The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-23
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Annual Meeting and Dinner of the
Maine Society.

The Attendance Large Memorial OIL
the Late President De Witt by MT
Drummond- Address by Rev. DR..
DEMO, of Bangor.
The annual meeting and dinner of the
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution occurred at the Prebie house
yesterday. The attendance was large,
the following being present: Mr.. and
Mrs. George R. Shaw, Mrs. A. Mel. Horne.
E.S.E. Mcclellan, Mr.. and Mrs. F. j.
Ilsley, j. W. Plaisted, Mrs. W. M. Written,
Mrs. Susan E. Starbird, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
F. King, Mrs. Warren G. King,
Miss Luetta King; Miss Lizzie
NJ. Loring, Miss Bessie o. Ham,
K. W. Starbird, Walter H. Sturtevant,
Daniel Goodhue, CO. Goodhue. Brown
Thurston, George f. Thurston, Mrs. j. M.
Adams, John NJ Adams, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
A. Woodbury., Charles F. Dam, Mrs.
Charles F. Dam, Bertha T. Allan. III. H..
Allan, John U. Chandler, Charles b..
Mitchell, Nathaniel W. Staples, l.. ID.
bennett, Frank G. Deering, Capt.
George E. Brown, Mrs. George E. Brown,
Mr.. Albert S. Mitchell, Mrs. A. S. Mitchell,
E.J.Haskell, Miss Ed. Haskell, Frank
Haskell. Mrs Frank Haskell, II. W..
Bryant, Mrs. H. W. Bryant, Henry 5.
Burrage, Mrs. II. S. Burrage, Mrs. II. M.
Mailing, H. M. Mailing, Miss Clark. W.B.
Mailing, Miss Mailing, Edwin Standish
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Merrill, Addie NJ. Quimby, IF. Quinn by,
J.B. Mcdonald and wife, Isaac F. Clark,
Mrs. Isaac F. Clark. Henry Knight
Bradley, Seth F. Clark, Nathan Goold,
TX. Harmon, Eben Corey, Joseph A..
Locke, Florence P. Locke, Charles E..
Banks, M. D., Florence M. Banks,
Charles D. Smi tn. Nd, Albertina M.
Smith, Fred L. Tower, Julia M. Tower,
Rev. VS.. Ayres, Frederic Brunei, Mrs.
Frederic Brunei, Mrs. James Keazer,
James Keazer, A. T. Small, Mrs. A. T..
Small, William II. True, d., Mrs. Julia
A. Cummings, Miss Drummond, Edward
P. Burnham, Francis B. DEMO. Mrs.
George F. French, Fred N. Dow, Mrs. D. W.
Wiggin, George f. French, Mrs. Thomas
A. Foster. Josiah H. Drummond. Francis
L. Littlefeld, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fl. Hazel
tine, NJ. P. Frank, A. Keith, Edward A.
{. Butler, Rockland; AL. Talbot, Lewis
ton: W. W Talbot, lewiston; G. A. Howe,
Lewiston Asher @. Kinds.
After the dinner had been concluded
Mr.. e. P. Burnham of Saco newly elected
president called the company to order.
II had been intended he said that Mayor
Baxter would be present; but city bust
ness had called him to New York whence
ha had sent letter of regret.
Hon. Josiah II. Dr1mmond was the
next introduced. to pronounce the
memorial of the late President John E..
Dewitt. Mr.. Drummond began by de-
soriblng the shock produced in this city
by the startling news that Mr.. Dewitt
had been victim OF the railroad acct
dent in Massa chusetts last summer.
Then followed carefully prepared re-
view of Mr.. DeWitt's successful career in
the insurance business ) He was presi-
dent of the United States Insurance
company in 1876, at the. time the Union
Mutual was looking for president. His
methods of business administration in
the United States company were SO ex-
cellent that they commended him at
once to the Union Mutual, and. he was
elected president Previous to 1881 there
had been a movement in the Maine legis-
lature to compel the company which was
operating under Maine charter. but
with headquarters in Boston, to move to
Maine; but in Difference to the opinion
of the managers it had been deferred. In
1881. however, such law was passed,
and the company came to Maine, M.
Dewitt making his home in Portland
Mr.. Drummond described Mr.. Dewitt as
a successful man of business, student
of art and literature, q public spirited
citizen and an unostentatious.giv to
all needy causes.
He was descended from ten Revolu-
tionary sires, eight of whom signed the
articles of association, thereby mourning
the danger of execution at the hands of
the British, while another was so ardent
a. patriot that hundred pounds were
offered for his head. 1t was but natural,
then, that he should take great interest
in the work and objects of this society.
At the conclusion of the memorial Mr..
Drummond called attention to the
portrait of Mr.. Dewitt, donated to the
society by Hon. M. F. King, and vote OF
thanks was passed. to Mr.. King.
american Manhood" an address by
Rev. Dr. Francis B. DEMO of Bangor, was
next in order. He began by speaking
Of the advantages.of study of the great
men and great deeds of the past In
speaking of manhood, DR.. DEMO said. he
did not mean to speak of quality be-
longing to men alone. The true Ameri-
can manhood was a quality of our
women as well as of our men. The
mothers of the Revolution bore as heroic
part as did the fathers.
Sympathy with fellow men as men was
one of the characteristics of true A meri-
can manhood Lincoln and Garfield
we're cited as great Americans, who were
,reeminent for their sympathy with the
eople.
America, without its class distinctions