daughter of Robert Bruce Guthrie, by his wife Catharine McKee, and is by her survived, with four children: Mrs. Hartley Howard, Jr., of Sewickley, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Barrows Sloan, of Ardmore; Mrs. Harrie F. Reed and Mrs. George W. Nicola, of Haverford.

EDWARD DE VEAUX MORRELL, son of Edward Morrell, by his wife, Ida Alicia Powel, was born at Newport, Rhode Island, August 7, 1862, and died at Colorado Springs, September 1, 1917. He was elected a member of this Society, November 13, 1894, in right of service of his great-grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel André Louis de Tousard, a volunteer in the Continental Army, 1777; captain in Colonel La Fer's Regiment of French Troops, 1778; promoted to brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel, by act of Congress, October 27, 1778, for gallant action in Rhode Island, and later became a member of the General Society of the Cincinnati. General Morrell's grandfather, Dr. Robert Morrell, was a surgeon in the United States Navy, and his maternal grandfather, John Hare Powel, was brigade major on the staff of Colonel Thomas Cadwalader in the War of 1812. A graduate of the college department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1885, and of the law department in 1888, he received the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from that institution. During the latter year he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, but never engaged actively in the practice of the law. From 1891 to 1894 he was a member of Select Council of Philadelphia. Entering the National Guard of Pennsylvania in 1893 as colonel of the Third Regiment, he was made inspector-general in 1895, brigadier-general, commanding the First Brigade in 1898, and judge advocate-general in 1910, which latter position he filled for six years. Throughout his military career he was recognized as one of the most popular and efficient members of the Guard. In 1900 he was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress from the Fifth Pennsylvania District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred C. Harmer, and was re-elected by a large majority vote to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. In 1909 he was tendered the ambassadorship to Russia, but declined the honor. General Morrell manifested a deep interest in educational matters. For four years, 1912-1916, he was a member of the Philadelphia Board of Public Education, becoming chairman of the Property Committee, a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Normal Schools, the High School for Girls and Qualification of Teachers. He was also a leading supporter of military training in the public schools. Much of his time was devoted to the interests of the Belle Mead School for Colored Boys at Rock Castle, Virginia, and to this noble charity and a Catholic institution at Bar Harbor, Maine, his income was, to a very large degree, also devoted. In 1913,

Villa Nova College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. He was a member of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Union League, Racquet, Radnor Hunt, Rose Tree Hunt, Philadelphia Country, Corinthian Yacht, Germantown Cricket, and St. Anthony clubs, and of various clubs in New York, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, and Newport, Rhode Island; also of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Catholic Historical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars in Pennsylvania, the Society War of 1812, and the State in Schuylkill. A noted horseman, he was for many years connected with the Philadelphia Horse Show Association, and at his estate, "San Jose," Torresdale, he dispensed a gracious hospitality. His wife, Louise Bouvier, daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel, survives him. His stepfather, John G. Johnson, Esq., whose executor he was, shortly pre-deceased him.

DAVIS PEARSON, son of Davis Pearson, by his wife, Mary Ann Esher, was born at Philadelphia, January 2, 1853, and died at his residence in Overbrook, August 26, 1917. He was elected to membership in the Society, April 14, 1903, in right of his great-grandfather, George Esher (1766-1855), private in Captain Ezekiel Lett's Company, Colonel William Bradford's Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, under enlistment of August 25, 1779. Arriving at manhood, having been educated in the schools of his native city, Mr. Pearson entered the real estate brokerage business, in which he achieved an eminently active and marked success. Speaking of the loss sustained by the community in the death of Mr. Pearson, a leading journal said: "He was not only a man of great energy and enterprise, but was also well and favorably known as a private citizen, who contributed of his best efforts and abilities towards the advancement of the best interests of the community at large. Geneality, optimism and cheerfulness were among his distinguishing characteristics, and the foundation traits of firmness, thrift and industry, from which he never deviated throughout his active and successful career, made his life an example well worthy of emulation." He was a member of the Union League and Merion Cricket clubs, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. He married, April 12, 1882, Laura Stockton, daughter of Joseph and Mary J. Monier, who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Donald Flanigen, and a son, Rodney Stockton Pearson. A brother, Frank Pearson, and a nephew, Davis Pearson, 3d, are members of this Society.

WILLIAM FRANKLIN POTTER, son of William Almy Potter, by his wife, Caroline Conrad, was born at Philadelphia, December 17, 1838, and died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 23, 1917. On May

11, 1891, he was elected to the Society in right of service of his grandfather, William Potter (1753-1838), lieutenant in Captain Simeon Thayer's Company, Colonel Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, 1775; captain of Prisoners' Guard, Providence, Rhode Island, 1776; member of Captain Barnard Eddy's Company of Rhode Island Artificers, 1776; ensign, Providence, Rhode Island, Grenadiers, February 7, 1777; served also in Captain Jonathan Arnold's Company of Rhode Island Grenadiers, 1778. Inheriting this military example, Mr. Potter, in November, 1862, joined the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served with it, or on staff duty with General Marsena R. Patrick, provost-marshal-general of the combined armies operating around Richmond, until the close of the war. He was commissioned second lieutenant, Company A, November 9, 1862; promoted first lieutenant, Company K, May 1, 1863, and captain, Company F, October 10, 1864, and took part in the following engagements: Unionville, Piedmont, Ashby's Gap, Amissville, Kelly's Ford, Stoneman's Raid, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Aldie, Culpepper Court House, Rapidan Station, Occoquan, New Hope Church, Parker's Stores, Warrenton, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Guinney's Bridge, North Anna, Totopotomy, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, and Petersburg Mine. He was also in detached service at City Point, Virginia, and on the staff of General Patrick before Richmond. The war ended, he became a real estate broker in Germantown, where he was the largest operator in his line of business and most highly regarded in financial and social circles. Captain Potter was a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Loyal Legion and the Germantown Cricket Club. He married, April 29, 1869, Margaret Emilie Wilson, daughter of James and Phoebe Byerly Wilson, by whom he is survived with two of their three children: Gertrude, wife of Alexander Barrie, of Winchester, Virginia, and Miss Mary K. Potter.

LOUIS PLUMER POSEY, M. D., son of David Root Posey, by his wife, Emily Jewel Campbell, born in Philadelphia, January 6, 1863; died there, May 15, 1917; was elected to the Society, January 8, 1894, in right of service of his great-great-grandfather, Philip Hinkle, private in Captain William McCalla's Company, Second Battalion, Bucks County Pennsylvania Association, under Colonel John Beatty, 1775. His preparatory education was received at the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, with subsequent matriculation in the college department of the University of Pennsylvania. Making choice of the profession of medicine for his life work, he entered Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, and received therefrom his doctor's degree in 1883. Later he took a post graduate course in the

Philadelphia School of Anatomy.

For two years, following his graduation, Dr. Posey occupied the position of chief resident physician at his alma mater and then began the private practice of his profession in his native city, a practice which increased with increasing years and brought him to a leading position in the medical world. He was honored with the presidency of the Philadelphia County Homeopathic Medical Society; was a trustee of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, and one of the board of directors of its Alumni Society; visiting physician to the Children's Homeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia; civil service medical examiner for the city of Philadelphia; on the board of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church, and a member of the board of medical examiners of the State. He also held membership in the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical Society, the Germantown Homeopathic Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Union League, the Lincoln and the Merion Cricket clubs, and in the Masonic fraternity. He married, May 2, 1901, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the late David Fuller, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. William Campbell Posey, M. D., a brother of the deceased, is a member of this Society.

HARRY SAYRES, eldest son of Edward Smith Sayres, by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Humes, Esq., merchant of Philadelphia and Registrar of Wills of that city, 1830-1836, was born at Philadelphia, June 2, 1845, and died at Bryn Mawr, January 20, 1918. Mr. Sayres,. the father, a descendant in the eighth generation from Thomas Sayre, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, one of the founders of Southampton, Long Island, in 1640, was appointed vice-consul of Brazil, resident at Philadelphia, December 3, 1841; vice-consul of Portugal, March 13, 1850; vice-consul of Sweden and Norway, July 10, 1854, and vice-consul of Denmark, May 1, 1862. On February 2, 1872, he was appointed by the Princess Regent of Brazil, "for long and faithful service to the Empire," honorary consul, with the rank of captain in the Brazilian Navy. At the time of his death, in 1877, he was Dean of the Consular Corps at Philadelphia, and probably the oldest foreign consul in point of service in the United States. The son, educated at Dr. Faires' Classical Academy and Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, became clerk to his father's consulate, and later in an importing house, and in the office of the Philadelphia Warehousing Company. From 1890 he was auditor of the Union Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Some years since ill health compelled his retirement from the business world. He was admitted to membership in this Society, June 8, 1891, in right of service of his great-grandfather, Matthias Sayres (1746-1792), of Westfield, cap

tain and wagonmaster, Wagonmaster-General's Department, of New Jersey; and filed supplemental claims under the service of his greatgrandfather, Samuel Humes (1755-1836), private in Captain Robert Buyers' Company, Fifth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, enlisted January 13, 1777. Mr. Sayres was one of the founders of the Merion Cricket Club, in 1865, its treasurer in the following year, and a vice-president in 1874. He was unmarried and is survived by a sister, Miss Jennie Humes Sayres, and two brothers, Horace Sayres, of Bryn Mawr, and Edward Stalker Sayres, Esq., a member of the Board of Managers of this Society since 1906, and now Historian.

REV. SAMUEL AUGUSTUS BRIDGES STOPP, son of John Stopp, by his wife, Ella C. M. Dech, was born at Allentown, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1875, and died there, June 13, 1917. He was admitted to membership in the Society, January 11, 1917, in right of service of his great-great-great-grandfather, Simon Driesbach (1730-1806), of Northampton County, member of Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1776. Obtaining his preparatory education at Muhlenberg Academy and Muhlenberg College, from the latter of which he was graduated in 1896, Mr. Stopp was, during his college course, a member of the Enterpean Literary Society, associate editor of the Ciarla, the junior annual, and editor-in-chief of the Muhlenberg. In the autumn of 1896 he entered the Senior Class of Princeton University, and the classes of Woodrow Wilson, now President of the United States, becoming a member of Whity Hall, one of whose founders was James Madison, of the class of 1771, later also President of the United States. Graduating with honors in 1897, Mr. Stopp took a post-graduate course in languages and literature and received the A. M. degree from Princeton in 1898. This was followed by a three years course at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1901, and ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in June of that year, being shortly thereafter called to the pastorate of St. Paul's Church, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he remained five years. In 1907 he was, for a short time, pastor of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, New York, and from 1907 to 1909, of St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea, Atlantic City, New Jersey. After this ill health required him to retire from active pastorates, but he, from time to time, supplied various churches within the Allentown and Wilkes-Barre conferences of the Lutheran Church. As a writer on religious subjects he was widely and favorably known. His monographs, published by the Pittsburgh Lutheran Association, included: A General Survey of the Book of Common Prayer, The Collects, and The Apostolic Age. He also compiled The Early History