The first president-general of the Society was Richard Worsam Meade, 3d,
rear-admiral, U. S. N. (retired). He was born in New York city, Oct. 9,
1837, at the home of his maternal grandfather, Judge Henry Meigs, which
family has given many officers to the United States navy. He was the
oldest son of the late Capt. Richard Worsam Meade, 2d, U. S. N., and was
a nephew of the late Gen. George Gordon Meade, who for two years
commanded the Army of the Potomac. President-General Meade died in
Washington, D. C., May 4, 1897. His obsequies took place in that city.
The Society contributed a floral harp. Among the mourners there were
present from the Society Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate
Commerce Commission; Paymaster John R. Carmody, U. S. N.; J. D.
O’Connell of the U. S. Treasury Department, and Capt. John M. Tobin, all
of Washington, D. C.