| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1882 - 490 pagine
...his injunction to this day The bond between Lafayette and his old comrades in arms was very strong. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and soon after he reached America, August, 1824, an address was made to him by General John Brooks in the... | |
| John Hugh Campbell - 1892 - 826 pagine
...Robert Patton, 179O.— Was Postmaster of Philadelphia from October 2, 1789, until his death in 1814. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and was elected (designated as Major Robert Patton) Treasurer of that body, July 6, 1804. Robert Patton,... | |
| Frederick Alexander Canfield - 1897 - 304 pagine
...Board of Proprietors of the Morris Academy ; and the first librarian of the Morris Library Association. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati ; and a "half way " member of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown. He was an incorporator of the New Jersey... | |
| Daughters of the American Revolution - 1897 - 430 pagine
...took part in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Saratoga, Monmouth, and was at the siege of York. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and retired in 1783. James Bloss, though exempt from service at the opening of hostilities, fell a victim... | |
| Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 518 pagine
...1780-82 and 1786-87, and was appointed one of the judges of the Northwest Territory in October, 1787. He removed to Marietta, Ohio, in June, 1788. He was an...president of the Rhode Island society of that order. He died at Marietta, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1789. VARNUM, Joseph Bradley, senator, was born in Dracut, Mass.,... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Sinnott - 1905 - 380 pagine
...Trenton, Brandywine, and Monmouth, shared the privations of Valley Forge, and was wounded at Yorktown. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and his place descended to the late William Ketchum, of Plattsburg, New York. Their third son, Peter Bodine... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 682 pagine
...Morrisania, New Y'ork, in 1781, Congress requested General Washington to express to him their thanks. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and subsequently became President of the Connecticut branch of the Society. Upon the establishment of peace... | |
| Charles Hudson - 1913 - 932 pagine
...monument, he "became the friend of Lafayette, who recognized his services in the gift of a sword." He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and was one of the 48 pioneers who, under Gen. Rufus Putnam, settled the Northwest Territory, the first... | |
| John Bogart - 1914 - 76 pagine
...engineers planning the Erie Canal and one of the engineers planning the development of New York City. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and a member of many other societies; from 1813 he was president of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture,... | |
| 1918 - 72 pagine
...his children and distant friends were always anticipated with pleasure and enjoyed with satisfaction. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and for several successive years, one of its almoners, in dispensing its bounties to such members, their... | |
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