Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OP THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OP PENNSYLVANIA. RTTAH AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 2, 192d . 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, 1924 At the thirty -second annual meeting of the Society held March 3, 1924, the following named officers and directors were elected : President, Charles P Keith Vice-Presidents , John P Lewis, Edward Robins, Miss Anne Hol lingsworth Wharton Recording Secretary, Ernest Spofford Corresponding Secretary, Miss May Atherton Leach. Historian, Frank Worthington Melvin Treasurer, Ogden Dungan Wilkinson Directors, to serve three years, Louis B. Moffett, Prank H Stewart, Henry Reed Hatfield to serve one year, Hon George Henderson Immediately following the election, Rev Louis F Benson, D D ,deliv ered an exceedingly interesting, instructive and scholarly address on 1‘ The Vanishing Evidence ” The usual supper was then served At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held Janu ary 15, 1924, the President was requested to protest in writing against the proposed removal of St John 's Lutheran Church, Race Street near Fifth, and the obliteration of the graveyard adjoining At the same meeting the formal announcement was made, with keen regret, of the death on December 29, 1923, of Vice President Stevenson Hockley Walah, and an appropriate resolution was adopted. This resolution was read at the last annual meeting and is in print in the Society 's Publications ( VoL IX, No. 1) . At the February meeting announcement was made of the death on January 29, 1924, of Charles Howard Colket, for many years an officer and life member of the Society The resolution adopted at this meeting was read at the annual meeting of March 3, 1924, and is in print in Volume IX, No 1, of the Society 's Publications At this same meeting Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was elected a Vice President. At the March meeting Gilbert Cope was unanimously elected an Honor ary Vice-President By this meeting the Treasurer was authorized to pay over to Mr Alfred R Justice, a member of the Society, the sum of $100 to be applied under his personal supervision to the copying of Friends ' records at Devonshire House, London, England Subsequently other sums were authorized, which were augmented by subscriptions from Messrs. Frank H Stewart, Henry Reed Hatfield, Charles F Jenkins and Alfred R Justice, totalling $550 With the Friends ’ records tran scribed some years since for the Society by Gilbert Cope, it is believed that through these present transcriptions the Society will be in possession of accurate copies of all the Friends ’ records at Devonshire House. . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . P . . . . - . S . - . G - . . . . . - . . . . . . (198 ) 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 199 Thirty- third AnnvM Report , At the Tegular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held Monday, May 19, 1924, following the announcement of the death of the Honorable NorriB Stanley Barratt, a member of the Board, a Resolution of sorrow and respect was unanimously adopted.* At the October meeting Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Eeq., was elected a Director. Probably the Society ’s most important acquisition during the year consists of the purchased manuscript material chiefly relating to Scotch -Irish and German families of Pennsylvania, which the late owner, William Henry Egle, M. D., at one time State Librarian of Pennsylvania, intended to compile and publish as a supplementary volume to his * * Pennsylvania Genealogies ” This unpublished material includes the families of Addams, Allison, Antes, Armstrong, Beaver, Bigler and Dock, Bittinger, Blaine, Blair, Bradford, Brady, Brodhead, Brown, Brubaker and Keetch, Buchanan, Boehler, Campbell, Cameron, Christlieb, Clark, Conyngham, Coleman, Culbertson, Davis, Dubbs, Dull, Duncan, Elliott, Fahnestock, Findlay and Shunk, Fisher, Fox, Geiger, Grubb, Haldeman, Harris, Hayes, Hiester, Henry, Hoffman, Irvine and Irwin, Jordan, Kennedy, Keim, Lamberton, Lefever, Leebrick, Lilly and MoSherry, Lincoln, McAllister, McCune or McEwen, McPherson, Mont gomery, Muhlenberg, Mumma, Head, Orbison, Pauli, Pearson, Porter, Rahm or Raum, Reynolds, Ritner and Alter, Shindel, Shelly, Sharpe, Shenk, Sloan, Snyder, Stewart, Stuart, Sturgeon, Todd, Uhler, Umberger, Watts, Weigley, Weiser, Whitehill, and Wonderlich. During the year 24 new members were enrolled. Number of members, January 1, 1924 576 16 Loas by death Resignations 10 Dropped from the roll 5 " P . - S - G 30 545 26 571 Elected and qualified Number of members January 1, 1925 The membership classified is as follows: Honorary Life 3 162 Annual 383 18 Publication Fund 571 The following were transferred from annual to life membership : Mrs Herbert Seymour Darlington Miss Emmie Josephine Brazier Mrs. Henry Pemberton, Jr George C C Stout Mrs L. G Shedd Roberts During the year the additions to membership were : Life Members Robert P Esty Stanley Eyre Wilson Clarence Gearhart Crispin . . . . .. . * See Resolution on Interleaf. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty - third Annual Report . 200 Annual Members Mrs Georg© Clemens Hughes Mrs Whitney Smith Miss Linda Egbert Chester C Craig Mrs Horace F Nixon Mis Edward Stalker Sayres Mr3 L J Aehenbach Mrs George H. Earle, Jr William N Bradley, M IX Mrs, H H Fisher Mrs J. Benton Porter Mrs Edward Ilsley Oliver Hcpkinson Baird Mrs. W Beaumont Whitney Walter G Tatnall James Sidney Lovatt, Jr Charles H Reckefuss, Jr,, M D Miss Jacoba Van Sluys Mr Horace Forteseue William Bell Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Horace Forteseue With profound regret the Board reports the death of the following named members: G Colesberry Purves, died December 5, 1923. C Howard Colket, died January 29, 1924 Frederic Shaw, died January 29, 1924. William Ritterson King, died February 2, 1924 Mrs Howard Mickle Cooper, died 25 February, 1924 Charles E Heed, died. Hon. Norris Stanley Barratt, died April 26, 1924 Mrs George Johnes De Armand, died April 25, 1924 Mrs. George C Thomas, died June 3, 1924. Gen. E. E. Wood, died June 20, 1924 Franklin Smedley, died September 22, 1924. Howard B French, died October 16, 1924. Mrs Thomas H Fenton, died November 28, 1924 Henry Stokes Williams, died November 1, 1924 James Buckman, died June 15, 1924 William Caspar Stoever, died October, 1924 The Collections of the Society number 544 volumes, of which the following were added during the year: Old Swedes ( Gloria Dei ) Ckureh, Philadelphia, Volumes IV and V, Mar riages, 1795 1878 Cohansy Lutheran Church Records (1744-1838 ) , Salem County, N. J Church Book of the Lutheran Congregation in Greenwich, Warren County, N J ( 1769-1865 ) Haupt Family in America, by Rev. William H Haupt Penllyn Pedigrees, copied and annotated by Thomas Allen Glenn Southern District Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Records (1772-1869 ) Gravestone Inscriptions from the Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Mont gomery Connty, Pennsylvania. Deaths and Marriages from the Bucks County Intelligencer (1804-1834 ) Index to the Certificates of Removal of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (1779 1856 ) Crispin Family data The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby grate fully tendered, are; Blankenburg, Mrs, Lucretia L, The original manuscript Diaries of Thomas Elwood Lonshore Clark, William Bell, Tombstone Inscriptions from Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania . . . . P . . . . . . S . . . . G . . - . . .. - . . . - . . . . . . . . - . 1924 . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX P S G 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Thirty-third Annual Report . . . . 201 . Crispin, Misses Mary F and Fanny F Bata on Crispin Family Fenton, Mrs Thomas H Bible Records Graffen, Miss Jean E Bible Records of the Carman and Van Sciver families Gummere, Mrs, Francis B A, L S Alexander Robertson of Strowau to the Earl of Mar, December 15, 1716, Deeds, Mortgages and Insurance Policies of certain properties in Wilmington near Loganville, Delaware (1846 1852 ) . Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The The Haupt Family in America Bible Records of the Good Family Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Journal of the Society Irwin, Miss Frances Copy of the will of Robert Erwin, aDd copies of Erwin and allied records from the Court House at Cecil County, Md Johnson, Alba B, Johnson excerpts from English county and church records Klink, Mrs Clarence K Gravestone Inscriptions from the burial ground of the Mennonite Church in Stippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Landreth, Burnet * ‘ Centenary Firms and Corporations of the United States " Lehigh County Historical Society, Proceedings of the Society, 1923 Library of Congress. Report for 1924 Ljungstedt, Mrs. G A The County Court Note Booh numbers for the year 1924. Major, Charles Index of Certificates of Removal, Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, 1779 1855 ; Record of Marriages from Docket of Algernon S Jenkins, Justice of Peace, Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Patterson, Thomas Hamilton Hoge De Couraey Family of Maryland, ( typewritten ) Richards, Henry M M The Weiser Family Rogers, Mrs Henry. 15 bound volumes of Genealogical clippings from the Boston Transcript , Long Island Traveler and New York Mail and . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . * . . Express . . . . G . . . S . . . . P . . . . Shoemaker, Colonel Henry W “ North Pennsylvania Minstreley 3 ? and “ In Penn ’s Woods," by the donor Smithsonian Institution Annual Report of American Historical Association, 1919-1920 Stewart, Frank H, Private Marriage Register of Jeffrey Clark, Esq , Justice of the Peace of Clarfesboro, N J , 1792-1797 ; The Ancestry of Miss Hattie P. Kirby ; " and “ Where did Woodbury get its Name, 3 3 ( newspaper cuttings ) Tatum, Richard P Notes on the Offiey Family, Vinton, Dr. Charles H Data on the Cooper Family ( typewritten ) Warren, Miss M Ina “ A Brief Outline of Modem Religious Tenets, * ’ by the donor White, Mrs J William Typewritten sketches of the Brown and Hartley Families, Wood, Mrs Howard J Wilmer Family Chart ( photostat copy ) Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P KEITH, President . ERNEST SPOFFORD, Becording Secretary . . . . . . “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol IX