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The Huguenot Society of America 



This Society was organized in 1883. Rev, Alfred V. Wittmeyer, Ph. D., 

 pastor of the French Church in New York, was the founder. Honour- 

 able John Jay was the first president, and Dr. Wittmeyer, secretary. 

 Henry G. Marquand was the second president, and Frederick J. de Peyster 

 the third. The Society has done much to bring the Huguenot descendants 

 into acquaintance and fellowship, has fostered family pride and stimu- 

 lated research, and has created a racial consciousness. Its publications 

 have afforded a medium of historical value. Through its exercises in 

 commemoration of the Bi-Centenary of the Revocation of the Edict of 

 Nantes (held in New York in 1885), and of the Ter-Centenary of the Pro- 

 mulgation of the Edict (held in New York in 1898), attention was widely 

 drawn to the subject of the Huguenots in America. The membership is 

 national, and about four hundred names are on the rolls, including many 

 families prominent in various sections of the United States. 



The present officers are : President, Colonel William Jay ; Vice-Presi- 

 dents, George 8. Bowdoin, Theodore M. Banta, Hon. H. W. Bookstaver ; 

 Henry M. Lester, Esq., New Paltz; Hon. A. T. Clearwater, Kingston ; 

 Nathaniel Thayer, Boston ; Hon. Richard Olney, Boston ; William Ely, 

 Providence ; Prof. Allen Marquand, Princeton ; Col. H. A. Dupont, 

 Delaware ; Herbert Dupuy, Pittsburg ; Col. Richard L. Maury, Rich- 

 mond, Va. ; Rev. Robert Wilson, Charleston, S. C. ; Treasurer, T. J. Oakley 

 Rhinelander ; Secretary, Mrs. James M. Lawton, New York; Chaplain, 

 Rt. Rev. Bishop James H. Darlington. 



The honourary members are : Rev. A. V. Wittmeyer, founder ; Prof. 

 Henry M. Baird, the historian ; A. Glraud Browning, president Hugue- 

 not Society of London ; Meschinet de Richemond, LaRochelle, France ; 

 LeBaron De Schickler, Paris ; LeDocteur Beringuier, Berlin, president 

 German Huguenot Society ; LePasteur N. Weiss, Paris ; Rev. Charles S. 

 Vedder, pastor Huguenot Church of Charleston, S. C. ; James S. Van 

 Courtland. The list of deceased members includes Dr. Thomas 

 Gallaudet, Hon. Elisha Dyer, Prof. Joseph LeConte, Hon. Sir Henry 

 Austen Layard, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, Rev. William Hague, Hon. 

 Abraham S. Hewitt, Col. Johnston L. DePeyster, Prof. D. D. Demarest, 

 Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Dr. Edward Bayard, Dr. Charles W. Baird, the 

 historian, H. LeGrand Cannon, Henry G. Marquand, Bishop Quintard, 

 and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, a lineal descendant of Pierre 

 Baudoin (Bowdoin). The late Mrs. Robert Anderson, wife of General 

 Anderson, was a long time member. 



The Bi-Centenary Commebioration in New York 

 The names of the General Committee of Arrangements indicate the 

 character of the Huguenot representatives of the present time, and show 

 also how fully the original Huguenot settlements were represented. For 

 these reasons the list will be of interest : 



Members representing the Huguenot Society of America — Joseph H. 



