The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-21
FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS.
Colonel F. F. Sill of This City Chosen Governor of the Society-seventh An nual Meeting

Colonel E, E. Sill of This City Chosen 1 Governor of the Society-seventh An-
 nual Meeting.
 The seventh annual meeting of the l Connecticut Society of the Order of | Founders and Patriots of America was
 held at the Hartford club house in Hartford Saturday. Between thirty
 and forty of the associates of this so-
 elety were present. After opening | prayer by the chaplain of the society, Rev William Dryden Phelps of this city, the minutes of the last annual and the midsummer meeting of the society
 were read by the secretary, William Russell of Hartford.
 Besides the officers of the society
 there were present: Associates Hon.
 James D. Dewell, Henry Baldwin, Pro-
 lessor Charles H. Smith, Frederick H.
 Cogswell, George F: Newcomb, Profess
 sor Charles N. Camp, Dr. Augustus w.
 Street Henry w. Lupton, William III.
 Moseley, Colonel Charles A. Jewell,
 William F. J. Boardman, Walter c.
 FaXon, Edward H. Judd, Major George
 w. Tucker Frank A. Corbin, Ernest
 B. Ellsworth, Henry R. Hovey, Elisha
 B. Squire, Major William H. Talcott,
 and invited guests, Rev. Francis D.
 Hoskins and William R. Rembert. The report of the registrar, George r. New comb, and of the treasurer, Ernest B. Ellsworth, were presented and adopted. Henry Baldwin, historian of the soci- ety, presented a very elaborate and in- teresting report.
 Letters were read from Theodore Fitch of New York, secretary general of the national society of the order, and George Elman Meigs of Philadelphia, in terms of high praise of the publica- tions of the Connecticut society.
 At ? D. m. the meeting adjourned to the dining room, where an elaborate dinner was provided for the society and its guests. After dinner the routine bus mess of the society was resumed and the following new associates were elect ed: Robert o. N. Gates of Derby, Frederick Hull Cogswell, Frank Addi- son Corbin, William Hamilton Nose ley, John Newton Champion, and Sher- wood Stratton Thompson, all of this city. Alfred Beach Fairchild and George Comstock of Bridgeport, Edward Hart Fem of Wethersf1eld, pr. Frank Field Cook and Elisha Bancroft Squire of Hartford.
 The following councillors to serve for three years were elected: Henry w. Lupton, Charles A. Jewell and Colonel | Norris G. Osborn The present member ship committee and auditing commit tee were re-appointed for another year. The committee to arrange for the mid io, to eli nf | the governor-elect, secretary and treas urer of the society. The governor-el | with Colonel Norris G. Osborn and | Rev. John G. Davenport, D. D., were | appointed as the publication commit | tee. F. H. Cogswell read very in | teresing paper prepared for the occa- | sion and entitled James Gates Per- oival and His Friends"
 At the close a hearty vote of thanks with a request of copy of his publi- ,ation by the society was rendered to Mr. Cogswell. The following were the newly elected officers of the society: Governor, Edward D. Sill, New Haven; deputy governor, William c. Russell, Hartford secretary, Charles I. N. Camp, New Haven; treasurer Ernest 3. Ellsworth, Hartford; state attorney, ,. c. Durham, Hartford; registrar, ieorge F. Newcomb. New Haven: his brian, Professor Charles H. Smith, New Haven; chaplain, Rev. Dryden w. Phelps, New Haven; genealogist, Will fam F. J. Boardman, Hartford. The ,ast year has been one of the most in the history of the soci- ty.
 After the dinner the associates arose nd sang together to the tune of America" an admirable ode written or the occasion by Rev. Dr. Daven- ort of Waterbury.