RENWICK, WILLIAM CROSBY,

of N.Y. City (Son of William Rhinelander Renwick, b. 23rd Sept., 1816; d. 13th May, 1873; m. 20th May, 1840, Eliza S., dau. of William Bedlow Crosby, of N.Y. City, and Harriet Ashton, dau. of the Rev. William Clarkson, D.D., M.D., and Catherine, dau. of Gen. William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence; grandson of James Renwick, founder of the first line of Packets sailing between New York and Liverpool.-Descended from the Renwicks, of Rockburghshire, Scotland).

Born at N.Y. City, 30th May, 1845; Director of

The Summit Bank, N.J., and of Battelle

and Renwick, N.Y. City; m. (1stly) 19th June, 1872, Harriette McDouall; m. (2ndly) 17th July, 1879, Gertrude Camilla Sears.

Arms-Gules, two thistles in chief, in base a lion rampant betw. a chevron argent. Crest-An arm in armour embowed holding a scimitar.

Motto-Contide rete acens.

Residences-New York City; Summit, N.J.

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THISTLER, GARLAND NELSON, MAJOR U.S. ARMY, of Fort Wadsworth, S.I., N.Y., (Son of Brevet-Brigadier-General Joseph Nelson Garland Whistler, U.S.A.; son of Major John Whistler, a soldier in the British Army which surrendered at Saratoga under Burgoyne; after the Revolutionary War he remained in America and served, with great distinction, in the U.S. Army; he m. Anna, dau. of Sir Edward Bishop).

Born at Schenectady, N.Y., 10th Aug., 1847; Major Artillery Corps U.S. Army; m. Ellen Wharton, daughter of Dr. Stirling B. Everitt.

Arms-Gules, a bend lozengy (a bend of five mascles borne by the family in America) between two lions

passant argent.

Crest-A harp or, stringed sable.

Motto-Honor et fidelitas.

Residence-Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, N.Y.

Clubs-Army and Navy (N.Y. City), Artillery (Fort Munroe, Va.).

Societies-Loyal Legion, Spanish-American War, War of 1812, Colonial Wars,

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ALL, EDWIN CHAMBERLAYNE, B.S., E.E., LIEUT. VIRGINIA
POLYTECHNIC CORPS,

of Blacksburg, Va. (Son of David Moore Hall, of
"Willow Lodge," Richmond, Va., b. 29th Oct.,
1849; m. 9th Jan., 1879, Sarah Madison Cham-
berlayne, great-granddaughter of Edward Pye
Chamberlayne, of "Brook Hill," New Kent Co.,
Va., b. 25th Oct., 1851.-Descended from Parry Hall,
of Philadelphia, Pa., and Elizabeth Dracen, his
wife, and a lineal descendant of the Halls of Brad-
ford, Co. Wilts, Eng. Also eight in descent from
Rt. Hon. Thomas West, third Baron de la Warr,
Governor and Captain General of Virginia, 1609;
seventh in descent from Colonel the Hon. William
Byrd (2nd), of "Westover," Va., 1674-1744, Pres. of
King's Council of Virginia; seventh in descent from
Hon. John Moore, 1658-1733, His Majesty's Collector of Customs of
Philadelphia, Pa., and Lady Rebekah Axtell, his wife [dau. of the
Landgrave Daniel Axtell, hereditary Peer of Province of Carolina under
dominion of the Lords, and granddaughter of Colonel Daniel Axtell,
Commander of the Guard of High Court of Justice at trial of Charles I.];
sixth in descent from Captain William Dandridge, R.N., and of "Elsing
Green," K. Wm. Co., Va., d. 1743; fifth in descent from George Glent-
worth, M.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1735-1792; Medical Director Hospital
Dept. of the South during the American Revolution; fourth in descent
from Rt. Rev. Richard Channing Moore, M.A., M.D., D.D., 1762-1841,
Second Bishop of Virginia [grandson of Colonel John Moore, 1686-1749,
Member of His Majesty's Council of Province of New York, brother of
Col. the Hon. William Moore, of Moore Hall, Penna., and eldest son of
Hon. John Moore, as above]; third in descent from Hon. Robert Gomayne
Scott, of Richmond, Va., U.S. Minister to Brazil, and Sarah Madison, his
wife [a dau. of Rt. Rev. James Madison, M.A., Ph.D., D.D., cousin of
Hon. James Madison, fourth Pres. of the United States, 1809-1817, Pres.
of the Royal College of William and Mary, and first Bishop of Virginia]).

Born at Richmond, Va., 26th Sept., 1880.

Arms-Quarterly, 1st sable, three poleaxes argent; 2nd argent, three bugle horns, stringed or; 3rd gules, three wolves' heads sable: 4th or, a chevron sable between three lions rampant gules.

Crest--A lion rampant gules.

Motto-Esse quam videri.

Residence-Willow Lodge," Richmond, Va.

Society--The Maury.

BROWNE, WILLIAM HAND, M.D.,

of Sherwood, Baltimore Co., Md. (Only son of William Browne, of Baltimore, b. 21st Jan., 1776; d. 2nd Oct., 1829; m. 2nd Jan., 1828, Patience, b. 19th Oct., 1787, in Warwickshire, d. 4th July, 1860, dau. of Moses Hand, and Patience Barber, of Warwickshire, Eng.-Descended from John Browne, Planter, of Talbot Co., Md., d. 1698). Born at Baltimore, Md., 31st Dec., 1828; Prof. in Johns Hopkins University; Graduated at Univ. of Maryland, M.D., 1850; m. 3rd June, 1863, Mary Catherine, daughter of Thomas Owings, M.D., of Baltimore, and Mary Jennings, daughter of Samuel Kennedy Jennings, M.D.,

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grandson of Rev. Saml. Kennedy, brother of Thomas, 9th Earl of Cassilis.

Issue.

(i.) ARTHUR LEE, b. 10th May, 1867 m. Harriette Seemuller Donaldson. (ii.) WILLIAM HAND, b. 21st July, 1868 m. Linda Whitaker.

(iii) SIDNEY HAND, b. 24th March, 1870; m. Emily Tennant Latrobe. (i.) VIOLET HAND, m. Charles Worthington Hoff.

(ii.) Katherine HAND, m. Benjamin Chew Howard. (iii.) LUCY HAND. Arms-Gules, a chevron between three fleur-de-lis or.

Crest-A demi-lion rampant, chained.

Residence-Sherwood, Baltimore Co., Maryland.

Societies-Maryland Historical, Sons of the American Revolution.

HIGGINSON, JAMES POTTER,

of New York City (Eldest son of Charles Henry Higginson, of Trenton, N.J., b. 4th Jan., 1830; d. 7th April, 1869; m. 10th Sept., 1857, Maria Stockton, b. 18th Nov., 1838; d. 27th Dec., 1897, dau. of James Potter, of Savannah, Ga., and Princeton, N.J.-Descended from Charles Henry Higginson, son of Henry Theophilus Higginson, of Cornelia House, Co. Down, Ireland, whose ancestor, Colonel Higginson, went to Ireland with King William III., 1699, fought at the battle of the Boyne).

Born at Trenton, N.J., 4th April, 1862; m. 22nd Oct., 1890, Mary Diana, daughter of William Talbot Walke, of Norfolk, Virginia.

Arms-Sable, three towers in fesse argent, between six trefoils slipped or.
Crest-Out of a tower proper a demi-griffin segreant vert, armed and beaked or.
Motto-Malo mori quam fœdari.

Residence-46 West 9th Street, New York City.

Club-Calumet,

BELLAS, HUGH EDWIN,

of Philadelphia, Pa. (Only son of Hugh Bellas, of "Cronbannagh," Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, and of" Rockleigh," Port Rush, Co. Antrim, Ireland, b. 3rd May, 1843; m. 12th Dec., 1869, Janet, b. 12th Feb., 1844, dau. of Surgeon Alexander Neill, R.N., by Rebecca Hyndman, his wife, of Londonderry.-Descended from Hugh Bellas, Esq., of Co. Antrim, 1717-89, of the noble family Bellasis of Bellasis [anciently written Bellasys, Belasise and Belasyse], of Co. Pal., Durham, in eleventh century, and afterwards of Cos. York and Westmorland, Eng., and of Cos. Antrim and Londonderry, Ireland [the latter temp. "Ulster Plantation," James I.],

created Barons Bellasis and Barons, Viscounts and Earls Fauconberg, temp. Charles I.).

Born in London, England, 17th Aug., 1875; Graduated with degree of
LL.B., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1902.

Arms Argent, a chevron gules betw. two fleur-de-lis and an eagle in base azure.
Crest-A stag's head erased per fesse dancette argent and gules, holding in the
mouth a fleur-de-lis.
Motto-Bonne et belle assez.

Residences Philadelphia, Pa.; (Family seat) "Bellasis," Co. Londonderry,

Ireland.

EARLE, HENRY MONTAGUE,

of New York City (Eldest son of William Edward Earle, of Greenville, S.C.; Captain and Major of Artillery, War of the Seccession; Assistant U.S. Attorney of S.C., b. 31st October, 1841; d. 13th Aug., 1894; m. Elizabeth Price, d. 8th June, 1878.--Descended from John Earle, a Royalist, who came from Somersetshire, Eng., to Northumberland Co., Virginia, 1649; d. 1697. Received patents for 1,700 acres of land, for transporting thirty-four persons into the Colony. He was related to Sir Walter Earle, Knt., Member of the Board of Managers of the Virginia Company, London).

Born in Greenville Co., S.C., 28th March, 1870;

Graduated at University of Georgetown L.B., 1893; m. 19th April, 1897, Mary Louise, daughter of Elmore Frank Coe, of N.Y. City.

Arms-Gules, three escallops within a bordure engrailed argent.

Crest-A lion's head erased or, transpierced by a broken spear.

Motto Vulneritus non victus.

Residence-239 Madison Avenue, New York City.

Clubs--City, Lawyers, Country, of New York; Metropolitan, of Washington.

TEELE, HIRAM ROSWELL,

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of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Son of Sanford Steele, of Stanstead, Canada, Commissioner of Education, Canada, b. 1804; d. 1886; m. 1835, Mary, b. 1847; d. 1897, dau. of Benjamin Hinman, of Derby, Vt., and Lydia Dean, of Grafton, N.H.-Descended from George Steele, came from Essex, Eng., 1630, d. at Hartford, Conn., 1663; and from Sergeant Edward Hinman, d. at Stratford, Conn., 1683).

Born at Stanstead, Canada, 10th July, 1842; Capt.,
Co. K., 10th Vt. Vol. Infty., 1862-4; Capt. in
Subsistence Dept., U.S. Vols., 1864-6; Judge
Superior Court, New Orleans, La.; Asst. Atty.-

Gen. La.; Dist. Atty. La.; Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Atty.-Gen. unexpired term, La.; m. 19th Sept., 1877, Mary E., daughter of Martin R. Porter.

(i.) PORTER, b. 12th Dec., 1880.

Jssue.

(ii.) ROSWELL HIRAM, b. 2nd Oct., 1884.

(iii.) CHARLES MESSINGER, b. 27th Dec., 1887.

(iv.) HENRY SANFORD, b. 18th Jan., 1890.

(i.) BETTY HINMAN.

Arms Argent, a bend chequy sable and ermine between two lions' heads erased

gules; a chief azure.

Crest-Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-ostrich with wings endorsed or.

Residences-242 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York; "Longwood," Oak Tree Middlesex Co., N.J.

Clubs-Hamilton, Lawyers, Union League.

Societies-Loyal Legion, Sons of American Revolution.

AIT, HORATIO LOOMIS,

WAIT

of Chicago, Ill. (Only son of Joseph Wait, of N.Y. City, and Harriet Heileman, dau. of Barnabas Whitney, of Boston, Mass.-Descended from Richard Wait, b. in England, 1608, came to America, received grants of land at Watertown, Mass.).

Born at N.Y. City, 8th Aug., 1836; served as Lieut.

Commander Paymaster, U.S.N., 1862-70; Master in Chancery, Circuit
Court of Cook Co., Ill., since 1876; m. 7th May, 1860, Chara Conant,
daughter of James Long, Member of City Council, Chicago, Ill., and
Cerusa Caroline, daughter of John Conant, of Brandon, Vt.

Issue.

(i.) JAMES JOSEPH, m. Ada Waldron.

(ii.) HENRY HEILEMAN

Arms Argent, a chevron betw. three bugle horns gules stringed sable garnished or

Clubs-Literary, Church

Residence-4919 Madison Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Societies-Loyal Legion, Naval Order of the U.S., Colonial Wars, Sons of
American Revolution, Farragut Naval Veteran Association.