Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-17
p. A. R. Meeting.


its regular meeting at the Club House i
Rockville on the 7th of May, Miss Field
hostess. The principal business transacte,
was the election of officers for the ensuin
year. Balloting resulted as follows:
Regent, Mrs. Morris L. Croxall, Bethesda
Vice-Regent. Mrs. Harry T. Newcomb, Be
thesda; Recording Secretary. Mrs. Elder
j. Hartshorn, Kensington; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. VIM. H. Talbot, Rockville
Treasurer, Mrs. David H. Warfield, Rock
ville Registrar Miss Margaret Fields
Rockville; Historian, Miss Marian White
Washington. D. c.; Auditor, Mrs. Herbert
j. Brown, Washington, D. c.; Parliamen.
tartan. Mrs. Charles F. Dickens; chapter
members elected on Board of MANAGEMENT
Mrs. E. L. Billiard, Rockville; Mrs. E. M
Getzendanner. Bethesda, and Mrs. j
Somervell Dawson, Rockville.
D. A. R. NorEs.
Mrs. Robert G. Hogan has been elected
State Regent of Maryland to supply the
vacancy left by the death of the lamented
Mrs. Pembroke Thorn, of Baltimore. Mrs
Hogan lives at Gainesville and her hus-
band is prominent attorney of Baltimore
She is woman of charming personality
fine presence and amiable disposition. She
is member of the Colonial Danes, the
Society of Armorial Bearings. 1912 Daugh-
tiers and member of the Arundel Wo-
mans Club, Of Baltimore. She is a fine
parliamentarian and presides with grace
ease and dignity. Maryland is fortunate
in having so fine a representative to sue
coed their beloved Mrs. Thorn. 1t was the
wish of the Maryland chapters to leave the
State Regency vacant out of respect to
Mrs. Thorn until the State Conference next
fall. but at the recent D. A. R. Congress
the official parliamentarian decided other
wise, that is, that each State must be rep
resented always by two officers-a State
Regent and State Vice Regent. Miss
Alice Thompson. Of the Maryland Line, -
was elected State Vice REGENT.
Miss Margaret Fields, Registrar of the
Janet Montgomery Chapter. is a member
Of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors
in America. The first meeting Of the men,
bers of the Order was held on March 25th,
1912, Maryland Day. in Baltimore, at the
home Of the President General, Mrs. Hester
Dorsey Richardson. This Order was founded
by Mrs. Richardson, and it is difficult to
gain admission, because so few can be
eligible. One has to be lineally descended
from an ancestor who held land in the
colonies under the manorial grants. Miss
Fields is eligible by right Of descent from
Nicholas Harvey. Lord of St. Joseph's
Manor, Maryland.
At the request of Miss Elizabeth Chew
Williams. former Vice-President General
of the d. A. R. from Maryland. the follow
ing resolutions were presented by the Re-
gent of the Janet Montgomery Chapter:
Whereas. 1t has been reported that the
vestry of St. Anne's Parish at Annapolis,
Md, intends to remove the old graves from
the graveyard around the church build
ings. and
Whereas. These old graves and said
graveyard stand as monuments to and re-
minders of colonial life and are of great
historic interest and value. and
Whereas, The National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution de-
sires to preserve intact all reminders of
that formative period in the life of our
country, and especially those in the city
of Annapolis, the heart of the Revolution,
now therefore. be it
Resolved, That the Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton respectfully protest against the re-
moval of said graves, and request that
said graveyard be allowed to remain in its
present condition, and further
Resolved. That the Corresponding Secre-
tary General of the Daughters of the Anne
rican Revolution be requested to transmit
a copy of these resolutions to the vestry OF
said parish.
The chapter at its meeting today fully
Endorsed these resolutions, and will do all
in the power of its members to create and
support public sentiment against an action
that seems almost Dissertation.
Mrs. William Beck. of Rockville. has re-
Gently become a member of the Janet
Montgomery Chapter by right of descent
from Joseph De Hart. soldier in Captain
Taylor's company. of Middlesex county.
New Jersey. militia.