Treasurer :— Mr. Andrew G. Anderson, Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island, III.
The Officers constitute the General Executive Committee.
MARIX, ADOLPH— Rear Admiral U. S. N. Born at Dresden, Germany, 1848. Graduated Naval Academy 1868. Served on various European and Asiatic stations; Judge advocate of "Maine" court of inquiry; Captain of port of Manila, 1901-03; commanded "Scorpion" during Spanish-American war and was promoted for conspicuous bravery ; chairman Lighthouse Board, retired May 10, 1910.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY CONTAINED GERMANS—The
first Germans in New England arrived, as far as we know, with the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. The proof of this fact, as well as the influence of this first small group, is found in one of the most important pamphlets published in connection with New England colonization, "The Planter's Plea" (1630). This tract, published in London shortly after the departure of Winthrop's Puritan fleet, and supposed to have been written by John White, the "patriarch of Dorchester", and the "father of Massachussetts Bay Colony", contains the following statement : "It is not improbable that partly for their sakes, and partly for respect to some Germans that are gone over with them, and more that intend to follow after, even those which otherwise would not much desire innovation, of themselves yet for maintaining of peace and unity (the only solder of a weak, unsettled body) will be won to consent to some variations from the forms and customs of our church." Some of the early New England Germans got there via New Amsterdam ; we find them in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Boston, etc. In 1661 the ship surgeon, Felix Christian Spoeri, of Switzerland, paid a visit to Rhode Island. His narrative of New England (."Amerikanische Reisebeschreibung Nach den Caribes Insseln und Neu Engelland") is one of the few of German pen on early American colonial times still extant — (From "First Germans in North America and the German Element of New Netherland," by Otto Lohr. G. E. Stechert & Co., New York, 1912).
MASSOW, BARON VON—Member of Mosby's Men on the Confederate side during Civil War. According to a statement of Gen. John S. Mosby, Baron von Massow joined his command on coming to this country from Prussia, where he was attached to the general staff; was severely wounded in an engagement with a California regiment in Fairfax County near Washington, D. C, on which occasion he displayed conspicious gallantry. He was then discharged and returned to Germany, serving later in the Austro-Prussian and the Franco-Prussian wars. The last that Col. Mosby heard of him was that he was commanding the Ninth Corps in the German army. (From a statement of G en. Mosby, Feb. 12, 1901).
THE McLEMORE RESOLUTION—During the winter session of 1915-16, (February 22, 1916), Representative McLemore of Texas introduced in the House a resolution the substance of which was expressed in the following words :
Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fourth Congress of the United States do, and it hereby solemnly does, request the President to warn all American citizens, within the borders
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