Object of the Society. T being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration of the National Holidays of the United States of America, that popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign countries as to the neglect, on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes, to perform their duty in keeping before the public mind the memory of the services of their ancestors and of the times in which they lived: therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in the military, naval, and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of the country, and to further the proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution; to collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records, and other documents relating to that period; to inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; and to promote the feeling of friendship among them. Pennsylvania Society. INSTITUTED APRIL 3, 1888. INCORPORATED September 29, 1890. FOUNDERS. OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL. GEORGE HORACE BURGIN. HERMAN BURGIN. RICHARD MCCALL CADWAlader. *JAMES EDWARD Carpenter. * ROBERT PORTER DECHert. WILLIAM CHURCHILL HOUSTon, Jr. JOHN WOOLF JORDAN. JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH. *ELON DUNBAR LOCKWOOD. CHARLES MARSHALL. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER. JOHN BIDDLE PORTER. WILLIAM BROOKE-RAWLE. WILLIAM WAYNE. 7 DELEGATES AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES TO THE General Society, 1902-1903 DELEGATES. CHARLES HENRY JONES. HON. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER, LL.D. FREDERICK PRIME. JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH. JOHN WOOLF JORDAN. ALTERNATES. Hon. James Tyndale Mitchell, LL.D., Louis Alexander Biddle, Howard Wood, John Heman Converse, LL.D., Craige Lippincott. 9 |