Passed away at Elmore, Minn., May 12, 1927, Joseph E. Wing, of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Wing was a subscriber to The Owl. We regret not having more of the detail for the Cousins. Mr. Wing was at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Krosch, Elmore, Minn., when the end came. He also leaves another daughter, Mrs. Elmer D. Kelley, whose maiden name was Ruth Wing.

This edition was compiled by Emma Wing Thompson, Frederick A. Wing,

Emma Huson Landon and Caroline E. Wing Parker. The next number will be issued under the supervision of the new board of management. You will also hear from our new editor, Daniel D. Lovelace, Danbury, Conn. The secretary_regrets her inability to serve the family more promptly but it has not been possible for her to do any differently. We also hope to be on schedule time with the Owl from this time on.

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Address all correspondence concerning it to the editor, Daniel D. Lovelace, Danbury, Conn.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO THE WINGS

Although I realize this number of the Owl will be delayed in publication so that a Christmas message will be delayed, I wish to extend to all the members of the Wing Family the greetings of the season from the Carlisle Wings. At least the hope that you may all have a happy year, will not be untimely. For the Family organization I feel confident. The selection of an editor of the Owl and an able group of assistants, the of assistants, the generous offer of one of the directors to continue the genealogical work, and the hearty spirit of cooperation that characterizes the membership give grounds for great expectations. And so we start the new year with joy and thankfulness. The activity of some of the groups within the national organization during the past year has been gratifying. The Wings in the far northwest are making a strong organization that that compares well with their kinsmen in the State of

Officers:

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WING FAMILY OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED President, PROF. HERBERT WING, JR., Carlisle, Penn. 1st Vice President, RUFUS L. SISSON, Potsdam, N. Y. 2nd Vice President, DR. EMMA WING THOMPSON Seattle, Washington

Secretary, MRS. CAROLINE E. WING PARKER, Lund's
Cor. Station, New Bedford, Mass.
Treasurer, ALVIN P. WING, East Sandwich, Mass.
Historian, EMMA WING CHAMBERLAIN, Brunswick,

Me. Directors:

Geo. Homer Wing, Springfield, Mass.
Dr. Laura Hawkins, Washington, D. C.
Geo. D. Wing, Duluth, Minn.
Frederick A. Wing, Seattle, Wash.
Chas. F. Wing, Jr., New Bedford, Mass.
Frank E. Wing, Boston, Mass.

Mrs. Blanche L. Weston, Portland, Me.
Daniel V. Raymond, Bronx, N. Y.
Geo. Wing Sisson, Potsdam, N. Y.
Honorary Directors for Life

Wilson D. Wing, Bangor, Me.
Asahel R. Wing, Fort Edward, N. Y.
Jefferson T. Wing, Detroit, Mich.
Asa S. Wing, Philadelphia, Pa.

Maine. The field is open for a similar band to form in the middle west, where so much enthusiasm was shown at the Chicago reunion.

The fact that there was a general feeling at the reunion in Sandwich that we should resume our practice of holding reunions in alternate years only, gives a special opportunity to the new regional officers to show their family pride and start a grand revival of spirit. The Maine Wings extended to the National Family an invitation to attend the annual meeting in 1928 in Philips, Maine. Whether it will be feasible to do so this year, is not clear at this time; but we all are grateful to the Maine kinsmen for the invitation and hope we may accept at some future time if we do not find is possible to do so this year. What do the members of the Family think about the idea, of having a reunion in Maine this coming summer? The question must be met by the officers and directors. The president will be specially glad to receive expres

sions of opinion on this or other subjects of interest to the family.

Another proposal of merit is the forming of a group of guarantors to secure the Old Fort House or some similar place of family historical associa tions for the preservation of Wing relics and the fostering of Wing traditions. Is the suggestion feasible? Ought the memorial many have desired take this form or the form of endowed scholarships and prizes for essays on the early history of the Family? If the latter suggestion were favored, how should they be administered? Some suggestions for essay subjects are:

How to make the "Owl" best serve the purpose of keeping members of the Wing Family of America informed as to matters of general interest is the problem that will continue to confront those responsible for its publication.

First and foremost it must be the medium for publishing the genealogica! record of the Wing family. Much of this record has been printed in past issues of the Owl, much more materia: awaits preparation for publication. It is a considerable task to get this material in shape, and Mr. Daniel V. Raymond has consented to undertake the labor and will, we expect, have a further por

Wings in Colonial Officialdom.
Literary Activities of the Wings.
Wings Whalers and Other Seamen.
Deborah Wing's Four Homes.
Lines of Wing Migration.

A final problem of importance is the question, how far down should the genealogy in the Owl be carried. If the material is to be gathered, on the lives of the ninth and tenth generations from the Sandwich brothers, now is the time to collect it and send it to the Owl for transmission to the genealogists. What is the sentiment regarding this question? I think there might well be also collected information from time to time on the Wings who have lost their identity through marriage. Such studies as Captain Franklyn Howland made on the Wing-Howland connections in the earlier Owls would be of value not only to the Family proper but to other groups interested in family genealogy. Personally I am of the belief that so far as is feasible the genealogical material should be gathered and published until it is up to date. As the new material comes in, the situation in earlier times becomes clearer, and the desirability of thoroughgoing revision of the family history before its publication into a book seems more evident. It would be hard to find a field of activity that promises such rich rewards in historical investigation as this.

HERBERT WING, JR., President of Wing Family of America, Incorporated.

The Owl properly desires to make note of births, marriages and deaths, information of which is of general interest to its readers.

To further make our publication of interest to all it is suggested that members of the family contribute information concerning the doings of the state or local Wing groups, where such exist. That outstanding outstanding achievements of Wings, past and present, are likely to be of interest to many. The Colonial times which saw the beginnings of Wing Family in America will ever be our most venerated source of Wing accomplishment; but every stage of our country's development, of the march of civilization in the early days, and of progress in all ways down to the present time, has many stories to tell, in which Wings will be found to have taken important places.

What did your Wing forbears do in the Mexican War, in the days of '49, in the opening up of the west and northwest? What did Wings have to do with trade, commerce, invention, the arts? Let us hear from those who know.

Some folks are inclined to sneer at those who are interested in family trees, who pride themselves upon being able to trace back two or three hundred, five hundred years, the line from which they are sprung. If this interest in our family antecedents is prompted only by the feeling that the mere ability to fit link into link of the chain that ties us to the past gives us distinction or cause for snobbish pride then those who sneer are