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The Sons of the Republic of Texas is a patriotic organization dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the founding families and soldiers of the Republic of Texas. [1] It was established in 1893. [ 1 ]
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
George Pierce Garrison, chair of the University of Texas history department, led the organizational meeting establishing the association on March 2, 1893. [3] The TSHA elected Oran Milo Roberts as its first president. In addition to Roberts, TSHA charter members included Guy M. Bryan, Anna Pennybacker, Bride Neill Taylor, and Dudley G. Wooten. [2]
Sons of the Revolution 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 . [ 6 ]
To date, 17 presidents of the United States have been members of the SAR. President Grant was admitted posthumously in recognition of his being a member of the Sons of Revolutionary Sires, whose members were later admitted to membership in the SAR. Ulysses S. Grant (posthumous) [1] [2] 18th; Rutherford B. Hayes [3] 19th; Benjamin Harrison [3] 23rd
1891 Sons of Veterans rulebook. He held the organization's first meeting on November 12, 1881, in GAR Post 3 meeting room at Pittsburgh's Old City Hall, which was destroyed by fire six months later. He assembled a group of 11 boys who adopted his proposed constitution, rules, regulations, and ritual to form the Sons of Veterans of Pennsylvania ...
A former meeting hall of the Sons of Hermann built in 1912, [5] and subsequently converted to a church, in South Holyoke, Massachusetts The Sons of Hermann were formed by Dr. Philip Merkel , George Heiner, John Blatz, A. Auer, R. Schwendel, W. Kohler, and Philipp Germann on the Lower East Side , [ 2 ] [ 6 ] in response to anti-German sentiment ...
Teisha Matthews (born 26 December 1991), [1] known professionally as TSHA, is a British DJ and record producer, born and raised in Fareham. [1] [2] ...