JACOB ORIE CLARKE (Life), March 14, 1918. Great-great-grandson of Martin Summers (1740-1804), Private in Captain George Forepaugh's Company, First Regiment, Philadelphia City Militia, Colonel William Bradford commanding, 1777; and in 1779 in Captain Ezekiel Lett's Company, same regiment. March 14, 1918. JAMES PHILEMON DAVIDSON, Easton, Md. Great-great-great-grandson of William Paca (1740-1799), signer of the Declaration of Independence. IVES LUCAS HARVEY, March 14, 1918. Bellefonte, Pa. WALLACE NELSON MAYHEW (Life), Philadelphia. March 14, 1918. Great-grandson of David Mayhew (1758-1834), Private in WALTER ROSS MCSHEA (Life), March 14, 1918. Great-great-great-grandson of Edward Coulston (1734-1803), EDWIN STARr Ward, Philadelphia. March 14, 1918. Great-grandson of Elijah Roberts (1761- -), Private in Connecticut Line, 1775-1776, under Colonel Jedediah Huntington. The following Supplemental Claims, having been duly approved, were placed on file with the membership records of your Society. CHARLES WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, Jr., Philadelphia. April 12, 1917. (1) Great-grandson of Nathan Preston (1756-1822), Sergeant in Captain Heinste's Company, Thirteenth Regiment, Connecticut Militia in 1776, and in 1777 he was commissioned a Commissary for the Connecticut Troops in the Continental Army. (2) Great-great-grandson of Henry Pinkerton (1762-1816), Wagonmaster for Pennsylvania Troops, in consideration of which his widow was pensioned by the United States. April 12, 1917. WALTER MARSHALL SCHWARTZ, Philadelphia. (1) Great-grandson of Nathan Preston (1756-1822), Sergeant in Captain Heinste's Company, Thirteenth Regiment, Connecticut Militia, in 1776, and in 1777 he was commissioned a Commissary for the Connecticut Troops in the Continental Army. (2) Great-great-grandson of Henry Pinkerton (1762-1816), Wagonmaster for Pennsylvania Troops, in consideration of which his widow was pensioned by the United States. DAVID JEWETT WALLER, JR. Bloomsburg, Pa. April 12, 1917. Great-grandson of John Hopkins (1751-1820), sub-Lieutenant of Lancaster County, March 20, 1780, 1st March, 1781, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. DAVID MARSHALL HITCH, D.D.S., Philadelphia. June 14, 1917. Great-great-grandson of Isaac Short (17-1826), Private in Delaware Regiment of Continental Line, James Moore, Captain, February 6, 1783. ROBERT DECHERT, October 11, 1917. Great-great-grandson of Robert Porter (1768-1842), Cadet, October 11, 1917. CARL BUELL Metzger, Philadelphia. (1) Great-great-grandson of John Metzger (1740-1826), Private in Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1778-1779, and in Tenth Battalion, same militia, in 1781-82. (2) Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Alden (1756-1825), Private in Captain Samuel Pearson's Company, Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joseph Reed in 1775 and 1776. November 8, 1917. JOHN LOWRY RUTH, Lancaster, Pa. Great-great-great-grandson of George Ellig (1744-1803). Member of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Committee of Observation, 1775. The summary of new and reinstated members and casualties for the year is as follows: Elected to membership classified as follows: Net increase in membership during the year ending 1 Number of Insignia issued during the year. 10 Number of Certificates of Membership issued during the year 8 Conditions of the membership of your Society on this date (April 3, 1918), covering a period of thirty years, is as follows: Founders, April 3, 1888. Elected to membership since April 3, 1888 (thirty- 15 2037 2052 Dropped from rolls for non-payment of due............ 249 Total number of Certificates of Membership issued 365 836 The necrological roll, from report received from the Historian, Edward S. Sayres, Esq., is as follows: FREDERICK TYLER AGARD, son of William Yale Agard, by his wife, Augusta Shepard Hatch, and descended, in the seventh generation, from John Agard, who settled at Boston in 1682, was born at Belmont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1855, and died at Philadelphia, March 13, 1918. He also descended from the Hon. Matthew Mitchell, of Saybrook, Connecticut, 1637, and many other of the founders of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was elected to membership in the Society, November 12, 1907, in right of service of his great-great-great-grandfather, Edward Walker (1739-1801), lieutenant, Seventh Company, under Captain Fish, Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Line, commanded by Colonel William Shepard, January, 1777, to January, 1783; also regimental paymaster. Mr. Agard filed supplemental claims under the service of his great-grandfather, Private Othniel Belden (1753-1834), of the Connecticut Line; and that of his great-great-grandfather, Corporal Timothy Hatch (1756-1838), of the Connecticut Troops. Educated, principally, at the Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, he was, as a business man, an importer and jobber in teas, the proprietor of the wholesale tea house, No. 35 South Front Street, and was considered one of the foremost experts on tea qualities in that city. Mr. Agard was a member of the Athletic Club of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Barge Club. He was unmarried, and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ephraim Brice, of Philadelphia. His brother, the late Charles Walter Agard, was a member of the Society, as is his nephew, Charles Frederick Brice. JOSEPH TROWBRIDGE BAILEY, eldest son of Joseph Trowbridge Bailey, by his wife, Mary Potter, born at Philadelphia, March 29, 1835; died there, February 2, 1918; was elected to the Society, March 14, 1892, by right of service of his great-grandfather, Clapp Raymond (1730-), captain, Fairfield County, Connecticut Militia, 1777. Among his forbears were many of the founders of New England, among whom may be named, Robert Potter and Thomas Benedict, the former, in Massachusetts as early as 1634, the latter in 1636. Mr. Bailey was educated at private schools and academies, and, in 1851, entered the jewelry house of which his father was the founder and the then active head, and which had its beginning at 136 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, under the name of Bailey and Kitchen, in October, 1832. In 1894 the business was incorporated as the Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company, with Mr. Bailey as president, and was recognized throughout the country as a leading firm in its particular line of trade. Covering a long period of years to 1900, Mr. Bailey's wide knowledge and fine discrimination were given, largely, to the purchase of gems and other specialties abroad, in the pursuit of which, and other business interests of his firm, he is said to have crossed the Atlantic one hundred and forty times, and to have been as much at home in the various European capitals as in his native city. In 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War, when in Paris on business, he was obliged to flee with many of the inhabitants, before the German siege of that city. In sharp contrast with his familiarity with European life, was his delight in big-game hunting, and his intimate knowledge of the Indians with whom, for months at a time, he lived and hunted, bringing away many trophies of his skill as a marksman. A patron of the arts and science, a subscriber to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the opera, and a member of the board of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, he was also a fluent French scholar, well versed in the French classics. The oldest living member of the veteran corps of the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bailey was, too, an active member of the Washington Grays of Philadelphia, which he helped to organize before the Civil War. He was a promoter of the Philadelphia Training Camps Association, of which he was an honorary Colonel; a founder of the American Defense Society, and a member of the National Association of Universal Military Training. He held membership in the Union League, the Manufacturers, Corinthian Yacht, Art, Merion Cricket and Philadelphia Country Clubs, the Society of War of 1812, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, of which he was an incorporator, the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the Society of Founders and Patriots, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. He married, first, September 1, 1857, Catherine Goddard Weaver, of Providence, |