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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Naval order of the United States, (search)
anization consisting of a general commandery and commanderies in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Illinois, and in the District of Columbia. The first commandery was founded at Boston, Mass., July 4, 1890, and the general commandery June 19, 1893. The membership clause of the constitution provides for two classes of members: First, veteran officers and their male descendants; second, enlisted men who have received the United States naval medal of honor for bravery in the face of the enemy. The officers of the general commandery in 1900 were: General-Commander, Rear-Admiral John G. Walker; Vice-General-Commanders, Admiral George Dewey, Rear-Admiral George E. Belknap, Col. John Biddle Porter; General-Recorder, Lieut.-Com. Leonard Chenery; Assistant General-Recorder, Rodney Macdonough; General-Treasurer, Jarvis B. Edson; General-Registrar, J. V. P. Turner; General-Historian, Capt. R. S. Collum; General-Chaplain, Rev. George Williamson Smith, D. D. naval ships
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York public Library, the (search)
e contained in the open reference collection of about 5,000 volumes, which may be consulted freely. No book may be taken from the building. The Lenox Building contains numerous special collections, such as those of rare or curious editions, manuscripts, prints, maps, genealogies, etc., and also a considerable number of valuable works of art, including the collection of modern paintings made by Robert L. Stuart and the Lenox collection of works by Copley, Landseer, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Turner, Wilkie, etc. Permission to copy these paintings may be obtained on application. The building includes two large readingrooms on the ground floor and smaller ones on the upper floors, besides stackrooms and exhibition galleries. To obtain books for home use, written application, giving the name of a responsible guarantor, must be made at one of the libraries of the circulation department, as noted above. Two books at a time (only one of fiction) may be taken out and kept two weeks, exce