E 86 .3 C22. lass ^/S6 Hook ^ PRESENTED BY .£ J? X, 3mtxt\iWh (Ttouemlkr 30, 18 95, at Bob (ftngtltf. C$axUx& ^tttmUx 19, 1895, Jty FOUNDERS Rev. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BREWER HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS GEORGE JULES DENIS Major WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, U. S. (\ CHARLES PUTNAM FENNER FRANK PUTNAM FLINT MOTLEY HEWES FLINT EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES, M. D. HARRY WOODVILLE LATHAM BRADNER WELLS LEE Rev. ALEXANDER MOSS MERWIN HENRY fTTHERTON NICHOLS WILLARD ATHERTON NICHOLS JOSIAH fILONZO OSGOOD Hon. ERSKINE MAYO ROSS Hon. CAMERON ERSKINE THOM ANDREW ROANE THORPE SPENCER ROANE THORPE Gift The Society J. Decennial Register of o (*Ui~*. LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 1, 1906. GOVERNOR. IRew HIeran&zr /TOose flGerwin Afexander to Merwin Born September 3, 1839, in Norwalk, Connecticut Died February 2, 1905, in Pasadena, California Descended in the seventh generation from Governor Joseph Treat of Connecticut, and in the fourth generation from Joseph Piatt Cooke, Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of Connecticut troops in the War of the Revolution, Alexander Moss Merwin, from his early youth until he passed to the eternal hereafter, was identified with the best thought for the conservation of an honest and en- lightened government in the civil and religious affairs of a people whose independence his ancestors had helped to achieve, and his name ranks high in the roll of the leading Captains of the Church Militant. Motherless at three years of age, until his tenth year his home was with relatives in New Haven and New York. Entering Williams College, he was graduated in 1863 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the same year he matriculated in Princeton Theological Seminary, from which in 1866 he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. In subsequent years the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Williams and Yale Colleges. In his early years he was connected with the American Sunday School Union and the Bible Society, and during the War of the Rebellion he was Acting Chaplain at the hospitals of Alexandria and Fortress Monroe and agent in the Shenandoah Valley, of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. Under the auspices of the Presbyterian Board, he went to Chile as a missionary, where, under his supervision, was organized the first Protestant Chilean Church in that republic, at Santiago, and he was the first pastor of Chilean Protestants at Valparaiso. He remained in Chile nineteen years, carrying on the work of pastor, editor and superintendent of schools until 1885, when he returned to the United States. In 1886 he came to Southern California, from which period until his death he was engaged in missionary labors for the Mexicans, and through his efforts, Presbyterian congregations were organized, and church edifices erected at Los Angeles, San Gabriel, Alhambra, South Pasadena, Lamanda Park and Azusa, and a Girl's Home and School was established and placed upon an enduring basis in Los Angeles. Elected a member of the California Society Sons of the Revolu- tion in May, 1894, his name was borne upon its rolls to the time of his death as one of the most zealous advocates of its institution. A charter member of this Society he was chosen its Chaplain and retained in that office at every annual election. In the affectionate intercourse of our members he became endeared to us all, and we mourn with his afflicted family, the loss of this gentle Christian, who will not be forgotten. Ifoerbert Cornelius Bnorcwg Herbert (ornefius Andrews Born March 19, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois Died May 31, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois Surrendering his life at the early age of twenty-two years, Herbert Cornelius Andrews lived long enough to impress his per- sonality upon all with whom he came in contact. Graduating from the High School at Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, he entered the Chicago University, and later he was a student in Colorado College at Colorado Springs, where he remained a year, but being of a fragile constitution, he was unable to endure the hard work of a student, and he passed the following two years in Flagstaff, Arizona, and at other places in the West, striving for the return of health, which never came to him. The only son of a prosperous manufacturer in Chicago, it was the hope of his father that he would take up that work as it should fall to him, but his student life and delicate health had unfitted him for mercantile pursuits and he found his vocation in the more congenial work of an historian and biographer. Descended from Governors William Leete and Thomas Welles of Connecticut and others distinguished in the first settlement of New England, he became engrossed in the study of the early Colonial era, to which the remainder of his life was devoted. He lived to complete several works of genealogy and biography which were recognized as being valuable contributions to the history of this country in his election to membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Seeking a milder climate, in 1903 he came to Los Angeles. In March, 1904, he was elected a member of this Society, and at the annual meeting, December 21, 1904, he was elected to the Committee on Historical Documents. His gentleness and courtesy won for him the esteem of his associates, and his achievements in his literary pursuits exacted respect for his ability. As a testimonial to his worth and our sympathy with his father and mother for the loss of their only son, this memorial is placed upon our records by unanimous resolution adopted at the Eleventh General Court of this Society held in the city of Los Angeles, State of California, on the twenty-first day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Five. JFreberlcfe ■foastfngs 1Rfn&ge Frederick Hastings Rindge Born December 21, 1857, in Cambridge, Massachusetts Died August 29, 1905, in Yreka, California A trustee of great wealth, and inheriting the blood of ancestors distinguished in both the Colonial era and that great Revolution against the despotism of England, Frederick Hastings Rindge has departed from us, leaving as his richest legacy a bright record on the pages of his time among those whose lives have been devoted to the maintenance of good government, the integrity of a nation founded upon eternal principles of liberty and justice and the establishment and perpetuity of secular and religious institutions devoted to the training of those to whom shall fall the guardianship of the welfare of this land. Educated at Harvard University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his studies did not cease with the close of his college career, and his intellectual activities ended only with his life. He achieved a recognized position in the scientific walks of Ethnology and Archaeology, as well as in the lighter and more popular fields of literature, and he gave us a most pleasing, graphic and instructive description of the life as we live it on the Pacific Coast, in his "Happy Days in Southern California," With the strongest attachment for the place of his nativity, he acquired for his new home in this land, a love and enthusiasm, which, in a great measure, became factors in the direction of his later years. The complete story of his private benefactions and sympathetic charities to the suffering and needy will never be known this side the gates of Paradise, but his munificent gifts to Cambridge, and his establishment and endowment of educational, charitable and reli- gious institutions will remain for all time a part of the history of the cities of his nativity and adoption. With reverential gratitude for the sacrifices made by his ancestors in the winning of this land, and pride in their valor which helped to achieve its independence and found a government which he believed the happiest upon eartb, he sought admission to the Societies of Colonial Wars and Sons of the Revolution, that his children and his children's children might read therein the record of those whose blood they inherited. A gentleman of the Council of this Society, his interest was unfailing in all its proceedings, and he gave his adherence and firm support to all the principles of our Order. The loss of such a citizen cannot but be felt and mourned throughout the entire scenes of his activities, and as a testimonial of our affection and appreciation of his gentle life, we spread this memorial upon our records, and direct that a copy be transmitted to his family. Spencer IRoane Uborpe Spencer Roane Thorpe Born January 20, 1842, in Louisville, Kentucky Died September 2, 1905, in Moor Park, California A descendant of Patrick Henry, the whole life of Spencer Roane Thorpe was a marked exemplification of the principles which char- acterized his great ancestor. In early youth he entered St. Joseph's College at Bardstown, Kentucky, where he remained until the spring of 1861. A Southerner by birth and ancestry, all of his affec- tions and sympathies went out to the people of his home, and in April, 1861. when but nineteen years old, he left his College and joined the Confederate Army, enlisting in the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, from which he was transferred to the First Kentucky Infantry. He participated in the battle of Drainsville, Virginia, on December 20, 1861, when he was wounded, and he served with his Regiment until June, 1862, when it was disbanded at Richmond, Virginia. Returning to Kentucky, he joined Morgan's forces with which he fought at Cynthiana on July 16, 1862, and where he again received a serious wound. He served under Morgan in the raid through Indiana, holding at that time the rank of First Lieutenant, and being in command of a battalion of four companies serving as the advance guard. At Corydon, on July 9, 1863, he w T as so seriously wounded that he was left as dead upon the field. Taken prisoner, his recovery was slow, and when able to be moved, he was sent to the military prison at Johnson's Island, in November, where he was retained until his exchange in October 1864, when he rejoined his Regiment, then commanded by Gen. Basil W. Duke. His final service in the Confederate Army was with the rank of captain when his command accompanied the Confederate Government from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington, Georgia, where, being captured, he was paroled. Upon the establishment of peace he settled in Louisiana, and being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, he achieved a competence in the practice of his profession. He came to California in 1883, settling in San Francisco, but in 1886 he made a new home for his family in Los Angeles. In May, 1893, he was admitted to membership in the California Society of Sons of the Revolution and in 1897 he became its Vice- President, holding that office by successive elections to the time of his death. A charter member of this Society, he has been Deputy Governor General from the date of its organization, and Lieutenant Governor since 1896. His amiable disposition and hearty support of the principles of this Society, had endeared him to all its members, and in his death we mourn the loss, not only of a zealous associate, but a sympathetic friend, a gentleman and a strenuous advocate in both his private and public life, for all that conduces to honesty and probity in the management of State and municipal affairs. To the afflicted widow and children we extend our most profound sympathy. M 17 ISO'S