Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-08
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
The Annual Meeting Held at Fairmont, Fri
day Last.

/ Special Correspondence OF The Register.
Fairmont. w. Va. April THE So
/ cietv of West Virginia OF the Sons OF
/ the Revolution held their annual
| meeting at the Hotel Watson FRIDAY.
The business meeting was held IN the
! afternoon. at which the former officers
/ and managers were reelected, VIZ:
| President. Judge j. Marshall HaganS,
/ Morgant0wn. Vice President Dr. J0hh
/ DALEY. Piedmont; Secretary, Col.
I Henry Hammond. Clarksburg; Treas
/ urer. VIM. c. McGrew. MorSantOWni
/ Registrar and Historian, FroI Johh
| George Cuttings; Managers, ZION. JonA
! Bassell. Charles VI. Hart Thomas W.
/ Jackson. John b. Hart. John q. Git
I tings
The President. in his report. recon-
mended that the Society should marx
properly the various historic places
! i'm the State and suggested tnaJ the
site of Fort Henry 10 Elarked nrst.
The Society then passed a resolution
\ that they would erect a fitting JaDle1
I or memorial. properly Inscribed, ON
| the site Of Fort Henry. at NheellilS'
I on the next anniversary OF the last
battle. and that public services, under
the direction of the Society, shall be
/ held the day of dedication. a com
mittee to secure a tablet and arrange
/ for the dedication was appointed COM
| posed of Hon. Charles w. Brochunler'
/ Prof. John c. Cuttings. w. +. peterson
| ESQ. Prof. Samuel B. Brown, Dr. Jonh
/ DALEY ,,-.
The Society then elected the follow
ing members Of the tri-ennial meetlnS
of the General Society. TO be held IN
/ Faneuil Hall. Boston. Mass, on the
18th of April. the anniversary OF the
battle of Lexington. The delegates
were Hon. J. Marshall Hagans, Judge
Nathan Con Hon. c. W brocAu-
nier. w. r. Peterson, Esq, Joseph MOT
land. Alternates: Hon. john BasSelI'
/ r NJ Jackson. Samuel Hugh Brocku-
nier DR. John Daley ChaS. NJ. Hart.
The banquet was held an the oeeu-
uful dining room Of the me new no
/ tel Watson. The menu was cn0lce'
we'll served and highly credlJaoIe 10
mine host" To the toast, 'Ihe Mon
oDgabela Valley During the ReVolu-
NON Prof. John George Cuttings re-
sDonded in a carefully prepared ana
beautifully expressed paper, Whlch
had only one defect, and that was lts
brevirv "The Law and the lie @u-
tion" was assigned TO Hon. John b
sell. who responded i'm a very aoie
paper fun Of good points.
TO MIR. Chas. ". BrOckunler nao
beeD assigned the topic of Fort Henry
and lis Defenders but he rose at 50
late am hour that only a portion OF Iue
address prepared was delVereu. ne
alluded TO the first influx OF settlers
no the Nonongahela and Ohio . Vers.
and the opening up Of lands TOT set
Element nj Kentucky in the spring OF
1874. as having awakened teellhs OIL
hostility among the tribes on Jhe Dor
der and that the dread of q war mad
led 20 the building Of a stockade loIS
qt Wheeling In the summer Oh thaJ
wear. liz was occupied by Lord DlnS-
more and 200 of his troops on the
2O+b of Septcmber. 171i while on ms
way against the Shawanese tribes. IL
was first called Fort Fipcastle and was
changed 10 Fort Henry at the opening
of the revolutionary war.
He s6erched briefly the leading in
cidents of the three sieges. first In l''',
when q number of the garrison were
ambushed and killed; the second. IN
1881. which was not specially event
ul, the last. in September. 1872, when
the fort was invested by a force con-
sisting of a British captain and forty
regular soldiers and two hundred and
sixty Indian warriors who were hand
someIy repUlsed by the little garrison
after a siege of nearly three days, and
when the celebrated exploit of carry
ing the powder was performed by Eliz-
abeth zane. He also gave short
sketches Of Col. David Shepherd, Col
Ebenezer Zane. reading his military
report of the siege made 70 Gen. Irvine,
commanding the department. Lewis
Wetzel. Maj sam NcCOllOch and the
other worthy defenders of the frontier
Virginia miliatiamen Of l115-SS was
responded TO by Prof. Samuel d..
Brown. who showed a thorough know
edge of the revolutionary war and o.
the effective and valuable part per
Toned i'm it by the WiGtia. Prof.
Brown spoke eNtempOraneOusly He
should yEte ont and publish his adj
dress Among the invited guests were
eX-Goy. Fleming and the editors of the
newspapers Every one greatly en-
loved the social pleasures Of the OCca-
sion The place OF the next annual
meeting has not been fixed. 1t was
| left 90 the Board of Managers. What
I is the matter with Wheeling?