The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
GRANDsONs REVOLUTION
State journal Correspondent Shows
They Are Not Rare.

To the Editor of the State Journal:
A good deal of local mention has re-
Gently been made over the fact that llv-
ing grandsons of soldiers of the Ameri-
can Revolution are found in Kansas.
This is a good beginning and it is hoped
that it may lead to the discovery of
some of their actual sons.
1t does not seem to be known that
4'grandsonS" are really common. OF
the Kansas Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, now numbering
over $50 members there are no less than
thirty whose grandfathers were soldiers
of the Revolution. Among these may
be named Colonel D. r. Anthony of
Leavenworth, Judge j. T. Burris Of
Olathe, Charles L. Edwards, ]. G. Has
kell, J. D. Faxon, o. w. M. McAllaster
and Henry Moore of Lawrence, John
Brier, Homer Boughton, George Dick,
n. L. Gage, Joel Huntoon, N. F. Handy,
Colonel T. w Harrison, G.. w HOge-
boom, D. E. Kelsey, Prof. ]. Z. Love
well, Thomas S. Lyon, DR.. VIM Smith
and Avery WaShburn of Topeka James
H. Lowell Of Holton, Connolly McFad-
den of Waverly, S. J. Spear of Bur-
lingame Frank Nighswonger. E. P.
Thompson and A. G. Richardson of
Wichita and others. Several members
F. G. Adams, T. E. Bowman, DR.. Hun
toon, Judge w. C. Webb, Judge Morton
and others now deceased were also
grandsons of Revolutionary soldiers.
All men whose a0CeSlOIS dSSlSlSQ
the Revolution are eligible to member
ship in the Kansas and national So
Getty But we have had some members
who were literally sons. Samuel Scott,
the. father of the late Willian1sT. Scott,
fought as a private at Kings noun
tain.
There are known to be still living in
the state several old patriots whose
fathers fought in the Revolution. Some
months ago the society had the names
of several of these aged citizens whom
it was proposed to make honorary MEM
bers of the society and considerable
data had been secured to insure their
eligibility. 1t was mostly lost in the
The records of the Kansas S. A. R.
preserve many interesting war in
cidents of the Revolution. as in the case
of Col. J. d. Norton whose ancestor,
Capt. Alexander Harper, was once cap
tured by the enemy and taken before
the halfbreed Indian Brandt. Each was
known to the other and Capt. Harper
( was noted for his truthfulnesS. Brandt
questioned Harper and he lied. The
truth meant death to the captain and
I disaster to the patriot army, but his
/ lie and his reputation for veracity pre-
vented both. He lied with vigor, brave
/ ~ and conscientiously. If he had not
] done so Kansas would have had nc
! Colonel Norton today. After the wal
| Capt. Harper went forth and obeyed
the scriptural injunction to multiply
and replenish the country he had helped
to save and so in fact he helped re-
store the damage of the war.
The grandmother of Judge ]. L. Ed
ridge who looks after the Kansas su-
premes court, did not fight at Bunker
| Hill but she saw the smoke of the bat
tie and heard the boom of the guns
and more than three score years later
she heard with her grandson the ora
| ton of Daniel Webster at the dedica tioT
of Bunker Hill monument.
G. F. KIMBALIA