Five O'Clock Club of Philadelphia
The Five O'Clock Club of Philadelphia was a social dining club founded by a group of prominent Philadelphia business and government leaders in 1883. With 35 members, the club had no building of its own, but organized dinners, banquets, and other entertainments at other clubs and hotels in Philadelphia. While the club was created by newspaper men, among its members were local Republican politicians, including Philadelphia Mayor Charles F. Warwick, Philadelphia Mayor and US Congressman J. Hampton Moore, Pennsylvania Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, Pennsylvania Attorney General F. Carroll Brewster, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice William I. Schaffer, US Congressman Robert H. Foerderer, and US Senator Joseph R. Grundy.
Mark Richards Muckle, founding member of the Five O'Clock Club
Fiveoclockiana and Other Poems, by J. Hampton Moore. A souvenir of the 15th anniversary of the Five O'Clock Club. Privately published in Philadelphia in 1898.
In Memoriam: J. Martin Rommel and B. Frank Breneman. A volume published in 1906 by the Five O'Clock Club upon the death of two members.
J. Hampton Moore in 1891. Moore was a two-term Philadelphia Mayor as well as a 50-year member and long-time secretary of the Five O'Clock Club.
Francis Shunk Brown was an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who served one term as Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1915 to 1919 and ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Governor in 1930.
Francis Shunk Brown
