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GENEALOGY
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A QUARTER MILLENNIAL
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"Something towards the Great River, on the North Side of Stony Brook, where we stated the Highway or Street, Running from Stony Brook Northward toward Springfield, and called this Street High Street-Pynchon Committee Report, May 16, 1671.
CELEBRATION C
OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF
SUFFIELD, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 12, 13 AND 14, 1920 WITH SKETCHES FROM ITS PAST AND SOME RECORD OF ITS LAST HALF CENTURY AND OF ITS PRESENT
SUFFIELD PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1921
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CONTENTS
THE QUARTER MILLENNIAL PAGE
Settlement.
9
Official Action I2
Organization and Committees 14
Program.
20
Sabbath Prelude.
22
TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY
Welcome by George A. Peckham 24
Response by Seymour C. Loomis. 25
Historical Address by Prof. William Lyon Phelps 31
Collation and Speaking. 47
Community Dance
54
WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY
Organ Recital by Prof. William C. Hammond 55
Address by Dr. Stephen S. Wise. 55
The Pageant 59
THURSDAY, THE THIRD DAY
Parade
77
Dedication of Tablets
79
Address by Henry B. Russell. 85
THE HOSTESS HOUSE
The List of Exhibits . 92
Miller Collection of Indian Relics IOI
Letters from Suffield Sons and Daughters IO2
IN OTHER DAYS
Pioneers . 108
Deerfield Captives. IIO
Early Courts and Lawyers, Christopher Jacob Lawton. II2
General Phinehas Lyman II4
Gideon Granger, Hezekiah Huntington, William Gay I18
Calvin Pease
I20
Ministers and Laymen, Ebenezer Gay, Asahel Morse 120
Calvin Philleo, Dwight Ives. I21
Apollos Phelps, Sylvester Graham, Timothy Swan. 122
Great River and Stony Brook, Old Mills 123
Old Ferry 125
Fisheries, The Island, Enfield Bridge. I26
Slaves, The Old Clock 129
Burial Grounds.
132
CONTENTS
CHURCH, SCHOOL AND LIBRARY PAGE
First Congregational Church
I37
West Suffield Congregational Church.
139
First Baptist Church ..
Second Baptist Church. 141
. 143
West Suffield Methodist Church 145
Third Baptist Church
. 147
Sacred Heart Church. 147
St. Joseph's Church.
148
Public Schools and School Houses
Suffield School
149
. 153
Libraries.
157
The Kent Memorial
. 159
Sheldon Collection
16I
LANDMARKS
Jonathan Sheldon Place. 165
Hatheway Place. 166
Gay Manse, Joseph Pease House 167
Spencer Place 169
Gay Mansion, Luther Loomis Place. 170
Granger Place. I71
Timothy Swan House, Old Harmon Place
172
Medad Pomeroy, Leavitt and Posthumous Sikes Places
King Place, Gad Lane Tavern, the Pool. 173
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Seth Austin Tavern. 175
List of Old Houses 176
Turnpikes and Taverns 179
Crooked Lane 18I
The Post Office
182
CIVIL WAR DAYS AND SINCE
Changes in Population. 183
Tobacco.
I86
Suffield in the Wars. 189
Soldiers' Monument. . 190
Red Cross Chapter
191
Banks
. 192
Publishers
194
Physicians
194
Emergency Aid Association.
195
Village of Suffield and Fire Department. 196
Apollo Lodge No. 59 A. F. A. M. 198
Daughters of the American Revolution. . 200
Woman's Reading Club and Ladies' Wide Awake Club . 201
Mapleton Hall, the Grange, May Breakfasts 201
Mapleton Literary Club. 203
The Town . 203
Tribute to Suffield Benefactors 205
Calvary Episcopal Church. 146
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"Something Towards the Great River"
Frontispiece
The Granger Maple
Facing 8
General Executive Committee. I6
Chairmen of Special Committees
17
Chairmen Pageant Committees
32
Speakers
33
Pageant Poster
48
Airplane View of Pageant Grounds
52
A Pageant Scene on Stony Brook
60
Pageant Groups.
61
Two Views of 7000 Spectators
64
The Breeze Brings News of White Men Following 64
Major Pynchon Reading the Treaty
64
The Stranger appears to the Pilgrims 64
Pynchon Presiding at First Town Meeting. 64
Benjamin Franklin Surveying Through Suffield. Facing
65
The Lexington Alarm.
65
Washington Addressing the Townspeople.
68
Minuet in Honor of Washington. 68
Colonists Resist Tyranny 69
Discussing Civil War News 69
People at Tablet Dedication.
76
Service Men in World War.
80
Pageant Characters in Parade.
80
The Tablets . Following
80
Float of Daughters of the American Revolution
Facing
81
Float of Suffield Grange 84
Mapleton Literary Club.
84
Float of Woman's Reading Club
66
85
Float of Wide Awake Club
85
Float of Polish People.
92
Suffield Firemen
92
West Suffield School Children
93
Hostess House and Interior
96
Indian Relics .
97
The Old Boston Neck Dam.
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97
Suffield Center and Shaded Common.
104
The Old Ferry Boat "Cora"
I28
Looking Eastward From Suffield Mountain
129
Stony Brook Ledge
I44
First Congregational Church
Following 144
Boulder on Site of First Meeting House.
I44
First Baptist Church, Zion's Hill
144
Second Baptist Church I44
Enfield Bridge.
I28
Town Hall Decorated. 93
ILLUSTRATIONS
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West Suffield Methodist Church
Facing
145
Second Congregational, Church West Suffield.
145
Calvary Episcopal Church.
148
Third Baptist Church.
148
Sacred Heart Church and Rectory
149
St. Joseph's Church and Rectory
149
Connecticut Literary Institution, Old View
156
Suffield School, North Building.
160
Suffield School, Old Middle and Old South
Following 160
Kent Memorial Library
160
Captain Jonathan Sheldon House
Facing
161
Home of Posthumous Sikes
161
Gad Lane Tavern.
164
Hatheway Place
164
Alfred Spencer Place
165
Gay Manse
165
Leavitt Place
172
King Place.
172
Granger Place
173
Harmon Place
173
Pease Place.
176
Seth Austin Tavern
176
Captain Medad Pomeroy Place.
Following 176
Luther Loomis Place
176
Timothy Swan House
176
Gay Mansion.
176
Corners in Parlor, Gay Mansion
Facing
177
Dining Room and a Bed Room, Gay Mansion
180
The Pool
181
Suffield Veterans Association.
188
First National and Suffield Savings Banks
192
A Suffield Tobacco Plantation.
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193
Suffield Benefactors
205
Hall, Gay Mansion
181
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THE GRANGER MAPLE Planted by Launcelot Granger, who died 1689 "An unremembered Past Broods like a presence 'mid the long gray boughs Of this old tree, which has outlived so long
The flitting generations of mankind.
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A generation pauses at a milestone of the family and com- munity life of an old New England town, commemorates two centuries of civic existence, reviews the lengthening past, recalls its traditions and revives its memories. As life goes on, familiar faces disappear; new figures move and meet upon the ancient streets, another cemetery upon another hill raises its monu- ments over other graves, one by one as that generation vanishes. Then its children and its grandchildren, themselves grown to maturity or even passed into the gathering twilight of their lives, pause at another milestone, commemorate another half century of their old New England town and reread the story of its longer past.
In 1870 the people of Suffield, Connecticut, celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the date on which the General Court at Massachusetts Bay granted to Captain John Pynchon, Captain Elizur Holyoke, Lieutenant Thomas Cooper, Quarter- master George Colton, Ensign Benjamin Cooley, and Rowland Thomas of Springfield "liberty for the erecting of a Touneship on the West side of ye Ryuer Connecticott towards Windsor."
In 1920 another generation of the people of Suffield cele- brated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that simple but heroic beginning along an early forest trail.
The generation of Suffield men, who planned and who parti- cipated in the celebration of 1870, published a book to mark the event in the old town's history; the book is treasured in many Suffield families today and will be henceforth.
Following in the footsteps of their fathers, the Suffield people of today have co-operated to publish this book to mark in the history of the old town the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that same simple but heroic beginning, to add something to the record, and to leave it as a picture of Suffield as it is in this generation which, following others as the years pass, will ere long vanish from the familiar scenes.
About thirty-five years before this beginning of another
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township in the valley of the Connecticut, three of the eight towns then in the struggling settlement of Massachusetts Bay developed opposition to the authority of the magistrates and a desire to more extensively control their local affairs through their own elected boards of selectmen. Ecclesiastical leaders like John Warham and John Maverick of Dorchester and Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone of Newtown and lay leaders like John Haynes and William Pynchon promoted democratic influences that soon moved pastors and members of their flocks to sell their scanty belongings to new comers from England and to journey, either around by the coast and up the river, or across the Massachusetts wilderness, to the settlement of the Connecticut Valley. Hooker and Stone went to Hartford, Warham to Windsor and Pynchon with eight companions set- tled Springfield. Together with Wethersfield these primitive townships became the centers of influence for other settlements up and down the valley in the next few years, and for a brief period all acted together to order their common affairs, notwith- standing the assumed authority of Massachusetts Bay. William Pynchon and his associates accounted themselves a part of the Connecticut colony and acted with the other towns in estab- lishing their General Court and government, after the expira- tion of the Massachusetts commission in 1637. Plans of a union of the two colonies for mutual defense, suggested by Hook- er, failed because Massachusetts laid claim to jurisdiction over Springfield. -
A few years later William Pynchon, who had written a book much in advance of his times, which was burned on Boston Common, returned to England and his son Major John Pynchon became an energetic pioneer in the extension of settlements in the valley. The Massachusetts claim to jurisdiction over Springfield had been established and two strong motives for Major Pynchon's enterprise may be distinguished in the records he left-the extension of a profitable trade, especially in furs, and a relief from political loneliness and the perils of existence in a wilderness in which the Indians, though friendly at the time, greatly out-numbered the white settlers. His hunters and trap- pers made trails through the forests about them and where Suffield now is, spied out the possibilities for meadow lands up
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and down the river on either side, and from time to time, under his leadership, encouragement and backing ventured upon new settlements.
When in 1654, with Elizur Holyoke and others, he petitioned the General Court at Boston for liberty to erect a township fifteen miles up the river, he gave as one of the reasons, "We being alone may by this means have some more neighborhood." To the East lay an unbroken wilderness of eighty miles between them and the nearest settlement at the Bay. On the North a wilder forest stretched to Canada; on the West to the Dutch at Albany. To the South were the nearer Connecticut settlements, but at about this time came a fresh crisis in the relations of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and Major Pynchon found Springfield almost alone as a Massachusetts town on the river. His petition of 1654 was granted and thus was Northampton settled.
Notwithstanding disagreements over jurisdiction and bound- aries, these people, scattered up and down the valley in a com- mon struggle for existence and devoted to the same religious principles, traded and visited much with each other; and, as they traveled back and forth, there came into use the North- ampton Road, running through lands belonging to the Indians and connecting the settlements down the river with those above -a road that led through the Stony Brook region where South Street, Remington Street and the Zion's Hill road now run. On this road was the beginning of Suffield.
Doubtless with a vision of the future, Pynchon at various times had purchased from their Indian owners lands between the uncertain northern boundaries of Windsor and the southern bounds of Springfield and Westfield-incorporated in 1669- for thirty pounds, and with his associates gained the liberty October 12, 1670 to erect a township. It was later resold to settlers as they could be found, at rates to yield him forty pounds, no more and no less, and it was a long time after he had built saw mills and corn mills on Stony Brook to promote settlement, after he had rebuilt them from the ashes left by King Philip's war, that he got his money back. He and his Springfield asso- ciates held many meetings at Stony Brook in the first few years, and, if in their reports there were notes of discouragement,
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there were also stronger notes of determination. In 1672 they laid out High Street and the record adds, "hereabouts we deter- mined the Meeting House to be set having ordered some vacant land here for a Training Place, etc." This was the beginning of Suffield Center and the Common.
Gradually the progenitors of the old Suffield families came, at first from Springfield, later and to a larger extent from Hart- ford and Windsor, and from Ipswich, Newbury, Rowley, and other towns of the Massachusetts Bay settlement where the conflict between central and local government persisted and drove into the Connecticut valley an advanced type of democ- racy, destined to leave its impress deeply upon the constitu- tional forms of a great republic.
Though Suffield two generations later and as a result of its own persistent inclinations and struggles passed from the juris- diction of Massachusetts to that of Connecticut, it will ever bear the imprint of the hard tasks and determined work of Major Pynchon. His struggle and his triumph in the settle- ment of the town may some day gain a memorial more explicit, though no more enduring, than the Common and main highways that he fashioned in the forests.
Official Action
To provide for the fitting observance of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this beginning of Suffield, its townsmen in their town meetings took the necessary official action and through their appointed committees made the necessary prep- arations for the event.
At the annual town meeting of Suffield held October 7, 1918, Mr. Samuel R. Spencer offered the following resolution which was unanimously passed.
Voted: that a preliminary committee of five be appointed by the Assistant Moderator, Mr. George A. Peckham, said com- mittee to include himself, which committee is to investigate the proper form of celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the town, and to report to the annual town meeting in 1919.
Said committee is also to ask the Board of Finance to include
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in its recommendations such sum as said committee may deem ample to carry out such celebration.
At the adjourned Town Meeting held March I, 1919, it was voted that the report of George A. Peckham appointing Edward A. Fuller, Edward Perkins, Samuel R. Spencer, Hobart G. Trues- dell and George A. Peckham as a committee for the celebrating of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Suffield, be approved and placed on record.
This committee met at the Suffield School, Saturday, March 15, 1919, and organized as follows:
Edward A. Fuller, Chairman of the Executive Committee; later also Chairman of the Tablet Committee.
George A. Peckham, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Com- mittee; Chairman of the Speakers and Program Committee.
Samuel R. Spencer, Secretary of the Executive Committee; Chairman of the Historical Committee.
H. G. Truesdell, Chairman of the Pageant Committee. Edward Perkins, Chairman of the Invitation Committee.
An informal discussion of the plan of the celebration took place, and it was decided to ask the Finance Committee to recommend an appropriation of $6,000, and this sum was voted by the Town at its annual meeting, October, I, 1919. As the scope of the celebration widened additional sums were voted as follows: $1,000, at the special Town Meeting held in March, 1920, to make good $1,000 of the original appropriation which had been used for the Welcome Home celebration; $3,000 at a special Town Meeting held Saturday, June 5th, 1920, for the purchase of bronze tablets commemorative of Suffield's citizens who have served their country in her various wars; $1,500 at the annual Town Meeting held Monday, October 4, 1920, when it was voted that the Town appropriate $1,500 additional to defray the expense of making the Pageant free; $500 at said meeting to go toward the publishing of the account of the cele- bration; a total of $11,000.
At the special Town Meeting held Wednesday, March 10, 1920, the following vote was passed:
Voted: that the matter of placing Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Tablets and having charge of same, be left with Ed- ward A. Fuller and such committee as he may desire. This
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committee subsequently decided to place the Tablets on the Town Hall and to put on them the names, as far as obtainable, of all who have served in any of the country's wars.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee held in November, 1919 Professor Jack R. Crawford of Yale University was present and explained the nature and costs of the Pageant, and it was voted to engage him to write and produce it. It was also voted to have a three days' celebration commencing October 12, 1920, and a tentative program was formulated, substantially that which was carried out later on.
During the winter of 1919-1920, the Executive Committee held about twenty meetings at which the various committees were appointed and the details of the celebration mapped out. Everyone in town co-operated most heartily and to this co-opera- tion the success of the celebration was due.
The Committees
The organization in its honorary Vice-Presidents and Com- mittees was made representative of the whole town and inclu- ded both those bearing the family names of its first settlers and those who in more recent years have become its citizens. The interest and service of all was invited and secured under the direction of the General Executive Committee and the chairmen of the various committees for special undertakings and service. This organization was as follows:
General Executive Committee: Edward A. Fuller, President, George A. Peckham, Vice-President, Edward Perkins, Samuel R. Spencer, Hobart G. Truesdell.
Honorary Vice-Presidents, Henry Adams, Joseph Adams, Hugh M. Alcorn, Brainard L. Alderman, Dominic Alfano, Leander W. Allen, Albert R. Austin, Arthur H. Austin, Charles T. Austin, Curtis Babb, John Barnett, Sr., Samuel Barr, John Barrisford, Rev. Bartkowski, David Birge, David L. Brockett, Howard A. Button, John B. Cannon, Daniel N. Car- rington, George Clark, Willette B. Clark, William A. Cone, John Conley, Lewis J. Cook, Luther N. Curtis, James Davis, John A. Davis, Luther P. Davis, Thomas F. Devine, George A. Douglass, Ephriam A. Dunston, Harlow F. Edwards, Daniel Egan, Horace G. Eggleston, Rev. Ellison, Joseph B. Fairfield, Rev. E. Scott Farley, Michael Fleming, John Ford, Ariel Frost, Charles S. Fuller, Dwight S. Fuller, Rev. Victor L. Greenwood,
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Robert L. Greer, Justin Griffin, Servilius A. Griswold, Herbert E. Halladay, Thomas S. Hamilton, George A. Harmon, Lemuel F. Hart, Frank L. Harvey, Charles E. Haskins, James O. Haskins, Frank E. Hastings, James E. Hastings, Charles Hatheway, Ern- est A. Hatheway, George M. Hendee, Egerton Hemenway, Rev. Hennessey, Wallace Holcomb, Watson L. Holcomb, Edwin L. Humason, Heman Humason, Kirk Jones, Luther A. Kent, Frank E. King, John A. King, Waldo S. Knox, Peter Kulas, William S. Larkum, Hugh S. Legare, Newton R. Lewis, Rev. William A. Linnaberry, Horatio N. Loomis, John B. Loomis, Neland Loomis, Seymour C. Loomis, A. Judson Lyman, Rev. Robert S. MacArthur, Rev. Raymond Maplesden, George Martinez, Michael Maziouski, James McCarl, David McComb, John Merrill, Christopher Michel, Henry A. Miller, Neland L. Miller, Timothy Miskell, Henry J. Moran, Walter A. Morgan, Clinton H. Nelson, John W. Noble, John H. Norton, John Orr, Samuel Orr, Sr., George B. Parks, William H. Peckham, C. Irving Pheland, Julius V. Pheland, Gilbert W. Phelps, Judah Phelps, Oscar B. Phillips, Walter H. Pierce, Oscar E. Pitcher, William S. Pinney, Luther O. Pomeroy, William W. Pomeroy, Patrick M. Quinn, Frank H. Reid, Samuel H. Reid, Charles T. Remington, Lyman H. Rice, Henry B. Richmond, Judson Rising, Henry J. Roche, Henry D. Rogers, George W. Root, James B. Rose, Irving L. Russell, Fred A. Scott, Edwin S. Seymour, Henry A. Sheldon, Howard D. Sikes, Willard C. Sikes, Andrew H. Smith, Rev. Jesse F. Smith, William C. Smith, Herbert L. Spear, Elbert J. Spelman, Alfred Spencer, Jr., Charles L. Spencer, Edward Steuer, Weston L. Stiles, Eben N. Stratton, John Sullivan, Nelson A. Talmadge, Roland V. Taylor, Charles Terry, George N. Thompson, Clinton D. Towne, Seth Veits, Isaac Warner, Ewald Wever, Rev. William W. Whitman, Charles A. Wilcox, William J. Wright, Anthony Zekowski, Michael Zekowski,
Reception Committee: George A. Harmon, Chairman; Louis G. Allen, Mrs. Hattie S. Brockett, Fred W. Brown, Dr. William E. Caldwell, Thomas B. Cooney, Amos B. Crane, Charles S. Fuller, Dwight S. Fuller, Edward A. Fuller, Samuel H. Graham, Joseph R. Gregg, James O. Haskins, Howard A. Henshaw, Karl C. Kulle, Charles R. Latham, Matthew Leahey, Sidney Kent Legare, Miss Alena F. Owen, George A. Peckham, Edward Perkins, Edgar J. Phelps, Judah Phelps, William S. Pinney, William W. Pomeroy, Clifford H. Prior, Henry B. Russell, Howard F. Russell, Charles B. Sheldon, George A. Sheldon, Herbert L. Spear, Mrs. Sara L. Spencer, Samuel R. Spencer, Weston L. Stiles, George L. Warner, Robert W. Warren, John L. Wilson, Silas L. Wood, George B. Woodruff.
Invitation Committee: Edward Perkins, Chairman; Joseph
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J. Barnett, Miss Marjorie O. Beach, John B. Cannon, Francis W. Cavanaugh, Howard C. Cone, Ralph B. Ford, William S. Fuller, Marjorie E. Halladay, Howard A. Henshaw, James O. Haskins, John L. Ingraham, William C. King, Neland Loomis, John A. Murphy, Howard F. Pease, Gilbert W. Phelps, Miss Doris G. Pomeroy, Howard F. Russell, Howard D. Sikes, Charles L. Spencer, Clinton D. Towne, George L. Warner.
Committee on Speakers and Programs: George A. Peckham, Chairman; Dr. William E. Caldwell, Terry J. Chapin, Edward J. Rogers, Philip Schwartz, Charles B. Sheldon, Samuel R. Spencer, Daniel J. Sweeney, George L. Warner.
Historical Committee: Samuel R. Spencer, Chairman; Louis G. Allen, A. A. Brown, Harold B. Chapman, E. J. Claudell, William S. Fuller, Miss Marjorie E. Halladay, Mrs. Howard E. Hastings, Karl C. Kulle, Mrs. Robert H. Loomis, Miss Alena F. Owen, Mrs. William S. Pinney, Howard F. Rus- sell, Mrs. A. C. Sheldon, Miss Madeline H. Spencer.
Tablet Committee: Edward A. Fuller, Chairman; Hugh M. Alcorn, Louis G. Allen, Albert R. Austin, Mrs. Charles C. Bissell, Leroy Briggs, Mrs. Hattie S. Brockett, Marshall Brown, Howard E. Caldwell, John B. Cannon, Nelson S. Cole, John H. Colson, John J. Conley, William M. Cooper, Amos B. Crane, Clifford C. Creelman, Luther N. Curtis, William Deutsch, John E. Dunn, Nelson A. Fitch, Sumner F. Fuller, Conrad Gardner, Albert R. Goodrich, Samuel H. Graham, Miss Mar- jorie E. Halladay, George A. Harmon, Francis E. Hastings, Wallace G. Hastings, George M. Hendee, Howard A. Henshaw, Jurges Janlowitz, Robert S. Jones, John J. Kennedy, Anthony Kulas, Karl C. Kulle, Charles R. Latham, Michael Leahey, Carlton B. Lees, Herman H. Loomis, Miss Gertrude E. Mac- Arthur, George A. Martinez, Miss Frances O. Mather, Christo- pher Michel, James Mitchell, Jr., Robert Orr, Miss Alena F. Owen, George B. Parks, Murray B. Parks, Edward Perkins, Newton T. Phelon, Ralph Raisbeck, Herbert E. Root, Irving L. Russell, Herbert L. Spear, Charles L. Spencer, Miss Madeline H. Spencer, Samuel R. Spencer, John Sullivan, Maximilian Svacki, Charles Terry, Harry C. Warner, John L. Wilson, William J. Wilson, Silas L. Wood.
Parade Committee: James N. Root, Chairman; Joseph A. Anderson, John F. Barnett, Jr., Samuel Barriesford, Joseph F. Brackonoski, Arthur H. Bridge, Howard E. Caldwell, Eugene J. Cronin, William T. Dupont, John A. Eagleson, Frank F. Ford, William S. Fuller, Burton M. Gillette, Lemuel F. Hart, George B. Jobes, Raymond S. Kent, Karl C. Kulle, Perley D. Lillie, H. Clement Mather, James Mitchell, Jr., John W. Noble, Howard F. Pease, Gilbert W. Phelps, J. Edgar Phelps, Judson
GEORGE A. PECKHAM
SAMUEL R. SPENCER
EDWARD A. FULLER
HOBART G. TRUESDELL
EDWARD PERKINS
GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Edward A. Fuller, President and Chairman Tablet Committee; George A. Peckham, Vice-President and Chairman Speakers and Program Committee; Samuel R. Spencer, Secretary and Chairman Historical Committee; Hobart G. Truesdell, Chairman Pageant Committee; Edward Perkins, Chairman Invitation Committee.
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