The herald., 1896-12-23
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS
Annual Meeting and Election o
Officers
Its distinguished Roll Of Membership.
H. o. Collins Reelected President.
The Various Committees.

The annual meeting of the Society of
Colonial Wars in the state of California
was held in the society room, No. 512
Stimson block, on Manday, the 21st
inst.
Perhaps no organization on the Pa
cific coast, in proportion to the number
of its membership contains SO many dis
tinguished gentlemen as this society, the
leading members of which. by their en-
terprise, succeeded in obtaining a char
ter from the general society, establish
ing the headquarters at Los Angeles.
1t numbers among its members Hon.
e. w. McKinstry, ex-justice of the su-
preme court of California; Judge E. NJ.
Ross, United States circuit judge; Rev
A. NJ. Merwin of Pasadena, distin-
guished by his missionary labors in
South America; Capt. c. Z. Thorn, an
carly pioneer of California, member of
the first constitutional convention, and
one of the first mayors of Los Angeles ;
Major Spencer r. Thorpe, distn-
suished officer of the Confederate army
George I. klink, auditor of the Southern
Pacific company; DR.. John r. Haynes of
Los Angeles; George j. Denis, United
Elderkin of the army, we'll known in Los
Angeles; w. A. Nichols of Redlands, a
civil engineer, whose plans were adopted
by the city of Boston for it's system of
water supply; Prof. E. S. Holden, super
intendent of Lick observatory; DR..
Brewer. principal of ST. Matthews s
school at San Mateo; Capt A. H. Payson.
late of the engineer corps of the army,
and VINO was the agent of the syndicate
that lately purchased the Los Angeles
street railway system; Hon. John *.
Stout, an eminent lawyer of Spokane,
Wash: Prof. Cotton of Lick observatory,
and Prof Wright, an astronomer of the
Yerkes observatory at Williams bay,
Wisconsin, and son of the late Judge
Selden S. Wright of San Francisco, and
other gentlemen we'll known in Los An
geles and throughout California.
The meeting was very harmonious in
its proceedings. 1t was decided to post
pone the annual dinner to later date
DR.. Merwin presented very touching
memorial upon the death of II. w. La
than, which was unanimously adopted.
The election of officers for the ensuing
year resulted in the choice of the fol-
lowing gentlemen: Governor Holdridge
Ozro Collins; deputy governor, Hon. Err
skine Mayo Ross; lieutenant governor,
Spencer Roane Thorpe; secretary, Chas.
Putnam Fenner: treasurer, Frank Put
nam Flint; registrar, Edward Thomas
Harden; historian, Bradner Wells Lee;
chancellor, George Jules Denis; surgeon,
John Randolph Haynes, NJ. D.; chapla in,
Rev. Alexander Moss Merwin; gentlemen
of the council-Spencer Roane Thorpe,
chairman; Motley Hewes Flint. Hon.
Elisha Williams McKinstry, Henry Ath-
erton Nichols, Willard Atherton Nichols,
Frank Clark Prescott. John Kennedy
Stout, Hon. Cameron Erskine Thorn, An
drew Roane Thorpe; committee on men,
bership-George Jules Denis. Frank Put
nam Flint. John Randolph Haynes. M
D.. Bradner Wells Lee. Spencer Roane
Thorpe committee on historical docu-
ments-Bradner Wells Lee. chairman ex
ofFicio: John Randolph Haynes. M d..
| Prof. Edward Singleton Holden. Rev
Alexander Moss Merwin: delegates to
the general society--Motley Hewes Flint
Prof. Edward Singleton Holden. George
! Timothy Klink. Hon. Elisha Williams
McKinstry. Capt. Albert Henry Payson
alternates-Allen , Lysander Cotton
Lieut.-Col. William Anthony Elderkin
L. S. A; William Marcy Klink, John
Kennedy Stout William Hammond
Wright; committee on entertainment
George Jules Denis, Frank Putnam
Flint, Edward Thomas Harden, John
Randolph Haynes, NJ. D., Frank Clarke
Prescott.