Radnor Historical Society Bulletin

THE B ULI... ETIN
of
RADNOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOLUME
II
SPRING,
1963
INCORPORATED APRIL
No. 3
30, 1948
Headquarters and Museum
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OFFICERS
MISS CAROLINE ROBBINS,
President
Vice·President
ROBERT 1. CUMMIN, Secretary
GEORGE VAUX,
O. LO U IS EHMANN, JR.,
Treasurer
MRS . B ERTRAM WOLFSON;
Curator
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
RICHARD W. BARRINGER
MRS. G ERTRUDE WARE CASE
HERB ERT S . CASEY
ROBERT
FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT
O . LouIs EHMANN, JR .
MISS E. DOROTHY FINLEY,
Cones. Sec'y
JAMES
1.
C.
CUMMIN,
Editor
MASSEY
JAMES RAWLE
MISS CAROLINE ROBBINS
MRS . MALCOLM G . SAUSSER
MRS. P ER· OLOF THERMAN
G EORGE VAUX
MRS. EDWARD W . WESTHEAD
TH EO B . WHITE
THE RADNOR TOWNSHIP POOR BOOK
ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIETY, 1962 - 1963
by Katharin e Hewitt Cllrnrnin
May 13, 1962
November 27, 1962
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the
Socie ty was held at the Harri ton Cemet e ry, following a tour of graveyards in
Radnor a nd L ower Merion Townships. The
following Direc tors were elected to serve
until 1965 : Mrs. Gertrude Ware Case, Francis James Dalle tt, Mi ss E. D orot hy Finley,
Mrs. Malcolm G. Sausser. James C. Massey
w a s elec ted to se rv e a s Director until 1964.
After th e business was co ncluded, the
members adj o urn ed to t he hou se of Mr.
a nd Mrs. Vau x for refreshments. The Dir ec to rs th e n re-elec ted the following officers to serve for the coming year: Miss
Caroline R obbins, Presiden t ; George Vaux,
Vice-President; R obert 1. Cummin , Secretary; a nd O. L o ui s Ehmann, J r., Treasurer.
David J. Kenned y's Vi ews of the Philadelphia Area, 1836-1880 was the subj ect of
a talk by Jam es Rawle at t h e Wayn e
Presbyterian C hu rch. Mr. Rawle has recorded on slides mu ch of the work of thi s
ex pert a nd versatile water colori st. Nearly
all of Kenn edy's pai ntin gs are own ed by
the Historical S ociety of P e nn sylva ni a. Mrs.
~'es th ea d was in charge of refreshm en ts.
January 16, 1963
Mrs. C. Higgin s of W ayn e le d a symposium at t he Fi rst Wayne F ederal Savin gs and L oan Association on The Changing Taste in Food at wh ich Miss Robbins
a lso spok e (see art icle). A number of old
m enu s, recipes, a nd cookbook s we r e exhibited by v ariou s m ember s. Mrs. W olfson
handl e d hospi tali ty.
j\'Iarch 20, 1963
Banjotowll - Radnor, a Fact or a
Lege nd? was t he subject of a talk by
Bertr am W olfson w h o lives ther e . (See
article.) It is h oped t ha t the success of thi s
prese ntati on will en couI1Uge additional
n eighborhood resea r ch projects. The meeting was at 't h e First Way ne F ederal Savings and L oan Association, an d again Mrs.
W esthead was in charge of re fr eshments.
October 13, 1962
One Hundred Years of R :Hlnor Architects was the th em e of the Society's Ninth
Open House Tour. (See Mr. Massey 's article.) Mr. Massey, Miss Robbin s, and Mrs.
Cu mm in took charge of [a rrangem ents.
The Radnor Historical Society is open to anyone interested in the history of
our community. Send annual dues of $3.00 to O. Louis Ehmann, Jr., Treasurer,
123 West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
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At its 1962 annual m eeti n g th e Radn or Historical S ocie ty rece ived from Mrs.
Thor nton Oakley the most extraord inary
gift of the earli est known boo k of R a dn or
T ow n ship records. The ·Ieathe r-bound volum e had stood in the safe k ee ping of he r
family, the Ewings of W oods~oc k , V ill an ov,a , for a cen t ury and a half.
Radnor Township's a ctivities did not
begi n with t he date of thi s book. T here
mu st have exi sted an earlier volume conta ining records of the Ove rseers of th e
P oor and th ere should be, so m ewh er e,
acco unts of th e ,a ctivities of th e Supe rv isors of the Hi ghways. This gift inspires
t he Society to h ope that oth er earl y r ecords may be di scove r ed a nd appreciated.
The earliest r ecords in t he Tow nship
Building date fro m 1885.
Thanks to M rs. Oakley it is now possible to describe the actions of the Over seers
of t he Poor for fou r decades in t he eig hteenth century a nd to pub lish th e minu tes of one town m ee ting (all we hav e)
of th e many t h at were held .
The volume bears. n ow faintly , th e titl e
"Radnor Town ship Poor Book." In side the
cover an early not e explain s its co n te nts :
"This B oo k from Page 1 t o Page 45
in cl us ive con ta in s th e Transacti on s o f the
Overseers of th e P oor , Township proceedin gs respecting th e Poor w it h t h e Acco un ts
of th e Overseers of th e P oor fr om 'Page 45
forward t h e Minutes and Proceedings of
th e Township Mee ting. - "
And t hi s is wh at it does co ntain.
These reco r ds begi n December 12, 1765,
e nding November 23, 1807 wh e n the accoun ts of the last Overseer, Jacob Gyger,
we re se ttl ed. F oll owin g that time the P oor
became th e res ponsi bility of t he Coun ty.
The earli er records appear in mo re
deta il than th e later w he re often the book
s hows only th e amo unt s pe nt by the Ove rseers, the amou n t r eceive d fr om taxes
a ncl o ther so urces an d th e differen ce between t h em. The "overplu s" fig u re is by
o n e clerk called th e "overplu sh ."
During thi s period the Ove r seers were
app Ointed by the County Ju stices of th e
P eace (u pon n ominati on of t he outgO in g
oversee r s). No records of such appointm ents occ ur here. T here are occasional records, however , beginnin g in 1768, of the
election of a Comm ittee t o Assis t t he Overseers. From t hi s commi ttee a gro up of
m en , u sually three, acted as "set tl ers" or
a udi tors to review the Oversee rs' a cco unts
at their term' s e nd. In later years th ree
m e n were elec ted specifi call y a s Se t t le r.
The fiscal ye ar ra n from March 25 to
March 25, the sa m e period used by th
En glish parishes for the sa m e pu rpose. Th e
"settl em ent" of accounts fe ll usua ll y near
t h is date.
The Overseers had several so urces o(
mon ey. Th ey we r e by law e mp owered
(w ith the agree m ent of two Ju stices o f th e
P eace of th e County) to lev y th eir ow n
taxes- and m ore th pn once a year if nece sary. H owever t hese records indicate th a t
th e a ssessm e nt was oft en (pe rhaps a lways)
made at a Town Meet in g. In a dditi on t o
tax mon ey th e Oversee rs r ece ived o n
half of th e m oney pa id for stra y animal
found in 'the town Ship. Over the years the y
be ne fited fro m th e sale of a cow, of h og,
of sheep, includin g I s. 6d . for a "Stray
Ewe Mark'd w ith a half Crop In t h
Right Ear a nd a Crop in t he Left E ar
Aged four years." (H ow did th ey kn ow
t he age of a stray? )
They r ece ive d a lso th e proceeds oC
sale (" Vanclu e" o r " Vendu e" ) of possessions of the P oor. In Radnor, durin g th ese
years, one thi r d of a field of w he at, two
cows, "e ffects" were sold at Vendu e. In
1792 H averford T ow nship's Overseers paicl
them on e pou nd te n shillin gs pres umabl y
for costs born e by Radnor for P oo r bel ong in g to Have rford.
"Sundry fin es" appea r as a n item in
t he record with no furth er definition . An
ac t passed F e br uary 9, 1750, states h owever t h at an yo ne sellin g stro ng liqu or at
the tim e of a Ven due was to be fi n ed fo u r
pou nds- one hal[ to go t o t he Overseer
of th e Poor a nd t he oth e r to th e in form er !
Fo r a seco nd offe n se th e fin e was fiv e
pounds. T he Gos he n Poo r R eco rd s show
in co m e from "swea rin g fi nes. " iPer haps
t hese applied here.
T h e Overseers s pen t m o ney for cloth es
for the Poor, for burials of t he Poo r, for
room a nd board or "keeping" of th e P OOl',
for "removin g" the Poor from th e tow nship (presum ab ly people r ig htly co nside red the charge of o th er Ove rseers) and
for t h e expenses o( the Ve n du es.
Inflati on d ur in g the R evoluti on shows
clearly on th e e record s a nd th e e ffect o f
th e lmv p<lssed F ebr uary 1, 1781, requir in g
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Poor or the settlers for the P oor accounts,
received almost no mention. In 1772 John
Jones signed the record as Clerk. In 1790
Adam Siter did the same. James Morris
is referred to as Constable in 1788.
taxes to be collected in specie or, if in
paper, at the rate of 75 to 1. The accounts
were first rendered in dollars in the settlement of April :L1, 180l.
Officers, other than Overseers of the
Spent by Overseers during previous Year
Date of Settlement
April 7, 1777 ________________________________________ ._____ £31
April 4, 1778 __________________________________________________ 58
July 25, 1779 _______________________________________________ 163
n.d. but c. 1780 _____________________________________________ .245
March 31, 1781 ____________________________________________ 906
October 19, 1782 _________________________________________ 22
April 17, 1783 ______________________________________________ 25
16
19
12
18
18
Year First
Mentioned
Year Last
Mentioned
Enoch
1806
1806
Isaac
1785
1807
1771
1767
1770
1767
1798
1805
1772
1773
1778
1800
1791
c.1780
1785
1767
1770
1771
1798
1805
1792
1773
1778
1800
1807
1807
1782
1767
1768
1791
1785
1782
1773
1768
1791
1785
Name
Adams, George
Bair, Henry
Baker, Joseph
Barry, James
Bartleson, B.
Bartle
Bewley, Bewly, Buley, John
Bittle, Frederick
Frdrick
Brooke, James
Jesse
John.
Cochran, James
Conner, Mary
Connoegg, David
Cornog, Cornogg,
2
John
William
6d
11
3
6
6
10
several times, only the years of the first
and last reference are given. Because spellings vary widely, the spelling used by an
Jndividual if he signed the book personally is also given.
The book itself may be referred to
by any person interested in more specific
information on these people.
There follows a list of the names mentioned in 't he Poor records. It includes
names of Overseers, Settlers, Committee
members, IPOOr, people who "kept" the
Poor, tradesmen from whom goods were
bought, dndividuals who bought goods at
the Vendues, people who bought str'ays.
Since a number of these names appear
Abraham, Abrahams,
Abram, Abms.
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Signature
Isaac Abram (1785)
Isaac Abraham (1805)
George Adams (1785)
B. Bartleson (1798)
Bartle Bartleson (1805)
John Bewley (1788)
Jas Brooke (1800)
Jesse Brooke (1791)
John Brooke (1800)
Jno Brooke (1782)
Year First
Mentioned
Name
Cummins, Susanah
sd. Cummins Childe
David, Evan
Sarah
Davis, B.
Benjamin
Edward
Isaac
Mary
Sarah
DeHaven, Dehaven,
Hugh
Deheven
Donnaly, Owen
Elliot, Elliott,
James
Eliot
Robert
Evans, Evens, Daniel
David
Griffeth
John
Levi
Mark
Mathusalah
Nathan
Fetterman, George
Francis, Thomas
George, John
Gager, Giger,
Jacob
Gyger
*Jesse
Griff (. . .), Griffith, Hugh
Healy, Margaret
Hoofman, Jacob
Horton, John
Nathan
Hoskins, Jos.
Hughs, Hughes, Jonathan
Hunter, Jams.
James, Evan
Griffith
Jerman, Jeremiah
Jones, David
Edward
Isaac
*John
M.
Margaret
Kanady, Kenedy,
Robert
Year Last
Mentioned
1770
1770
1772
1771
1805
1793
1777
1786
1772
1771
1790
1770
1770
1777
1771
180')
1806
1777
1797
1772
d.I772
1796
1787
1805
1771
1779
1786
1771
1771
1794
1783
1766
1797
c.1780
1791
1790
1806
1773
1770
c.1783
1798
1803
1800
1772
c.1780
1777
1779
1773
1768
1772
1802
1772
1787
1806
1771
1782
1788
1771
1771
1794
1783
1766
1797
c.1780
1791
1790
1807
1801
1772
c.1783
1788
1798
1805
1800
1773
1781
1777
1779
1773
1779
1792
1803
1795
1793
1789
1786
1793
1789
1788
17M
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Signature
Evan David (1772 )
Benjamin Davis (1 793 )
Isaac Davis (1787)
H. DeHaven (1792)
James Elliott (1805)
David Evans (1786)
Nathan Evans (1797)
Jacob Gyger (1806)
Jesse Gyger (1800)
Nathan Horton (1803)
Jos. Hoskins (l~O~)
David Jones (1778)
Edward Jones (1 773)
Isaac Jones (1802)
John Jones (1 772)"
John Jones (1 792)
Robert Kenedy (1 786)
Name
Kenneday, Kennedy
Krim, John
Leedom, Isaac
Lewis, David
Evan, Even
Henry
Levi
*Lewis
Lloyd, Able
Ruth
Loyd, Jos.
Levezey, Luzely, Benjaman
Marchant, Nicholas
Martin, Robert
Mather, Robert
Mathers, John
Matlack, Matlock, Nathan
Simeon, Semion,
Simmion, Simion
Maul, Maule, Daniel
Jacob
Mawl, B.
McClelen, J .
McClure, Wm .
McGines, B.
Meredith, Susanah
Miles, Enos
Jas
Richard
Moore, John
Morgan, John
Mordica" Morda
Morris, James
Phillips, David
Powell, Jonathan
Pugh, John
Samuel
Ratliff, Joseph
Read, Reed, Thomas
Richard, Richards, Isaac
William
Roberts, Jasher
Samuel, Hugh
Sharp
Siter, Siters, Adam
Jacob
John
Year F.rst
Mentio!ed
Year Last
Mentioned
Signature
Robert Kennedy (1786)
1775
1802
1774
1773
1788
1781
1773
-1766
1767
1767
1768
1767
1797
1781
1767
1772
1788
1775
1802
1788
1794
1788
1796
1804
1766
1767
1767
1769
1767
1800
1800
1768
1788
1806
1788
1804
1805
1.806
1804
1806
1769
1786
1795
1772
1773
1774
1768
1788
1793
1807
1805
1806
1804
1806
1770
1786
1795
1772
1773
1791
1777
1788
1788
1790
1799
1768
1803
1792
1795
1788
1772
d.l768
1770
1790
1797
1807
178~
1790
1799
1768
1802
1771
1794
1788
1768
1767
1770
1775
1795
1800
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David Lewis (1774)
Evan Lewis (1773)
Henry Lewis (1788)
Levi Lewis (1781)
Lewis Lewis (1804)
Robert Martin (1797)
Robert Mather (1800)
Nathan Matlack ( 1772)
Simeon Matlack (1788)
Daniel Maule (1792)
Jacob Maule (1804)
Name
Staddleman, Stadelman, Mical, Michal
Taylor, Taylore, Morda
Samuel
Thomas and James
(business establishment?
individuals?)
Thomas, Amos
Even
Jno, John
Joshua
Philip
Walker, Jacob
Wayne, Humphrey
White, George
Williams, Edward
wife of Edward
Jonathan
Margrit
Thomas
Wills, Samuel
Wilson, Thomas
Worrell, Elisha
Zullig, Georg
Year F. rs!
Mentioned
Year Last
Mentioned
1768
1785
1801
1772
1772
1785
1802
1772
1783
1771
1774
1773
1805
1785
1772
1785
1775
1775
1772
1766
1770
1770
1767
1789
1798
1783
1771
c.1780
1802
1805
1788
1772
1785
1775
1775
d.1772
d.1770
1770
1770
1767
1789
1798
Signature
Samuel Taylore (1 80 1)
John Thomas (1774)
Joshua Thomas (1779)
Jacob Walker (1785)
GeorgZullig (1798)
* These references obviously refer to more than one person of this name.
THE MINUTES OF THE TOWNSHIP MEETING
John Morgan (1791)
Morda Morgan (1776)
David Phillips (1788)
Jno Pugh (1799)
Joseph Ratliff (1802)
Tho!>. Read (1772)
Isaac Richa rds (1794)
Adam Siter (1790)
Jacob Siters (1795)
John Siter (1800)
The a ppear,a nce of one set of Town
Meeting Minutes in the Radnor Poor Book
raises the questions of w hen town meetings began here, w h en they ended, a nd
what authority they had. Som e research
has been done on this and w ill continue
until answers CRn be given. Some facts ,
however, do appear.
The only statutory authority for town
meetings sta nd s in the Laws of the Duke
of York which prevailed h ere from 1676
until the advent of William Penn. Penn,
un der t he Charter from Charles II, divided hi s grant into counties and directed
his surveyors to layout land in townships. He gave n o definition of the governmental rights of townships; such definition awaited nineteenth century statutes.
The Charter did specify that all laws
should be in harmon y with those of Engl and.
It see m s therefor that the h olding of
town meetings was done simply in accordance with tradition and for con veni ence.
Certain borough charters make provision
for them. We ha ve see n primary eviden ce
of town meetings in Radnor, in Goshen ,
in East Bradford and seco ndary referenc e
to m ee tings in Byberry, Chester, Darby'.
and Upper Darby townships.
The Darby Monthly Meeting Minutes
of the Society of Friends refer to town
meetings held in the Friends Meeting
House. In Goshen the inhabitants met in
individual hou ses, in inns, in the "stonc
sc hoolhou se." We do not kn ow where Radnor met. A 1772 statute r equire s that
* The Darby Book, containin g earli er and
fuller records than most, was libemlly qu oted in Smith's History of Delaware County.
Its present whereabouts is unknown .
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election s be held as near th e center of a
t ownship "as conveniently can be." If this
was followed here, the m eetings were held
in or near the Radnor Friends Meeting
House.
From the scant evidence so far found,
town m eetings have been see n to elect
office rs, agree to the levying of taxes,
auth ori ze the expe nditure of mon ey (from
the fund s of the Ove rseers of the Poor or
of th e Supervi sors of the Highways ), to
grant ce rtificates of legal se ttlement in a
town ship, to se t annual m ee ting dates (before a ge neral 1772 statute on th e s ubject), di v id e town s hips into road di stricts,
authori ze the building of s tocks (o ut of
Poor Fund s !) and se ttl e ac co unt~.
Th e f ollowing minutes, from the Radnor Town ship Poor BoOk, are those of th e
"Annual Meeting," held on th e t hi r d
Sa tu r da y of March which by statute was
set as th e date for th e ele ction of cer tain
to w n offi cer s. Th e electi on, the law said,
mus t be h eld betwee n th ree a nd s ix in th e
a ftern oon . There was no provision for t he
tran sacti on o f oth e r bu sin ess at thi s t ime.
or informed t he meeting, that he had
directed, Jacob Gyger to make one: which
Mr. Gyger being present informed the
meeting he wou ld have it soon done
A Committee was Appointed in March
1808 to coll ect ,all th e Laws, that were in
the hands of the Different Constables for
some time past, whi c h they had drawn
for the use of the Township from the
Prothonotari es Office, and Mr John Brooke
informed 'th e m eeting that h e was on
that Committee, and had procu r ed all
th ey could find and had deposite d them
a s they w er e then ordered in the Store
of Messrs Siter and B r ooke for th e use of
th e Township.
Maske ll Ewing informed th e m eetin g
that he had procured fr om th e Prothonata r ie of th e County th e 6th 7th and a part
of th e 8th Volumn of th e Laws that have
bee n pa ssed since th e Publicati on of R eads
Digest which he presented for the use of
th e Township
Whereup on
A Motion was mad e by Mask ell Ewing
a nd seconde d by Benjamin Davis, that
som e person be Appoin ted t o examin e all
th e Laws that are in the P ossession of
Messrs SiteI' a nd B rook e, with those now
p resented by Mr E wi ng, a nd a s far a s
complete Volumn s can be mad e up, to ge t
th em bound in a nea t Manner and L e ttered.
On the Qu es tion Wh e ther the mee ting would agree th er e to ? It was carried
in the Affirmati ve Nem ine Contra Dicenta.
Whereupon
Maskell Ewing was Appointed to procure the same to be bound Accordingly,
and that the expence thereof shall be Allowed him in the settlement of his Accounts as Supervisor he having been Appointed to that Office this day.
Whereas it now Appears, that no minutes were ever kept in this Township
of the proceedin gs at the Annual Town
Meetings, 'o ther than those kept respecting
the Poor prior to the year 1808 si nce which
the Poor Accounts have been kept at the
Poor Hou se and House of employment
A Motion was made and seconded that
the proceedings of this Meeting be made
up and entered in the B ook n ow before
the m eeting in which the transactions of
the Overseers of the Poor and their Accounts were formerly kept and which book
is fille d with Township entries Poor Accounts etc from Page 1 to (P age 45 inclusive
and that the Clerk who may hereafter Attend the Township Meetings as such, be
directed to make regular minutes of the
Proceedings which may hereafter be had
"MARCH 16 1810
From thi s time f orwar d the m inutes
a nd p roceedings o f th e T ownship Meetin g
of Ra dn or T ow nship in De laware Coun ty
is to be fa ir ly e nte r ed in thi s Book by
orde r o ( th e T own ship Meetin g thi s day
RADNOR DEL AWARE COUNTY
MARCH 16 1810
Th e Inhabitants of Radnor Township
met in Town-m eeti n g this day, on due
notice Agreeably to Law, for the purpose
of Electing Township Officers etc.
Whereupon Isaac Abr.a hams Esqr and
John Brooke were appointed Judges of the
Election, and John SiteI' was Appointed
Clerk.
The Meeting proceeded to the Election
of Township Officers.
Maskell Ewing Esqr. and James Lewis
were Elected Supervisors of the Highways.
Jacob Gyger and James Morgan were
Elected Constables.
Davis Brooke was Appointed Town
Clerk.
John Brooke, Jesse Brooke, John SiteI'
and George B rooke, were Appointed Settlers for the ensuing year.
Enquiry having been made, whether
the ,Plough which was directed to be procured for the repair of Roads, at the
Town Meeting in March last had been
made. Benjamin Davis the late Supervis-
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at Township Meetings in this TownShip,
a nd ca use the same to be fairly transcribed
into the sd Book
On the Questi on, Whether the same be
agreed to by the Meeting? It was carried
Nemin e Contra Dicenta, in the Affirmative.
No further business being offerred the
meeting rose."
There is but one more e ntry in the
book. On one of the last pages there appears in the handwriting of one of the
earli est clerks the statement:
"We whose Names are Underwritten Being freeh olders and Inhabitants of the
Township of Radnor D o he reby certify
that we have asses'd the foregOing rates
approvd of them and D esire th ey may
be allow'd by the Justissees"
It is signed (with a fl ourish) in another and som ew hat later hand by
Timothy Leeg Mutton
Nathaniel Neverpay
Step he n J ohn Overtrott th e
Leather W eaver
For assistance in sec uring background material for this article particular thanks are
hereby g ive n to the Ath e naeum of Philadelphia, the Chester County Historical
Society, the Darby Free Library, the
Friends Libra ry in Swarthmore, the P e nnsylvania S tate Library and the Law Library of Villan ova University.
CHANGING TASTE IN FOOD IN PENNSYLVANIA
by Caroline Robbins
Everyone over twenty-five must be
aware of a revolution in our domestic
economy; the refrigerator, the freezer ,a nd
the sale of a wide variety of fresh and
cooked frozen foods have combi ned to
cha n ge eating habits and household routine. Looking backwards, other revolutions may be seen. Somewhere in midnineteenth century, the possibility of convenient ovens in every home meant fewer
trips to t he baker with goose, beef or pies,
but more activity in the kitchen. Medical
notions hav e done as much as technological developments to alter eating customs.
The menus customary in the eighteen th
and nineteenth centuries were vastly heavier, richer, and according to our ideas,
less "bala n ced," then those of mid-twenti e th century. Old bills of fare illustrate
thi s vividly: the dinner at th e Bellevue in
Wayne on 12 Septembe r 1881 for the Azt ec Club (of v e terans of the M exican war
o f 1846) followed roughly the same sequ ence from soup to sw eet and coffee a s
we should expe ct, but o ffe red many more
courses and a greate r choi ce or mixture
w ithin each, than a m odern restaurant
would think necessa ry or desirable. A dinn er in 1859 at Bethleh em for the Histor ical Socie ty of IP ennsylvania had some
t w elve cou rses, several of whi ch offered,
f or example, h a lf a dozen d ifferen t kinds
o[ game, vegetable and roast. Costs were
correspondingly hi g h as the accounts, preserved by the George Vauxes, of a dinn er
in 1876 at the old Academy of Natural
Sciences [or D om Pedro, illu strate, though
the service charges seem delightfully low!
T he eighteenth ce n t u ry table was
startlingly differe nt. In menus s uggested
in The Frugal Housewife (Philadelphia,
1796) the first co urse, placed at on e time
on the table, included cods' head soup,
beef, lamb, boiled chicken, pastries, plum
pudding and collops (hamburger, I t!hi nk ) ;
the seconll turkey, smelts, lamb (in case
you 'd overlooked the first round I suppose ) , cheesecake, minced pies, lobs ter s
and jellies, these dish es also placed in a
circle on the tabl e. William Priest, a mu sidian traveling in the Uni ted States in 179397, wrote of th e enormous quantity o f
meat consumed three times a day, at breakfast, dinner and supp er , noting that t o th e
normal roasts of England were add ed
"racoon, bear and possum" (Travels, L ondon , 1802, 32-34). His re marks could be
confirmed many tim es in th e m em oirs o (
his contemp orari es. Some d iffer en ces reflec ted fro ntier life, of course, an d th
inevi table emphasis on game, local fi h
and on salted food with t he lack of fr ui t
a n d vege tables in a n y b u t excep ti onal
far m s. Others stem from t he more activ
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way of life and the extremes of climate
that were endured. The remote past of
the middle ages and the ancient world
enjoyed yet more surp:-:s;ng foods with violent flavors to disgui se stale taste, and
with odd combinations like the fish treated
with honey of the Romans.
Early cook tooks in America were
simply reprints of books from overseas.
The first native imprint, The Compleat
Housewife, 1742, was a republication of
a famous English work by Hannah Gl'a sse.
So, too, was the popular A New System of
Cookery, by a Lady (Mrs. Marie Eliza
K etelby Rundell), which appeared in Philadelphia in 1807, in New York in 1816,
and e lsewhere, but whkh was, with no
concessions to transatlantic taste, a replica of an English work. As the nineteenth
century wore on, ladaptations of French
and English books were mad e. J . M. San derson of the Franklin House in Philadelphia did one in 1843. Nowadays there are
plenty of Italian, Chinese and other for eign recipes conditioned to our measurements and commodities. Even the food once
peculiar to th e P enn sylvania Dutch peoples
and settlements may now be found in
studies by Frederick Klees and others.
The fir st native author was Amelia
Simmon s, described on her title page as
"an America n Orphan," whose American
Cookery wes published at Hartford in
1796. The book is scarce, and little is
known about Am el ia. Fortunately a good
deal may be discovered about Eliza Leslie (1787-1858), our first local la uthority
on food a nd one of the few culinary luminaries to be found in the Dictionary of
American Biography. Eliza was the daughter of Robert and Lydia (Bak er) Leslie,
who came to Philadelphia and opened a
shop for watches and clocks shortly before
h er birth. Robert was a member of the
American Philosophical Society and known
both to Franklin and Jefferson. His Scottish grandf,a ther had emigrated to Maryland about 1745. In 1792 the Leslies went
to England on business, and their son ,
Charles Robert (1794-1859) the painter,
was born there. On their return, after a
terrible vo~age (1799-1800) , Eliza attended
Mrs. G oodfellow's cooki ng classes and became so efficient and inventive that
friends relied on her help. H er brother
eventually persuaded her to publish instead of constantly copyi ng h er recipes
and prescriptions. From 1837, Eliza's works
on cooking and on household management
went into many editions, one into thirtyeight or more. She also wrote a prize
w inning story for Godey's, "Mrs. Washington IPotts" and a novel, Amelia, or
A Young Lady's Vieissituires (1848) and
other pieces, and she derived a fair income
from her pen.
Around 1830-50 when Eliza Leslie was
wriUng, others like Prudence Smith, Fanny
Fern ,a nd Hannah Widdifield produced cook
books. Special stUdies devoted to Ameri-
Geni W.H.H. Davis
MENU
Huitres au Nature!'
Potage.
Tortue Vert
Poisson.
Tete Brebis, Sauce aux Huitres.
Pommes de Terre,
a la Duchesse Concombres.
Bouchees, a la Financiere
Releve.
Filet de Boeuf, aux Champignons.
Legumes.
Casserole de Pommes de Terre,
Avec Petits Pois.
Aubergine, Farcie .
Entrees.
Cotelettes D'Agneau, Sauce Tomate
Supreme de Volaille.
Sorbet en Oranges.
Gibier.
Rale et Ortolans.
Salade de Laitue et Tomate .
Fromage de Roquefort.
Neufchatel.
Dessert.
Glaces.
Fruit.
Meringues.
Cafe.
Dinner to the Aztec Club at Wayne.
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can foods Lke Indian corn, or to areas
like New England and Virginia also showed a growing interest in hom e cooking.
By the end of the cen~ury, Fanny Farmer
in Boston and Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer
wrote volumes which became classics in
the field a nd in newer edi ti ons are still
used today. Mr. Sanderson, the hotelier
already m ention ed, wrote in his introduction: "the American stomach ha s too l ong
suffered from the vile concoctions infli cted
on it by untutored cooks." No one today
can blame bad food (if the re be any) on
a lack of instruction over the hund red anj
twenty years that have passed since he
wrote.
Bibliography. American Cookery
Books, by Waldo Lincoln , edit d by
E. L owenstein and publi sh ed in a
limited edition at Worcester, Mass ..
in 1954 by the Am e6can Antiquarian SOd:ety, is the standard work ,
I us ed the copy in th e Library
Oompany at Broad and Christian.
Our ,e xhibits suggest menus and
books l ent for the meeting on 16
January 1963. Any old menus and
books that members feel they can
part wi,th will be gratefully r eceived by th e RHS.
BANJOTOWN - RADNOR
A Fact or A Legend?
by Bertram Wolfson
For over half a century many residents of the Main Line have heard stories
ot a small community called Banjotown.
Does it really exist? Wh ere is it? How
did it get its name?
Banjotown is on Newtown Road in
!than, approximately a quarter of a mile
west of the Radnor Friends Meeting House .
It was part of the initial land grant of
5,000 acres made to Richard Davies in
1681. In 1726 the land was conveyed to
John Jerman. Title to the Iand changed
hands over the years. In 1864 Sarah Jane
Matlack purchased 56 acres including the
present land of Banjotown, from Elizabeth S. Parke and Mary Ann Jacobs. These
56 acres extended from the present west
boundary of Banjotown to the intersection of Newtown Road and Conestoga
Road. This included the land on which
v,1as subsequently built the Meigs Estate,
open to the tour of the Historical Society
this past fall.
Banjotown was vacant farm land and
woods until approximately 1885, at which
time a 10 acre plot was sub-divided into
36 lots by Mrs. Sarah Jane Matlack. Twelve
of the lots faced on Newtown Road, and
the remai ning 24 lots bordered on a deadend road, now called Matlack Lane.
Why Mrs. Matlack, who owned quite
a large piece of property in !than, suddenly decided to carve up 10 acres of Iand
into 36 small lots on which were erected
small hou ses for the laboring class, is unknown. Did she need the money resulting
f,'om the sale of the land? Was there an
increased demand for laborers in the IthanWayn e area? These questions are unanswered.
By 1887 there were three houses in
Banjotown- one on lot 1, lot 35 and lot
36. The two hou ses on lots 35 and 36 burnt
down in the 1920's. The Radnor Fire Company answered the a larm but due to the
frame construction of the hou ses, and an
inaclequate water supply, they were quickly destroyed. George Munger's stable now
stands in 'their 'approximate location. The
only one of the original hou ses that still
exists is the house on Lot N umber 1 which
was then owned by George W. Derrickson , a lo cal auctioneer.
By 1892 four more houses were built
on l ot number 3, lot number 4, lot numb er
25, lot number 27. The h ouse o n lot 25
was inhabited by George Handy, a Negro,
and his son. Mr. Handy was a good natured
fellow who did odd jobs around t he
neighborhood, and collected garbage to
feed his pigs. One night Mr. Handy thought
he heard a burglar p r owling outside hi s
house- h e got his gu n, wait ed until h e
heard the sou n d agai n and fired in its
direction. The so und stopped - he proudly
announced to his wife the fact that he had
shot the bu rglar but would wait until
daylight to see who it was. Next mornin g
Mr. Handy went out to find he had shot
his horse as th e burglar. Hi s house n o
l onger exists.
The remaining frame dwellings on lot 9,
lot 21, lot 24 and lot 29 on Matlack Lan
were built by 1908.
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The original eight hou ses of Banjotown were built of fram e, covered w ilh
a hard white pinewood siding. Taking our
hou se at 724 Newtown Road as an example, many changes were made over th e
years. The original house had two rooms
dow nstairs, and two bedrooms upstairs.
There was no running water within the
house, a privy was outside and th e house
was h eated by wood stoves in eac h roo m.
Subsequently a shed was added in the rear
(or lhe kitchen and a third bedroom added
over the kitchen. A porch to the rear
ot the hou se was later enclosed to make
another room ,a nd, still later, a small room
was a dded to the rear of the porch by
Davis Whiteman who used it as a cobbler's
shop when he retired from hi s shop in
til e center of Wayne.
Information as to the early days of Banjotown was acquired from e.a rly atlases of
the Main Line, and inte rviews with early
inhabitants, Edward Whileman a nd Harry
Miller of Wayn e.
Edward Whiteman was born ill our
hou se in 1890. His g;'cll1dfather was the
cobbler in Wayn e, and hi s father wo:- ked
For th e P. R. R. Like m ost young boys
i 11 Banjotown, h e atte nded the Ithan
School at the end of Newtown Road, untii th e third grade. After school h e he lp ed
around the hou se, taking care of the ducks,
chicken s, sheep and pigs kept in the back
yard. The ducks and pigs swam and wallowed in the mud of Van L eer's Run, a
stream that flowed through Banjotown.
The stream is now piped und ergro und, but
at the turn of the Century it was ope n,
with a steep banle The local inhabitants
tried to fill it in by u si ng it as th e dumping ground for lheir cans a nd ashes. "Ti n
Can Alley" on e early resident described
i t.
T here were ot her c hildren in Banjotown for th e Whitemans to play with.
When they were older, Mr. Whiteman a nd
Mr. Miller played for the loc'al baseball
leam, The Ithan Rovers , whose diamond
was n ext t o Banjotown, where Harrison
Road now is. Th e Rovers were one of the
t eams in lhe Main Line League, made up
of Narbert h, Bryn Mawr, Wayn e, Ithan
a nd Berwyn.
Until 1917, Banjotown was a racially
integrated community. Its inhabitants
e ither had a trade or performed odd laboring jobs. George W . Derrickson was an
auctioneer, Davi s Whiteman was a cobbler. William Short, a Negro, did odd carpentry jots and ran a horse-powered saw
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mill, Jim Shield was a bricklayer, George
Willis, George Handy and Jim Palterson
were Negro laborers. Matt Edwards was
a coachman, and Frank Douglas was an
electrician. Some owned their h ous es. such
as the Derricksons, vVhit ema ns and Shorts
- others rented their hou ses at rents varying from $8 to $12 per month.
There were 01her local characters who
had no known domicile and consequently
were either claimed by, or attributed to,
Banjotown. Among these were "Shaky
Jim" who cut wood and did odd jobs- for
this he received hi s board. Also there was
"Dog John" who never washed or shaved.
He co'lected garbage in h;s two-wh eeled
cart to feed the pigs. He lived in ,a spring
house with his four dogs. He only worked
enough to eat, an:1 preferred to spe nd hi s
days playing with h is dogs, who were
t;'ained to danc e and jump, and even
smoke pipes.
About the turn of the Century, much
of the open land WE:S purchased, consolidated and large estates constructed. William
W . Atterbu ry owned 42 acres on the
so uth side of Newtown Road , running west
from the Radnor Friends Meeting House
to a pproximately the present site of Atterbury Road. Mr. Atterbury succeeded
Mr. Cassatt as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. and I suppose it was natura l that this land should have been purchased from Mr. Cassatt.
In 1909 or 1910 Col. Robert Montgomery purchased la nd from Tryon R. Lewis
,,1: the far sou thwest corner of Newtown
Road and Darby-Paoli Road, and shortly
thereafter commenced the construction of
hi s Large m:lnsion. If one can visualize
Banjotown at that time as a mixed community, w ith ducks, pigs and chickens running around, several families li vi ng together in so me of the houses, and tin
cans and to t tl ss dumped in the backyard
to fill in th e creek, it is no wonder that
Col. Montgomery and Mr. Atterbury
thought that Banjotown was, or might
become, a shanty town. Th ey were not
about to spe nd lots of money building big
mansions and h ave to drive by this shanty
town in order t o ge t to their front gates.
Col. Montgomery and Mr. Atterbury conspi red together to purchase Banjotown.
Mr. Atterbury was to be in charge of
buying the houses. From my informants
I gather that Mr. Atterbury believe d in
the " bu ll in the china shop" approach. He
succeeded in buying just one house and
in antagonizing all the other owners so
that no on e would selL Col. Montgomery
p:'eserv; ng the feeling of the community
by res~oring th e house s. I should no t reall y
say restore, as his imp roveme n ts, bot h
structurally and aesthetic:::lly, were a lu xury that the bu ildings had never known.
For example, in our own h ouse t h e re wa
inst,a lled panelled cupboards, bookcases,
and dentil moulding along the edge of the
walL If an emergency repair was necessary, it was CoL Montgomery the tenant
called, and frequ ently h e would come with
the workers to su pervise the repairs. In
1955 th e Montgome ry Estate decided to
sell the hou ses in B smjotown and for th e
first time in almost half a century, each
hou se was put back in individual ownership. At the present time eac h occupant
is the owner of hi s hou se.
There are many rumors ,a s to how
Banjotown got its n ame. In the early days
so m e called it Banjo Alley and others
Banjo Row. I think we all have visions
ot an old darkie sitting out on his back
stairs str umming hi s banjo, romantically
in the moonlight. As far as I can determine, it had been known as Banjotown
even before the turn of the Century. I am
told by early inhabitants that several of
the Negro boys had banjoes and they wou ld
freq uently get together in the evenings
to si ng and danc e. From this group the
name arose. Possibly the u se of the term
"Banjo" may have h'a d som e reference to
the fact that there were Negroes living
th ere. This I don't know. When Banjotown was pu~chas e d by CoL Montgomery
he tried to change the name to Montgomeryville but the nam e Banjotown was too
embedded, and n o one would change it.
Banjotown during the 1930's and 1940's
was a remark,a bly close knit community.
Everyone was a friend of everyone else.
When a vacancy occurred, another friend
was notified and the vacancy quickly filled.
This warm relationship and strong community spirit gave rise to many interesti ng
activities over the years. Art shows were
h eld. On the seco nd floor of one suable
in Banjotown the tenants got together and
constructed the Banjotown Night Club
which furnished entertainment and drinks
to the community on warm summer evenings. In 1958 and 1959 the 10 familie s
in Banjotown worked together to hold
a Banjotown Block ,Party. The cuI de sac
of Matlack Lane was closed off and decorated in a circus-lik e atmosphere . The
wives joined together to bake and cook
for some 250 guests who danced on t he
street ,CJ.S the band played, until th e early
hours of the morning.
purchased the on e house from Mr. Atterbury and took charge of the venture. He
was succ essful in purchas;ng all of BanjotOlVn and was much more subtle in his
methods, including the use of stnangers
who acted as straw parties. The first purchases took place in 1914, and by 1917 the
p urchases were complete.
During the 1920's Col. Montgomery fixed up the houses ,a nd u sed the community
to house the employees of the estate and
Ardrossan Farms. A couple of barns or
stables were built to hou se the horse s. and
c), sto ne duplex tenant house, built in one
co:ner of Banjotown in a design simi l~r
to other tenant hou ses h e contemporaneously constructed on other parts of hi s
estate.
In approxi mately 1929 CoL Montgomery decided to move the perso nn el who
worke d on Ardrossan Farms closer to the
farms and to earn som e incom e on Banjotown. H e wanted to create out of Banjotown a community for yo ung people at
a rental they could afford. The property
was transferred, in trust, to the Girard
Trust Corn Exchange Bank a nd himself,
as trustees.
H e made a careful st udy and decided
that the rent shou ld never be more than
$75 per month , per hou se . According to
him there we:e a great number of pers::ms who would be willing to pay up to
$75 per month, but thereafter the demand
dropped sharply. The iniUal rent in most
instances began at $50 per month. If a
te nant wanted certain repairs or improvements, his rental was increased proportionately, but in no case would it exceed
$75 per month.
A prospective tenant first made application to the Girard Trust. If passed
by Girard, the applicant was then given
an appointment with CoL Montgomery for
the second phase of the examination. The
applicant was asked two questions:
1. Are you a Democrat or a Republican?
2. Are you wet or dry?
This was the time of Prohibition. If
the applicant were a wet R e publican h e
was given his lease.
The rel1ationship of Col. Montgomery
and the tenants was a patriarchal relationship, reminiscent of the feudal relationship between the Lord of the Manor and
tenant. Col. Montgomery had a great interest in Banjotown. H e was interested in
the tenants and visited them regularly,
frequently bringing gifts of dairy products
fro m his farm. H e took great interest in
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RADNOR ARCHITECTS
Notes on the Ninth Open Hou.se Tour
by James C. Massey
The Radn or H istorical Society spo nsored its Ninth Open House tour on Saturday, October 13, 1962, with visits to sevell a l important, architect-designed Radnor
Township houses, ranging in date from
the 1850's to the prese nt. B efo re the middl e of the ninetee nth century, Radnor was
a quiet country farming di strict remote
in feeling from Philadelphia. But with th e
great mid-century expa nsion of the city,
and the ope nin g of the Columbia Railroad along what is now t he P e nnsylvania
Railroad's Main Line, the township became
attractive as a location for the summer
residences of wealthy Philadelphians, and
by the end of the century, for year-around
residences.
With this movement, architect-designed houses came to Radnor for the first
time, and within a few decades it was
seldom that an est'ate was not identified
wi th a promine n t ,Philadelphia architect.
Of particu lar note were two architects
who established residences in RadnorTheophilus Parsons Chandler in !than, and
David Knickerbacke r Boyd in Wayne. T.
P. Cha ndler's house still stands, though
altered, on what is now Chandler Lane,
off Sproul Road. He was one of Philadelphia's prominent late-nin eteenth - century architects (1845-1928) and in addition
to an active practice, was the first Director of the University of Pennsylvania
architectural department.
Architect Boyd's widow, Elizabeth M.
Mifflin Boyd, recently gave to the Radnor
Historioal Society her husband's scrapbook,
and this historic document was on display
"THE PEAK," MRS. ARTHUR I. MEIGS' HOUSE.
- photo by James C. Massey
at the Society's Headquarters and Museum, "Th e H omestead," for the to u r.
Boyd was a popular local architect in the
late-nineteenth and earl y-twe nti eth centuries (1873-1944) and was active in both
Philadelphi'a and the Wayn e area. H is
best-known works here are "Waldheim,"
at Eagle and Radnor Roads, Wayn e, built
for William H en ry Sayen and n ow part
of Valley Forge Military Academy, and
" Walmarthon," the vast Charles S. Walton estate off Chamounix Road, St. Davids, now the Eastern Bapti st College.
Open for the Radnor tour were
"Leighton H ou se," Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
Biddle's house; the Academy of Notre
Dame de Namur; "The P eak," Mrs. Arthur I. Meigs' House; ,a nd Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Geddes' House.
"Leighton House" is at 926 Cooper-
"LEIGHTON HOUSE," MR. and MUS. ALEXANDER BIDDLE'S HOUSE.
- photo by Uittase
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town Road, near Landover Road, Bryn
Mawr, and was built during t he 1850's by
Michael Erickson for Richard Montgomery, and known then as "Glenays." After
passing to the Biddle family, a wing was
added in 1925 a nd extensive garden walls
a nd a pool were added in 1928 from designs of Architect George Howe of Mellor,
Me igs ,a nd Howe. The Biddle place is a
large and handsome !talianate Villa, a
fine exampl e of a pre-Civil War Philadelphian's summer house in the country.
It is the oldest place in Radnor Township
whose authorship is kn own. " L eighton
House" has been furnished with fam ily
antiques that have been for the m ost part
bought abr oad.
The Aoademy of Notre Dame de Namur, Sproul and Godfrey Roads, Villanova,
was origin ally known as "Hillsover" a nd
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"Crystal Sp:-ing Farr:l ." The h ouse was
built about 1895 for L in coln Godfrey from
designs by Arc hitec t Theop hilu s Parso n s
Chandler. The large s~o n e man sion was
later boug ht by Clarence Geist, who ren ame d the estate "Launfa!." H e commi ssio ned the great ,Philadelp hia Architect
Paul Cret to rebuild and enl arge th e mansion ex te nsively during 1926-27 , and had
the prominent French plann er J ,a cques
Greber design the surrounding garden s.
T. P. Chand ler was a prom ine n t late-nin eteenth-century Philadelph ia arc hitect who
softe ned the often cold Victorian style of
hi s day with a pleasing picturesqueness.
O[ particular note are th ree o f hi s churches on th e Main Linc-St. Martin's, Radnor; Christ Church, Itha n ; and St. Asa ph's,
Bala, as well as the Ru do lph Ellis E state
on Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr.
" The P eak " on Newtown Road. Radnor, just west of Radnor-Chester Road,
r efl ects decades of lov ing care by Mrs.
Meigs and her late husband, the noted
arc hitec t of the important Philadelphia architectural firm of Mellor, Meigs and
H owe. The h ou se was bo ug ht by Mr.
Meigs' fat he r, D r . A r thur V. Meigs, in
1906 from Barklie Hen ry, who had built
it in 1903. Under Mr. Meigs' guiding hand,
"The Peak" evolved in to a ri chly appointed Georgian h ou se of great bea uty, through
a long series of alterations and add itions.
Of parti cular note are th e "Garde n Room "
wing, with its fanciful "spider web" door,
and th e "Sunset Tower" beyo nd th e box
garden. Adj oining "The Peak" on Newtown
H oad is the hou se built in 1916-17 for John
F. Meigs, II, by Mello r , Meigs and Howe.
11 is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Tolan , J r.
Mr. and Mrs. Ro ber t L. Gedd es' hou se
at 145 Biddulph Road, Radn or, is an outsta ndin g example of a thoroughly modern
hou se, and was bui lt in 1955 a s the archi tect's own res id ence. Architect Robert L.
Geddes is a m eml:;er of th e firm of Geddes,
Brecher, Qualls, and Cunningham, one of
the small group of architects whose work
has focused nation a l a ttenti o n on r ece nt
Philadelphia architecture. Mr. Geddes has
designed a small contemporary h ouse wi t h
a great deal of ope nness, but surrounded
by closed courts of brick, which a lso de fin e
his terracing of the hillside . Mr. and Mrs.
Geddes have furnished t h eir hom e in th e
best m ode rn tas ~e .
RADNOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERS
Mr. Charl es E. Alexander
Mrs. Charles E. Alexander
Mr. Lee N. Alle n
Miss Mary C. Allen
Mr. Bart Anderso n
Miss Mary A. B:li r
Lieut. Gen. Milton G. Baker
Mr. W arre n J. Ba k er Jr.
Mr. Brando n Ba,ringer
Mr. Richard W. D. Barringer
Mrs. Emily B ehr
Mrs. Charles S . Boles
Mrs. Karl H. Bopp
Mrs. Frank J. Bowden Jr.
Miss Ida Pec h in Brooke
Miss Mary H. Brooke
Mr. Theodore B . Brook s
Mrs. Art hu r Emlen Brown
Mrs. George F . Brown
Mr. J. Warren B urket
Mr. Monte G. Ca ni zares
Mrs. Ger trud e Ware Case
Mr. H erbert S. Casey
Mrs. H erber t S. Casey
Mrs. Syd n ey F. Chandley
Mr. M ichele Civitella
Mrs. D eWitt Crowell Clement
Mrs. H enry Clifford
Mr. E. Osborne Coates
Mr. Th omas C. Coc hran
Mrs. Th omas C. Coc h ra n
Mr. Robert J. Colga n
Mrs. R ober t J. Colgan
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Conkl e
Miss Mary A. Conkle
Mrs. Dwi g h t S. Coons
Mr. R obert I. Cumm in
Mrs. Robert I. Cumm in
Miss Elinor Ewi ng Curwen
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