Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.. READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 1, 1920. To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: The Board of Directors beg to submit the following report for the past year. At the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society held March 3d, 1919, the following officers and directors were elected: President, J. Granville Leach. Vice-Presidents, Charles Penrose Keith, Edward Stalker Sayres, John Frederick Lewis. Becording Secretary, Ernest Spofford. Corresponding Secretary, Edward Bobins. Treasurer, C. Howard Colket. Historian, Ogden Dungan Wilkinson. Directors, to serve three years, Mrs. James Mifflin, Stevenson Hock¬ ley Walsh, Charles Francis Jenkins. After the election, John F. Lewis, Esquire, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, who served with distinction as Chief of Section No. 2 of the Recruiting Service of the U. S. Shipping Board during the period of this country’s participation in the World War, gave a most interesting and informing address on “Making Navigators and Engineers for the Merchant Marine.’’ Miss May Atherton Leach then read a paper prepared under the direc¬ tion of Miss Margaret Donaldson Williams, entitled “A Brief Remin¬ iscence of the First Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President,” which was followed by some informal discussion. At a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held April 21, 1919, the President appointed The Associate Committee of Women: Mrs. James Mifflin, Chairman Mrs. Alvin A. Parker Mrs. Thomas H. Ball Mrs. Henry Pemberton, Jr. Mrs. Louis F. Benson Mrs. Harry Rogers Mrs. C. Howard Colket Mrs. Willard Saulsbury Miss Anne H. Cresson Mrs. John Scott, Jr. Miss Margaret R. Grundy Miss Mary E. Sinnott Miss May Atherton Leach Miss Anne H. Wharton Miss Anna J. Magee Miss Mary Couper Williams ( 289) 290 Twenty-eighth Annual Report of Board of Directors. Subsequently Miss Helen K. Morton was added to the Committee. The membership of the Society is as follows: Number of members March 1, 1919 Deaths during the year Resignations Dropped from the roll 308 12 6 3 21 Elected and qualified during the year 287 40 Number of members March 1, 1920 . 327 The membership classified is as follows: Honorary Life . Active Publication Fund 6 101 204 16 327 The following were transferred from active to life membership : Miss Margaret R. Grundy Thomas H. Powers Mrs. J. Harrison Smith During the year the additions to membership were: Henry R. Edmunds Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (honorary member) Charles J. Cohen Mrs. William H. Rigby Miss Anna M. Reed Charles Dilks Mrs. Linwood L. Righter Miss L. E. A. Righter Mrs. Thomas H. Ball (life member) Norman Forbes Milne (life member) Mrs. George P. Douglas (life member) Oliver B. Dickinson Mrs. Frank H. Taylor Mrs. Chandler W. Smith Philip W. Henry Ralph B. Strassburger Joseph Le Conte Perkins William Heyser John S. Arndt (life member) Mrs. Richard P. Tatum (life member) Miss Emily Bell Horace W. Dickerman A. Edward Newton Mrs. W. Harry Brown Miss Laura Bell John J. Kerr Oaskie Miss Sarah P. Sellers Alfred Lewis Ward Alfred Coxe Prime Franklin D. Edmunds Mrs. James H. Emaek Miss Hannah T. Shipley Miss Minnie F. Mickley Mrs. Leigh French Mrs. William Brooke Rawle The Western Reserve Historical Society (Publication Fund) Mrs. C. Harold Tiers Claude Montgomery Plowman Captain Clifton Lisle (life member) Mrs. William M. Field Twenty-eighth Annual Report of Board of Directors. 291 ■With profound regret the Beard reports the death during the year of the following members: Henry J. Maris, died February 4, 1919. Thomas Skelton Harrison, died May 3, 1919. Miss Mary E. Sinnott (life member), died May 5, 1919. A. Charles Barclay, died May 25, 1919. Mrs. William M. Clift, died June 16, 1919. John B. Morgan, died June 16, 1919. Eben G. Scott, died July 5, 1919. Joseph I. Doran, died July 21, 1919. George Gilpin, died August 23, 1919. George W. Elkins, died October 23, 1919. Mrs. John Strothers, died January 2, 1920. Gustav A. Schwarz, died February 24, 1920. Shortly after the last annual meeting, No. 2 of Yol. VII of the Pub¬ lications was duly distributed among the members. No. 3 of Yol. VII is now in press. The Treasurer’s report is elsewhere given in detail. It has been deemed advisable that the Society should be incorporated, and application for a charter has been made to the court. The Collections of the Society now number 377 volumes, of which the following were added during the year: Cumberland County, New Jersey, Marriages, 1795-1837. Cape May County, New Jersey, Marriages, 1694-1830. St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Barren Hill, Montgomery County, Penn¬ sylvania, Becords, 1851-1919. Cohansey Baptist Church, Cumberland County, New Jersey, Records, 1757-1878. Troth Papers, Volumes VII, VIII, IX. Burlington County, New Jersey, Marriages, 1795-1826. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, York County, Pennsylvania, Baptisms, 1733-1775. St. John’s P. E. Church, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Births 1815-1917; Marriages 1815-1916; Deaths 1851-1916; Tombstone In¬ scriptions. The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: American Catholic Historical Society, Records of. Volume XXX. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. American Historical Association, Proceedings of the Thirteenth An¬ nual Conference of Historical Societies. Annual Report, 1916, Volumes I, II. Brown Brothers and Company. Experiences of a Century, 1818-1918. / 292 Twenty-eighth Annual Report of Board of Directors ♦ Busch, Miers. Social Register, Summer 1918. Poster, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson. Fleury Bible. Friends Historical Society, Devonshire House, London, Journal of. Hay, Southard. Biographical Sketeh of Peter Hay. Historical Department of Iowa. Iowa Authors and their Works. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The. Tombstone Inscriptions from Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France; Boston Evening Transcript, Notes and Queries 1903-04. Kansas State Historical Society. Twenty-first Biennial Report, 19171918. Lemmon, E. S. Alexander Bible Record. Library of Congress. Report for 1919. Ljungstedt, Mrs. Olof A. Bible record of Anderson family of Win¬ chester, Ya. Louisiana Historical Society, Quarterly of. Volume II, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. Lungorn, C. Howard. Sandy Bank Grave Yard, Delaware County, Pa. Burials. McAllister, Addams S. Tombstone Inscriptions of St. James P. E. Church of Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; tombstone inscriptions of Norriton Presbyterian Church, Norriton, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. McMahon, Miss Lillian T. Genealogy of William Ring York. Manhattan Company. Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of the Bank of. New Jersey Historical Society, Proceedings of. Volume III, No. 4. New York State Library. Bulletin of the University of the State of New York. North Carolina Historical Society, The. The James Sprunt Histor¬ ical Publications, Volume XVI, No. 2. Patterson, Thomas Hamilton Hogc. The De Gourcy Family. Righter, Mrs. Linwood L. Brandywine Manor Presbyterian Church, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Tombstone Inscriptions; clippings from the Magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Rogers, Mrs. Harry. Burials of Trinity Church on Racoon Creek, Swedesboro, New Jersey, 1725-1858. Sargent, Winthrop. The Sargent Family and the Old Sargent Homes. Smith, Mrs. R. Hobart. Potts Family, two volumes in manuscript. Steinmetz, Mrs. C. N. Hiester Marriages, Reading, Pennsylvania; First Reformed Church, Reading, Pennsylvania, Marriages 1793-1814, Confirmations 1794-1798. Stewart, Frank H. Photostat copies of Swedesboro Protestant Epis¬ copal Church Records; A Brief Account of Woodbury Creek Dam. Stratton, Howard F. Philadelphia Directory 1807 ; Poulson ’s American Daily Advertiser, June 21, 1804, December 18, 1819 ; The National Gazette and Literary Register, July 7, 1826, July 23, 1827; United States Gazette, February 8, 1831, October 13, 1832; Public Ledger, March 25, 1836.