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WHITE, McDONALD ELLIS, BOSTON.
Great-great-grandson of WILLIAM WHITE, of Chester, New Hampshire (1740-1829) ; member of the Committee of Safety, and selectman, 1775; second
* Deceased.
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major of the New Hampshire regiment, 1775; signer of the " Association Test," 1776; muster-master of the Continental battalions raised in that State, 1777 ; mem- ber of the State Constitutional Convention, and Senator (v. " History of Chester " and N.H. State Papers).
WIGGIN, ARTHUR CROCKER, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ROBERT PIKE, of Newmarket, New Hampshire (1745-1821); sergeant of Captain Gilman's company, Colonel Poor's regiment; en- listed May 27, 1775, and served from six to eight months in the siege of Boston; captain of a company in the expedition to Rhode Island from June 26, 1777, to January 6, 1778.
WIGGIN, CHARLES EDWARD, JR., BOSTON.
Great-grandson of ROBERT PIKE, of Newmarket, New Hampshire.
(v. Arthur Crocker Wiggin.)
WILLARD, LUKE PUTNAM, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of DAVID RAND, of Stow ; private in Captain Brigham's company, Colonel Cushing's regi- ment, April, 1778 (Rev. Rolls, xvii., III) ; private in Captain Belknap's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, January, 1779 (Do., i., 64) ; private in Captain Har- rington's company, Colonel Reed's Middlesex Regi- ment, 1778 (Do., xx., 4).
Great-grandson of JABEZ BROOKS, of Lancas- ter ; private in Captain Sawyer's company, at the Lex- ington alarm; sergeant in Captain Stetson's company, Colonel Bradford's regiment, Continental Army, 1777 (Rev. Rolls, xiii., 84).
WILLARD, WILLIAM MASON, SPRINGFIELD.
Great-great-grandson of DAVID MASON, of Salem.
(v. David Mason Bryant.)
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WILLEY, WILLIAM LITHGOW, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of DARIUS WILLEY, of Camp- ton, New Hampshire; private in Captain Willoughby's company, Colonel Chase's regiment, of the Continental Army, sent to reënforce General Gates's army, Sep- tember, 1777, one month, four days' service (N.H. Rolls, ii., 382).
WILLIAMS, HOSEA PERRY, BOSTON.
Grandson of ROBERT WILLIAMS, Jr., of Bos- ton (1753-1834) ; master of the Roxbury Latin School on the breaking out of the war; paymaster of Lee's regiment, 1777, and transferred, April 5, 1779, as en- sign and paymaster of Colonel Jackson's regiment; promoted first lieutenant April 12, 1782; was at Still- water and Saratoga, 1777; Valley Forge, Monmouth, and Springfield, New Jersey ; with Sullivan in Rhode Island, 1779; in the Penobscot expedition ; joined the army under Washington in New York, where he re- mained until the close of the war; treasurer of the Cincinnati.
WILLIS, HENRY AUGUSTUS, FITCHBURG.
Grandson of HOPESTILL WILLIS, of Sudbury (1747-1823); private in Captain Nixon's company of minute-men that marched to Concord, April 19, 1775, and pursued the British retreating from the North Bridge; lieutenant of Captain Wheeler's com- pany, Colonel Reed's regiment, and served two years under Gates.
Grandson of JOHN MERRIAM, of East Sudbury (1761-1843) ; private in Captain Williams's company, Colonel Sprout's regiment, for six months from July, 1780 (Certificate of the Pension Bureau, 1893).
WILLIS, WILLIAM MERRIAM, FITCHBURG.
Grandson of HOPESTILL WILLIS, of Sudbury. Grandson of JOHN MERRIAM, of East Sudbury. (v. Henry Augustus Willis.)
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WINKLEY, JOHN FRANK, WOBURN.
Grandson of FRANCIS WINKLEY, of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire; a soldier in the Continental Army.
Great-grandson of Deacon ELISHA HILL, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; a recognized patriot of that State.
Great-grandson of SAMUEL BRADSTREET HOBART, of Hollis, New Hampshire (1734-1788) ; member of the Provincial Congress, 1775 ; paymaster of Colonel Stark's regiment, and mustering officer (N.H. Rolls, i., 37, 49, 77) ; major of the Fifth Regi- ment, 1775; hearing, at Cambridge, General Wash- ington speak with regret of the few powder-mills in operation, he purchased property in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he manufactured powder until the close of the war; member of the Committee of Safety, 1779-80.
WINKLEY, SAMUEL HOBART, BOSTON.
Grandson of FRANCIS WINKLEY.
Great-grandson of ELISHA HILL. Great-grandson of SAMUEL BRADSTREET HOBART.
(v. John Frank Winkley.)
WOOD, ALVA SYLVANUS, WOBURN.
Grandson of SYLVANUS WOOD, Sr., a lieuten- ant at Lexington, capturing, as he claimed, the first prisoner of the war, on that day; served eight months in 1775; reënlisted in his brother, Capt. John Wood's, company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment; lieutenant, 1776; discharged for wounds, 1778 (v. Ripley's " History of the Concord Fight ").
* Deceased.
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WOOD, JAMES BARRETT, CONCORD.
Great-great-grandson of JAMES BARRETT, of Concord.
(v. Edwin Shepard Barrett.)
WOODBURY, LOUIS AUGUSTUS, GROVELAND.
Grandson of LUKE WOODBURY, of Salem, New Hampshire (1751-1827) ; corporal in Captain Wood- bury's company, April 23, 1775 ; marched to Medford in Colonel Stark's regiment, and was at Bunker Hill; sergeant, 1776; at the siege of Boston until the evac- uation, and went with the forces under Washington to Albany; ensign in Captain Robinson's company, Col- onel Hale's battalion, May, 1777 ; lieutenant, Septem- ber 20, 1777, for meritorious action at Bemis Heights ; was in the Jerseys, at Saratoga and Crown Point; in command at Fort Montgomery, 1780; resigned April 19, 1781.
WRIGHT, FRANK VERNON HAMILTON.
Great-grandson of DAVID WRIGHT, of Hollis, New Hampshire (1735- ); private in Colonel Stark's regiment at Bunker Hill.
Great-grandson of PETER DOLLIVER, adjutant of Paul D. Sargent's Sixteenth Massachusetts Regi- ment, 1775-6; acting major of brigade, October, 1776; captain in Colonel Jackson's regiment, 1777 ; member of the Cincinnati.
WRIGHT, SAMUEL COLE, BOSTON.
Great-grandson of EZEKIEL LORING, of Plymp- ton; private in Capt. Thomas Loring's Plympton company that marched to Marshfield at the Lexington alarm (Rolls, xii., 183) ; second lieutenant in the Third Company, Captain Samson, of the First Plymouth County Militia Regiment, June, 1776 (Rev. Rolls, xxviii., 117).
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YOUNG, CHARLES FRED, LOWELL.
Great-grandson of ASAPH KING, of Wilbraham (1747-1832) ; appointed assistant paymaster, with the rank of lieutenant; served under General Sullivan in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778 (v. “ Year Book of the S. A. R., District of Columbia," 1891, p. 96).
Great-grandson of SHUBAEL BAYLEY, of Lancaster (1740- ); was in line when Washington took command of the army, and by his height (six feet seven inches) attracted the attention of the com- mander-in-chief, who is said to have addressed him; his brother, Colonel James Bayley, was on Lafayette's staff, and entertained him a week at Sterling, on his visit to America in 1824.
OFFICERS
OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
1893-94.
President General
HORACE PORTER,
15 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
Vice-President General
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,
GRAND CENTRAL STATION, NEW YORK.
Vice-President General
HENRY M. SHEPARD, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
Vice-President General
THOMAS M. ANDERSON, U.S.A.,
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, WASHINGTON.
Vice-President General
J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, U.S.A., WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Vice-President General
HENRY C. ROBINSON, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Secretary General
FRANKLIN MURPHY, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
Treasurer General
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS, 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
Registrar General
A. HOWARD CLARK, NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Historian General
HENRY HALL, 154 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
Chaplain General
The Right Rev. CHARLES E.
CHENEY, D.D.,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
Board of Managers
The GENERAL OFFICERS and
the PRESIDENTS of STATE
SOCIETIES, ex-officio.
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CONSTITUTION
OF THE
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
[As amended at the Congress of the National Society, at Chicago, June 16, 1893.]
ARTICLE I.
NAME.
The name of this Society shall be "The Sons of the American Revolution."
ARTICLE II.
OBJECTS.
The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of the men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of 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 the government founded by our forefathers; to encourage historical research in relation to the American Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the War, as well as documents, relics, and landmarks; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by ap- propriate memorials; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the War; to foster true patriot- ism ; to maintain and extend the institutions of American
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freedom; and to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble to the Constitution of our Country and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American people.
ARTICLE III.
MEMBERSHIP.
SECTION I. Any man shall be eligible to membership in this Society, who, being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of good repute in the com- munity, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and rendered actual 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 Correspond- ence; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial Congress or Legislature; or as a civil officer, either of one of the Colonies or States or of the national government; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain.
SECT. 2. Applications for membership shall be made to any State Society, in duplicate, upon blank forms pre- scribed by the General Board of Managers, and shall in each case set forth the name, occupation, and residence of the applicant, his line of descent, and the name, resi- dence, and services of his ancestor or ancestors in the Revolution, from whom he derives eligibility. The appli- cant shall make oath that the statements of his applica- tion are true, to the best of his knowledge and belief. Upon the approval of an application by the State Society, to which it is made, one copy shall be transmitted to the Registrar General of the National Society, who shall ex- amine further the eligibility of the applicant. If satisfied that the member is not eligible, he shall return the appli-
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cation for correction. No election of a new member shall be valid, unless his eligibility shall be approved by the Registrar General.
SECT. 3. A State Society may provide for life mem- bership by the payment into its treasury of a sum, in commutation of annual dues, not less than fifty dollars.
SECT. 4. The official designation of the members of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution shall be " Compatriots."
ARTICLE IV.
NATIONAL AND STATE SOCIETIES.
SECTION I. The National Society shall embrace all the members of the State Societies of the Sons of the American Revolution, now existing or which may here- after be established under this Constitution.
SECT. 2. Whenever in any State or Territory, in which a State Society does not exist, or in which a State Society has become inactive or failed for two years to pay its annual dues to the National Society, fifteen or more per- sons duly qualified for membership in this Society may associate themselves as a State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and organize in accordance with this Constitution; they may be admitted by the General Board of Managers to the National Society as " The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution," and shall thereafter have exclusive local jurisdiction in the State or Territory or in the District in which they are organized, subject to the provisions of this Constitution ; but this provision shall not be construed so as to exclude the admission of members living in other States.
SECT. 3. Each State Society shall judge of the quali- fications of its members and of those proposed for member- ship, subject to the provisions of this Constitution, and shall regulate all matters pertaining to its own affairs. It shall have authority to establish local chapters within its own jurisdiction and to endow the chapters with such power as it may deem proper, not inconsistent with this
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Constitution. It shall have authority, after due notice and impartial trial, to expel any member who, by con- duct unbecoming a gentleman, shall render himself un- worthy to remain a member of the Society.
SECT. 4. Each State Society shall submit to the Annual Congress of the National Society a report, set- ting forth by name the additions, transfers, and deaths, and any other changes in the membership and progress of the State Society during the preceding year, and make such suggestions as it shall deem proper for the promo- tion of the objects of the whole order.
SECT. 5. Whenever a member in good standing in his Society changes his residence from the jurisdiction of the State Society of which he is a member, to that of another, he shall be entitled, if he so elects, to a certifi- cate of honorable demission from his own State Society, in order that he may be transferred to the State Society to whose jurisdiction he has changed his residence ; pro- vided, that his membership shall continue in the former until he shall have been elected a member of the latter. Each State Society shall, however, retain full control of the admission of members by transfer.
SECT. 6. Wherever the word "State " occurs in this Constitution, it shall be held to include within its mean- ing the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States.
ARTICLE V.
OFFICERS AND MANAGERS.
SECTION I. The General Officers of the National So- ciety shall be a President General, five Vice-Presidents General, a Secretary General, Treasurer General, Regis- trar General, Historian General, and Chaplain General, who shall be elected by ballot by a vote of the majority of the members present at the annual meeting of the Congress of the National Society, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors shall be elected.
SECT. 2. The General Officers, together with the
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Presidents of the State Societies ex-officio, shall constitute the General Board of Managers of the National Society, which Board shall have authority to adopt and promul- gate the By-laws of the National Society, to prescribe the duties of the General Officers, to provide the seal, to designate and make regulations for the issue of the insignia, and to transact the general business of the Na- tional Society during the intervals between the sessions of the Congress. Meetings of the General Board may be held, after not less than ten days' notice, at the call of the President General, or, in case of his absence or inability, at the call of the senior Vice-President General, certified by the Secretary General. Meetings shall be called at the request of seven members. At all such meetings, seven shall constitute a quorum.
SECT. 3. An Executive Committee of seven, of whom the President General shall be the Chairman, may be elected by the Board of Managers, which Committee shall, in the interim between the meetings of the Board, transact such business as shall be delegated to it by the Board of Managers.
ARTICLE VI.
DUES.
Each State Society shall pay annually to the Treasurer General, to defray the expenses of the National Society, fifty cents for each active member thereof, unless inter- mitted by the National Congress. All such dues shall be paid on or before the first day of April in each year for the ensuing year, in order to secure representation in the Congress of the National Society.
ARTICLE VII. MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS.
SECTION I. The annual Congress of the National Society for the election of the General Officers and for the transaction of business shall be held on the 30th day of April, or on the first day of May, in every year.
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The time, hour, and place of such meeting shall be designated by the Board of Managers.
SECT. 2. Special meetings of the Congress may be called by the President General, and shall be called by him when directed so to do by the Board of Managers, or whenever requested in writing so to do by at least five State Societies, on giving thirty days' notice, specifying the time and place of such meeting and the business to be transacted.
SECT. 3. The following shall be members of all such annual or special meetings of the Congress, and shall be entitled to vote therein :
(I.) All the Officers and the ex-Presidents General of the National Society.
(2.) The Vice-President and Senior Vice-President of each State Society.
(3.) One delegate at large from each State Society.
(4.) One delegate for every one hundred members of the Society within a State, and for a fraction of fifty or over.
ARTICLE VIII.
AMENDMENTS.
The Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of the Congress of the National Society, pro- vided that sixty days' notice of the proposed alterations or amendments, which shall first have been recommended by a State Society, shall be sent by the Secretary General to the President of each State Society. A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to their adoption.
THE MARKER OF REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES.
The subject of identifying and marking the graves of Revolutionary soldiers has for some time engaged the attention of this society. At the last annual meeting the
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committee previously appointed was authorized to pro- cure designs for a tablet of iron or bronze, to be placed at the head of the graves of soldiers of the Revolution,
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within the limits of this Commonwealth. At the semi- annual meeting held in Marblehead on the 19th of Octo- ber, 1893, the design of an iron marker presented by the committee was accepted, and a sketch of it is given on the previous page. At the top of the rod is the cross of St. Louis one foot in diameter, being the ensign or badge of the society, with the figure of the Concord minute-man, instead of the head of Washington. Each arm of the cross contains a letter of the inscription, "S.A.R." (Soldier of the American Revolution), the lower arm having the date, " 1775." A socket can be attached to the rod to hold a bouquet of flowers, to be placed in it on Memorial day, when it is hoped all graves of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors will be decorated by the pious hands of their descendants or by the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.
At the semi-annual meeting at Marblehead, the man- agers were authorized to purchase fifty of these markers, to be given to such towns as may wish to inspect them with a view to their adoption.
The markers in iron cost one dollar each, and are man- ufactured by M. D. Jones & Co., 76 Washington street, Boston, to whom all orders should be sent.
A marker in bronze, of finer workmanship, but of sim- ilar design, will be furnished by the same firm.
At the last annual meeting, the committee reported in favor of petitioning the next legislature that towns and cities may be authorized to appropriate money to defray the cost of these markers. Such petitions will be pre- pared in proper time.
Members of the society and all persons interested in this praiseworthy object are urgently requested to bring it before the authorities of towns and cities, and to spare no efforts that the graves of our Revolutionary patriots, now often neglected and unmarked, may be the objects of reverent care, and receive each year the tribute of a grateful people.
See page 169.
LEXINGTON MONUMENT AND BATTLE-GROUND.
Sacred to the Liberty and the Rights of Manfind !!! the Freedom and Independence of America, Sealed and defended with the Blood of fer Sons. this Monument is erected Be the inhabitants of Lexington, Under the patronage and at the expense of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the memory of their Selfown Citizens, Ensign Robert Monroe, and messrs. Jonas parfter, Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington, funr., Isaac Muzze, Cafes Harrington and John Broron, Of Lexington, and @saßel (porter of Woburn, mbo feff on this field, the first Victims to the Sword of British Egranny and Oppression, On the morning of the eber memorable Nineteenth of April, En. Dom. 1775. Efe Die mas cast !!! the Blood of these Marters In the cause of God and their country mas the Cement of the Union of the States, then Colonies, and gabe the spring to the Spirit, Firmness And Resolution of their Sefforn Citizens. Eher rose as one man to revenge their Brethren's Blood, and at the point of the Sword, to assert and Defend their native Rights. they noffy dar'd to Be free !! the contest was fong, Blood and affecting. Righteous Teaben approved the solemn appeaf, Victory crowned their arms; and the peace, Liberty, and Independence of the United States of America was their Glorious Bernard.
Inscription on the Lexington Monument.
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Tere On the 19 of April 1775, was made the first forcible resistance to British aggression. On the opposite Banft stood the american Militia. Tere stood the Inbading army, and on this spot the first of the Enemy felt, in the mar of that Revolution Which gabe Independence to these United States. In gratitude to Bod, and In the Love of Freedom, this Monument mas erected @.9. 1836.
Inscription on the Old Monument at the North Bridge, Concord.
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THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE, CONCORD. Taken from the British nocition
See have 170.
ACTON MONUMENT To the Memory of Capt. Isaac Davis, and Privates Abner Hosmer and James Hayward, who fell in Concord fight, April 19, 1775.
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be commonwealth of Massachusetts
& The Town of Acton
cosoperating to perpetuate the fame of glorious deeds of patriotism Babe erected this monument in honor of Capt. Isaac Davis
& privates UBner Hosmer & James Haplard citizen soldiers of acton & provincial Minutes men Inho feff in Concord Sight the 19th of april @.9. 1775
on the morning of that eventful day the Provincial Officers Belo a Council of mar near the ofd North Bridge in Concord & as they separated Dabis exclaimed "J Baben't a man that is afraid to go" & immediately marched Bis company from the left to the right of the fine & fed in this first organized attach upon the Eroops of George JJJ. in that memorable war Which By the help of God made the EBirteen Colonies independent of Great Britain & gabe political Being to the United States of america Acton @p. 1966 1851
Inscription on the Acton Monument.
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INFORMATION.
Persons eligible for membership in the Massachusetts Society can obtain the necessary information concerning their Revolutionary ancestors at the office of the Secretary of State, in the State House, Boston. The clerks in the office will aid an applicant in his research, and for a fee of three dollars a certificate will be given, signed by the Secretary of State, detailing the ancestor's service.
If the ancestor was a pensioner, application can be made directly to the Pension Office in Washington for a certificate, and this evidence is conclusive. No charge is made unless for extraordinary services.
The Registrar, Nathan Warren, Equitable Building, Boston, will furnish information to those wishing to be- come members of the Society.
Notices of corrections or additions to the record of members in the Membership Roll of this volume may be sent to the Historian of the Society, S. Arthur Bent, Old State House, Boston, for insertion in subsequent editions.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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BOARD OF MANAGERS .
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
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MEMBERSHIP ROLL, 1893-4 .
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THE MARKER OF REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES
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OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY
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THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, APRIL 19, 1775
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THE SURVIVORS OF BUNKER HILL, 1825
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THE NUMBER OF SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTION
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INSIGNIA
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INFORMATION
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LIST OF MEMBERS, 1894
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BOARD OF MANAGERS. 1894-1895.
PRESIDENT.
EDWIN SHEPARD BARRETT
Concord.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
EDWARD JACOB FORSTER
Boston.
HENRY CABOT LODGE
Nahant.
NATHAN APPLETON
Boston.
SECRETARY.
HERBERT WOOD KIMBALL
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Boston.
REGISTRAR.
FRANCIS HENRY BROWN . TREASURER.
Boston.
CHARLES MONTRAVILLE GREEN .
Boston.
HISTORIAN.
SAMUEL ARTHUR BENT . . Brookline.
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