University of California Berkeley 
 
JAN 4 1906 
 
 GENESIS and REVELATIONS 
 
 OF THE FORMER 
 II 
 
 alifornia Society of Sons of 
 Revolutionary Sires" 
 
 BUT NOW THE 
 
 California Society of Song of the 
 
 Evolution, 
 
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 STONES LAID 
 
 IN THE BASK OK THK 
 
 SLOAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 
 
 KAST FACE COMPLETED. 
 
 U. S Army, Mariposa Co., Kern Co., Lassen Co., Employees U. S. N. Yard, U. S. Navy 
 San Diego Co., San Bernardino Co., Plumas Co., Placer Co., San Joaquin Co., N.S.G.W., V.M.W. 
 Monterey Co., Santa Cruz Co., Contra Costa Co., Santa Clara Co., Alameda, Co., Pioneers 
 
 NORTH FACE COMPLETED. 
 
 U.S.N., Cal. Miners, Butte Co., Mendociuo Co., Bear Flag, Daughters Am. Revolution, G.A.R. 
 Vets Mexican War, N. D. G W., C. P. R. R., Sonoma Co., Lake Co., Mas. Vets. Pacific Coast 
 California. San Francisco Co., Sacramento Co., Solano Co., Napa Co., Public Schools 
 
 SOUTH FACE HALF DONE DECEMBER 25, 1904. 
 
 Rear Admiral S. F. Dupont, Los Angeles Co., U. S. A. 
 
 San Benito Co., Cal. Fed. Woman's Clubs, San Diego 
 
 Presidents, U. S. A. Santa Barbara Co., Ventura Co., San Luis Obispo Co., Monterey Co. 
 
 WEvST FACE NEARLY HALF DONE DECEMBER 25, 1904. 
 
 Grand Army of the Republic, 
 
 Mas. Vets. Assn. 
 
 Public Schools, California Pioneers, Oakland, San Mateo Co., Consul Parrott, President's 
 
 48 STONES LAID. 1 8 MORE REQUIRED FOR THE BASE. 
 
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN DRAKE SLOAT, U. S. N. 
 Son of Capt. John Sloat of the American Army in the Revolutionary War for Independence. 
 
 Born July 26, 1781, at Sloatbury, near Goshen, Rockland County, New York. 
 
 Midshipman, U. S. Navy, February i2th. 1800. 
 
 Sailing Master U. S. Navy, February yth, 1812. (He maneuvered the frigate "United States" under Com- 
 modore Decatur, when he captured the crack trigate "Macedonian," of the British Navy, October 25th, 1812 
 and received the thanks of Congress ) 
 
 Lieutenant, July 24th, 1812. (Commanded the schooner "Grampus," and suppresses Cofrecinas, the last ot 
 the West India pirates, in March, 1825, who was captured and shot.) 
 
 Post Captain, February gth, 1837. 
 
 Commodore, November 151,1843. (August 27th, 1844, ordered to command the Pacific Squadron, and on 
 July 7th, 1846, took possession of California aud hoisted the American flag at Monterey. He located the Navy 
 Yard at Mare Island, California, in 1852.) 
 
 Rear Admiral on the Retired List, August 6th, 1866. 
 
 Died at Staten Island, New York, November 28th, 1867, aped 86 vears, 4 montlm and 2 days. 
 
 Buried with Masonic and Naval-Military honors tn Green wo >d Cemetery, L. T.. by St. Nicholas Lodge, No. 
 321, F. & A. M., and Tompkinsville Lodge, F. <fc A. M., and the N ival Battalion of Marines and Sailors, Novem- 
 ber soth, 1867. 
 
 MONUMENT BEING ERECTED AT MOiNTERKY. 
 
THE 
 
 GENESIS AND REVELATIONS 
 
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 OF THE FORMER 
 
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 BUT NOW THE 
 
 California Society of Sons of the American Revolution 
 
 4< I know him a notorious liar, 
 
 Think him a great way fool, solely a coward, 
 
 Yet these fixed evils so fit on him 
 
 That they take place. 
 
 Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and Parolles. live 
 
 Safest in shame; being fooled, by fooling thrive; 
 
 There's place and means for every man alive." 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 On March 3rd, 1871, President U. S. GRANT signed the first bill 
 for the Centennial Exposition and Celebration of the looth Anniver- 
 sary of American Independence at Philadelphia, and Congress made 
 an appropriation of three millions of dollars. On June ist, 1872, he 
 approved the bill incorporating the Centennial Exposition with no 
 less than 768 incorporators selected from every Congressional District 
 in the United States and personally named in the Act. Those named 
 from California were A. S. HALLIDIE, THOMAS H. SELBY, GEORGE 
 OUT/TON, NATHAN COOMBS, WILLIAM C. RALSTON, MILTON S. L,A- 
 THOM, LELAND STANFORD, EDGAR MILLS, L. B. MIZNER, JOHN J. 
 DEHAVEN, JOHN G. DOWNEY and T. ELLARD BEANS. 
 
 On December 29th, 1872, under an Act of Congress, the Hon. 
 JAMES G. BLAINE, the Speaker of that Body, appointed the Commit- 
 tee of Arrangements to have charge of the Celebration, all of whom 
 were of direct Revolutionary descent, and the following Representa- 
 tives were appointed the said Committee, viz.: WILLIAM D. KELLEY, 
 of Philadelphia, Penn ; HENRY L,. DAWES, of Pittsfield, Mass.; HOR- 
 ACE MAYNARD, of Knoxville, Tenn. ; AARON A. SARGENT, of Nevada 
 City, Cal.; JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, of Connecticut; HARRISON E. HA- 
 VENS, of Missouri; SAMUEL S. Cox, of New York; SAMUEL S. MAR- 
 SHALL, of Illinois; and JOHN HANCOCK, of Texas. This Committee 
 of Arrangements selected the following Sons of Revolutionary Sires as 
 
Officers of the Day : Gen. U. S. GRANT, President of the United States, 
 President of the Day; RICHARD HENRY LEE, of Virginia, whose 
 grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence, Reader, to 
 read the original Manuscript; BAYARD TAYLOR, the Poet of the Day, 
 a grandson of another signer; and the Hon. WM. M. EVARTS, Orator 
 of the Day, and the grandson of ROGER SHERMAN, one of the Com- 
 mittee with THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
 and PHILIP LIVINGSTON, appointed to draft the Declaration of Amer- 
 ican Independence. 
 
 Here it may be truly said was the first real organization of the 
 Sons of Revolutionary Sires, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons 
 of the Revolution, or by whatever name the descendants of the Fathers 
 of American Independence may be called, organized under an Act of 
 Congress of December 29, 1872, three years and a half before the 4th 
 day of July, 1876, and two years and four months before any other 
 organization of the descendants of Revolutionary ancestry whatever 
 was formed. 
 
 On the i Qth of April, 1875, the citizens of the State of Massachu- 
 setts celebrated the Centennial Anniversary on the same sacred soil, 
 the battles of Lexington and Concord, with all the eclat that was pos- 
 sible, and they heard the echoes returning "of the shot that was fired 
 and heard around the world." A full report as given in the newspa- 
 pers of that day is still in my possession. On the I7th of June follow- 
 ing (1875), the Centennial Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill 
 was celebrated on a still larger scale, with a little more than a year to 
 intervene before the Centennial Anniversary of American Independ- 
 ence was to be celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the 
 Republic. 
 
 Nothing had been done, however, for making any preparation for 
 that event on the Pacific Coast, except the primary organization of 
 the National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, at the office of 
 Dr. JAMES L. COGSWELL, at No. 230 Kearny Street, San Francisco, 
 California, on October 22, 1875. 
 
 At that time I was City Surveyor of Gold Hill and Deputy U. S. 
 Mineral Surveyor of the State of Nevada. Having business which 
 called me to San Francisco, and having some dentistry work to be im- 
 mediately done, I went to the office of Dr. JAMES L. COGSWELL on 
 the morning of Friday, October 22, 1875, who took the matter at once 
 in hand, and told me to call in the evening and it would be ready for 
 me. When I arrived there at the appointed time, and being old Pion- 
 eer friends and acquaintances, he invited me to remain, as there were 
 to be some other gentlemen to come in, and they were to hold a little 
 patriotic meeting. I therefore remained, and the following gentlemen 
 
and old friends came in : Dr. PETER WILKINS RANDLE, Capt. RICH- 
 ARD RUSH RANDLE, IRA C. ROOT, Dr. EMORY L. WILLARD, and I 
 think Judge JOSEPH WEED, and one or two more; but A. S. HUB- 
 BARD was not known or present. 
 
 Dr. JAMES L. COGSWELL, after a little, arose and briefly stated the 
 objects for which he had invited them to be present, which was to 
 organize a society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, for the purpose of 
 getting ready and making preparations for the celebration of the Cen- 
 tennial Anniversary of American Independence, and perpetuating the 
 Society, and nominated Dr. Peter Wilkins Randle, an old Army Sur- 
 geon and well known as Chairman of the meeting, and to be the Pres- 
 ident of the Society. To this Dr. Randle decidedly objected and 
 protested against it, and in turn nominated Dr. JAMES L,. COGSWELL, 
 who had invited them to his office for that patriotic purpose, and on 
 motion Dr. Cogswell was unanimously elected. 
 
 On motion, the name for the proposed organization was, "THE 
 CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY SIRES." To this 
 I arose and objected, as I was then a citizen of the State of Nevada, 
 and it would rule me out. I said, make it a National Society at the 
 start, and if Nevada was to be represented in it, as there was no one 
 else there present from that State, that I would serve as a Vice-Presi- 
 dent, if it was their wish, and represent the society as one of its dele- 
 gates at the Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia, as I had to be 
 there on July 4, 1876. 
 
 At this, Dr. Randle then moved that the organization be called 
 "THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY SIRES,'* 
 which was unanimously carried. 
 
 PRIMARY ORGANIZATION. 
 
 On motion, the following officers were declared elected by acclama- 
 tion, viz.: Dr. JAMES L,. COGSWELL, National President; Dr. PETER 
 WILKINS RANDLE, Vice-President for California; and Major EDWIN 
 A. SHERMAN, Vice-President for the State of Nevada. The other offi- 
 cers serving pro tern., their election was to be deferred until the next 
 meeting to be called by the President. 
 
 The next morning I took my departure for Gold Hill, Nevada, but 
 authorizing Dr. JAMES L- COGSWELL to sign my name to the Consti- 
 tution, when adopted, and as Vice-President for Nevada. 
 
 The burning of Virginia City had deranged all business there, and 
 I sent my family East on a visit to friends in Illinois. 
 
 I was appointed alternate delegate in place of Hon. WM. E. SHARON, 
 to the National Republican Convention to meet in Cincinnati in June, 
 1876, and as all the Railroad Companies in the United States were giv- 
 
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 ing free passes to Veterans of the Mexican War to go and return 
 from the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia on July 4, 1876, I 
 availed myself of that liberality, and attended at both places, as the 
 Representative of the Republican Party of Nevada, the Veterans of 
 the Mexican War, and as Vice-President of the Sons of Revolutionary 
 Sires, and returned to Gold Hill in September, 1876, having lost a 
 little daughter by death in Illinois, which greatly saddened my 
 pleasure. 
 
 I knew nothing of what had been done in San Francisco until I 
 removed there in August, 1877, when Dr. James L. Cogswell gave 
 me the following account of intrigue, scheming and trickery in con- 
 nection with the Sons of the Revolutionary Sires, and a history of 
 the same, of which he and the other Founders of that organization 
 had been made the victims, and of which he and myself are the only 
 survivors, and still retaining our offices of President and Vice-Presi- 
 dent, until our successors are chosen by a revival with new members, 
 or the same will expire at our deaths. 
 
 According to Dr. Cogswell's statement given to me, the account of 
 what had occurred during my absence in Nevada and the East is as 
 follows : 
 
 "Subsequent to this first meeting on October 22, 1875, during the 
 rainy season, on a rainy afternoon some of the members with other 
 gentlemen called to pay a friendly visit, and while there, the subject 
 of Revolutionary ancestry was mentioned, and further inquiry was 
 made, who among them had relatives in the Revolutionary War? and 
 several stated that they also were descended from Revolutionary stock. 
 It was then suggested that another meeting be held, inviting all in 
 the city who had relatives in the American Revolution. We casu- 
 ally met on the street and spoke about the kind of regalia that would 
 be appropriate, banner, badges, etc., on the coming Fourth of July. 
 To save expense, I called a meeting at my office, No 230 Kearny 
 Street, by advertising in the A I la-California newspaper, on June 26th, 
 1876, immediately upon reading a communication from a lady of 
 Revolutionary ancestry. The communication and my advertisement 
 were as follows : 
 
 THE PATRIOTIC LADY'S COMMUNICATION. 
 
 "EDITOR Alta : 
 
 "Wouldn't it be a most novel but strikingly interesting idea in the program 
 of the procession for our City Centennial Celebration, to have represented our 
 grandparents of the Revolution by the grandchildren now living, residents of 
 this city ? There might not be a single living son or .laughter, but, no doubt, 
 there might be a score or more of real grandchildren. 
 
 "Wouldn't it be splendid if enough could be found to represent every State 
 in the Union, to ride in a car sufficiently large to cirry them all, each one carry- 
 
WILLIAM MAXWELL WOOD, U. S. N. 
 A Grandson of Revolutionary Ancestry. 
 
 Fleet Surgeon Pacific Squadron, 1846. Surgeon General U. S. Navy, 1869. 
 
 This officer voluntarily undertook the perilous risk to enter Mexico and cross that country to learn the 
 condition of affairs, and at Guadalajara first, and afterwards at the City of Mexico, learned that war had actu- 
 ally commenced between the two countries; and, but for the daring courage of this gallant officer, whose skill 
 and adroitness in sending the information to Commodore Sloat at viazatlau, California would have been lost to 
 the American Union; and instead of being one of the United States, would now be a British province. 
 
 Says Commodore SLOAT in his letter from New York, 2oth March, 1855: "The information you furnished me 
 at Mazatlan from Guadalajara, (at the risk of your life,) was the only reliable information I received of that 
 event, and which induced me to proceed immediately to California, and upon my own responsibility to take 
 possession of that country, which I did on the yth of July, 1846." 
 
 Says Dr. Wood in his account of the intelligence he learned at the City of Mrxico: "All this information I 
 again sent to the Commanding Officer of the Pacific Squadron, signing my letter by an easily understood hiero- 
 glyphic, and sending it through the Mexican mail under cover to the subject of a neutral power." 
 
 NOTE. It was this last positive information sent by way of Guadalajara, that warranted Commodore 
 Sloat to act. 
 
 MEDALUON TO BE PLACED ON THE PEDESTAI. OF THE SI.OAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 
 
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 ing a small flag with the name of the State they represent, and the car designated 
 'The Revolutionary Grandchildren? ' * * * 
 
 "All honor to our glorious, noble grandparents to-day. I could tell many, 
 many incidents that they all have related to me, so green and fresh, and heart- 
 stirring to-day to me as when a child I heard them from their own lips, which I 
 have told myself to many a dear little child in this city, to try to explain what 
 the 4th of July or Independence means. These things must be kept before the 
 minds of our young and rising generation, for, from some of them, at least, must 
 come the future support of the whole fabric so dearly won by those martyred 
 heroes, whose cry Liberty or Death went up to the ears of a willing, merciful 
 Father, to relieve us from tyranny and oppression, making a home for all to wor- 
 ship as they choose, and to buy, sell and get gain, and send it where they list. 
 
 "If the General of the Day thinks anything of this for I know you will let 
 him see it tell him that I want to go and carry the old Bay State flag, my dear 
 native home, which I have not seen for fourteen years. I am the widow of one 
 of the victims of ihe privateers of our last war, living in obscurity. 
 "Yours, etc., 
 
 This communication appearing, Dr. James L. Cogswell, the Presi- 
 dent of the National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires (which 
 had kept up its organization from the date of its first meeting, and 
 myself, its Vice-President for Nevada, then its representative already 
 in Philadelphia, to attend the National Celebration in charge of the 
 Committee appointed by Congress), issued the following notice in the 
 Alia- California of June 26, 1876 : 
 
 REVOLUTIONARY DESCENDANTS. 
 
 "EDITOR Alta: 
 
 "The idea suggested by the grand daughter of one of our Revolutionary sires, 
 seems a capital one; and as I belong in the same category with your correspond- 
 ent, being the grandson of one of the Revolutionary heroes, I shall be happy to 
 have all who belong to this class call at my office, No. 230 Kearny Street, and or- 
 ganize for the occasion. 
 
 "[Signed] J. L. COGSWELL. 
 
 "San Francisco, June 26, 1876." 
 
 "Some few came to my office and enrolled; but Gen. Whin's 
 friends had informed others that no meeting would be held at my 
 office, and Charles Wiggin, Chief of Staff to the Grand Marshal (Gen. 
 Winn), on June 28th, 1876, issued a call to descendants of Revolution- 
 ary Patriots to meet at the headquarters on Thursday, June 2yth, at 
 8 P. M., at 212 Kearny St., which was at Dr. Birge's, a few doors below. 
 
 "When I got there, the meeting was organized and officers elected. 
 Gen. A. M. Winn in the chair. I did not attend any of their meet- 
 ings at the Palace Hotel or Dashaway Hall and by their actions I feel 
 almost positive that I did not march with them on July 4, 1876; for 
 Gen. Winn and his party had made this bold attempt to steal our 
 organization, and Major E. A. Sherman and I are the only living 
 
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 founders of the 'Sons of Revolutionary Sires,' which has changed its 
 name to 'Sons of the American Revolution.' They stole it from us by 
 preventing the meeting being held at my office on the evening of June 
 28, 1876. 
 
 "After they orguni/.ed, some of their party called and asked me to 
 give them Fifteen Dollars ($15.00), and by paying them that amount, 
 they would put my picture in a book they intended publishing; but I 
 most emphatically declined. I presume that was the reason why they 
 ignored me. 
 
 "Yes, I well remember that you requested me to sign your name 
 to the Constitution when adopted. 
 
 "I also remember that Major Sherman and Hubbard went from my 
 office, which was then in the Evening Post Building, corner of Bush 
 and Kearny, to a Notary Public. 
 
 "P. S. The Winn Party cannot ante-date my notice in the Alta- 
 California of June 26, 1876, nor what we did at the very first meeting 
 held at my office on October 22, 1875, when we temporarily organ- 
 ized the 'National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires' ten months 
 before. J. L. COGSWELL. 
 
 "Sitka, Alaska, Nov. nth, 1904." 
 
 This action on the part of Gen. A. M. Winn was perfectly charac- 
 teristic of the individual, whom we knew from the days of 1849. Some 
 of his fellow passengers who came with him to California asserted that 
 he prepared the plan of a charter for a city while en route, and which 
 he wanted to pl-ster on Sacramento City; but the Mexican laws being 
 still in force, his plan would not work, and he had to pocket it, but 
 subsequently became connected with its City Government. He had 
 an insatiable thirst for office so long as there was great publicity and 
 political position and imaginary influence connected with it. 
 
 In the middle Fifties at Sacramento, A. M. Winn was Major Gen- 
 eral commanding that division of the State Militia of California, and 
 following the old-time custom of the Atlantic States of fall training 
 and muster, he issued an order for all of the enrolled militia, including 
 the uniformed companies, to assemble at Sacramento, to pass in review 
 before him and his staff, in front of the Orleans Hotel on Second 
 Street, between J and K streets of that city. 
 
 At that time there were two uniformed companies in Sacramento; 
 the SUTTER RIFLES, commanded by Capt. CORSE, and the CITY 
 GUARD, commanded by the late Capt. L. L. BAKER, of the firm of 
 Baker & Hamilton, who prepared to comply with the order as in duty 
 bound accordingly. But the Enrolled Militia, not knowing exactly 
 what to do, and not having received any previous instructions or 
 
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 directions, were left in a quandary and doubt, by the absurdity and 
 ridiculousness of such a military order at that time and in so new a 
 country. 
 
 A spirit of mischief and fun spontaneously manifested itself among 
 the entire people of the City and County of Sacramento, and with sup- 
 pressed mirth, but with an intensity of determination of purpose, they 
 secretly and quietly prepared for this great military event, and to give 
 it all the eclat possible. 
 
 Gen. Winn, at the appointed hour, took his position with his staff 
 on the balcony of the Orleans Hotel, with a compact body of citizens 
 behind him, who were determined that he should review the whole 
 parade, and not leave until everything had passed in front of him for 
 inspection as he looked down nearly twenty feet into the street to wit- 
 ness the moving pageant. 
 
 With a band of music leading, Capt. CORSE commanding the bat- 
 talion of the SUTTER RIFLES and Capt. L. L. BAKER of the CITY 
 GUARD passed in review in proper military order. Then came several 
 hundred men in fantastic uniforms according to each man's taste, and 
 carrying all sorts of weapons. They were very large and rotund, and 
 if they weighed as heavy as they looked, four of them would have 
 weighed a ton. These were known as the " WINDY GUARDS," and 
 were commanded by Capt. WINDYGUTZ, whose commands and the 
 evolutions of his company were not in accordance with any known 
 military tactics. These were followed by the ''SHEET IRONSIDES 
 CAVALRY," mounted on mules, led by Dan Virgil Gates, the actor, 
 clad in sheet iron armor, brandishing a lance, the shaft of which was 
 a stovepipe with a tremendous broad sheet-iron arrowhead for a spear. 
 Following this cavalry came the FLYING ARTILLERY of about thirty 
 yoke of oxen, driven by teamsters and hauling the smoke-stack of a 
 river steamer mounted on wheels. Then came the Quartermaster and 
 Commissary Departments, represented by four- legged jackasses and 
 mules heavily loaded down and trying to make headway by marching 
 in gum boots. Then a promiscuous lot of made-up Chinamen with 
 gongs, and behind them a lot of buck goats whose rears were painted 
 in red, white and blue circles, with little American flags on sticks tied 
 hard and fast to their tails. The last of that military procession con- 
 sisted of a mixed team of lame horses, mules and oxen, hauling an old 
 broken-down Concord coach or hack covered with black, and bearing 
 a cloth sign, marked "HABEAS CORPUS." It took several hours for 
 that military parade and burlesque procession to pass, p.nd Gen. Winn, 
 whose foolish order had invoked all of this display, could not retire, 
 but perforce was compelled to remain and see it all. It was his last 
 review in Sacramento. I was present and witnessed it all in common 
 
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 with thousands of others, from the sidewalk, and a similar description 
 perhaps may be found in the files of the Sacramento Union of that date, 
 while I write from memory as I saw it. 
 
 Gen. Winn left Sacramento afterwards and went to San Francisco 
 where his Falstaffian military instincts led him into public notice, and 
 he attained the object of his ambition in being elected Grand Marshal 
 of the Centennial 4th of July Celebration in 1876. 
 
 Of those who attended the first meeting of the preliminary organi- 
 zation on October 22, 1875, at Dr. Cogswell's office, only one, Dr. 
 Emory L. Willard, went over to the Winn Party on June 29, 1876, 
 and he was made the Secretary of that meeting, when Gen. Winn was 
 elected Chairman and afterwards President. Dr. Cogswell took no 
 part in that meeting, and, as I understand, without his knowledge or 
 consent he was enrolled as No. 22. 
 
 Mr. W T illiam S. Moses was not present at that meeting, but joined 
 at the Palace Hotel on July ist, 1876, as No. 29, at which time he was 
 elected Marshal of the California Society of Sons of Revolutionary 
 Sires, and which position he held for 21 years; and but for him, Wm. 
 B. Eastin and some others, and his support, that society would not 
 now be in existence. 
 
 Those who desired to turn out with that Society on July 4th, 1876, 
 \vere Dr. PETER WILKINS RANDLE and IRA C. ROOT, but did not 
 cease membership in the original National Organization. 
 
 The California Society, under the Gen. Winn Administration, be- 
 came dormant; he left San Francisco, and the members, disgusted 
 at the state of affairs generally, ceased to take interest, though it con- 
 tinued to be an undissolved incorporated body. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Through the kindness of Mr. WILLIAM S. MOSES, I have been 
 permitted to copy the entire roll of ninety-nine members as printed 
 from the records, with the Constitution and By- Laws of that Society in 
 1876, and printed at the Alta-California office; and I herewith present 
 it, as evidence, to show the fraud, lying, deceit and false pretenses of 
 A. S. HUBBARD, A. D. CUTLER, President, and others, in the face of 
 the roll and who knowingly, willfully and deliberately lied, he or they 
 having a printed copy of that Roll, Constitution and By-Laws, in their 
 possession, when they claim that "Col. A. S. HUBBARD who aided in 
 its inception" etc., in the history of that Society, which claims to have 
 been instituted October 22, 1875, when he was not present and totally 
 unknown on that date, and had no part in it; and that "THEREFORE 
 
 IT RECOGNIZES HIM AS THE FOUNDER OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY 
 OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THEREFORE AS 
 
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 THE FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY AT LARGE, AS SET FORTH IN THEIR 
 CIRCULAR No. 72, an open bare-faced lie and theft of other men's 
 ideas and labors. Any society that will stand behind and uphold such 
 liars and thieves deserves the utter contempt of every honest man 
 and the community at large, and it is unworthy the name of American 
 and should be buried in oblivion. 
 But here is the actual 
 
 ROLL OF MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF 
 REVOLUTIONARY SIRES, 
 
 Of which A. S. HUBBARD is No. 96, and who joined the Society on 
 September 6, 1.876, or ten months after it was first instituted, as 
 proven by the roll and the records. 
 
 1 A. M. Winii (dead) 36 
 
 2 Emory L. Willard (dead) 37 
 
 3 Caleb T. Fay (dead) 38 
 
 4 Charles Siskron 39 
 
 5 J. Doolittle 40 
 
 6 John J. P. Davisson (dead) 41 
 
 7 Joseph Sharon (dead) 42 
 
 8 Samuel Graves (dead) 43 
 
 9 Da'-las A. Kneass (dead) 44 
 
 10 R. R. Strain 45 
 
 11 J. B. Worden 46 
 
 12 W. H. Mead (dead) ' 47 
 
 13 W. B. Eastin 48 
 
 14 Z. K. Hersum 49 
 
 15 Thomas H. Greenough 50 
 
 16 James P. Dameron (dead) 51 
 
 17 John Turner 52 
 IS J. E Clark 53 
 
 19 John Newman Finch 54 
 
 20 Laurence V. Hogeboom (dead) 55 
 
 21 Charles A. Seeley (expelled) 56 
 
 22 James L. Cogswell 57 
 
 23 Charles McOuesten 58 
 
 24 Iv. B. Lyman 59 
 
 25 Alfred S. Tredale (dead) 60 
 
 26 Peter Wilkins Randle (dead) 61 
 
 27 Thomas M. Converse 62 
 
 28 H. H. Riker (dead) 63 
 
 29 William S. Moses 64 
 
 30 Charles M Blake (dead) 65 
 
 31 Bradford B. Stevens 66 
 
 32 Uriah Wallace 67 
 
 33 Charles D. Wallace 68 
 
 34 James Hamilton 69 
 
 35 Joseph M. Paulding 70 
 
 David W. Nixon 
 
 Eben R, York 
 
 John M. Robinson (dead) 
 
 J. M. Chichester 
 
 C. H. Peck 
 
 Ira C. Root (dead) 
 
 Geo. W. Stevens 
 
 Wm. F. Stevens 
 
 Wm. F. Burbank 
 
 Eugene K. Sykes 
 
 John F. York 
 
 S B. Leavitt (dead) 
 
 Warren Holt 
 
 A. M. Seabury 
 
 H. T. Graves (dead) 
 
 A. B. Graves (dead) 
 
 Daniel E. Hayes 
 
 Samuel M. Hunt 
 
 Asa R. Wells (dead) 
 
 Andrew Dunlap 
 
 Charles Stevens 
 
 Phineas U. Blunt 
 
 George E. Schenck 
 
 Augustus E Taylor (dead) 
 
 Josiah A. Baldwin 
 
 Joseph Stunner (dead) 
 
 Alfred W. Elmes 
 
 J. M. Adams 
 
 J. Me Henry 
 
 Charles E. Blake (dead) 
 
 J. A. F. Davis 
 
 J. B. F. Davis 
 
 James N. Makins (dead) 
 
 Col. J. D. Stevenson (dead) 
 
 L. H. Langdon (dead) 
 
COMMODORE ROBERT FIELD STOCKTON, U. S. N. 
 
 (From a painting on ivory, owned by his son, Hon. John P. Stockton.) 
 Grandson of Richard Stockton of New Jersey, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 The successor in command of Commodore JOHN D. SLOAT, U. S. N., who in his official Report said : 
 "On the 2*rd (of July) my health being such as to prevent my attending to so much and such laborious 
 duties I directed Commodore Stockton to assume the command of the forces and operations on shore; and on 
 the 2oth having determined to return to the United States, via Panama, I hoisted my broad pennant on the 
 "Levant" and sailed for Mazatlan and Panama, leaving the remainder of the squadron under his command, 
 etc. E. A. S. 
 
 MEDALLION TO BE PLACED ON THE PEDESTAL OF THE SLOAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 
 
71 Charles H. Pray 86 Josiah Earl 
 
 72 George B. Tolman 87 Hon. W. H. Barton 
 
 73 John W.Johnson 88 W. W. Bidlack 
 
 74 Amos Adams (dead) 89 Wm. Shepard Dewey 
 
 75 Ezra S. Carr 90 Capt. J. S. Marston (dead) 
 
 76 David Bush 91 Frank B. Austin 
 
 77 John Wilson (dead) 92 B. A. Bidlack 
 
 78 C. C. Williams 93 Guy C. Earl 
 
 79 Charles G. Noyes 94. Benj. F. Penniman 
 
 80 Major David Wilder (dead) 95 Col. Daniel Norcross (dead) 
 
 81 W. F. Norcross gW96 CO1 ^ A - S - HUBBARD (elected 
 
 82 Wm. H. Hale Sept. 6, 1876) 
 
 83 L. H. Van Schaick 97 C. H. Graves 
 
 84 F. K. Miller 98 L. Iv. Graves 
 
 85 Charles H. Deuison 99 H. A. Graves 
 
 Here the roll ends as printed. 
 
 HISTORIC COUNCIL. 
 
 Amos Adams, President (dead) P. W. Randle, Second Vice-Pres. (dead) 
 
 Joseph Sharon, First Vice-Pres. (dead) Charles M. Blake. Recording Sec. (dead) 
 
 Frank G. Randle, Financial Secretary 
 
 Of the sixty-four members now living who were borne upon the 
 roll at the time it was printed, there are only FIVE now on the roll as 
 published in the Register, viz , WM. B. EASTIN, No. 13, WM. S. 
 MOSES, No. 29, URIAH WALLACE, No. 32, CHARLES D. WALLACE, 
 No. 33, and JOHN MCHENRY, No. 64; and A. S. HUBBARD, who did 
 not join the Society until September 6, 1876, was the 32d on the 
 roll after JOHN MCHENRY, and A. S. HUBBARD'S number is 96, AND 
 HE and A. D. Cutler CLAIM THAT HE is THE FOUNDER OF THAT 
 SOCIETY ! 
 
 Now let us follow his serpentine course, wherein he not only robs 
 DR. JAMES L. COGSWELL of this credit, but also robs that schemer 
 A. M. Winn, the first on that roll. The cupriferous coverings over a 
 deceased Ethiopian's binoculars would quickly vanish if he was in 
 charge of the morgue where the body was laid. A. S. HUBBARD in 
 his history on page XII X says that he "returned to California in 
 September, 1881, and again took up the active work of the Society." 
 Possessing himself of the books and records, he proceeds in his 
 peculiar methods to revive the organization, taking good care not to 
 erase from the roll such obstinate men as WM. B. EASTIN, WM. S. 
 MOSES, JAMES P. DAMERON, and a few others who would be very 
 stubborn and difficult to manipulate; but ignoring DR. JAMES L,. 
 COGSWELL, the original Founder, and the great majority of two-thirds 
 of the members on the roll, he pursues his course like a wily old rat 
 in a very large cheese, or like the frog who got into a pan of watered 
 
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 milk, whose struggles to get out churned the cream into a little pat of 
 butter, which he converted into a float, from which he could leap to 
 the floor and make his escape. So A. S. HUBBARD became an apt 
 pupil and a thorough graduate in the school and methods of his 
 preceptor and predecessor, A. M. WINN. 
 
 After maintaining an existence for the period of ten years under 
 his manipulations, as the Historical Bulletin published at Washington, 
 D. C., in its issue of December i, 1904, says: "There is no relation 
 of identity between the Sons of Revolutionary Sires and the Sons of 
 the American Revolution. . . . The California Society of Sons of 
 Revolutionary Sires w r as never merged into or identified with the 
 S. A. R. or the S. R. Societies, but the members thereof transferred 
 themselves in a body to the S. A. R." 
 
 A. S. HUBBARD'S account on page li of his history says: 
 
 "From the .first suggestion of the idea of forming a National 
 Society, California supported the movement with enthusiasm. At a 
 meeting of the Bocud of Directors, held March 22, 1890, the name of 
 the Society was changed to 'The California Society of Sons of the 
 American Revolution,' and a committee was appointed to draft a new 
 Constitution and By-Laws. Steps were taken to have the Society 
 incorporated under the laws of California, and delegates were elected 
 to the first convention of the National Society. 
 
 "On October 19, 1891, a new Constitution and By-Laws were 
 adopted," etc. 
 
 Whether the California Society of Revolutionary' Sires had an 
 opportunity to vote on this change of name or not, only the records 
 will show. But on its face it was a bold act of usurpation on the 
 part of the Board of Directors, and illegal, without a dissolution of 
 the incorporated body by a due order of court. Be that as it may, 
 it was an act of abandonment of the name and body of the "California 
 Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires," which virtually ceased to 
 exist as a body corporate, and by the adoption of a new name and 
 incorporating under it there was a new body created entirely. 
 
 Now here is where the little joker comes in like a double-headed 
 Dutchman, worked in as by a thimble rigger by A. S. HUBBARD and 
 his clique in the resolutions adopted in regard to him on September 
 3d, 1892, as being "the Founder of the California Society of Sons of 
 the American Revolution, and therefore Founder of the Society at 
 large." 
 
 If it had been given the date of March 22, 1890, when the new 
 Society was created, no matter by what despicable means the Society 
 of Sons of Revolutionary Sires had been made use of, and they 
 kicking over the stepping stone which had aided him to make the 
 
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 change, then perhaps, technically, the resolution was applicable to 
 the founding of the new Society of "Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion;" but when, in its Preamble, it claims to date from October 22d, 
 1875, and claims, the work of DR. JAMES L. COGSWELL and his 
 associates, including myself, and says that "CoL. A. S. HUBBARD* 
 who aided in its inception, and that they recognize him as the Founder of 
 the Society," when he was not present and did not join the Society 
 until ten months afterwards, then with the original printed Roll, 
 Constitution and By-Laws in the possession of both A. S. HUB BARD 
 and the President, A. D. CUTLER, they, in their circular No 72, 
 perpetrate a bare-faced fraud on their own Society, and wilfully, 
 knowingly and deliberately promulgate an infamous lie. 
 
 The Preamble to the Constitution and By-Laws of the California 
 Society of the Sons of the American Revolution reads as follows (the 
 italics are mine): 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 "CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- 
 TION, instituted October 22, 1875. The first body in inception, institution 
 and organization to unite the descendants of Revolutionary patriots and 
 perpetS&te the memory of all who took part in the American Revolution 
 and maintained the independence of the United States of America. It 
 was fully and completely organized on the 4th of July, 1876, under the 
 name of 'Sons of Revolutionary Sires .' On the 3Oth of April, 1889, a 
 number of co-equal Societies of different states formed a general 
 Society under the name of THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF 
 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,' in which this Society heartily co- 
 operated and changed its name to the California Society of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution, under which latter name it has since 
 been known." 
 
 The letter heads of that Society repeat the first half of the above 
 Preamble. 
 
 A. S. HUBBARD somewhere about the time he was working his 
 little game, which we knew nothing about, came to DR. JAMES L- 
 COGSWELL'S office, then in the Evening Post Building, corner of Bush 
 and Kearny Streets, to get his statement, together with my own, under 
 oath, as he said, that "Eastern Societies were claiming the precedence 
 over California as to the dates of organization." Neither DR. 
 COGSWELL or myself had the least suspicion that he (HUBBARD) was 
 to eventually claim our work as his own. DR. COGSWELL gave him 
 what information he could and referred him to me I wrote out in a 
 general way the history of the very first meeting of the kind that was 
 ever held, and in Dr. Cogswell's office, at 230 Kearny Street, on 
 
A Grandson of Revolutionary Ancestry. 
 
 Who, by Order of Commodore Sloat, took possession of San Francisco, July 9, 1846, and hoisted 1 
 the American Flag in front of the Custom House on the Plaza, now Portsmouth vSquare. 
 There is nothing now there to mark the spot. What would have built a fine monu- 
 ment to him has gone down the red lanes and gullets of the very patriotic Califor- 
 nia Society of Sons of the American Revolution in San Francisco, which 
 declined to contribute to a stone in the Sloat Monument at Monterey. 
 The Daughters of the American Revolution have their stone in 
 place, laid on Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 1904. 
 
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 Friday evening, October 22d, 1875, and went with A. S HUBBARD to 
 a notary public's office and made oath to it, HUBBARD paying the fee- 
 A. S. HUBBARD'S scheme was now ripening to a condition most 
 satisfactory to himself at least. The California Society became a 
 constituent of the National Society, as his ambition was being 
 gratified to the utmost extent, in office and honors of both societies, 
 and his immediate associates were traveling in the same path behind 
 him, and there was nothing which he might claim but it was conceded 
 to him. 
 
 There were now only five of those on the first roll who remained, 
 and all the others had been adroitly dropped by him or worked out, 
 and only two of the original founders of the Sons of Revolutionary 
 Sires were living to dispute his false pretensions and claims; and as 
 they might soon pass away by reason of their advanced age (Dr. 
 Cogswell being now 74 and myself past 75 years of age), he would 
 soon have the entire field to himself, with no one to contradict any" 
 thing which he might say. 
 
 Dr. Cogswell and myself held to our original status as Founders 
 and Officers of the National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, 
 and were content to pass off the stage of action without further efforts 
 in that matter, when our time should come. We were associated 
 officially in the Masonic Veteran Association for the past twenty-seven 
 years, and actively engaged as officers and members of the- Executive 
 Committee of the Sloat Monument Association with three others, who 
 are members of the California Society of Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and seven others of Revolutionary descent, five of whom 
 are Veterans of the Mexican War, including myself. 
 
 The Executive Committee of the Sloat Monument Association, 
 considering that Commodore Sloat, who took California, was the son 
 of Captain John Sloat, an officer in the American Army during the 
 War of the Revolution; Commodore Stockton, his successor, the 
 grandson of Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, who signed the 
 Declaration of Independence; Capt. John B. Montgomery, Capt. 
 William Mervine, Capt. Joseph Hull, also grandsons of Revolutionary 
 ancestors; Lieut. Joseph Warren Revere, the grandson of Paul 
 Revere, and others who had fought in the second War for American 
 Independence and who had helped to acquire California, the Executive 
 Committee thought it would be a proper thing to invite both California 
 Societies of the Sons and the Daughters of the American Revolution 
 to contribute the sum of $200 each, for the purpose of placing a stone 
 of each society side by side in the base of the Sloat Monument at 
 Monterey, and towards the concrete foundation and core of the base 
 of the structure. 
 
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 To the invitation sent to the California Chapters of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution, a most noble and hearty response was 
 given, the amount was promptly furnished, the stone prepared, and on 
 Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 1904, their stone was laid with due honors 
 by MRS. S. K. LIEB, the Regent of Santa Ysabel Chapter of San 
 Jose and representatives from other Chapters of San Francisco, 
 assisted by MAJOR JOHN L. BROMLEY, our President, and others. 
 
 The courteous invitation sent to the "California Society of Sons of 
 the American Revolution" met with a contrary reception and a 
 miserable declination, giving among other reasons, "that there was no 
 money in their treasury." To meet this deficiency in the absence of 
 that society's stone, the Bear Flag Stone of the California Republic 
 was ordered by the Executive Committee, and it was laid at 
 the same time on June 17, 1904, by the Grand Parlor of Native 
 Daughters of the Golden West, which was in session at that time at 
 Pacific Grove. 
 
 We then promised the Daughters of the American Revolution that 
 they should have a companion stone of true Sons of the American 
 Revolution to be laid in the West Face, and next to that of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic on the northwest corner, and we ordered it 
 prepared accordingly, and in due time will lay it. 
 
 On Sept. 1 2th, 1904, the goth Anniversary of the Battle of Balti- 
 more and Fort McHenry, which gave inspiration to the patriotic poet 
 Francis Scott Key and birth to our National Song, the "Star Spangled 
 Banner," we laid six more stones, with the U. S. Torpedo Boat 
 Destroyer Preble, Capt. Lopez commanding, firing salutes in the harbor 
 of Monterey and at the site of the monument by a gun division on 
 shore, while Col. Henry C. Ward, commanding at that Presidio, sent his 
 band to furnish the music for the occasion. The stones laid being the 
 President's, Consul Parrott's, San Mateo County, the City of Oakland, 
 the A. & A. S. Rite of Freemasonry, and that of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic crowning the northwest corner of the base of the 
 monument, making 48 stones laid and three-fourths of the number 
 required. 
 
 This success crowning our labors thus far, excited the ire and 
 opposition of A. S. HUBBARD, A. D. CUTLER, and others of the 
 California Society of Sons of the American Revolution, which was 
 becoming conspicuous by their own voluntary act of refusal to 
 contribute, which was like that of the mule which kicked so hard 
 that his hind legs drew him out of the corral altogether. 
 
 This found expression in reiterating a former resolution in relation 
 to A. S. HUBBARD being the Founder of the original society, intro- 
 ducing it at the tail end of a banquet when celebrating the Treaty 
 
of Peace at Paris, and causing the society without examination to 
 adopt a lie on the froth of the champagne of that festive occasion, and 
 a copy of the same sent to myself and others. 
 
 To follow this up, A. D. CUTLER sought to have the Grand Army 
 of the Republic Post at Pacific Grove to do his dirty, sneaking work 
 and act the spy on the Executive Committee of the Sloat Monument 
 Association's work at Monterey, and he wrote to the commander of 
 that post, who very properly sent it to me and to answer. The 
 following is a true copy of his letter: 
 
 (COPY) 
 
 "OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT GENERAL, 
 "134 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAI,., 
 
 "October 27, 1904. 
 "COMMANDANT G. A. R. POST, 
 
 "Pacific Grove, 
 "DEAR SIR: 
 
 "I would be much obliged if you would give me the inscription on 
 the stone to be placed in the base of the Sloat Monument by the Sons American 
 Revolution; also advise me whether it has been so placed, or if not, whether 
 it has been prepared and made ready. 
 
 "Respectfully, 
 
 "A. D. CUTLER, 
 "Vice-President General." 
 
 The pompous swelling of that kernel to a general had no effect 
 on the commandant of that Grand Army Post. 
 
 I answered the letter, informing A. D. CUTLER that it was none 
 of his concern or business as to what would be on that particular 
 stone. But that he might be relieved from any undue anxiety, that 
 neither the name of the California Society or of the National Society 
 of the Sons of the American Revolution would appear upon it. 
 
 On Thursday, the 8th of November, I called upon Mr. Wm. S. 
 Moses at his office, and at my request he kindly placed in my hands 
 the printed copy of the original Constitution and By-L,aws, containing 
 also the entire roll of the 99 members, of which A. S HUBBARD'S 
 number is 96, and which he permitted me to copy, informing me at 
 the same time that A. D. CUTLER had a copy as well as HUBBARD. 
 He also showed me the draft of the records kept by Miss Hobe, the 
 Secretary of the Auxilliary Society, of Sept. 6th, 1876, the same day 
 that A. S HUBBARD first joined the California Society of Sons of 
 Revolutionary Sires, and thus the record has been preserved, while 
 both A. S. HUBBARD and A. U. CUTLER have the ocular proofs in 
 their own possession to convict them of wilful, deliberate lying and 
 of bare-faced fraud practiced by them on their own society, and made 
 it a party to the infamy in connection with it. 
 
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 I learn further that A. D. CUTLER has said that the Sloat Monu- 
 ment will never be built, disparages and discourages the idea of this 
 patriotic work, in which his "wish is father to the thought," but he 
 will prove to be a false prophet nevertheless, and when the base is 
 finished, three-fifths of the cost of the entire .structure will have been 
 paid for, and in due time the whole will be completed. 
 
 Forty eight stones of the sixty-six required, or three-fourths of the 
 sides of the base, have been laid, and during the coming year, beyond 
 a doubt, all the rest will have been laid and the guns mounted. The 
 Veterans of the Mexican War, whose valor acquired California, will 
 still continue to contribute from their pensions, the noble women of 
 the Golden State will not relax their efforts, nor true patriotic men 
 fail in their gratitude to the memory of Commodore Sloat, and to his 
 officers and men of the Pacific Squadron, to whom all are indebted for 
 their homes, their prosperity and happiness in this "Promised Land" 
 from the crests of the Sierra Nevada to the borders of the great 
 Western sea. 
 
 When anniversaries of events of the American Revolution become 
 the mere pretexts for opportunities to fill the belly, and the destruction 
 of tea in Boston harbor for all to take a drink, in the metropolis of 
 California, and nothing to mark the spot on Portsmouth Square where 
 the American Flag was first raised by that gallant son of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution, Capt. John B. Montgomery, of the U. S. Navy, on 
 July Qtli, 1846, it is a shame and disgrace, and the vaunted patriotism 
 of such "degenerate sons of noble sires," of a mere mutual admiration 
 society,' becomes a stench in the nostrils of all true honorable men 
 who love their country, who have done something and are still willing 
 to do something for it, even three thousand miles awa} T from the fields 
 of the Revolution. 
 
 The Sloat Monument Association will continue to build until the 
 last stone is laid, the statue of Commodore Sloat will be unveiled and 
 the monument dedicated by the M. W. Grand Lodge of Free and 
 Accepted Masons of the State of California, which laid its chief corner 
 stone at the northeast corner on July 7, 1896, the 5Oth anniversary of 
 the raising of the American Flag at Monterey and the taking posses- 
 sion of California. His brethren of the "Mystic Tie" will ever con- 
 tinue to lovingly honor his memory; his comrades, Veterans of the 
 Mexican War, will cherish with pride his noble achievements and 
 glorious record, which his monument is to commemorate until the 
 last one is mustered out; the Native Sons and Daughters of the 
 Golden West will look upon it as their title deed of their inheritance, 
 inscribed upon imperishable granite; the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution can boast of the heroic deeds of the true Sons of the 
 
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 American Revolution represented in this monument, and the Federated 
 Women's Clubs, Pioneer Mothers and Daughters of California, and 
 the grateful and really patriotic people of this Golden State will lay 
 their offerings on that common altar of their country, while the Grand 
 Army of the Republic will relieve the Veterans of the Mexican War 
 when finally mustered out, and the military arm of the Unite 1 States 
 Government, will ever shield and protect it from harm; countless 
 thousands of pilgrims, tourists and others will visit that sacred spot, 
 and read the names of the Counties and Cities, of Societies of patriotic 
 men and women of California, and pay tribute to the Revolutionary 
 blood which flowed in the veins of the gallant men who acquired 
 California by their courage and valor, and gave to our country its 
 most valued territory, whose mountains are seamed with gold and 
 silver, its soil sown with seeds of gold, its valleys and plains teeming 
 with the best fruits of the world and the fairest women on earth, upon 
 which shines the sun, and they receiving the first and last kisses of 
 the god of day when he ascends to his throne from the mountain's 
 crests, and retires to his retreat with his smiles beaming through our 
 Golden Gate and shining over the broad Pacific. 
 
 The original "National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires," 
 with two of its officers and founders still living, who gave it birth on 
 October 22d, 1875, now of necessity will be revived, and as originally 
 intended, will commemorate the deeds of all who have been true to 
 their blood from the foundation of the Republic, whether in wars or 
 as honored representatives of the people in public station, and by their 
 fruits we shall know them. It will not confine its membership to the 
 male sex alone. The unknown lady who furnished that communica- 
 tion to the A Ita- California on June 26, 1876, sounded the keynote of 
 the bugle's call for the Centennial Celebration in San Francisco by 
 both sexes of the descendants of our Revolutionary ancestry, and we 
 would be ungallant indeed not to embrace our patriotic sisters of the 
 same common blood and lineage. 
 
 All in whom flows the blood of Revolutionary fathers and 
 mothers are "Sons and Daughters of Revolutionary Sires," "Sons 
 and Daughters of the American Revolution," or "Sons and Daughters 
 of the Revolution," or by any other name, having their origin from 
 the same source. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution 
 and Flag of our Country belongs to all alike, and no society or organi- 
 zation has a corner on, or patent, or copyright on either of these titles 
 to the exclusion of others, whether incorporated or not; and for A. D. 
 CUTLER or any one else, who would try to interpose or interfere with 
 the work of the Sloat Monument Association at Monterey will be as 
 successful as a snake in biting a file. 
 
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH WARREN REVERE, U. S. 
 
 (Late Brigadier General U. S. A., deceased.) 
 Grandson of the famous Patriot, PAUL REVERE, of the American Revolution. 
 
 Who lowered the Bear Flag and raised the American Flag at Sonoma, Cal., July 9, 1846, by order 
 
 of Commodore John D. Sloat, U. S. N.. and Commander John B. Montgomery of the 
 
 U. S. Sloop of War "Portsmouth. 
 
If, while engaged in the erection of the Sloat Monument, we have 
 been made the instruments incidentally to unmask the fraud, deceit, 
 lying and intrigue of those who have prostituted patriotism, in the 
 manner described, and the Society of Sons of the American Revolution 
 shall purge and cleanse itself of such characters and redeem itself, then 
 this unpleasant duty which has been forced upon us will have been 
 productive of some good. 
 
 The Sloat Monument Association will continue its labors regard- 
 less of the secret or open hostility of the HUBBARD-CUTLER cabal, 
 whenever and wherever it may assert itself, and we shall let them root 
 and wallow in the sty of their own infamy, while we are grateful to 
 our patriotic friends, ladies, gentlemen, friends, comrades and broth- 
 ers, who have nobly aided us and given us their cordial encouragement 
 and hearty support. Respectfully, 
 
 EDWIN A. SHERMAN, 
 Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association. 
 
 P. S. Since the foregoing was written and passed under the press, 
 the following letter has been received from Mr. Wm B Eastin, the 
 first permanent Secretary of the California Society of Sons of Revolu- 
 tionary Sires: 
 
 [Copy of Letter of W. B. Eastin, former Secretary.] 
 
 408 California St., San Francisco, 
 
 Major Edwin A. Sherman, Dec. 2yth, 1904. 
 
 Oakland. 
 
 MY DEAR SIR: 
 
 Found your letter awaiting me on my return to the City and regret the delay. 
 Friend Moses should have told you that Dr. Willard was appointed Secretary pro 
 tern., at the first meeting held at 212 Kearny Street. I was a few days later elected 
 the permanent Secretary and recorded the names enrolled at the first meeting and 
 cannot remember all who were present at that meeting. This I do remember, that 
 there were 25 persons present, all of whom signed the roll personally. I am in- 
 clined to think that Dr. Cogswell was one of the number, but cannot say certainly. 
 
 If you will call, I will gladly give you all the information in my possession. 
 Very truly yours, W. B. EASTIN. 
 
 Whether Dr. James L Cogswell, the President of the National 
 Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, elected at the first meeting 
 held at his office on Friday evening, October 22nd, 1875, signed the 
 roll or was enrolled by the Secretary pro lent., at the meeting held on 
 June 29th, 1876, at 212 Kearny St., San Francisco, and the California 
 Society organized with other officers and members as already stated, 
 did not afTect his standing as President of the National Society nor my 
 own as Vice-President for the State of Nevada, and I was at that time 
 serving as such at Philadelphia at the Centennial. 
 
 A. S. Hubbard, in a pamphlet history, gives Dr. PETER WILKINS 
 RANDLE as "Provisional President" of the California Society, which is 
 not the truth, and there is nothing in the records whatever to show it. 
 He was, however, Vice President of the National Association, elected 
 October 22, 1875, for the State of California, which office he held until 
 .his death. EDWIN A. SHERMAN, 
 
 Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association. 
 
RUPERT SHMIO, SCULPTOR 
 
 PHOTQGRAPMEC 
 
 THE SLOAT MONUMENT 
 
 IN FRONT OF OLD FORT MERVINE, 
 
 MILITARY RESERVATION, 
 MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Design constructed by Rupert Schmid, Sculptor, under the immediate supervision and direction of 
 Major Edwin A. Sherman, Chairman of the Committee ou Design and Construction, recommended to 
 the Secretary of War for his approval. 
 
 Committee ot Design and Construction : 
 
 MAJOR EDWIN A. SHERMAN, 
 REV. A. A. MCALISTER, U.S.' Navy, 
 CAPT. FRANKLIN J. DRAKE, U. S. Navy, 
 HON. JOSEPH M. ENGLISH, Vallejo, Cal. 
 Miss CAMILLE JOHNSTON, Oakland, Cal. 
 
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