The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-27
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
NATIONAL SOCIETIES CONGRESS
 IN NEW HAVEN THIS WEEK.

gFess of the Order ana O1 the SOnheetI"
 cutsoeiety.
 Jonathan Trumbull, president of the Connecticut Society of Sons of the Rev olution, contributes the following to the New York Tribune Of yesterday: The Connecticut Society of Sons of the American Revolution, under whose aus pfces the next annual congress of the national society will be held at New Haven on April 90 and May l, was or ganized April ,. 1889. at the capitol at Hartford. The late Major John C. Kin ney of Hartford, a man universally be- loved and esteemed was the prime nov CT in this organization, and was an active and inspiring promoter of its in- terests and growth during the few years in which he was spared to us.
 At this time societies were fact spring ing into existence, under the same name and with the same purpose. from Maine 1 to California. The need of a central government for these societies soon be- came apparent, and on April 2S. 1889, the National society was formed at Faunces' | Tavern, in New York, This National society bore from the beginning rela- tion to the state societies which con- sciously or unconsciously initiated close ly the relation which the continental congress bore to the thirteen original ! states. Judge Lucius P. Deming ac- cepted temporarily the presidency of the National society, with the understand | ing that he could retire as soon as suitable successor could be found. In l the following November Dr. William 1 Seward Webb was chosen to fill this po- sition. His successors have been Gen. eral Horace Porter, 1S92'97; Edwin Shepard Barrett, 1S97-99; Governor I Franklin Murphy, 1S99-'00; Walter Seth Logan, 19O1-'O2; Edwin Warfield, 1902. In strict sense the National society | is a congress of delegates from the va rious state societies, which now number forty, including societies in Hawaii, France and the Philippines, with total membership of about ten thousand. In | addition to providing suitable and l strict regulations for the approval of | applications for membership in all the l state societies the National society de- votes itself to work of a strictly na- l
 mittees, as the committee on national parks, on legislation. Revolutionary 1 monuments, the national flag, with other committees more particularly de- voted to the interests of the state so- l cieties.
 The secret of the rapid growth of this l general order throughout the country and of the front rank which it holds in 1 the survival of the Attest among the many hereditary and patriotic organiza- tions of the day lies in the fact that it 1 is a working order. and has much to show in the results which it has accom- 1 plished in pursuance of its aims and purposes This can be truly said of the 1 Connecticut society. During the four 1 teen years of it's existence 1t has estab- lished the following lasting and visible memorials of the men and times of the 1 Revolution:
 l The Lebanon War Office. This build l ing is owned by the society by deed of 1 gift from it's former owners. It is fam ous as the place of meeting of the Con- necticut Council of Safety during the Revolution, some 1,200 meetings having
 been held within its walls from IT'S to 17S1. Washington, Rochambeau, Lafay- cite and many other leaders have trod-
 den it's we'll worn oaken floors. The building was repaired and restored to
 it's original condition by the society from it's own funds in 1891,
 The Nathan Hale Schoolhouse at New
 London, Conn. This building, in which
 Nathan Hale taught from May, 1774, to June, 1775, at which time he entered the
 army, has been purchased, restored and | removed to public ground in New Lon
 don at an expense of about $6,000, of | which the Daughters of the American
 Revolution contributed about $t,50O and the Connecticut Sons of the American
 Revolution about $4,500
 These bronze tablets have been erect
 ed: June A, 1S94-On the elm tree in
 front of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at l Hartford, commemorating the first visit
 of Washington to Connecticut.
 July 5, 1S95-At Beacon Hill, New Ha-
 ven. commemorating the defence of
 New Haven at this point at the time of
 Tryon's invasion, July 5, 1779.
 June II, 1S96-In the Lebanon War off,
 fee. indicating the character of. the
 building, it's present ownership and res
 cording the names and prominent men
 of the Revolution who frequented the
 building.
 June r, 1901-In the Nathan Hale
 Schoolhouse at New London, commemo-
 rating the service and martyrdom oi
 Hale and indicating the character ot
 building.
 The Connecticut society has also plac.
 ed at the graves of Revolutionary pat.
 riots within the state 750 bronze grave
 markers Of 8 pattern adopted by the so-
 ciety and designed by one of its mem.
 bers.
 The publications of the Connecticut
 society giving full accounts of it's pro-
 ceedings and full lists of members ant
 their ancestors and service, have beer year books for 1891, 1S93-94, 1885, -'96, anG
 1S97-'99, also a little volume entitled
 'The Lebanon War Offlce''
 The David Humphreys branch o
 New Haven has also published Songs of the American Revolution" and an ac.
 count of the exercises at Beacon Hill al
 the erection of the tablet, July 6, 1895.
 Less tangible but no less important