The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1901-02-23
Judge Burbank Of SacO Was Elected
President.
Address by Retiring
President Moulton.
Judge SymOnds and Rev. w.
G. Mann Also Speak.

The annual meeting of the Sons of the
American Revolution was held yesterday
ut Riyerton and for wonder, the first
time in some years. the society wal
favored with pleasant weather and the at
tendance was therefore much larger tnan
has usually been the case. Special cars
were taken in the forenoon and previous
to holding the business session very en-
ioyaple social time was had. The bush
n sss meeting was held about eleven
O'Clock in one of the PHEASANT rooms OF
the Casino building.
Hon. A. +. Moulton, the president, In
the chair The records Of the last annual
meeting were read and approved. Ihe
secretary, DIR. Outrage, then read the Sec
retary's report which WAS as follows;
10 the Maine Society of the American
Revolution.
Gentlemen: During the past year we
have added to our rolls by election the
names OF sixteen nsw members, and we
have received one new msmbor by trans
fer from the Maryland Society Sons Of the
American Revolution. One OF our new
members, Hon. Henry X. Baker OF Hal
lowell, is the son Of n Revolutionary sol.
der, and the only one now on our rolls
who has thai distinction. One OF our
number during the year has been trans
ferred to the Empire State Society, s..
A. X ons has withdrawn, one has been
dropped for the non.payment OF dues,
and six have died, viz Brown Thurston,
Portland, April IS. 1900; Nathan Baohel-
der, st. George, Sept, 1900, William q.
Nelson, Poi tlaud, Sept "a, 1900; Levi b.
GetoheIl, Macnias, Oct. 20, 1860; Palmer
Dudley, Portland, Dec. 2, 1900, and Alex
ander W. Longfellow, Portland. Feb. H.
1901. MIR. Lopgfellow was our only hon.
orary member. A son of Hon. stephen
and Zilpah (Wadsworth Longfellow and
q brother of Henry W. Longfellow, the
poet. he received his name from his
mothers brother, Alexander Samuel
SCANNED Wsdsworth, who distinguished
himself In the memorable sea-nght be-
tween the frigate Constitution and the
Guerriere in 1879. His mother was
daughter OF Gen, Peleg Wadsworth, so
we'll known IN our Maine Revolutionary
annals. At this opening or the Society
year we had a membership of 36S. We
close the year with a membership OF 365,
a net gain of three. The last report o.
the General Society, sons OF the Aneri
can Revolution. shows that this society,
in point OF membership, is now ninth IN
the list of forty societies OF the
Sons OF the American Revolution.
Meetings OF the Board OF Man
ayers have been as follows: March
"a, May II, June 49, September %, Octo-
Der II, December IS, 1900, January 9, and
February Ii, 1901
Early in the Society year the Society
published MIR. Nathan Goold's Colonel
James Soamman's 30th Regiment Of
Foot; also Captain johnson Moulton' s
Company; thu two papers making a
neatly printed pamphlet OF seventy six
pages. A copy OF this publication was
sent TO each member Of the society. The
value of the work which MIR. Goold has
done in placing on record the istory OF
our Maine Revolutionary regiments can.
not be over stimEt9d. In no other states,
so far as has been asoertained, has such
a service been performed, ana MIR.
Goods history of these regiments is an
exceedingly valuable contribution to our
Maine Revolutionary history.
At the last annual meeting OF the
National Society held in New York, April
80 and May /, 1900, this society was repre-
sented by Hon Edward A. Butler OF