There are two chapters, one in Lincoln and the other in Omaha. Membership has declined in recent years; however we are seeing new interest among younger members. Among the well-known compatriots in our membership were Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; Samuel Avery, Passed Chancellor of the University of Nebraska; Harold J. Daub Jr., Congressmen, Mayor, Presidential appointee as Chairmen of the Social Security Advisory Board and Sterling Faan Mutz, who became President General of the National Society.
In recent years our National Trustees have been Ralph Stuart Mosely, Henry Miot Cox and Royce Neal Kent. The latter also served as the Vice President General of the North Central District. On March 27, 1961, the late Compatriot Elmer Forrest Estes, then the President of the State Society, wrote to members as follows: "Members join the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution because they have pride in family, because they want to record in some safe place the genealogical line which proves them to be of Revolutionary or pre-Revolutionary ancestry (this amounts, in addition to pride of family, to pride of country). Members seldom join the SAR because of any particular political belief, and, in the strictest sense, we are pledged to be a non-partisan organization. We are proud of the men who are leaders in their church, in their civic clubs, in their political parties, in their community, and in their state and country."
PAST
PRESIDENTS OF THE
Champion S. Chase 1890-91 Walton B. Roberts 1935-36
Thomas I. Creigh 1891-92 Fred Eastman 1936-37
William W. Copeland 1892-93 Dr. Charles E. Ladd 1937-38
Peter L. Perine
1893-94
Aurelius Bowen 1894-95 Vivian W. Boyles 1939-40
Rev. Luther M. Kuhns 1895-96 Charles W. Taylor 1940-41
Lucius D. Richards 1897-98 Dr. C. F. Hollingbeck 1941-42
John R. Webster 1898-99 Harry W. Maginnis 1942-43
Fred W. Vaughan
1899-1900
Horace Ludington 1900-01 Charles W. Hellmers 1944-45
John H. Daniels 1901-02 Frederick W. Wolff 1945-46
L. P. Funkhouser 1902-03 Harold D. LeMar 1946-47
John W. Battin 1903-04 Henry M. Cox 1947-48
John W. Battin 1904-05 Howard W. Chapin 1948-49
Amos Field 1905-06 Merle M. Hale 1949-50
James S. Adams 1907-08 George W. Dunn, Jr. 1951-52
Ralph W. Breckenridge 1908-09 George W. Mecham 1952-53
Ralph W. Breckenridge
1909-10
Pressley J. Barr 1910-11 Louis T. Shirk 1954-55
Pressley J. Barr 1911-12 R. D. Neely 1955-56
Pressley J. Barr 1912-13 Charles W. Hill 1956-57
J. F. Flack 1913-14 Ralph S. Moseley 1957-58
George L. Loomis 1914-15 Lynn G. Barnes 1958-59
Herbert M. Bushnell 1916-17 Robert D. Cresap 1960-61
C. J. Bowley 1917-18 E. Forrest Estes 1961-62
C. E. Adams 1918-19 F. E. Borchers 1962-63
Benjamin F. Bailey 1919-20 Rev. Carl M. Davidson 1963-64
Benjamin F. Bailey 1920-21 Earle Y. Conover 1964-65
Benjamin F. Bailey 1921-22 Harold C. Elliott 1965-66
Benjamin F. Bailey 1922-23 Frank E. Binder 1966-67
Benjamin F. Bailey 1923-24 Clarence R. Hatten 1967-68
N. C. Abbott
1924-25
N. C. Abbott 1925-26 Harold B. Muffly 1969-70
N. C. Abbott 1926-27 Royce W. Kent 1970-71
Nelson B. Updike 1927-28 Doane T. Pickering 1971-72
L. A. Bixby 1928-29 David P. Greer 1972-73
L. A. Bixby 1929-30 Hubert R. Mann 1973-74
Dr. James S. Snipes 1930-31 Wallace G. Quest 1974-75
David C. Hilton 1932-33 Royce N. Kent 1976-77-78
Smith C. Wilson 1933-34 Heasty W. Reesman 1978-79-80
Smith C. Wilson 1934-35 C. Worthington Fowler 1980-81-82
Donald W. Miltner, Sr. 1982-83-84
Wallace G. Quest 1984-85-86
Thomas Creigh, Jr. 1986-87-88
Dayle K. Purcell 1988-89
David H. Mickey 1990-91
Donald C. Classen 1992-93
Thomas R. Masters 1994-95
Richard H. Burdick 1996-97
Byron A. Warlick 1998-99
R. James Denney 2000-01
John Reinert 2002-03
John T. Parsons 2004-05
Merle Rudebusch 2006-07
Robert L. Knott, Jr. 2008-09