Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 5, 1&28. To the Members of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania : The Board of Directors begs to submit the following report for the calendar year ending December 31, 1927: At the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Society held March 7, 1927, the following named officers and directors were elected : . . President : Charles P Keith Vice- Presidents ; John Frederick Lewis, Edward Robins, Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. Recording Secretary: Ernest Spofford Corresponding Secretary : Miss May Atherton Leach Historian : Frank Worthington Melvin Treasurer : Ogden Dungan Wilkinson Directors, to serve three years : Louis B Moffett, Frank H, Stewart, Henry Reed Hatfield, . . . . . . P Following tho election, Mr, Charles J Cohen delivered an unnsual and scholarly address on Forms of Jewish Ceremonial and Worship, and Itin erary of Benjamin Tudela, a traveler of the twelfth century There were exhibited various articles used in Jewish ritual and there were lantern slides giving pictures of scenes visited by the early traveler At the conclusion of the address, Hon Hampton L Carson, President of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, offered a very happy resolution of thanks, which was unanimously adopted The usual supper followed Throughout the year the photostating of probate, church and other records of a genealogical nature progressed. In this connection grateful acknowledgment i3 again due Henry W, Scarborough, Esq , a member of the Society, for his zeal in procuring photostat material The continuance of the work at Devonshire House, London, in transcribing English Friends ’ Records, is worthy of special note The Society now has on its shelves copies of the births, marriage and burial records of : Berkshire and Oxfordshire Lancashire Bristol and Somerset Leicestershire Buckinghamshire London and Middlesex Cheshire and Staffordshire Northamptonshire Cornwall Suffolk Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Surrey and Sussex Durham Warwickshire, Leicester and Rutland Essex Westmoreland Gloucester and Wilts Yorkshire Hereford, Worcester and Wales . . . S . - . . G . . . Cumberland and Northumberland have just been completed and will shortly reach the Society, which still lacks the records of Bedford and ( 205 ) 1928 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.2 206 Thirty -Sixth Annual Report . Hertfordshire, Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, Dorset and Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Norwich, Devonshire and Kent These will be transcribed and completed as promptly as possible At the December meeting of the Society, Hon Ralph Beaver Strass burger was elected a Director ; and announcement waa made of the trans fer from the Historical to the Genealogical Society of valuable genea logical material collected and copied by Gilbert Cope The work inci dental to making this collection available is already well under way involves considerable expense for labor and binding. The Board will be very glad to receive contributions towards this purpose During the year 41 new members were enrolled . . . - - . . . Number of members January 1, 1927 Lose by death Resignations Dropped 4 645 4 16 10 1 27 P Elected and qualified Number of members January 1, 1928 The membership classified is as follows : Honorary , Annual Life 659 3 444 189 23 S Publication Fund 618 41 659 During the year the additions to membership were : . . G Ormond Rambo, Jr Mrs Hampton L. Carson Life Members. Boise Penrose, 2d . . Mrs Walter Pearce Douglas Mrs Thomas Biddle Ellis P. F Nieukirk Van Dusen Rickert Miss Amelia Sparks Frank Willing Leach . Annual Members . . Mrs. Charles F Derby Miss Eloise P. Dickey Mrs A W Christian Mrs. Andrew J Turner Clifford Pemberton, Jr Charles Major MTB. Louis de Puy Vail Mrs Edward Wilson Miss Emma T Thackara Thomas Whitney Synnott, 2d Henry S, Jacoby William P. Hallinger Robert Stuart Abbott J Bunford Samuel Albert B Wehner . . . . . 1928 . . . . Mrs. Herman Bonschur Miss Helen A Simpson Mrs, Walter M. LaRue Mrs, David Reeves Clifford Lewis, Jr. Mrs, Francis C. Steinmetz Mrs. William P. Buffum Albert H. Gerberich Jacob L. Warner Mrs. Robert Dornan, 2d J. E, Sturgis Nagle Mrs. Henry H, Lawrence Mrs. M. E. Cassel Mrs. H. D. Sheppard Mrs. S. Phillips Landreth Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol X No.2 207 Thirty - Sixth Annual Report . P The Board in Borrow reports the death of the following: Mrs. Fielding Otis Lewis, died January 13, 1927. William Welsh Harrison, March 5, 1927. George Foster White, March 2, 1927. Samuel Marshall, March 23, 1927. Mrs. Oliver Hopkinson, Jr,, April 14, 1927. Thomas Willing Balch, June 7, 1927. Miss Helen Kirkbride Morton, June 28, 1927. Mrs. Samuel Chew, July 27, 1927. Mrs. Albert B. Weimer, August 14, 1927. Miss Nina Lea, August 26, 1927. Charles Joseph Cohen, September 17, 1927. George Vaux, Jr., October 23, 1927. Col. John H. Sinex, October 30, 1927, Miss Laura E, Dobbins, November 20, 1927. Joseph Gardiner Bartlett, November 11, 1927, William A. Cooper, December 30, 1927. * - The Collections of the Society number 652 volumes, of which the fol lowing were added during the year : S English Friends 1 Records : Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Wales ; Births, Marriages, Burials. Durham, Births, Marriages and Burials. Northamptonshire, Births, Marriages and Burials. Yorkshire, Births, Marriages and Burials. G Marriages from Berks and Schuylkill Journal, 1816-1849, Records of St. Paul ’B Evangelical Lutheran Church, Red Hill, 5 vols. Courtesy of the Montgomery County Historical Society. Genealogical Notes, Sussex and Kent Counties, Delaware, and Somerset and Worcester Counties, Maryland, by Rev. C. H. B. Turner; 7 vols. The accessions by gift, for which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully tendered, are: Miers Busch. The Social Record of New Jersey. Thomas Creighton. Van Osten Family Data. Irwin H. DeLong. The Lineage of Malcolm Metzer Parker from Johannes DeLong. Mrs. Virginia Shannon Fendrick . Gravestone Inscriptions, Franklin County. Mrs. Ephraim Tomlinson Gill . Genealogical Data of Jan Strycker ; Genealogical Data of Nicasius de Sille ; A Brief History of Mouutwell ; The Narrative of an Indian Letter ; Historian ’s Report of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Jersey. Historical Society of Berks County. Early Narratives of Berks County. Historical Society of Pennsylvania , Evans Family Data, Rev. Charles S. Jones. Eliot -Moore Bible Records. Burnet Landreth . Some Reminiscences. Rev. Preston A. Laury. History of the Allentown Conference of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. Miss M. Atherton Leach. Various records. Library of Congress. Report 1926. 1928 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.2 208 Thirty - Sixth Annual Report , S P Mrs. Milnor Ljungstedt. County Court Note Book. Vol. VI, No. 5. New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. Report 1926. Joseph A. Pope. Pope Family Bible Records. H. Si Povenmire. Records of Ziegler >a Church, Mifflin Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Ormond Rambo, Jr ,, Genealogy of the Rambo Family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey ; List of the Children of Amos and Alice Rambo. Mrs. Harry Rogers. Genealogical Columns, Boston Evening Transcript. Henry W. Scarborough. Copy of Marriage Certificate of Joshua Anderson and Latitia Harvey. David Franklin Shull. Descendants of Christian Kiblet. Mrs. Charles M. Steinmetz. Deaths of Revolutionary Soldiers compiled from Berks and Schuylkill Journal and Redinger Adler. 1816 -1857. Mrs. Francis Stevick. Gravestone Inscriptions, Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, New Jersey. Frank H. Stewart. War Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers from Suffolk County, Long Island. Rev. John Baer Stoudt. Record of the Geist Family. University of North Carolina. The James Sprunt Historical Studies. The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, Charter, By-Laws, Members, Qualifications for Membership, Activities, Penn and Pennsylvania A Chronology. Miss Mary Ellison Wood, Various records. Respectfully submitted , G CHARLES PENROSE KEITH, President . ERNEST SPOFJORD, Recording Secretary , 1928 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.2 With a sense of deep bereavement the Board of Directors of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania and its Associate Committee of Women have to announce to the Society ’s mem bership the death , on July twenty -ninth , 1928, of Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Litt.B , a Vice - President of the Society and the Corresponding Secretary of the Associate Committee. By the death of Miss Wharton the Board of Directors, the Associate Committee and the Society have together lost a greatly esteemed officer , one whom it was a pleasure to meet, one whose place it will be difficult, if not impossible , to fill. It is, there fore, fitting that a record be made of the oneness of profound regret and sincere appreciation of her rare quality. Miss Wharton had her spiritual and genealogical roots deep in Pennsylvania soil, where her earliest American progenitor Thomas Wharton, arrived shortly after the first coming of the great Proprietor. She loved Pennsylvania ’s broad meadows, its hills, valleys and deep rivers, its teeming cities and quiet ham lets, as her ‘ i Pennsylvania Towns ’ ' afford ample evidence. She also loved England and all it stood for to the early colonists, as her “ English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans ” will testify. She had a sympathetic understanding of the history of this Commonwealth which her forbears had helped to create, and her everyday conversation was replete with allusions to the stirring events enacted within its borders during the march of two centuries. Unusually well versed in polite literature , her retentive mem ory made her a delightful conversationalist as well as a ready writer, of which latter, there are no better illustrations than her i Salons, Colonial and Republican, ' ’ her “ Teirlooins in Miniature,’’ and ‘1 Through Colonial Doorways 1’ But she had many books to her accounting, books which caught her personality and held it. One of the earliest genealogies of an outstanding Pennsylvania family was published by her in 1880, entitled i6 The Wharton Family. ? A long line of gentle- folk brought her an inheritance of high ideals, gracious traditions, calm courage, and withal, a sweet gayety, a kindly, humorous tolerance of the weaknesses and foibles of others She was indeed a fine Victorian flower, the like of which will not soon again be found Keen-eyed, she took the measure of her life and, faltering not, planned future work almost to the end ii Sunset and evening star ’ ’: Full of years, young of soul, unafraid , Mias Wharton heard that " one clear call " in the firm hope of a glorious Resurrection TIIE BOARD OP DIRECTORS and THE ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE OF WOMEN. . - S P . 4 G . } . . . . 1928 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.2