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16 unusual facts about Society of the Cincinnati


Aedanus Burke

In 1783 he published two pamphlets, An Address to the Freemen of South Carolina (January 1783) and Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati (October 1783), under the pseudonym Cassius where he criticized the nascent Society of the Cincinnati for being an attempt at reestablishing a hereditary nobility in the new republic.

Arthur Curtiss James

In 1924 he was admitted to the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati by virtue of his descent from Lieutenant Thomas Phelps.

Bernard Bailyn

Knopf, 1986; won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society, and distinguished book awards from the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati.

Carter Harrison, Jr.

He was a member of many organizations including the Freemasons, Knights Templar, the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and the Military Order of the World Wars.

Charles D. Kimball

In 1925 he was admitted as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.

Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.

In 1890 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Major Job Sumner.

Elisha Dyer, Jr.

Dyer was admitted as an hereditary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati in 1898 by right of his descent from Revolutionary war veteran Captain William Jones.

Harry F. Weyher Jr.

He became an adjunct associate professor at New York University School of Law and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

John Barker Church

In 1800 Church was admitted as an honorary member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati.

John Franklin Fort

In 1909 Fort was elected an honorary member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati.

John Wingate Thornton

Letter also mentions the information on the New Hampshire chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati, which is in the possession of JWG.

McCrady's Tavern and Long Room

On May 4, 1791, the Charleston branch of the Society of the Cincinnati hosted a banquet for President George Washington in McCrady's Long Room.

Order of Cincinnatus

The Society of the Cincinnati, an organization in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the Revolutionary War officers who fought for American independence

Philip Reed

In 1828, he served as vice president of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati.

William Greene Turner

In 1890 Turner was elected as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.

William Paine Sheffield, Sr.

In 1892 Sheffield was elected as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.


James Henry Darlington

He was a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, Saint Nicholas Society in the City of New York, The Huguenot Society of America, Society of the Cincinnati, National Geographic and other societies, and of the University Club of Brooklyn, New York, and the Westminster Club of England.

John Nicholas Brown II

Brown belonged to many social clubs and hereditary organizations including the Pilgrims Society, the Society of the Cincinnati, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Sons of the American Revolution (joined in 1960 as national member number 85,691), the Newport Reading Room, the Newport Country Club, the Spouting Rock Beach Association, the Fishers Island Club and the highly exclusive Clambake Club.

Stevens Thompson Norvell

He was named after his father’s friend and political ally, Stevens T. Mason, the so-called “Boy Governor of Michigan.” He was the grandson of Lt. Lipscomb Norvell, a Revolutionary War officer and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, buried in the Nashville City Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee.

William Timmons

He is a 33rd degree Freemason, past officer of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is an active member of the Society of the Cincinnati and various state and county historical organizations.