Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA . BEAD AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 3, 1924. To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Directors begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1923. At the thirty-first annual meeting of the Society held March 5, 1923, the following named officers and directors were elected : President, Charles P. Keith. Vice- Presidents , Edward S. Sayres, John F. Lewis, Stevenson H. Walsh. . Recording Secretary, Ernest Spofford Corresponding Secretary Edward Robins , . Historian, Prank Worthington Melvin, Treasurer , Ogden D Wilkinson Directors, to serve three years Norris S Barratt, David Milne, Wilbur P. Klapp, M. D. to serve two years Miss May Atherton Leach Immediately following the election, Charles P Keith, Litt D , President of the Society, delivered an address on Given Names Formerly in Common Use The usual supper for the members and guests was then served At a regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held January 16, 1923, the suggestion of The Associate Committee of Women that, the Directors cooperate with them in providing a silver cup for presentation to Mr C Howard Colket as a testimonial of the high esteem in which he is held and in recognition of his many years efficient services as Treasurer of the Society and Chairman of its Executive Committee, was on motion unanimously adopted, with the understanding that the cup should be paid for by subscription and not out of the treasury of the Society, At this same meeting Section Y, Article II, of the By Laws was amended to read : “ The Board by unanimous vote of the members present at any stated meeting may, in recognition of services rendered, elect Honorary Vice Presidents, so that there shall not be more than three at any one time/’ Whereupon Alfred Percival Smith , Esq., and Mies Anna Justina Magee were duly elected Honorary Vice- Presidents. At the February meeting Mr. Prank Worthington Melvin was elected Historian of the Society At the April meeting a letter was read, dated March 19, 1923, from The Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, askifcg The Genealogical Society to cooperate with the Pounders and Patriots in an effort to prevent persona ef foreign birth from using old American family names in connection with applications for naturalization or for change of name On motion the Board agreed to such co operation with the Pounders and Patriots when the next applications for changes of names were presented to the local courts At a special meeting held May 1, 1923, Vice President Stevenson Hockley Walsh announced the death, on April 27, 1923, of the senior Vice President, Edward Stalker Sayres, EBq , and on motion a committee was * appointed to prepare a suitable memorial resolution . . , . , . .. . . . . . - - . . - . . - - * See Resolution on Interleaf . ( 100 ) 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty -second Annual Report . 101 At the November meeting the Corresponding Secretary, Edward Robins, was elected a Vice President ; whereupon he resigned his secretaryship, and Miss May Atherton Leach was elected to fill the vacancy. Hon. George Henderson was elected a Director At the December meeting announcement was made of the death, on December 12, 1923, of Miss Anna Justina Magee, an Honorary Vice President, deeply interested in the Society Her gifts were exceedingly thoughtful and generous She was a liberal contributor to the J Granville Leach Memorial, the Photostat and other funds ; and her unexpected and unsolicited gifts on two occasions in recent years amounted to $7500 Although the photostat, purchased daring the year, has been in operation scarcely more than six months, many important records have been repro duced for the Society, and the prints made for others have resulted in a fair margin of profit In addition to the photostat copies of Church and other records indicated in this report under the collections of the Society added during the year, some fifty-five photostat negatives have been made from the earliest original wills, inventories and accounts which were sent to the Historical Society 's building by the Philadelphia Registry of Wills, and many of them not any too soon, for much needed restoration and repair This work was made possible largely through the good offices of Mr Alfred Coxe Prime, an active member of this Society, and has led to a substantial appropriation by the City, thus assuring the con tinuance of the undertaking Although thiB report is for the calendar year 1923, it became the sad duty of the Board to adopt memorial resolutions at both the January and * February meetings of 1924 These two resolutions follow : - . . . . . . . . - . . . During the year 52 new members were enrolled The membership, the largest in the history of the Society, is as follows : Number of members, January 1, 1923 543 Deaths 11 Resignations 7 Dropped from the roll * 25 523 53 Elected and qualified Number of members January 1, 1924 The membership classified is as follows: Honorary 576 3 .. Life Annual I » I Publication Fund * * * * * * « * « m * * . .. « * 161 396 16 576 The following were transferred from annual to life membership : Mrs. Harry Rogers • See Interleaf . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 102 Thirty -second Annual Report . During the year the additions to membership were : L i f e Members . Rev. Preston A. Laury Sidney Wentworth Milne Mrs. S. West ray Battle Howard B. French George H. Fairchild Harry Timothy Morris • Josi&h V. Thompson Mrs. Carrie Stewart Metcalf George Miller Jones Mrs. Michael P. McGeehan William Macpherson Horoor, Esq. Annual Members , Mrs. John R. Urns ted Gapt. Warren Patten Coon Herbert C. Stanton, M. D. N* Myers Fitter Mrs. George C. Thomas Mrs. N. Myers Fitter Mrs . George F. Hodkinson Miss Anne Collings Knight Mrs. Harry B. Shoemaker Mrs. Charles Henry Scott H. G. Shull Mrs. Ashbel Welch Mrs. John I, MeGuigan Mrs. Willard Spenser Mrs. Charles W. Nevin Mrs. William Fisher Norris Mrs. Henry Cooper Marshall Mrs. John A. Brown, Jr. George C. C. Stout Frank Aydelotte, Litt.D. Mis. Lewis Audenried Mrs. Stanley Griswold Flagg, Jr. Rev. William S. Mitchell Mrs. V. E. Barrington Emil Leute Mrs. Albert H. Fritz Mrs, Thomas H , Fenton Miss Emeline Stanfield Yarnall Miss Eva R. Klemm Mrs, Isaac R . Davis Mrs. J. William White Spencer Ervin Mrs, Clarence G. Crispin Mrs, Henry D. Jump Mrs. Margaret Tustin 0 'Harra Mrs. Otto W. Kulling Thomas Butler T. H. Bateman Edgar Fahs Smith, Latt.D. Mrs. Horace Jones Mrs. Edwin Stapler The following named members were elected in January and February, 1924 : Captain Augustin Runyon Peale Mrs, Whitney Smith James Sidney Lovatt, Jr. Mrs. W. Beaumont Whitney Chester C. Craig Mrs. Edward Ilsley Mrs. George H . Earle, Jr. Mrs, Edward S, Sayres With profound regret the Board reports the death of the following named members : John Scott, Jr., Esq,, died January 23, 1923. Samuel Vaughan Merrick, died March, 1923, John Story Jenkg, died April 7, 1923. Edward Stalker Sayres, Esq., died April 27, 1923. Henry Reeves Edmunds, died May 5, 1923. Miss Sarah A . Risley, died October 7, 1923. Hon. Charles Francis Gummey, died December 20, 1923. Miss Anna Justina Magee, died December 12, 1923. Stevenson Hockley Walsh, died December 29, 1923. Miss Emma Cadbury, died August, 1923. Mrs. .T. Stevenson Mitchell , died November 14, 1923. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 103 Thirty-second Annual Report . The Collections of the Society now number 533 volumes, of which the following were added during the year: Hough Papers, 9 Volumes Lineaweaver Papers The Middletons of New Jersey. Fort Miller, New York, Burial Records, 1832-1880 Bernard Gardiner Family Papers and Records of Allied Families . . . . . Haseltine and Allied Families The Straseburger Family and Allied Families of Pennsylvania Westmoreland District Probate Records, 1777 1783 ( photostat copy ) . Old Swedes Church, Pennsneck , New Jersey, 1750-1791 ( photostat copy ). Old Swedes ( Gloria Dei) Church, Philadelphia, Volume I, Baptisms, 1750 1789 ; Marriages, 1750-1779 ; Volume IX, Baptisms, 1789 1822 ; Marriages, 1779 1793 ; Volume III, Baptisms, 1822 1878 ; Marriages, 1793 1795 First Reformed Church, Reading, Pennsylvania. Oley Lutheran Church, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania Linvill Creek Baptist Church, Rockingham County, Virginia, Records, 1756-1884 (photostat copy) . - - . - - - . . The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: Betts, Mrs Mary Irwin Irwin Family Data Boggs, Mrs W R. Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cropwell ( New Jersey) Friends Graveyard Busch, Miers. Social Register, 1922 ; Summer, 1922. Carson, Hon Hampton L. The Humphreys Family, a reprint. Clement, John B “ The Lost Township and the Woman with a Vision , 7 ’ a newspaper cutting ; Chart of the Clement and Collateral . . . . . . . . . Families DeLong, Dr Irwin H Stauffer Family Data. Fothergill, Mrs Augusta B. Copy of the passport of James Leech , 1763 Gardner, Edgar Stanley Bernard Gardiner Family Papers and Records of Allied Families Gummere, Mrs Francis B Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rickey and Mary Cresson Herrick, Cheesman A., Litt D Stephen Girard, Founder, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Notes concerning the Smiley Family of Venango County, Pa ; Bible Records of the Hastings, McClellan and Russel Families Jeanes, Mrs Joseph Y, Chart of the Ford Family of Maryland. Jenkins, Charles F, Data concerning the Humphreys Family ; Genea logical History of the Quinby Family Lehigh County Historical Society, Proceedings, 1921 and 1922 Lewis, John Frederick, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale. Library of Congress Reports for 1922 and 1923 Ljungstedt, Mrs Milnor County Court Note-Book, numbers for 1923 Louisiana Historical Society The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 1923 Lnckhuret, Mrs Charlotte T Fort Miller, New York, Burial Records McGuigan, Mrs, John I. William Clark Genealogy . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . - . . . 1924 . . . . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . . . . PGM Vol IX Thirty - second Annual Report , 104 . . Middleton, William J , M D, Bible Records of the Ely Family ; The Middletons of New Jersey Moore, Eleanor Moore H , M D Blair and McAlister Family data Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, Litt.D, Tombstone Inscriptions front Old MifBinburg Graveyard ; i £ Keim Ancestral Record and Heirlooms, Mirror Life of Bygone Period / ’ a newspaper cutting . Rogers, Mrs Harry. Inscriptions from Barnstable Graveyard ; clip pings from Barnstable Patriot ; Boston Transcript, 11 volumes and m iscelleaneous newspapers Sayres, Mrs, Edward S Genealogical Quarterly Magazine Scarborough, Henry W Genealogical Data of the Paxson, Harding and Allied Families. Shoemaker, Col Henry W A Forgotten People ; The Penn Moun taineer ; The Importance of Marking Historic Spots ; The Changing of Historic Place Names Spangler, Mrs Newton B Bible Records of the Arthur Smith Family. Steinmetz, Mrs, Charles M Private Records of the Rev William Pauli, . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . Reading, Pa . Stevens, Mrs. Francis B. The Kilbourn Family. Stewart, Dr Frances E. Data concerning Masonic connection of Gen. Hugh Mercer ; Stewart Clan Magazine Stewart, Frank H Bible Records of the Ward Family ; Year Book of The New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, 1922 Strauss, B Morris Baptisms, Marriages and Burial Records of Moravian Church of Bethel, in Bethel Township, Lebanon County, Pa Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. The Strassburger Family and Allied Families of Pennsylvania. Townsend, Mrs Arthur P A Record of the Allen Family ; The John and Thomas Rodman Chart Turner, Rev C H, B Abstracts of some Sussex County Deeds ; Bible Records of the Baldwin Family Turner, Rev Joseph B, Maxim Bible Records Tyler, Lyon G. Tyler ’s Historical and Genealogical Quarterly Magazine White, William In re Dundas Family, Pedigree of Jane Dundas White. Woodhouse, S W , Jr . Photograph of Wedding Certificate of Richard Humphreys. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P KEITH, President. ERNEST SPOFFORD, Recording Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX EDWARD STALKER SAYRES , ESQ. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania , held in the Council Room of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Monday afternoon , June llth, 1923, the follow ing Minute was unanimously adopted : - The Board of Directors of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania desires to record its profound regret and sincere grief at the death on April 27th, 1923, of Edward Stalker Sayres, Esquire, senior Yice- President of the Society. i i MMr, Sayres was one of the five original founders of the Society , which was organized at the house of Charles Riche Hildeburn , in Clinton Street , Philadelphia , on the evening of February 13 th , 1892 All five have now passed away * * “ Since its founding Mr Sayres was an earnest and moat active * officer of the Society. He was elected on February 19th , 1892, its first Recording Secretary , and, in 1917 , became a Vice - President , which office he held at his decease * He was a learned lawyer, most interested in historical and patriotic hereditary societies, in many of which he held high office, while hie importance in the community has been witnessed by the various positions which he creditably filled in business, charitable and religious bodies To this Society his loss is immeasurably great During thirty - one years he served it assiduously, and his wise counsel, especially in legal matters, wiU be greatly missed To the Committees on which he served, he brought a broad and varied knowledge of affairs an unusual aptitude for conciliation , and an unrestricted ability to judge matters accurately * 4 i * * A gentleman of the old school , he was indeed a rare spirit an inspiration to all who knew him, and died , full of years and honors, after a life spent in trying to make this world a happier place in which to live* f ( Above all, there was in him a radiating kindliness of word and deed that won for him the everlasting regard of his colleagues of this Board, by whom he was much beloved , and to w hom his loss LB a personal grief which will Song be deeply felt * t i + This Minute to his memory is placed on the records of the Society as a brief tribute of the loss it has suffered in his death * * * 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX C . HOWARD COLKET . At the stated meeting of the Associate Committee of Women to the Board of Directors of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, held in the Council Boom of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania February * 11th, 1924, and at a stated meeting of the Board of Directors of the said Genealogical Society, held at the same place, on February 19 th, 1924, the following Minute was unanimously adopted : Whereas this Committee and the said Society have heard with profund sorrow of flie death, on January 29th , 1924, of Charles Howard Colket, a late officer and life- member of the Society, therefore be it Resolved that this Committee and the Society record a united sense of grief in the loss of such an officer and member, and endeavor to express the high regard and universal esteem in which he was held , Mr. Colket had been a member of the Society upwards of thirty years and a member of the Board from 1902, until his resignation in December, 1922 * Many years Chairman of the Executive Com mittee he was indefatigable in his effort to secure records for copy ing, To such effort volume after volume in the Society ’s Collections bears mute testimony The transcription of not a few are in his concise handwriting and the indices of many others were prepared by him As Treasurer from 1908 to 1923, he relieved the Society from all the clerical burdens of that office In addition he filled for a time between these dates the office of Corresponding Secretary , He never forgot the Society , and , to its membership he w as its most familiar figure sitting as he did, day after day, at the Society ’s desk busy wdth his self -appointed task. In losing him the organization has lost a friend it cannot replace. Therefore be it . - . - , Resolved That this preamble and resolution be spread at length upon the minutes of the Committee and of the Board , and that a copy thereof be duly engrossed and sent to the family of Mr . Colket, coupled with expressions of deepest sympathy of the members of the Committee and of the Board * 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX