Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-07

REV. HENRY BEDINGER,
Chaplain Virginia Society,"
| General William Scudder Stryker New
Jersey, and John Chopper. Virginia.
THE VIRGINIA SOCIETY.
The Virginia State Society held its first
meeting after the Revolution in TIE city
OF Fredericksburg on October z. 1888. The
officers elected at this meeting we're:
| Major General Horatio Gates, president;
Brigadier-General Peter Muhlenburg
vice-presidcnt; Lieutenant-Colone. oliver
/ Towles. secretary; Lieutenant-COionei
| Edward Darlington, treasurer; Captain
| Henry Young, assistant treasurer; Dele
gates to the General Observation-Disclosures
General George Weeden. Colonel James
Wood. Colone. William Heth. Colonel
Henry Lee Light Horse Harry, and
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hopkins.
The original society in Virginia existed
until 1874, when its members decided 10
| disband and 10 present its fund, amount
] ing 10 about $1,000. to Washington Col
lege, now Washington and Lee Univer-
| sity. a short while ago Hon. william l..
! Wilson, president Of Washington and
Lee, wrote the Virginia society very
nice letter. expressing his appreciation OF
| the aid rendered the university By The
Society Of the Cincinnati.
REVIVAL OF VIRGINIA SOCIETY.
The Society Of the Cincinnati IN the
| State of Virginia was revived ana read
mitted into the General Society of Gin
| cinnati at its trennial meeting. held in
the city OF Philadelphia in May, 1886.
| Twenty applicants were received by the
| general society, and were authorized 10
| form a permanent society in the State
| of Virginia, in place Of the temporary or
| ganization, which had been maintained
| for several years. The General Society
eliminated as ineligible under the con-
| stitution, as not of eldest male posterity,
a number Of gentlemen who had been
members of the temporary organization.
| And inasmuch as the General Society
ruled that the Virginia Society should
be governed for three years by the coa-
stitution and bylaws Of the Massachu-
sets Society, none of the applicants de-
clared ineligible by the General Society
| have been admitted as members OF the
| Virginia Society.
The twenty applicants who were re-
| ceived by the General Society. and who
were declared TO constitute the revived
| Society of the Cincinnati in the State OF
| Virginia, as eldest male posterity of
| original members, and as worthy upon
| proofs submitted, were as follows: VIII
| liam Weldon Bently James Bowen Bay
| lOr, George Washington Ball. John Crop
| per, Patrick Henry Carey Cabell. Eugene
! Darlington. Thomas Darlington, Philip
| Smith Griffith, Henry Bedinger Jesse
| Barker Neville. Henry Heth, Robert l..
| Mcclure, George Lee, George Kennon,
| George Ben. Johnston. %homas oliver
| Towles, Heth Lorton. George William
Beale, Herbert Augustin Claiborne, and
Philip +. Southall
The above applicants so received by the
| Il tot, . h. al
| berlin, Fort Monroe, Va, on the 4th OF
July 1896, and reorganized the Virginia
| Society upon the terms and conditions Of
| its readmission into the general society,
| by the election of the following officers,
| who have been reelected at each subse-
| quent annual meetng-namely: President,
| John Chopper: Nice-President. DR.. George
Ben Johnston; Treasurer, Hcth Borton;
J Secretary, Patrick Henry Carey Cabell;
Chaplain. Rev Henry Bedinger; member
of standing Executive Committee of the
| general society, John Chopper.
Since its permanent organization on
| July 4, 1895. the Virginia Society has held
meetings on the 4th of July annually,
and its Executive Committee has also
met in the spring of each year. Though
| the society has received and considered
great number Of applications, it has
elected only three hereditary members
namely: Carroll Mercer United States
army: William Dulaney Steele, Missouri.
| and William Hancock Clarke son Of Gov
ernor Clarke, Of Missouri Since the per-
manent organization of the Virginia So
| ciety, three of the reVivng members have
| died-namely: George KennOn, Philip +.
! Southall and Eugene Darlington. Mr..
Kennon left a young daughter as his only
| child. and DR.. Southall left son, DR..
Philip Turner Southal who will be elect
ed in his fathers place at the next en-
nual meeting. Mr.. Darlington also left a
son. who will succeed bis father.
At the meeting IF the society, held at
the Commonwealth club. in the city of
| Richmond. on the 4th Of July, 1893, the TO-
| lowing officers ana delegates We're elect
| ed-nanely: President, JOhn Chopper,
| Vice-President. DR.. George Ben johnston
| Treasurer, Heth Lorton; Secretary, +.
| III. c. Cabell; Standing Commttee-John
| Chopper. DR. George Ben Johnston, =. ID.
| &. Cabell. Heth Lorton. Lieutenant James
B. BAYLOR Major Herbert A. Claiborne,
! and Major Thomas Oliver Towles.
Delegates 10 represent the virginia 90,
ciety at the next meeting OF the .lel@i
| Society in New York. next May. were
John Cropper. Z. H. G. Cabell, Heth Lor-
| ton. Major T. O. Towles, and Major W.
w Bently: Alterna tes-Dr George sen
Johnston. william Dulaney Steele. Will
liam Hancock Clarke Rev. Henry Bedln-
Ger and Major Herbert A. Claiborne.
THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY.
THE Society of Cincinnati in North Car
olina was organized at Hillsboroush. IN
october. 1853. but disbanded some time
later. The society was revived at Raleish
on April l. 1895, by the Oldest male pos
teritv OF descendants Of the original men,
bers.
The North Carolina Society has made
apnlication for rcadmission into the Gen
eral Society. and its application, which
win come before this meeting Of the Cen
eral Society. viii doubtless be acted upon
favorably.
The delegates 10 the General Society
from North Carolina are Wilson Gray
lamb Graham Dawes, Charles Lukens
paws United states army; James lredeli
NcRee. John Collins Dawes; Alternates-
Nelson Macpherson Ferebee, United
states navy; Joseph Blount Chesire Jr
ID. d.. tBishop Of North Cardinal; George
Allen Mebane. NJ. D.; Benehan Cameron,
and Walter Deyle Carstarphen.
The society is also being revived in New
Hampshire. Delaware, and Georgia, and
when these three are admitted into the
General Society. the society will exist in
each of the thirteen original States and
in France.