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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01076 4659
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Register of Members
OF THE
Society of Sons of the Revolution
IN THE
State of Colorado.
DENVER, COLORADO, February 10, 1900.
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I forward you herewith our Year Book for 1900. Kindly acknowledge its receipt.
Will you be so kind as to send to this Society, through our Historian, Hou. Sanford Charles Hinsdale, 31 Post Office Block, Denver, Colorado, a catalogue of your Library?
Very respectfully, Joshua Freeman Grozier, Secretary.
FLAG OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL SOCIETY, APRIL 4TH, 1891
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Publication Committee.
SANFORD CHARLES HINSDALE, HISTORIAN.
RICHARD BATTLE, SECRETARY.
REGINALD HEBER SMITH, REGISTRAR.
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Officers of the General Society, 1899.
General President, HON. JOHN LEE CARROLL, ELLICOTT CITY, MD. Of the Maryland Society. General Vice President, GARRETT DORSET WALL VROOM, TRENTON, N. J. Of the New Jersey Society. Second General Vice-President, HON. POPE BARROW, SAVANNAH, GA. Of the Georgia Society. General Secretary, JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, 102 FRONT STREET, NEW YORK. Of the New York Society. Assistant General Secretary, WILLIAM HALL HARRIS, 216 ST. PAUL STREET, BALTIMORE. Of the Maryland Society. General Treasurer, RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, 133 S. 12TH ST., PHILADELPHIA. Of the Pennsylvania Society. Assistant General Treasurer, HENRY CADLE, BETHANY, MO. Of the Missouri Society. General Registrar, FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD ABBOT, PH. D., CAMBRIDGE. Of the Massachusetts Society. General Historian, HENRY WALBRIDGE DUDLEY, CHICAGO. Of the Illinois Society. General Chaplain, RT. REV. HENRY BENJAMIN WHIPPLE, D. D., LL. D., (CANTAB). BISHOP OF MINNESOTA, FAIRBAULT. Of the Minnesota Society.
Colorado Society.
Instituted February 22, 1892. Incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado, March 29, 1897.
FOUNDERS.
Rt. Rev. John Franklin Spalding, D. D. Rev. Franklin Spencer Spalding.
Hon. Nathaniel Peter Hill.
Edward Marsden Cooke.
Thomas Henry Edsall.
Persifor Marsden Cooke, M. D.
Orlando Blodgett Wilcox.
Sanford Charles Hinsdale.
Col. Allen Hyre Jackson, U. S. A.
Edward Lane Raymond.
John Boyd Vroom.
John Lloyd McNeil.
John Nicoll Vroom.
Rawson Fuller Watkins.
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Fred S. Watkins.
INCORPORATORS.
Ralph Voorhees. Robert Bailey.
Persifor Marsden Cooke. Walter Crawford Mead.
Ashbel King Shepard. Luther Halsey Wygant, Jr.
Reginald Heber Smith. Henry Myron Blackmer.
Shadrack Kemp Hooper. George Gray Speer.
William David Todd. John Lloyd McNeil.
Charles Woodbury Williams.
John Cromwell Butler. Nathaniel Peter Hill.
Clarence Edsall.
Hedley Vicars Cooke.
William Marvin Spalding.
Officers of the Colorado Society, 1899-1900.
President, JOHN CROMWELL BUTLER.
Vice-President, JOEL FREDERICK VAILE.
Secretary, RICHARD BATTLE.
Treasurer, ROBERT BAILEY.
Registrar, REGINALD HEBER SMITH.
Chaplain, DAVID LAW FLEMING.
Historian, SANFORD CHARLES HINSDALE.
Board of Managers.
John Wright Barrows.
Paul Bullene Gaylord.
Charles Marshall Hampson. Lewis Erastus Lemen.
Edgar Marcella Marbourg. Walter Crawford Mead.
Durand Clarence Packard.
Ashbel King Shepard.
Ralph Voorhees.
Committee on Admissions.
Ashbel King Shepard.
Richard Battle.
Reginald Heber Smith.
John Wright Barrows.
Delegates to the General Society, 1899. Joel Frederick Vaile. John Wright Barrows. Ashbel King Shepard. Ralph Voorhees. John Cromwell Butler.
Committee on Prize Essays.
Sanford Charles Hinsdale. John Boyd Vroom. Theodore Edgar Schwarz.
Alternates to the General Society, 1899. Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker.
Frederick Augustus Williams.
Persifor Marsden Cooke.
William Henry Bryant.
Patterson Conn Fisher.
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Officers of the Society from its Organization, February 22, 1892.
ELECTED.
PRESIDENTS.
RETIRED·
1892 HON. NATHANIEL PETER HILL,
1893
1893
RT. REV. JOHN FRANKLIN SPALDING, 1895
1895
HON. JAMES BENTON GRANT, 1896
1896
HON. RALPH VOORHEES,
1898
1898
JOHN CROMWELL BUTLER,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
1892
RT. REV. JOHN FRANKLIN SPALDING,
1893
1893
THOMAS HENRY EDSALL,
1894
1894
ROGER WILLIAMS WOODBURY,
1895
1895
SANFORD CHARLES HINSDALE,
1896
1896
ASHBEL KING SHEPARD,
1897
1897
SHADRACK KEMP HOOPER,
1898
1899
JOEL FREDERICK VAILE,
SECRETARIES.
1892
PERSIFOR MARSDEN COOKE,
1898
1898
JOHN WRIGHT BARROWS,
1899
1899
RICHARD BATTLE,
TREASURERS.
1892
EDWARD LANE RAYMOND,
1895
1895
WILLIAM DAVID TODD,
1898
1898
ROBERT BAILEY,
REGISTRARS.
1892
THOMAS HENRY EDSALL,
1893
1893
PERSIFOR MARSDEN COOKE,
1891
1894
THOMAS HENRY EDSALL,
1896
1896
REGINALD HEBER SMITH,
CHAPLAINS.
1892
REV. CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY,
1893
1893
REV. FRANKLIN SPENCER SPALDING,
1897
1897
REV. CHARLES WOODBURY WILLIAMS,
1899
1899
REV. DAVID LAW FLEMING,
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Boards of Managers of the Colorado Society.
1892-3.
John Lathrop Jerome. William Garrett Fisher. George Webster Pierce. Allen Hyre Jackson.
John Lloyd McNeil. John Boyd Vroom. Sanford Charles Hinsdale. Orlando Blodgett Wilcox.
Hedley Vicars Cooke.
1893-4.
Nathaniel Peter Hill. John Lathrop Jerome.
William Garrett Fisher.
Hedley Vicars Cooke.
Allen Hyre Jackson. John Lloyd McNeil. John Boyd Vroom. Sanford Charles Hinsdale.
Orlando Blodgett Wilcox.
1894-5.
Nathaniel Peter Hill. Sanford Charles Hinsdale. John Boyd Vroom. George Webster Pierce.
William Garrett Fisher. Allen Hyre Jackson. Francis Crissey Young. John Lloyd McNeil.
John Lathrop Jerome.
1895-6.
Nathaniel Peter Hill. John Franklin Spalding. John Boyd Vroom. Samuel Wiley Belford.
Roger Williams Woodbury. George Webster Pierce. Herman Charles Joy. John Lloyd McNeil.
Reginald Heber Smith.
1896-7.
William Garrett Fisher. Eli Melville Ashley. Ephraim Coburn Gilman. John Mills Maxwell.
John Rogers Schermerhorn. John Cromwell Butler. Frederick Jones Bancroft. Henry Myron Blackmer.
Allen Hyre Jackson.
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1897-8.
Robert Bailey.
Henry Myron Blackmer.
Ashbel King Shepard. Luther Halsey Wygant, Jr.
Walter Crawford Mead. George Gray Speer. John Cromwell Butler. Nathaniel Peter Hill.
John Lloyd McNeil.
1898-9.
Luther Halsey Wygant, Jr.
Richard Battle.
Ashbel King Shepard. Sanford Charles Hinsdale.
Walter Crawford Mead.
Francis Wheeler Tupper.
Robert Wilbur Steele. Persifor Marsden Cooke.
Ralph Voorhees.
1899-1900.
*Richard Battle.
Walter Crawford Mead. Lewis Erastus Lemen.
Ashbel King Shepard.
Ralph Voorhees. *Persifor Marsden Cooke.
Charles Marshall Hampson. Durand Clarence Packard.
Edgar Marcella Marbourg. John Wright Barrows.
Paul Bullene Gaylord.
*Resigned.
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
Society of the Sons of the Revolution
In the State of Colorado.
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, It has become evident from the decline of proper celebration of such National holidays as the Fourth of July, Washington's Birthday, and the like, that popular interest in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is less than in the earlier days of the Republic; and
Whereas, This lack of interest is to be attributed not so much to lapse of time as to the neglect on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes to perform their duty of keeping before the public mind the memory of the services of their ancestors, and of the times in which they lived, and of the principles for which they contended;
Therefore, the Society of the "Sons of the Revolution" has been insti- tuted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel. achieved American independence; to pro- mote and assist in the proper celebration of the anniversaries of Washing- ton's Birthday, the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Capitulations of Saratoga and Yorktown, the formal Evacuation of New York by the British Army, on the 3rd of December, 1783, as a re- linquishment of territorial sovereignty, and other prominent events relating to or connected with the War of the Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the manuscript rolls, records and other documents and mem- orials relating to that War; to inspire among the members and their de- scendants the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; to inculcate in the com- munity in general sentiments of nationality and respect for the principles for which the patriots of the Revolution contended; to assist in the com-
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memorative celebration of other great historical events of national import- ance, and to promote social intercourse and the feeling of fellowship among its members.
ARTICLE I.
Name of Society.
The Society shall be known by the name, style and title of THE SOCI- ETY OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE STATE OF COLORADO.
ARTICLE II. Membership.
Any male person, above the age of twenty-one years, shall be eligible to membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" who is descended from an ancestor, as the propositus, who, either as a military, naval or marine offi- cer, soldier, sailor, or marine. or official in the service of any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of the National Government repre- senting or composed of those Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Independence during the War of the Revolution between the 19th day of April, 1775, when hostilities commenced, and the 19th day of April, 1783, when they were ordered to cease.
Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the service of an ancestor in the "minute men" or "militia," it must be satisfactorily shown that such ancestor was actually called into the service of the State or United States, and performed garrison or field duty; and
Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the service of an ancestor as a "sailor" or "marine," it must in like manner be shown that such service was other than shore duty and regularly per- formed in the Continental Navy, or the Navy of one of the original thirteen States, or on an armed vessel. other than a merchant ship. which sailed under letters of marque and reprisal. and that such ancestor of the appli- cant was duly enrolled in the ship's company, either as an officer, seaman, or otherwise than as a passenger; and
Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the service of an ancestor as an "official." such service must have been per- formed in the civil service of the United States. or of one of the thirteen original States, and must have been sufficiently important in character to have rendered the official specially liable to arrest and imprisonment, the same as a combatant. if captured by the enemy, as well as liable to conviction of treason against the Government of Great Britain.
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Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the performance of which did not particularly and effectively aid the American cause, shall not con- stitute eligibility.
In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides de Camp of General Officers in the Continental Service, who were duly announced as such and who actually served in the field during a campaign, shall be com- prehended as having performed qualifying service.
The civil officials and military forces of the State of Vermont, during the War of the Revolution, shall also be comprehended in the same manner as if they belonged to one of the thirteen original States.
No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying service for membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" where such ancestor, after assisting in the cause of American Independence, shall have subsequently either adhered to the enemy, or failed to maintain an honorable record throughout the War of the Revolution.
No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under one of the provisions of this article, nor unless he be of good moral character and be judged worthy of becoming a member.
ARTICLE III. Officers.
The officers of the Society of the "Sons of the Revolution" shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, and a Chaplain, who shall be chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from among the members thereof.
ARTICLE IV. Board of Managers.
The Board of Managers of the Society shall be fifteen, namely: the President, the Vice President, the Secretary. the Treasurer, the Registrar, and the Chaplain, ex officio, and nine others who shall be chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from among the members of the Society, as fol- lows: At the annual meeting held in February of the year 1900, three for the term of one year, three for the term of two years, and three for the term of three years; and at each annual meeting thereafter, three shall be chosen for the term of three years.
ARTICLE V. Admission of Members.
Every application for membership shall be made on proper blanks fur- nished by the Secretary for the purpose, subscribed by the applicant, and approved by two members over their signatures. Applications shall con-
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tain or be accompanied by proof of eligibility, and a declaration upon honor that the applicant will, if admitted, endeavor to promote the purposes of the Society and observe its Constitution and By-Laws, and if he be a citi- zen of the United States, will support the Constitution of the United States; Provided, That members of other State Societies may be admitted on pre- sentation of Certificates of Membership, and filing copy of original applica- tion with the Secretary.
Members shall be elected as follows: Candidates shall send their re- spective applications and documents, through the Secretary, to the Board of Managers, which is authorized to judge of the merits of an application in such manner as it may deem best. Upon a favorable decision of said Board, and upon payment of the initiation fee, applicants shall thereupon become members of the Society.
The President shall annually appoint a Committee on Admissions, con- sisting of three of the Board of Managers, of which the Secretary shall be a member ex officio, who shall investigate all applications for membership, and report thereon to the Board, who shall vote upon each applicant by ballot or viva voce, two negative votes being sufficient for rejection of an applicant.
ARTICLE VI.
(Amended April 10, 1899, by striking out. Covered by Article V.)
ARTICLE VII. Institution Considered.
At every meeting the purposes of the Institution will be fully consid- ered and the best measures to promote them adopted. No question, how- ever, involving the party politics of the day within the United States shall ever be discussed or considered in any meeting of the "Sons of the Revo- lution."
ARTICLE VIII. Commemorations.
It shall be a standing regulation that the members shall, when practic- able, hold a commemorative celebration and dine together at least once every year.
ARTICLE IX. Seal.
The seal of the Society of the "Sons of the Revolution" shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a "Minuteman" in Continental uniform, standing on a ladder leading to
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a belfry, and holding in his left hand a musket and an olive branch, and grasping in his right hand a bell-rope. Above. the cracked "Liberty Bell;" issuing therefrom a ribbon, bearing the motto of the "Sons of the Revolu- tion": "Exegi Monumentum ÆEre Perennius." Across the top of the lad- der, on a ribbon, the figures "1776," and at the left of the "Minuteman," and also on a ribbon, the figures "1883," the year of the Centennial commemora- tion of the permanent evacuation by the British Army of American terri- tory; the whole encircled by a band three-eighths of an inch wide; thereon at the top thirteen stars of five points each, and at the bottom the legend, "Sons of the Revolution," the following being a fac-simile thereof:
EGI MONUMENTUM
MERE PEREZ
1776 84
SONS
18.83
OF
NOINTOA
THE
The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, which shall be iden- tical in every particular with this description.
ARTICLE X.
Insignia.
The insignia of the "Sons of the Revolution" shall consist of a badge pendant from the ribbon by a ring of gold.
The badge shall be elliptical in form. with escaloped edges, one and one-quarter inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in width; the whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, inverted. On the observe side a medallion of gold in the center, elliptical in form, bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Continental uniformn, with musket slung; beneath, the figures "1775:" the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points each upon a border of dark blue enamel.
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On the reverse side, in the center, a medallion. corresponding in form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, bearing on its face Houdon's por- trait of Washington in bas-relief, encircled by the legend: "Sons of the Revolution." Beneath the figures "1853," and upon the reverse of the eagle, the number of the particular badge engraved; the medallion surrounded by a plain gold border conforming in dimensions to the obverse, upon which members may have their names engraved in script.
The ribbon shall be of dark blue. ribbed and watered. edged with buff, one and one-half inches wide and one and one-half inches in displayed length.
The insignia shall be worn by the members conspicuously, and only on the left breast, on all occasions when they shall assemble as such for any stated purpose or celebration. The badge shall never be worn as an article of jewelry.
The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue the insignia to the members and shall keep a record of all issued by him.
Such insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer of the Society by any member who may formally withdraw or resign or be expelled, but other- wise it shall be deemed an heirlooui.
No member shall receive more than one badge. unless to replace one, the loss or destruction of which shall first be satisfactorily established.
The following being a fac-simile of such insignia:
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On occasions other than the meetings for any stated purpose or cele- bration, members may wear a rosette of the prescribed ribbon and pattern in the upper button-hole of the left lapel of the coat.
The Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes to members.
The following being a fac-simile of the same, which shall not exceed fifteen millimetres in diameter:
ARTICLE XI. Alterations and Amendments.
No alterations or amendment of the Constitution of this Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty days after such notice, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present.
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BY- LAWS.
ARTICLE I.
Initiation Fees, Dues, Etc.
The initiation fee shall be five (5) dollars; the annual dues three (3) dollars; Proridcd, That any member who shall have been elected during the last three months of the fiscal year shall not be required to pay the annual dues for the current fiscal year. The payment at one time of fifty (50) dollars shall constitute a life membership. The payment at one time of one hundred (100) dollars shall constitute a perpetual or endowed mem- bership, and upon the death of the member so paying the membership shall be held by his eldest son, or such other descendant from the ancestor from whom he claims as he may nominate; in failure of such nomination having been made, the Society may decide which one of the descendants shall hold the membership; Provided always. That the Society reserves to itself the privilege of rejecting any nomination that may not be accept- able to it. All those holding life or endowed memberships shall be exempt from the payment of the initiation fee and annual dues.
The fiscal year shall begin on the twenty-second day of February in each calendar year.
Any member of another State Society of the Sons of the Revolution, or the Sons of the American Revolution, except a life or endowed member. who becomes a member of this Society, shall be exempt from payment of initiation fee.
The annual dues shall be payable on or before the first day of March in each year.
ARTICLE II. Permanent Fund.
There shall be a "Permanent Fund." to be derived from life and en- dowed memberships and from contributions, and to remain forever to the use of the Society, the income only of which shall be expended.
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ARTICLE III.
Annual and Special Meetings.
The Society shall hold an annual meeting on the twenty-second day of February, at which a general election of officers and managers by ballot shall take place, except when such day falls on Sunday, in which case the meeting shall be held the following day. In such election a ma- jority of the ballots given for any office shall constitute a choice; but if on the first ballot no person shall receive a majority, then further balloting shall take place, in which a plurality of votes given for any office shall determine choice therefor.
Special meetings shall be held by direction of the Board of Managers, or upon written request of ten members of the Society, at such time and place as the Board may direct.
One week's notice shall be sent every member of all annual or special meetings by mail. At every meeting seven members shall constitute a quorumn.
The following order of business shall, as far as applicable, be fol- lowed:
1. Meeting called to order by the presiding officer.
2. Prayer by the Chaplain.
3. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not yet acted upon.
4. Election of officers.
5. Communication from or reports of Board of Managers.
6. Reports of officers.
7. Reports of special committees.
8. Unfinished business.
9. Written communications to the Society.
10. Specially noticed business.
11. Miscellaneous business.
12. Closing prayer by the Chaplain.
ARTICLE IV. President.
The President, or, in his absence, the Vice President, or, in his ab- sence, a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers, and shall execute the usual functions of a presiding officer, under general parliamentary rules, subject to an appeal to the Society, in proper cases under those rules. The President shall be, ex officio, a member of all committees other than the Committee on Nom- inations. He shall have power to convene the Board of Managers, and appoint the place of such meeting when called by him.
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He shall also perform such other representative duties on behalf of the Society, either personally or by correspondence, as it or the board of Managers may find desirable or necessary, or as customarily appertains to his office, and he shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society.
In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or inability from any cause to act as President, the duties of the office shall devolve on the Vice President, until the vacancy caused by such decease, resignation or neglect to serve shall be filled. or until the inability shall cease.
ARTICLE V. Secretary.
The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society and keep a record thereof. He shall notify all qualified and accepted candidates of their admission, and perform such other duties as the Society, or Board of Managers, or his office, may require of him. He shall have charge of the seal. By-Laws, historical and other documents and records of the Society other than those required to be deposited with the Registrar and Historian, and shall affix the seal to all properly authenticated certificates of membership, and transmit the same without delay to the member for whom it was issued. or to his proper representa- tive. He, together with the presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society, and in proper cases authenticate tiem under seal. He shall have charge of all printing and publications directed by the Society or by the Board of Managers. He shall give due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers, and shall attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society and of the Board of Managers, and shall give notice to the several officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Society or the Board of Managers, affecting them or appertaining to their respective duties; and at the annual meeting, and oftener, if re- quired, shall report to the Society the names of those candidates who have been admitted to membership, and also the names of those members whose resignations or voluntary withdrawals have been consented to and accepted, and also the names of those members who have been expelled. or dropped for non-payment of dues, or who have been received or dropped from the roll by transfer since the last report. In his absence from any meeting, a Secretary pro tempore may be designated therefor.
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