John, I got your email address from Hugh Ferguson regarding charter members. I have clipped the information about the chartering ceremony held in 1986 in Galveston. From the caption below the photos of those participants: Attending Sons of American Revolution ceremony were (from left, seated) Clark P. Wright, secretary-treasurer-David H. Peterson, president; Capt. Gordon R. Robinson vice president; Barry R. Lussier, chaplain; (middle row) Col. James Wilson; Alfred E. Perthuis; James L. Guest, district 7 vice president, Texas Society; William Curry; Col. E.H. Kersting; C.D. McBee. historian; Edwin Pate and Keith Peters; (back) William Whitman. The newspaper article: Sons of Revolution reinstituted on isle GALVESTON - On Dec. 8. 1896. the first chapter of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, was formed in Galveston. Inactive for the past decade, this historic chapter was reinstituted in a ceremony conducted by Lt. Gen. John C. Wright, retired senior vice president. Texas Society, in Galveston recently. A patriotic organization with membership open to men who trace their ancestry in a direct line to soldiers or patriots of the Revolutionary War. Sons of the American Revolution sponsors a scholarship program for Eagle Scouts, a scholarship program for high school students in oration competition, and an ROTC awards program which recognizes outstanding ROTC students with appropriate medals. Newly elected officers of the group include Clark P. Wright, secretary-treasurer; David H. Peterson, president: Capt. Gordon R. Robinson, vice president; and Barry R. Lussier chaplain. As webmaster of the chapter site, within the section on it's history, I have also included a pdf image of the 1896 article recording the meeting at the Tremont Hotel in which the organization first met. I am respectively, Clark P Wright from Nicholstone on the Bayou in Dickinson, Galveston County,