant- Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to General Washington, July 21, 1776. Participated at Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, and was wounded at Trenton. Colonel of Additional Continental Regi- ment January 11, 1777. Taken prisoner on Long Island Decem- ber 10, 1777, and released on parole until exchanged December, 1780. Transferred to Third Regiment Connecticut Line Janu- ary 1, 1781.
ROBERT ALLAN FORSYTH
WHALLON, JAMES 1756-
He was Lieutenant in the First Battalion of the Somerset County, New Jersey, Militia. Was stationed at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, from November 19 to December 3, 1777, and he participated in the Battle of Long Island.
CHARLES JOSEPH WILLETT
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WHITE, PHILLIPS 1729-1811
Speaker of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1776. Member of the United States Congress from New Hampshire in 1782-1783. In 1776 and 1782 he was a member of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety.
PAUL ANDERSON HERRON
WILLIAMS, ZEPHENIAH
He enlisted May 2, 1778, in Lieutenant George Armstrong's Com- pany of the Third Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Mordecai Gist, and he was honorably discharged August 16, 1780. EDWIN ALEXANDER WILLIAMS
WILLETT, CORNELIUS 1756-1843
Private and Sergeant in Somerset County, New Jersey, Militia. Private of Captain David Frazier's Company of Colonel Hunt's Battalion of Brigadier-General Nathaniel Heard's Brigade New Jersey Troops of Major-General Nathaniel Greene's Division. En- listed June, 1776. At Battles of Long Island August 27, 1776, and White Plains October 28, 1776. Discharged December 1, 1776. Private in Captain Godfrey Rhinehart's Company of the Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon, New Jersey, Militia, January, 1777, and served in this Regiment during various tours for four months during the years 1777 and 1778. Served sundry other terms in the New Jersey Militia until 1782.
CHARLES JOSEPH WILLETT
In Memoriam
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage, rolling Time has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend-ourselves to make a Couch-for whom?
In Memoriam
Ilarry Woodville Latham, A. B. 1362-1896 William Spencer Merrill, A. B. 1873-1898 Mejor Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath, U. S. A. 1840-1998 Captain Charles Lee Collins, U. S. A. 1859-1899 Colonel William Anthony Elderkin, U. S. A. 1839-1900 John Richardson Hall 1868-1902 Orrin Zeigler Hubbell 1859-1903 Horace Atwell Brown 1842-1903 Howard Bender 1859-1904 Harry Edgerly Pratt 1874-1904 Rev. Alexander Moss Merwin, A. M., B. D. 1839-1905 Lieutenant William Henry Masser, U. S. N. 1850-1905 Frederick Hastings Rindge, A. B. 1257-1905 Spencer Roane Thorpe 1842-1905 William Athearn Hartwell 1841-1907 Stanley Griswold Wight 1825-1908 John Charles Fremont Hull 1861-1909
Franklin Walton Moore 1861-1909 Brigadier-Gen. Edwin Byron Atwood, U. S. A. 1842-1909 Brigadier-Gen. John Green Ballance, U. S. A. 1853-1910 George Washington Peachy 1829-1910 James Lochry Paul 1840-1911 William Northrope Cowles 1861-1911 John Daggett Hooker 1838- 1911 David Rittenhouse Porter Corwin 1838-1911 John Miner Carey Marble 1833-191?
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State Chapters
THE following regulations for the organization of Chapters of this Society have been prescribed by the Board of Directors:
Upon the Petition of ten or more members of this Society, residing in any County of the State cther than the County of Los Angeles, the Directors may authorize the Petitioners to form a local Chapter, which shall be designated as the ". Chapter of the Society Sons of the Revolution in the State of California."
Such Chapter may adept Regulations and By-Laws not in conflict in any particulars with the Constitution and By-Laws of the California Society.
Only members in good and regular standing in the Society in this State shall be eligible to membership in these Chapters.
When any person shall cease through any cause to be a member of the Society in this State, his membership in a Chapter thereof shall also terminate.
The Officers of every Chapter shall be a Regent, a Secretary, and any other officers it may desire, and an Executive Committee constituted in such manner as it may prescribe.
Members of the State Society, residing in adjoining Counties shall be eligible to membership in the local Chapter nearest their place of residence.
No local Chapter shall have power to involve the Society Sons of the Revolution in any pecuniary obligation.
Regulations for the Alse of the Library
Members of this Society shall be permitted to take books from the Library upon signing and leaving a receipt for the same.
None but members shall be permitted under any circumstances to take any publications from the Library, and members are prohibited from loaning books to any persons whomsoever.
Official Rosters, Rolls and other publications of a similar character, and Official Records of the Society, shall not be taken from the Library.
The care I habe had to coen your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavors; for then we wound our modesty, and make font the clearness of our or- serbings, then of ourselves for publish them.
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424 SOUTH BROADWAY LOS ANGELES Telephone VAndike 6854
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A Dinner-Dance and Card Party will be given by the Society, Sons of the Revolution, at the Elks' Club, 625 South Park View Street, Los Angeles, on Friday evening, November 12th, 1926, at 8:00 o'clock.
Reservations for yourself and your guests should be made at the Society Headquarters at your earliest possible convenience.
Semi-formal Dress. Dancing - Cards. Price per plate $2.00.
DR. EDWARD M. PALLETTE E. PALMER TUCKER CASSIUS M. JAY DAVID W. TAGGART EDWARD BOUTON, Chairman.
MEMBERS ELECTED, AUGUST 30, 1926:
Lincoln Hall, 1031 West 45th St., Los Angeles, California.
Oliver Miller Haney, 381 Summit Ave., Pasadena, California.
Robert Ballantine Sweet, M.D., 325 West 10th St., Long Beach, California.
George William Dryer, Attorney, 615 Van Nuys Bldg., Los An- geles, California.
Willard Emmons Burch, 709 Stepney Pl., Inglewood, California. John Calvin Cotton, 1501 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California.
Bee Wayne De Hart, 15949 Maine Street, Gardena, California.
Erwin Julius Chapin, 652 South Milton Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
Elected September 27, 1926: Josiah Hackett Sickler, 333 East Walnut Street, Pasadena, California.
Elected October 25, 1926: James Leslie Giffin, 1014 Heartwell Building, Long Beach, California.
The Society acquired a room adjoining the Library and it is attractively fitted up as a Lounge Room for members. Open from nine to five. Come in and use it.
How many men have you spoken to about this Society this year?
The Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, Expo- sition Park, are holding a Loan Exhibition of Colonial and early American Antiques during November and December. This Society has a group of exhibits loaned by various members. Go out and see them.
A beautiful antique table of genuine rosewood was presented to the Society by Mr. E. P. Tucker and Mr. L. E. Behymer.
SOCIETY Sons of the Revolution
424 SOUTH BROADWAY LOS ANGELES
The General Committee are celebrating Armistice Day on Thursday, November 11th, 1926, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Exposition Park, by a Parade and Program, and invites the Society, Sons of the Revolution, to attend and participate in the parade.
Please assemble at 1:45 P. M. on the southwest side of the Coliseum where there will be Aides to instruct you where to go. The march will begin at 2:15 P. M.
We hope that you will attend. Our colors will be there.
LEWIS A. WINSTON, Secretary.
ARTHUR B. BENTON,
President.
Please reserve for me. plates at the Dinner-Dance of the Society, Sons of the Revolution, on Friday evening, November 12th, 1926, at the Elks' Club, at 625 South Park View Street, at 8:00 o'clock.
Semi-formal Dress. Price per plate $2.00.
1. Do you prefer Dinner-Dances?
2. Do you prefer Auction Bridge?
3. Do you prefer noon or evening entertainments?
4. Do you prefer speeches at our entertainments?
5. Do you prefer meetings at hotels, clubs-in the city, country, or beach clubs?
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The Thirty-fourth Hear of the Society
Sons of the Revolution
in the State of California 1893-1926
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Che Thirty-fourth Hear of the Society
Sons of the Revolution
in the tate of California
1893-1926
Circular Letter
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President
August, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-six
ENTLEMEN :
ON JANUARY 25, 1894, I WAS ELECTED A MEMBER (AS NUMBER FOURTEEN), OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY, "SONS OF THE REVOLUTION," THE NAME BY WIIICH IT WAS INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1893. AT ABOUT THIS TIME THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA, WERE REMOVED FROM LOS ANGELES, AND IN MAY, 1894, LIEUTENANT CHARLES LEE COLLINS, THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY, WAS ORDERED TO JOIN HIS REGIMENT AND HE RESIGNED HIS OFFICE AND I WAS ELECTED SECRETARY, WHICH POSITION I HELD FOR ELEVEN YEARS, UNTIL FEBRUARY, 1905.
ON APRIL 14, 1924, GENERAL CHARLES HENRY WHIPPLE, PAYMASTER GENERAL, U. S. A., RETIRED, PREVIOUSLY A MEMBER OF THE MINNESOTA SOCIETY SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF OUR SOCIETY, SUCCEED- ING MR. PIERSON W. BANNING, RESIGNED. IN THE NINE MONTHS OF HIS PRESI- DENCY GENERAL WHIPPLE PAID OFF A LARGE INDEBTEDNESS AGAINST THE SOCIETY, WHICH HAD BEEN ACCUMULATED TO A GREAT EXTENT FROM PUBLICATION EXPENSES THIS ENTAILED MOST CAREFUL AND ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION, AND HE WAS UNANIMOUSLY RENOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT, BUT HE DECLINED RE-ELECTION. AS A DIRECTOR AND MEMBER OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT COMMITTEES HE HAS CONTINUED HIS MOST VALUABLE SERVICES TO THE SOCIETY.
OUR ANNUAL CHURCH SERVICE IN HONOR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS REVIVED BY GENERAL WHIPPLE, AND THROUGH HIS EFFORTS, ABLY ASSISTED BY THE CHAPLAIN AND THE MARSHAL OF THE SOCIETY, IT HAS BECOME A NOTABLE PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION, ATTENDED BY GREAT ASSEMBLIES AND PARTICIPATED IN BY LEADERS OF THE RELIGIOUS, CIVIC AND MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY.
I WAS ELECTED TO SUCCEED GENERAL WHIPPLE ON JANUARY 8, 1925, BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF DISTINGUISHED ABILITIES, INCLUDING SEVERAL MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION. I WAS RE-ELECTED IN 1926 AND DURING BOTII TERMS I HAVE RECEIVED CO-OPERATION SO GENEROUS FROM OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND MEMBERS AS TO MAKE THE LIGHT BURDEN OF OFFICE AN EVER INCREASING SATISFACTION.
OUR SOCIETY HAS OCCUPIED SEVERAL OF THE LARGER OFFICE BUILDINGS ALL IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS SECTION OF LOS ANGELES. IT WAS ORGANIZED IN THE OFFICE OF ITS FIRST PRESIDENT IN THE BRYSON BLOCK, MARCH, 1893, COL. HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, MAJ. WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, LIEUT. CHARLES LEE COLLINS, COL. JOHN MINER CAREY MARBLE AND JUDGE JAMES MONROE ALLEN BEING THE ORGANIZERS. IN 1894 HEADQUARTERS WERE REMOVED TO THE STIMSON BUILDING IN THE OFFICE OF COLONEL COLLINS. IN 1897 THE SOCIETY RENTED A ROOM IN THE HENNE BLOCK AND IN 1908 SPECIAL ROOMS WERE ARRANGED FOR IT IN THE SAN FERNANDO BUILDING WHERE IT REMAINED UNTIL 1915, WHEN IT MOVED, IN OCTOBER, TO THE CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. ITS LAST MIGRATION WAS IN NOVEMBER, 1919, TO ITS PRESENT LOCATION IN THE BROADWAY C'ENTRAL BUILDING.
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THE SOCIETY WAS INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1893, AND IMMEDIATELY, ITS FIRST PRESIDENT, COLONEL HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, WHIO HELD THAT OFFICE FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS, COMMENCED THE COLLECTION OF A LIBRARY, AND HE ESTAB- LISHED A SYSTEM OF RECORDS AND THE BINDING AND INDEXING OF ALL APPLICA- TIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP AND SUBSEQUENT PROOFS, WHICH COURSE OF PROCEDURE HAS BEEN PRACTICED TO THE PRESENT DAY. AT THE TERMINATION OF HIS LAST YEAR AS PRESIDENT, HE HAD SECURED AND INDEXED MORE THAN 750 VOLUMES BY HIS PERSONAL UNAIDED EXERTIONS. THE LIBRARY NOW EMBRACES MORE THAN 6000 BOUND VOLUMES AND SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF PAMPHLETS FOR THE MOST PART DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, PARTICULARLY TO THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. THE LIBRARY HAS BECOME SO WELL KNOWN BY REASON OF ITS COL- LECTION OF TECHNICAL AND OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, MANY OF A VERY RARE CHARACTER AND NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER LIBRARY ON THE COAST, THAT OUR ROOMS ARE FREQUENTLY CONGESTED BY THE NUMBERS SEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL OR BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
OUR NUMEROUS YEAR BOOKS AND REGISTERS, WHICH HAVE BEEN NOTED FOR THEIR VALUABLE INFORMATION RELATING TO OUR MEMBERS AND THE PATRIOTIC SERVICES OF THEIR ANCESTORS ARE NOW ASSEMBLED IN A RESEARCHI DEPARTMENT AND SEGREGATED FROM THE GENERAL LIBRARY THEREBY BECOMING MUCH MORE CONVENIENT OF ACCESS.
INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP AND THE CONSTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR BIBLIOG- RAPHY SO DEMANDED MORE SPACE THAT A LARGE ROOM HAS RECENTLY BEEN ADDED TO OUR QUARTERS, COMFORTABLY FURNISHED. BY THE GENEROSITY OF TWO OF OUR MEMBERS A MASSIVE ROSEWOOD TABLE, MORE THAN A CENTURY OLD, IIAS BEEN GIVEN US FOR THIS ROOM.
IN 1888 A PORTRAIT OF MR. GEORGE WASHINGTON PEACHY WAS PAINTED BY ONE OF THE NOTED ARTISTS OF AMERICA. ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH, WITHI THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN HE PRESENTED THIS PORTRAIT TO OUR SOCIETY AND FOR MANY YEARS IT ADORNED OUR LIBRARY, BUT THE DEMAND FOR BOOK SHELVING LEFT NO PLACE FOR IT AND WE LOANED IT TO THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM, AS HIE WAS ONE OF THE EARLY HISTORIC SETTLERS OF CALIFORNIA, HAVING BEEN ELECTED SHERIFF AT SACRAMENTO IN 1853. THE PORTRAIT HAS BEEN RECLAIMED AND IT WILL BE SEEN IN THE ROOM OF THE DIRECTORS.
ANOTHER OF OUR VALUED SOUVENIRS IS THE LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL BRONZE TABLET WHICH WAS ERECTED BY THE NEW YORK SOCIETY UPON FRAUNCES' TAVERN. UPON THE DEATH OF MR. FREDERICK S. TALLMADGE, BY WHOSE EFFORTS THE PURCHASE OF THAT IHISTORIC BUILDING WAS EFFECTED, A NEW TABLET TO IHIS MEMORY REPLACED THE ORIGINAL ONE, AND BY THE COURTESY OF OUR MEMBER, JAMES M. MONTGOMERY, THIS FIRST TABLET WAS PRESENTED TO US.
IN OUR LIBRARY A GRADUALLY INCREASING COLLECTION OF HISTORIC SOU- VENIRS IS ACCUMULATING TO ADD THAT ROMANTIC INTEREST SO VALUABLE AS "OLD THINGS PASS AWAY" TO GIVE PLACE TO THE NEW AND FAMILIAR.
WHEN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING WAS IN PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION, WE RECEIVED PERMISSION FROM THE POSTMASTER GENERAL TO ERECT THEREON A TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE FIRST POSTMASTER GENERAL, AND WE OBTAINED A VERY PLEASING AND SIGNIFICANT DESIGN THEREFOR FROM MR. J. E. KELLEY, THE FAMOUS ARTIST WHO DESIGNED THE BEAUTIFUL TABLET ATTACHED TO THE SUB-TREASURY BUILDING IN NEW YORK, REPRESENTING WASHINGTON AT PRAYER IN VALLEY FORGE. THIS PROJECT SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT AT SUCHI TIME AS IT MAY BECOME FINANCIALLY CONVENIENT FOR OUR SOCIETY.
OUR CALIFORNIA SOCIETY HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED A HIGH QUALITY OF PERSONNEL, COMPRISING MANY OF THE BEST MEN OF THE COMMONWEALTHI, FORCEFUL IN CHURCH, IN CIVIC OFFICE AND IN LITERARY AND BUSINESS PURSUITS. MANY ALSO, HAVING SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN OUR ARMIES AND NAVIES FROM THE DAYS OF 1861; IN THE MEXICAN WAR, THE INDIAN AND SPANISH WARS, AND A
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GRATIFYING NUMBER DURING THE WORLD WAR. OUR GENERAL SOCIETY HAS ISSUED MEDALS FOR PATRIOTIC SERVICES, BOTH MILITARY, NAVAL AND CIVIL DURING THIE LATE WAR AND OUR SOCIETY'S SHOWING ON THIS ROLE OF HONOR IS MOST GRATIFYING. THESE MEDALS WITH ACCOMPANYING CERTIFICATES OF SERVICE, AUTHENTICATED BY WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS AT WASHINGTON AND RECORDED IN OUR GENERAL SOCIETY'S ARCHIVES WILL FORM AN INVALUABLE RECORD FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY HAS BEEN SO CONSISTENTLY LOYAL TO SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IDEALS AS TO COMMAND THE RESPECT OF BOTH THE GENERAL AND THE STATE SOCIETIES TO A MARKED DEGREE, AS OUR FILES OF CORRESPONDENCE ABUNDANTLY TESTIFY.
THE SOCIETY DOWN TO THE PRESENT DATE HAS ELECTED 1586 MEMBERS, OF WHOM FIFTEEN HAVE BEEN ELECTED SINCE THE ANNUAL MEETING OF JANUARY, 1926. IT IS NOW THIRD IN SIZE, BEING OUTNUMBERED IN MEMBERSHIP ONLY BY NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. THE GENERAL SOCIETY HAS RECOGNIZED OUR INFLUENCE BY ELECTING ONE OF OUR MEMBERS AS THE GENERAL PRESIDENT; ONE AS GENERAL VICE-PRESIDENT; TWO AS GENERAL HISTORIAN, ONE OF WIIOM, COL. COLLINS, WAS RETAINED IN THAT OFFICE BY REPEATED ELECTIONS FOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS; ONE AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL; AND ONE AS GENERAL TREASURER. TWO OF OUR GENERAL OFFICERS, MR. JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, HONORARY PAST GENERAL PRESIDENT, AND MR. FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL, VICE-PRESIDENT, HAVE RECENTLY DIED, BUT WE ARE STILL REPRESENTED ON THE GENERAL COUNCIL AND BY THE GENERAL TREASURER.
FOUR OF OUR MEMBERS WERE SONS OF SOLDIERS WHO SERVED UNDER WASHINGTON. THESE WERE:
GEORGE WASHINGTON PEACHY LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS FRANCIS MARION LEMMON DEWITT CLINTON PUTNAM
ALL HAVE GONE TO THEIR REWARD EXCEPT JUDGE PHILLIPS, WHO RESIDES IN HIS PLEASANT HOME AT DOWNEY.
OUR PRINCIPLES PROHIBIT OUR PARTICIPATION, AS A SOCIETY, IN POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP OR SECTARIAN RELIGIOUS DISCUSSIONS, BUT WE HAVE BEEN IDENTI- FIED WITH MANY ACTIVITIES FOR THE PROSPERITY AND WELFARE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY IN THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF TEXT BOOKS.
WE HAVE ISSUED A PRINTED PAMPHLET PROTESTING AGAINST THE ATTEMPTS MADE TO FORCE, AS A TEXT BOOK FOR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, A REVISED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, OF A MOST OFFENSIVE NATURE, IMPUGNING THE CHARAC- TER AND DEEDS OF THOSE GREAT MEN OF THE REVOLUTION WHOM WE SO REVERE.
A STRONG COMMITTEE ON PATRIOTIC EDUCATION, UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP' OF COL. ARTHUR WILLIAMS, U. S. A., RETIRED, HAS PREPARED A PROGRAM FOR IMMEDIATE AGGRESSIVE PATRIOTIC WORK, WHICH WILL, WHEN FULLY MATURED, COMMEND ITSELF TO OUR MEMBERSHIP.
BY THE MOST CORDIAL APPROVAL OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, IN 1896, WE SENT TO EVERY HIGH SCHOOL IN THE STATE A PROC- LAMATION OFFERING TO THE SCHOLARS A SILVER AND A BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE BEST TWO ESSAYS WHICH SHOULD BE WRITTEN UPON AMERICAN PATRIOTIC HIS- TORY. A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF PAPERS WAS RECEIVED, AND IT WAS A SOURCE OF GREAT SATISFACTION TO LEARN THAT THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THESE COMPOSITIONS, AWARDED THESE MEDALS TO TWO YOUNG LADS OF THE LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL.
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