of the Dreisbach Family in America and was historian of the Dreisbach Family Association, a charter member of the Lehigh County Historical Society, a charter member of the Bucks County Historical Society, a life member of the Pennsylvania Bible Society. He was unmarried and is survived by his mother and brothers, John F. Stopp, of Los Angeles, California, and Joseph H. Stopp, Esq., of Philadelphia.

CHARLES BOONE STAPLES, son of Richard S. Staples, Esq., by his wife, Mary Ann Thompson, born in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1853, died there, August 16, 1917, was elected to the Society, October 12, 1891, in right of service of his great-grandfather, John Staples (1754-1843), private in Captain William Brown's Company, Colonel Charles Harrison's First Regiment of Maryland and Virginia Artillery, Continental Army, 1777-December, 1780; was at Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Valley Forge and Monmouth. Receiving his preparatory education in the common and select schools of his native town, Mr. Staples matriculated at Dickinson College in 1870, and was graduated in 1874, ranking second in his class and having the honor of class prophet and anniversarian of the BelleLettres Literary Society. He studied law under William Davis, Esq., and was admitted to practice May 26, 1876. Four years later, having in the interim developed an active interest in politics, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in Cincinnati, and in 1882 was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. On May 14, 1885, he was appointed, by President Cleveland, collector of internal revenue of the Twelfth Pennsylvania District, and held this position until 1889. As a lawyer, Mr. Staples took high rank in his profession, and in his career as district attorney, 18921894, displayed a determination of character and an acumen and fertility of resource which reflected dignity upon the office and the incumbent. From 1904 he was president judge of the Forty-third Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and so widely was his ability conceded and esteemed that frequently he was called upon to sit in the Common Pleas Courts of Philadelphia. He also acceptably filled several borough offices, was a Methodist in faith, a member of the Masonic fraternity and an ardent golfist. He married, in Stroudsburg, March 11, 1878, Althea Williams, by whom he had four children: Richard Somerville Staples, Jane Williams Staples, Mary A. Staples and Millard Filmore Staples.

ALBERT LEE TASKER, son of Charles Paschall Tasker, by his wife, Elizabeth Lathrop Lee, born at Philadelphia, May 5, 1888; died at Melrose, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1917. He was admitted to membership in the Society, June 8, 1916, in right of service of his

maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Pope (1742-1825), who served as sergeant in Captain Daniel Engree's Company of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, which responded to the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; and as second lieutenant, Second Regiment, Bristol County, Massachusetts Militia, 1776-1777. His paternal great-grandfather, Thomas T. Tasker, with Henry Morris, began, in 1835, the nucleus of the Paschal Iron Works, which ultimately included an area of eight acres of ground covering nearly two entire squares between Third and Fifth and Morris and Tasker streets, Philadelphia, the latter two thoroughfares being named after the original members of the firm. Educated in the public schools of his native city, Mr. Tasker became professor of music and choir leader, was connected with Presbyterian Church at Broad and Green streets, and at the time of death was a Thirty-second degree Mason. He married Marie Beck Harris, who, with one child, Albert Lee Tasker, Jr., survives him. His brother, Stephen Paschall Morris Tasker, is also a member of this Society, as were his late uncles, Edward Clinton Lee and William Jenks Lee.

CHARLES SMITH TURNBULL, M. D., son of Dr. Laurence Turnbull, by his wife, Louisa Paleska Smith, born in Philadelphia, November 10, 1847, died there, February 21, 1918, was elected to membership in the Society, June 13, 1899, under service of his great-great-grandfather, William Shute (- -1783), first lieutenant, Captain Richard Barrett's City Guards, Philadelphia Militia, 1777, under Major Lewis Nicola. Educated at the Episcopal Academy and the Central High School, from which latter he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1868, and the master's degree in 1874, he entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1869, and received the doctorate in 1871. During the summers of 1871 and 1872 he was surgeon to the U. S. Geological Survey of the territories of Wyoming and Montana. In 1873 and 1874 he was resident assistant surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, going in the autumn of the latter year to Vienna, where, in the Ophthalmic and Aural Departments of the Imperial General Hospital, he spent a year or more in further preparation. Returning to Philadelphia in 1875, he engaged in the practice of ophthalmology and otology, and continued therein until his decease. For nearly forty years he was oculist and aurist to the German Hospital in Philadelphia, and served in the same capacities to the Odd Fellows' Home, Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, St. Christopher's, Howard and Jewish Hospitals and the Home for Incurables. For ten years he was chief of the aural department of Jefferson Medical Department, where his father was aural surgeon. In 1862 he enlisted in

Company A, First Regiment, Grey Reserves, afterward the Thirtysecond Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by his grandfather, Captain (later Colonel) Charles Somers Smith, and served until 1873. Subsequently Dr. Turnbull was commissioned assistant surgeon of the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and was promoted to surgeon with the rank of major. His services as brigade-surgeon during the Pittsburgh riots of 1877, received special mention from regimental and division headquarters. At the time of his death he was surgeon-major of the Veteran Corps, First Regiment, N. G. P. His contributions to the literature of his medical specialty, with particular reference to ophthalmic and aural diseases of children, have been valuable. From 1888 to 1902 he was assistant editor of the Annual of Universal Medical Sciences, Department of Otology; and he translated from the German, Arlt's "Injuries to the Eye Considered Medico-Legally"; Gruber's "Tenotomy of the Tensor Tympani Muscle," and Bruner's "Treatise on the Method of Connections of the Ossicles." Dr. Turnbull was a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association, a member of the Associated Military Surgeons of the United States, the Pennsylvania State, and Philadelphia County Medical Societies, the Franklin Institute, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the Union League and American Shetland Pony clubs. He was also some years a member of the Board of Education of Philadelphia, and secretary and trustee of the Home for the Training of Deaf Children at Bala. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Claxton, of Philadelphia, survives him, with three daughters: Edith, wife of Paymaster McGill Robinson Goldsborough, U. S. N.; Elizabeth, wife of Captain Hamilton D. South, United States Marine Corps, and Gladys, wife of Captain Nelson P. Vulte, U. S. M. C.

EDWARD PAGE VOGELS, born at Philadelphia, April 2, 1855, died in that city, January 10, 1918, was the son of Charles Bevan Vogels, by his wife, Eleanor Stockton; grandson of Joseph P. Vogels, a ship builder and owner of clipper ships plying between Philadelphia and Bordeaux, and great-grandson of Servass Vogels, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Joseph Moulder, of Philadelphia. He was elected to the Society in the first year of its organization, December 10, 1888, in right of service of Joseph Moulder (1729-1779), deputy to the Provincial Convention of Pennsylvania, July 15, 1774; member of the Provincial Conference of Pennsylvania, held at Carpenter's Hall, June 18, 1776; captain of artillery, Philadelphia Associators, 1775; captain of artillery, General John Cadwalader's Brigade, Philadelphia Militia, 1777; distinguished himself at Princeton and received promotion. Educated principally at Friends' Central School, Philadelphia,

Mr. Vogels began his business career in the freight department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Later he became assistant cashier, and, from March, 1894, to August, 1898, cashier of the United States Custom House, Port of Philadelphia; thereafter he was engaged in the business of railroad supplies, real estate and securities, and, at the date of his death was a director of the Queensboro Corporation, a real estate operation established for the development of a tract on Long Island, in the vicinity of New York City, of which, for some years, he had been the agent in Pennsylvania. He held membership in the Union League and other organizations. He married, April 21, 1892, Anna Frances, daughter of the late David W. Sellers, Esq., a leading member of the Philadelphia Bar, and is by her survived with two children, Eleanor Stockton Vogels and David Sellers Vogels.

WILLIAM BUDD WARNE, JR., descended in the eighth generation from Thomas Warne, one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey, whose ledger stone in the ancient Topanemus graveyard at Marlborough, Monmouth County, relates that, he was born at Plymouth, Devonshire, Great Britain; lived some time in Ireland, and died in 1722, aged seventy years. Mr. Warne, the subject of this sketch, son of William Budd Warne, by his wife, Emma Eleanor Vetterlein, was born at Philadelphia, November 16, 1872, and died there, April 11, 1917. He was admitted to the Society May 13, 1902, becoming a life member, under the service of his great-great-grandfather, John Dennis (1726-1806), delegate from Middlesex County to the Provincial Congresses of New Jersey, 1775, 1776; appointed treasurer of the Eastern Division of New Jersey by the Provincial Congresses in the last-named years, and member of the Middlesex Committees of Correspondence, Observation, and Inspection and Safety, 1774, 1775, 1776; whose losses by confiscation of the British Army, during the occupation of New Brunswick, exceeded £2341. Educated at Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, under Professor Smith, Mr. Warne matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1890 and was graduated B. S. in 1893, in which year he took a post-graduate course in mechanical engineering, which was supplemented by four years experience in the electrical shops, but he did not later enter into active business. During his collegiate career he took the prize for high jumping and won other athletic honors. He was a member of the University and Racquet clubs and the Naval League; was unmarried, and is survived by his mother and only brother, Theodore Vetterlein Warne, of this city.

Respectfully submitted,

Nom's S. Jamatt

Chairman.

Attest

Cuthbert Gillespie

Seretary

On motion of Mr. Boger the report was accepted and ordered to be printed in the proceedings.

The Chairman: A word as to the report. Forty-one names were added to the roll of the Society; a fair showing, but not so gratifying as it would have been had a much larger number been added. I doubt if there is a single member of the Society who could not recruit at least one new member during the coming year should he make an effort to so do, and I beg that each of you will consider himself a recruiting officer for the accomplishment of such end. The list of deceased members as given may not be complete. If not, it is due to the fact of death not being reported to the Board. When death occurs it is important that the family of the bereaved should promptly inform the Secretary of the event. This is particularly important in cases where the deceased member resided in the interior of the State.