From the book
The Society
of the
Sons of the Revolution
in the
District of Columbia
1920
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Honor Roll
of the members of the
Sons of the Revolution
in the
District of Columbia
who
IN THE SPIRIT OF SELF SACRIFICE
ENROLLED THEMSELVES
in the
SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
in the
WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918
He puts not off the citizen when he enters the Camp, but it is because he is a citizen and would wish to continue so, that he makes himself for a while a soldier. -- Sir William Blackstone.
Part 5
Anthony Callis ADDISON: Bureau of Fisheries.
James Henry ALBURTIS: Copy Editor, Government Printing Office.
John Culver BARCALOW: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Richard Vermillion BARRY: Navy Department.
Marcus BENJAMIN: Volunteer Aid, Bureau of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Member Home Defense League; also consulted during the war as an expert on various technical and scientific matters. Decorated by the French Government with the Palmes academique with the rank of Officier de l'Instruction publique.
Robert Sidney BELKNAP: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Adolphus Bogardus BENNETT, Jr.: Medical Advisory Board, Number Four, District of Columbia; Navigation Inspector under Department of Commerce.
Nelson Duvall BRECHT: Red Cross Work.
Barry BULKLEY: Local director of the Serbian Relief Committee; Speaker for the Liberty Loan Drives and Red Cross.
Francis Mason BURROWS: Department of Commerce.
Henry Buchanan BYRD, Sr.: Liberty Loan Drives.
Edward Kernan CAMPBELL: Chief Justice, U.S. Court of Claims.
William Ridgely CHAPLINE, Jr.: U.S. Forestry Service.
John Whitsitt CHILDRESS: United States Government Printing Office.
Robert Smith CHILTON: United States Consul, Coburg, Canada.
Francis Warfield Herrick CLAY: (Deceased), Assistant Commissioner of Patents.
Ira Broadwell CONKLING: (Deceased), Clerk, Interstate Commerce Commission.
Samuel Treadway CONKLING: Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
John Holmes CONVERSE: Office of the Auditor for the War Department.
William Van Zandt COX: Commissioned by the President of the United States, a member of Local Draft Board for Division No. 10, District of Columbia.
Charles Francis DIGGS: Member of Legal Advisory Board, Washington, D.C.; Liberty Loan Drives.
Edward W. DONN, Jr.: Designed U.S. Powder Factory and Naval Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Maryland; Red Cross Drives.
Irving Hall DUNLAP: U.S. Fisheries Commission; Red Cross and Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Harry Lyman DUNWOODY: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Milton Courtwright ELLIOTT: Counsel for Federal Reserve Board; Counsel for War Finance Corporation.
Frederick Worden Montrose GRAHAM: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Clanerce Henning GREEN: Treasury Department.
Frank Key GREEN: Marshal, U.S. Supreme Court.
Thomas Edward GREEN: American Red Cross; Special Speaker for War Department; Membership Campaign, American Red Cross, Speaker's Bureau; Speaker's Bureau [sic], Treasury Department; Chairman in charge of Victory Liberty Loan.
Frank Edward GUERNSEY: Chairman, Public Safety Committee.
Robert Newton HARPER: Member Finance Committee, American Red Cross; Assisted in Liberty Loan and United War Work Drives.
James Malcolm HENRY: Registrar during period of drafting; clerk to Local Examination Board No. 2.
Samuel HERRICK: Volunteer Speaker, Liberty Loan, Red Cross, United War Work, and other campaigns; Four Minute Man under Committee on Public Information; Chairman Committee on Speakers of Armenian Relief Campaign; Acting Chairman Committee on Speakers War Saving Campaign; Member Legal Advisory Board, Selective Draft, District of Columbia.
Alfred Byrne HORNER: Legal Advisory Board, Warrenton, Va.
Benjamin Grubb HUMPHREYS: Member of Congress, Mississippi.
Gaillard HUNT: Department of State.
Clair Aubrey HUNT: Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
Richard Washburn HYNSON: Liberty Loan and Red Cross Drives.
Ralph JENKINS: President District of Columbia Society, American Red Cross.
Arthur KEITH: U.S. Geological Survey.
Charles Ford LANGWORTHY: Department of Agriculture.
Charles William LAPORTE: State Senator, Illinois.
Ralph William LEE: Local Draft Board No. 9; Liberty Loan Drives; Finance Committee District Branch, American Red Cross.
Alfred Eli LEWIS: War Department.
Charles Porterfield LIGHT: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.; Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Randolph Harrison McKIM: (Deceased), American Red Cross; Navy League.
Frank Bostwick MARTIN: Army Medical Museum.
Benjamin DeMier MILLER: Member Board of Contract Review, Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army.
Howell MORGAN: United States Indian Service.
Steuart Brown MUNCASTER: Member Medical Advisory Board; Volunteer Medical Service Corps.
Charles Fitz Randolph OGILBY: Liberty Loan Subscriptions; Legal Advisory Boards; Special Work for Judge Advocate General's Office in passing upon Questionnaires during early part of Selective Draft operations.
Brainnard W. PARKER: Assisted in Draft, as member of Legal Board.
Albion Keith PARRIS, Sr.: Home Defense League; Public Service Reserve; Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
John VanPelt QUACKENBUSH: Home Defense Guards, Lackawanna County, Scranton, Ps., from organization until demobilization.
Cary Rochester SAGE: U.S. Army Medical Museum.
William Henry SAUNDERS: Liberty Loan Drives; Volunteer Four Minute Speaker.
Cephas Hempstone SINCLAIR: (Deceased), United States Coast Survey.
Robert Preston SHEALY: Legal Advisory Board, Montgomery County, Maryland; War Savings Stamps Team; Organized System of Voluntary Food Administration.
Henry Harrison SHEETS: Founder National Association for Universal Military Training, of which he is directing Secretary and Treasurer.
Clinton Gold SMITH: United States Forestry Service>
Hugh Maclellan SOUTHGATE: Assisted under Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department and Emergency Fleet Corporation, in designing and purchase of propelling machinery for Naval War Vessels and the Emergency Merchant Fleet.
Martin Robinson SPEELMAN: Government Printing Office.
Henry Benning SPENCER: U.S. Railroad Administration.
John Kennedy STOUT: Federal Trade Commission.
Reeves Trenchard STRICKLAND: Bureau of Aeronautics, War Department; Liberty Loan Drives; Legal Advisory Board, District of Columbia.
William Henry TAYLOE: U.S. Railroad Administration.
Frank Erastus WEBNER: American Protective League, 1917; Special Assistant, Finance Division, Aircraft Production, 1918; Technical Advisory Assistant to Navy Compensation Board, charged with supervision of coast plus profit contracts for increase of the Navy, 1919-1920.
Charles Van Cise WHEELER: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
Robert Wickliffe WOOLLEY: Interstate Commerce Commission; Director of Publicity, First Liberty Loan.
