James De Wolf Perry
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James DeWolf Perry was an American Episcopal clergyman and prelate. He was the 7th Bishop of Rhode Island and the 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Bishop Perry as a young man
The Rev. James DeWolf Perry II, father of Bishop Perry
Society of the Cincinnati
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The Society of the Cincinnati is a fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War that saw the creation of the United States. Membership is largely restric
James De Wolf Perry
…on January 6, 1911, by Bishops Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Leigh R. Brewer, and William Lawrence. Perry was admitted as a member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati in 1915 and became president of the Society in 1921. During World War I, he served as chief of Red Cross chaplains in France from 1918 to 1919…
General George Washington, first President General of the Society of the Cincinnati
Cincinnatus Abandons the Plow to Dictate Laws to Rome, by Juan Antonio Ribera (Museo del Prado).
The Verplanck House (present-day Mount Gulian), Fishkill, New York, Steuben's headquarters, where the Society was instituted May 13, 1783.
Insignia of the Society, c. 1783.