Sons of the Revolution MD

John Lee Carroll From the Revolution to the Year 1908" by Heinrich Ewald Buchholz.

Charles Carroll painted by Michael Laty

John Austin Stevens

          Welcome to the website of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland. The Maryland Society is one of several state and foreign societies operating under the aegis of The General Society Sons of the Revolution, whose office is in Williamsburg, VA.
While this site is primarily for the benefit of its members, general information about the Society is available, and links to the website of the General Society as well to as others are provided.

             The Maryland Society was founded on April 1, 1892 twenty-three gentlemen of Maryland, two gentlemen of the District of Columbia, and one each from New York and Pennsylvania who had “signified their active interest in the formation of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the Revolution” met at the Mount Vernon Hotel in Baltimore. The gathering included Daniel Coit Gilman LL. D, first President of Johns Hopkins University and the Honorable John Lee Carroll, a former Governor of Maryland (1876-1889) and great-grandson of Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, becoming its first President. The general requirements for membership can be found at the General Society's website. However, the
Maryland Society has some
additional conditions, and membership in the Maryland Society is by invitation.
The Society supports projects and scholarly activities advancing the preservation of knowledge as well as artifacts and documents associated with the American War of Revolution. It also hosts and activities commemorating events and individuals associated with the War to inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers and to promote friendship among them.

                   Sons of the Revolution Society was founded on February 22, 1876, at New York City, primarily by leading members of The Society of the Cincinnati and the businessman John Austin Stevens. He disagreed with Society of the Cincinnati requirements limiting membership to the eldest male descendants based on the rules of primogeniture. Stevens held a preliminary meeting on December 18, 1875, at the New-York Historical Society at New York. At a second meeting held in January 1876, the first constitution was adopted and a flier which invited members was published. After a few years of little activity, an elaborate "turtle feast" was held on December 4, 1883, in the Long Room of historic Fraunces Tavern. The banquet was to commemorate the centennial of General George Washington's farewell there to his officers.The 1883 dinner helped recruit 40 new members, and the group was reorganized as the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc. In the early years after the reorganization, Society of the Cincinnati President-General Hamilton Fish gave much support and encouragement to the New York Society. In his obituary, he described Sons members as, "Younger brothers of the Cincinnati".

A small list of Notable Members

Presidents of the United States

George W. Bush of Texas
George H. W. Bush of Texas
Gerald Ford of Michigan
Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas
Harry S. Truman of Missouri
Herbert Hoover of Iowa
Theodore Roosevelt of New York
Benjamin Harrison of Ohio

United States Senators

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
U.S. Sen. and Governor Morgan Bulkeley of Connecticut
U.S. Sen. Cornelius Cole of California
U.S. Sen. Frank Putnam Flint of California
U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona
U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania
U.S. Sen. Lawrence Tyson of Tennessee

United States Representatives

U.S. Rep. Franklin Bartlett of New York
U.S. Rep. Perry Belmont of New York
U.S. Rep. Charles E. Bennett of Florida
U.S. Rep. Thornton G. Berry Jr. of West Virginia
U.S. Rep. Chester C. Bolton of Ohio
U.S. Rep. Edmund N. Carpenter of Pennsylvania
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina
U.S. Rep. William H. Douglas of New York
U.S. Rep. Charles I. Faddis of Pennsylvania
U.S. Rep. E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut
U.S. Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. of California
U.S. Rep. Benjamin F. James of Pennsylvania
U.S. Rep. Jefferson M. Levy of New York
U.S. Rep. George B. McClellan Jr. of New York
U.S. Rep. Cornelius A. Pugsley of New York
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California
U.S. Rep. Jacob van Vechten Olcott of New York

Ambassadors

U.S. Ambassador Larz Anderson of Massachusetts
U.S. Ambassador S.G.W. Benjamin of New York
U.S. Ambassador Lewis Einstein of New York
U.S. Ambassador Charles S. Francis of New York
U.S. Ambassador Hampson Gary of Texas
U.S. Ambassador George A. Gordon of New York
U.S. Ambassador Franklin Mott Gunther of the District of Columbia
U.S. Ambassador John Langeloth Loeb Jr. of New York
U.S. Ambassador J. William Middendorf of Rhode Island
U.S. Ambassador Richard C. Patterson Jr. of New York
U.S. Ambassador Phelps Phelps of Germany
U.S. Ambassador Charles H. Sherrill of New York

Other government officials

Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield of California
Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock
Secretary of War John W. Weeks of Massachusetts
Secretary of the Treasury and Federal Judge William Adams Richardson
Governor of Maryland John Lee Carroll
Governor of West Virginia Arch A. Moore, Jr.
Governor of New Mexico Territory LeBaron Bradford Prince
Panama Canal Zone Gov. Chester Harding of the District of Columbia
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles H. Darling of Vermont
Attorney for the Southern District of New York William Hayward of New York
Attorney for the District of Connecticut Francis H. Parker of Connecticut
Civil Service Commission Member William Gorham Rice of New York
Mayor of New York George B. McClellan Jr.
Los Angeles City Council member George P. McLain
Consul Charles H. Delavan of New York
Consul Augustin W. Ferrin of New York
Consul Thomas H. Norton of New York
Consul James R. Parsons Jr. of New York
Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Judge J. Edward Lumbard of New York
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert E. Freer of Ohio
Solicitor General James M. Beck of Pennsylvania
U.S. Treasurer Daniel Nash Morgan of Connecticut

Military and naval officers

Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, USN of Vermont
Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC of California
Commandant of the Marine Corps Col. Charles Grymes McCawley, USMA of the District of Columbia
Quartermaster General of the Army Charles G. Sawtelle, USA of the District of Columbia
Vice Admiral Howard Fithian Kingman, USN of California
Maj. Gen. Frank Ross McCoy
Maj. Gen. William Denison Whipple, USA of New York
Brig. Gen. and Medal of Honor recipient Richard Napoleon Batchelder, USA of the District of Columbia
Brig. Gen. Morris Cooper Foote of New York
Brig. Gen. Royal T. Frank, USA
Brig. Gen. Green Clay Goodloe, USMC of the District of Columbia
Brig. Gen. Lyman W.V. Kennon, USA of Rhode Island
Brig. Gen. Charles L. McCawley, USMC of the District of Columbia
Brig. Gen. Samuel Mills, USV
Brig. Gen. and Medal of Honor recipient Edmund Rice, USA of Massachusetts
Brig. Gen. and Academy Award-winning motion-picture actor James Stewart, USAFR of California
Brevet Maj. Gen. Nicholas Longworth Anderson, USA
Brevet Maj. Gen Harrison Gray Otis, USA of California
Brevet Brig. Gen. DeLancey Floyd-Jones, USA of New York
Chaplain (Colonel) Michael A. Milton, USA-R of North Carolina
Col. Charles Greenlief Ayers, USA of New York
Col. J. Fulmer Bright, USA of Virginia
Col. Bibb Graves, USA of Alabama
Col. Lawrence D. Tyson, USA of Tennessee
Col. Stephen Edward Huskey, USA of Texas
Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner, USA of New York
Maj. Pierre Christie Stevens, USA of the District of Columbia
Brevet Maj. James Edward Carpenter, USA of Pennsylvania
Lt. Orlando Henderson Petty, USN, Medal of Honor recipient of Pennsylvania

Distinguished citizens

Historian, author, genealogist and heraldist Henry L. P. Beckwith
American author and screenwriter James Warner Bellah of California
Financier Perry Belmont of Rhode Island
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway President Samuel T. Bledsoe of California
Motion-picture actor Richard Dix of California
1932 Summer Olympics President William May Garland of California
Naval Historian John B. Hattendorf of Rhode Island
Studebaker Corporation President Paul G. Hoffman of California
Railroad executive Henry E. Huntington of California
Bank of America founder Orra E. Monnette of California
Geologist and explorer Raphael Pumpelly of Rhode Island
Businessman Frederick H. Rindge of California
Motion-picture Director W. S. Van Dyke of California
Science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein of Missouri