CLUBS: Union Beat Club Union Boat Club Page 1 of 1 UNION BOAT CLUB ON THE CHA BOSTON, Union Boat Club was founded in 1851 and is the longest continuc MEMBERS' SITE rowing club in Boston. Union today features a squash and fitness located on Chestnut Street in Beacon Hill, Boston along with the I on the Esplanade of the Charles River. About UBC The camaraderie forged by friendships and athletics was a corne club members, and is a tradition continued by the current 700 me Union Boat Club. Rowing Squash qerqwerq Directions to UBC Home UBC Boathouse, ~1870 Union Boat Club 144 Chestnut Boston http://www.unionboatclub.org/about.html 7/8/2006 Bill 11st SIXTY YEARS OF THE UNION BOAT CLUB BY THE CLUB HISTORIAN UBC A LIST OF MEMBERS AND THE MORE IMPORTANT RACES OF THE CLUB FROM 1851 TO 1911 COMPILED BY THE SECRETARY Tan,1887 BOSTON PRINTED FOR THE UNION BOAT CLUB 1913 294 THE UNION BOAT CLUB APPENDIX C 295 PRESENT MEMBERS ACTIVE MEMBERS OFFICERS The form in which the names of members appear is as of the time of election. In some instances suffixes, as "Jr." or "2d," were President later dropped. HUGH CABOT The figures at the left of the names indicate the places where the members stand on the membership list. In the cases of members who were elected, resigned and were re- Vice-President elected, the date of the first election is the one given. HUGH BANCROFT A Captain 136 Abbott, Walter Aug. 12, 1889 JOHN B. HAWES 2D. 76 Adams, Harry F. July 16, 1889 367 Adams, Henry 2d April 14, 1904 288 Adams, Ivers Shepard Nov. 3, 1909 First Lieutenant 276 Adams, Zabdiel B. Oct. 5, 1909 56 Allen, Gardner W. May 6, 1886 GEORGE S. DERBY 270 Allen, Herbert S. July 27, 1909 88 Amory, William 2d Mar. 1, 1892 Second Lieutenant 4 Appleton, William Jr. June 3, 1868 104 Ayer, Charles F. Feb. 14, 1895 ELIOT FARLEY 357 Ayer, Frederick Jr. Mar. 30, 1910 175 Ayer, James B. Jr. April 14, 1904 Third Lieutenant 176 Ayer, Nathaniel F. April 14, 1904 ROMNEY SPRING B Treasurer 373 Bacon, Frederick C. Feb. 21, 1911 46 Bacon, Robert Nov. 1, 1882 RALPH MAY 336 Bacon, Robert Low Feb. 10, 1910 254 Baldwin, Thomas Tileston July 14, 1909 Secretary 386 Baldwin, Thomas Tileston Jr. May 2, 1911 167 Bancroft, Guy Mar. 9, 1903 ARTHUR DRINKWATER 337 Barnes, Allan F. Feb. 10, 1910 159 Barney, J. Dellinger April 16, 1902 Directors 211 Bazeley, William A. L. June 26, 1897 GEORGE B. MAGRATH 358 Beale, Arthur M. Mar. 30, 1910 ROBERT P. BLAKE 146 Beals, Edward M. May 5, 1900 EARNEST E. SMITH 338 Beals, George Charles Feb. 10, 1910 242 Bellows, Robert P. April 16, 1909 Prefer copies via Ariel to 63 138 Henry Parkman 298 THE UNION BOAT CLUB APPENDIX C 299 359 Dexter, G. Stillman Mar. 30, 1910 246 Gardiner, R. H. Jr. April 16, 1909 78 Dorr, George B. Aug. 12, 1889 127 Garfield, Irvin McDowell Sept. 7, 1897 55 Downes, Frederick o. April 26, 1886 147 Gay, Warren F. May 5, 1900 190 Drinkwater, Arthur April 10, 1905 191 George, E. Howard April 10, 1905 369 Gere, Ward N June 15, 1910 E 389 Gibbs, Frank E. Jr. May 2, 1911 368 Gill, Austin Goddard May 10, 1910 271 Eastman, Theodore J. July 27, 1909 281 Goodale, Francis G. Oct. 5, 1909 277 Edmunds, Horton Oct. 5, 1909 192 Gordon, Donald April 10, 1905 87 Ellis, Benjamin P. June 24, 1891 112 Graves, William H. Mar. 26, 1896 14 Ellis, Edward C. June 2, 1873 160 Gray, Edward Jr. April 16, 1902 153 Ellis, John H. April 9, 1901 262 Gray, Ralph Weld July 14, 1909 310 Emerson, G. Dana Dec. 16, 1909 115 Greeley, Norman F. May 28, 1896 293 Emmons, Arthur Brewster 2d Nov. 8, 1909 232 Greene, Edwin F. Mar. 25, 1908 244 Endicott, Thorndike H. April 16, 1909 312 Greene, Henry C. Dec. 16, 1909 245 Ernst, Roger April 16, 1909 220 Greenough, James J. April 23, 1907 341 Eshleman, Frank M. Feb. 10, 1910 263 Greenough, Robert B. July 15, 1909 1 Estabrook, George W. April 5, 1865 294 Greenslet, Ferris Nov. 3, 1909 193 Gregg, Donald April 10, 1905 F 92 Guild, Charles E. Jr. Nov. 2, 1893 57 Guild, Courtenay Sept. 28, 1886 212 Fabyan, Marshall April 10, 1907 278 Farley, Eliot Oct. 5, 1909 H 184 Farley, John Wells Dec. 6, 1904 309 Fenger, Fred A. Dec. 16, 1909 378 Hale, Albert April 21, 1911 42 Fenno, J. Brooks Jr. Dec. 20, 1881 272 Hale, Matthew July 27, 1909 388 Field, Whitcomb May 2, 1911 26 Hall, William S. July 2, 1877 342 Fish, Erland Frederick Feb. 10, 1910 204 Hallett, Henry S. May 3, 1895 121 Fisher, Richard Arnold Mar. 4, 1897 70 Hammond, Samuel Jr. May 10, 1888 120 Fiske, Charles H. Jr. Dec. 28, 1896 179 Harding, Charles L. April 14, 1904 360 Fitz, Reginald Mar. 30, 1910 313 Hardon, J. Bradford Dec. 16, 1909 279 Forbes, Henry S. Oct. 5, 1909 74 Hardy, Alpheus S. April 24, 1889 351 Foster, Frederick Mar. 15, 1910 319 Hartwell, Charles A. Dec. 30, 1909 261 Fox, Thomas A. July 14, 1909 247 Hartwell, John B. April 16, 1909 241 French, Hollis Aug. 4, 1908 52 Haskell, George E. April 27, 1885 352 Frost, Walter A. Mar. 15, 1910 154 Hawes, John B. 2d April 9, 1901 280 Frothingham, Francis E. Oct. 5, 1909 375 Henderson, Edward V. April 14, 1904 96 Henderson, Walter P. April 2, 1894 G 113 Herrick, Robert F. Nov. 6, 1891 133 Higginson, Francis L. Jr. Sept. 12, 1898 178 Galacar, Frederic R. April 14, 1904 66 Hill, Arthur D. Sept. 22, 1887 231 Gallaudet, Herbert Draper Mar. 25, 1908 296 Hill, Edward B. Nov. 3, 1909 99 Gardiner, J. Pennington June 4, 1894 273 Hobbs, Conrad July 27, 1909 311 Gardiner, Robert H. Dec. 16, 1909 139 Homans, John June 22, 1899 I THE UNION BOAT CLUB I THE BEGINNING THE Union Boat Club, like so many other good things of this world, gave in the beginning little promise of its future importance. It came mod- estly into existence in the spring of 1851, when Mr. Daniel Webster Rogers and a few other gentlemen interested in rowing on the Charles River conceived the idea that they might increase their enjoyment of the sport by forming a club. Mr. Rogers, ac- cordingly, prepared and circulated a paper with the simple statement on it: ' We, whose names are hereto annexed, for the purpose of mutual benefit and enjoyment, enter into the following agreement for the for- mation of a boat club. ' First, that we will pay our respective shares of a sum necessary for the purchase of a boat. ' Second, that in regard to other matters re- lating to said club we will individually act as a majority shall determine.' After enough signatures had been affixed to war- rant purchasing a boat, Mr. Rogers called the 1