Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-03
SONS OF AMERICAN
REVOLUTION HOLDS
ANNUAL ELECTION
Meeting Held on l34th Annl=
versary Of Battle OF
Princeton.

The officers elected this afternoon at
the business session of the New Jersey
Society, Sons of the American Revolq-
ton, held in the rooms OF the Ne"
Jersey Historical Society, n pre-
sided over by the president, Edward
Sanford Atwater, of Elizabeth are.
President, Edward Sanford vat
first vice-president, George Rowland
Howe. second vice-president, Thomas
Wright williams; secretary, John Ran
del Weeks. treasurer, Oscar Halstead
Condit; register, John Jackson Huo-
bell; trustee, National Society, AnoreW
Watson Bray; for members OF the
board of managers, John Stilweli Ap-
plegate, Red Bank; Lowell H.. carr
Flizabeth. Philip H. Hoffman, Morris
town; Edward Packard Holden, Maol-
SOM Joseph Holmes, Cream Ridse'
Lebbeus Baldwin Miller, Elizabeth; jay
Frank Parmly, Newark; George Her
bert Richards, Orange; Charies Wiipui
SANFORD, Montclair; George GURUS
Sterling, Montclair.
Delegates to the congress OF the Ma
tional Society to be held at LOUISVILLE
KY, April BOMBAY l: Delegates az
large. George Rowland Howe, Lowell ID
Carr. the Rev. John Hobart Egberti
Joseph Holmes, John Jackson Huboeli
Charles Symmes Higgins, JOIN Lenord
Merrill. Lebbeus Baldwin Miller, Jay
crank Parmly, George Herbert Rich
ards. George Curtis Sterling, the Rev
William Force Whitaker, Thomas
Wright Williams.
The opening address was delivered by
resident General William Allen Mar
BILE. of New York. members of the Ma
tional Society. The secretary's report
showed that ninety-two members have
been added % the roll, making the total
membership up to date 575, the largest
gain. with the exception Of last year,
nthe history of the society.
The meeting today marked the bath
anniversary of the observance OF the
hattie of Princeton. Preceding the bust
ness session a buffet luncheon was
served.
National Historian David L.. Pierson,
of Orange, In his address advocated a
national or state park, to be located in
the rolling country near Springfield.
He said in part:
conditions are ripe for starting the
movement today and will we not be
derelict in our duty as members Of the
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution II we do not take some ac-
ton toward acquiring a part of the
vacant land which adJoins our little
plot of ground at that point, and which,
7 am informed, is right in the middle of
the battlefield?
1.-THE deeds of u fathers are the
priceless legacies which we enjoy to-
day. and with the establishment of this
historical park, to which could be add
ed, from time to time. embellishments
in the way OF s%tatuary, we could thus
show in part our appreciation of their
efforts for the establishment of a
country where the lambent flame OF
patriotism will never be ex~tinguished.
/ trust, and where the generations yet
to come upon the scene of human en-
deavor will better appreciate the work
of the forbears In the crucial days OF
our beginning as a nation because Of
our action in this important matter. If
we decide to proceed.
I'm these days of great prosperity,
with State and national treasures
over flowing with surplus and with a
good balance In our own treasury, Is
1t o ambitions to propose that we
begin this work OF further remember
Ing b v~aiorous. Iarsistent endeayRrs