Alex was born in 1960 in North Dakota, the eldest of four sons. He has two daughters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and two granddaughters, Chyann and Madeleine.

At the age of 18, Alex moved from the Midwest to Washington, DC, where he accepted a job with the FBI. His tour of duty included positions in the Intelligence Division, the Director’s Office, and Foreign Liaison operations. In 1982, he left the Federal Government and joined the private sector, becoming personal secretary to the senior female partner of one of Washington’s largest corporate law firms. For the next 15 years, his career continued in the secretarial and administrative areas of the private legal sector, while his education continued through a Nebraska college.

He currently resides in West Virginia, where he occupies himself as a professional historian and genealogist, specializing in New England families in the 17th and 18th Centuries. He has seven published genealogical works to his credit and has also been published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register and The Connecticut Nutmegger. He presently edits and publishes Executive Papers, which focuses on the families of the Presidents and First Ladies of the United States, and is the editor of several other organizational newsletters and magazines.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (2nd Vice President, DC Society; Office Administrator, DC Society)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Camp Chaplain – Lincoln-Cushing Camp #2)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Vice-President General (representing DC; 43rd President of the D.C. Society)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Registrar General; Deputy Governor General; Member, Board of Directors)

• Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars

• National Society Sons of American Colonists (Genealogist General)

• Flagon and Trencher (Keeper of the Tavern Records [CEO])

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• First Families of Ohio

• Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Registrar, DC Society)

• Hereditary. Order of Descendants of the Loyalists & Patriots of the American Revolution (Registrar General; Deputy Governor General)

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Registrar General; Editor, The Lively Experiment)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• Sons of Veterans Reserve

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Columbus Celebration Association (Christopher Columbus)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Presidential Families of America (Assistant Registrar)

• National Gavel Society

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America (Founder of the Order; President; Honorary President for Life (President Emeritus); Postmaster General; Secretary of the Registry)

• Order of the First Families of Connecticut (1631-1662) (Founder of the Order; Genealogist General; Deputy Governor General; Governor General)

• Winthrop Society (Trustee)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Reorganizer of the Order; Genealogist General; Treasurer General; Governor General)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Reorganizer of the Order; Genealogist General; Treasurer General; Governor General)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Reorganizer of the Order; Genealogist General; Treasurer General; Governor General)

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families (Founder of the Society; Pooh-bah of the Registry [EO])

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters - 1607-1861

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen

• Order of First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Founding Member; Founding Director)

• First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791 (Founder of the Order; Organizing Secretary General; Organizing Treasurer General; Governor General; Treasurer General)

• Order of the Second World War

• Noble Society of Celts

• Order of Washington

• Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey

• Swedish Colonial Society

• Founders of the New Haven Colony

• Order of First Families of Maine

• National Society of Saints and Sinners (Founding Member; Founding Officer [Genealogist])

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Founding Member; Founding Officer [Director])

• Miles Merwin Family Association (Association Genealogist)

• Hereditary Society of Teachers (Founding Member; Secretary General)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Founding Member; Founding Officer [Earle General])

• Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of Great Britain (Founder of the Order; Founding President; Founding Genealogist)

• Society of Fossors (Founding Member; Founding Officer [2nd Deputy Coroner]

Other Notes

Alex has been interested in genealogy since the age of seven, and as a teenager he began officially documenting his ancestry. His love of genealogy and history led to his eventual founding of a number of lineage societies, including The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America (2003), the Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (2004), the Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families (2007), the Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791 (2010) and the Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of Great Britain (2014). He has held the presiding office of each of these organizations and continues to be a part of their growth and administration to the present through other offices. Presently, he is the national presiding officer of Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers. He also has been the Governor General of The Hereditary Order of First Families of Massachusetts, Plymouth Hereditary Society and The Order of Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, all of which he assisted in reviving in 2004. He is a Founding Officer or Founding Member of several societies, including the National Society of Saints and Sinners, Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of America, Hereditary Society of Teachers, Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva, and The Order of First Families of New Hampshire. At the state level, he is a former President of the DC Society of the War of 1812, and a former office manager for the DC Society Sons of the American Revolution which awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal in 2004. Finally, Alex also belongs to more than 50 lineage organizations, including the National Gavel Society and several groups focusing on royal descent. Beyond these things, he has led numerous seminars to introduce adults to research and documentation techniques in genealogy. His current work includes finalizing two monographs, one of which is the entire ancestries of the First Ladies of the United States.

Among Alex’s other interests are teaching Partner Dance to adults, professional singing and recording for public charitable functions, playing Bridge, and perhaps his greatest love, Acting, which he now does professionally and for which he has received several awards in West Virginia, including Best Actor. He has had speaking roles in three feature films and has done several local television commercials as well. He also soon will be publishing his complete photographic portfolio – 40 years of his work, including many pieces previously published and which have won awards.

Jacquelyn Dee Gilliam Barnes, a native of Olympia, Washington, is the daughter of Jack and Lois (Deaton) Gilliam. Mrs. Barnes is married to Victor Glee Barnes, Jr. The Barnes' have three children: Joseph Wayne Barnes, Amy Lynn Barnes Dial, and Jack Walker Barnes.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society (President)

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists (Honorary National President)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National President)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Past Vice President General; Charter member of the Natalia Shelikof Chapter, Kodiak, Alaska)

• National Society Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

• Order of First Families of Connecticut

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Charter member of the Denali Chapter, Colonial Dames XVII Century, Alaska)

• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor

• National Society Southern Dames of America

Authorships

• Some of the Descendants of Benjamin and Jane (Trail) West of South Carolina and Benjamin and Susannah Jones of Alabama

• Some Ancestors of Lewis and Alice (Scoville) Deaton of Iowa

• Minutes of the County Court of Chatham Co., North Carolina, 1844; published in The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal.

Other Notes

Mrs. Barnes is involved in many community and avocational activities. She is an avid genealogist and gardening, and enjoys studying history. Mrs. Barnes taught a Genealogy Class at Kodiak Community College, two semesters a year, for fourteen years.

Mrs. Barnes is a member of the National Genealogical Society; the North Carolina Genealogical Society; the Custer County Historical and Genealogical Society; the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.; Historic Willows Schoolhouse Association; the Fremont-Custer County Historical Society. She also holds membership in the Friends of the Library; the San Isabel Land Protection Trust; Friends of KWMV Public Radio Station; and serves on the High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival Committee.

He and her husband attend St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

John Robert Harman, Jr., the eldest son of John Robert Harman, Sr. and Gloria Jan Cason Harman, is a native and lifelong resident of Raleigh, North Carolina.  He received his B.S. degrees in Biological Sciences and Botany from North Carolina State University, where he graduated magna cum laude with minors in Genetics and History. He is a research and development scientist and project manager for a global agricultural biotechnology company. He is married to the former Amanda Thorne and they have one son.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia

• Military Society of the War of 1812

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Aztec Club of 1847 (Registrar)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Registrar)

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Registrar General)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Genealogist General; past Registrar General)

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Registrar General; Genealogist General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Corresponding Secretary General; past Assistant Registrar General)

• Order of the Crown in America (Councilor, North Carolina)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Genealogist)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Council; past Secretary General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina (past Council Member)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (North Carolina Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Secretary/Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (President/Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (past Captain, North Carolina Society) 

• Jamestowne Society (past Council, First North Carolina Company)

• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (past Historian)

• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Council)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety)

• Naval Order of the United States

• Military Order of the Foreign Wars of the United States

• Order of Lafayette

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Society of the Army of the Tennessee

• Swedish Colonial Society

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• National Huguenot Society (North Carolina Society)

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Flagon and Trencher

• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• Order of First Families of Maine

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• International Military Order of the Southern Cross

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1865

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial & Antebellum America

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (past Genealogist General)

• Order of the Norman Conquest (past 3rd Vice President General)

• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

• Saint Andrew’s Society of North Carolina (Board of Directors)

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Member, bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

Other Notes

Mr. Harman is a past director of the State Club in Raleigh and past Secretary of the English-Speaking Union-Research Triangle Branch. He is a member of the City Club in Raleigh, Army and Navy Club, Golden Key International Honour Society, Gamma Beta Phi, Sigma Xi, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Texas Navy Association, Squadron A Association, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Rotary Club of the Capital City, and Clan MacLean Association of the US. He is an Anglican and a member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr. 

RADM Kleber Sanlin "Skid" Masterson, Jr., was born in San Diego, California. He and his wife, Sara Cooper Masterson, have two sons, Thomas Marshall Masterson, M.D. and John Cooper Masterson, Esq. RADM Masterson completed his undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated with a B.S. in General Engineering in 1954. He received his M.S. in Physics from the United State Naval Postgraduate School in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1963. Additionally RADM Masterson was graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School in 1980. A Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy during his career, RADM Masterson is also a retired vice president and partner of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and retired senior vice president of Science Applications International, Inc.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati (President General)

• The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (former President)

Authorships (Partial List)

The Book of Navy Songs, editor, Naval Institute Press, (1954, still in print).

• "Compilation for Two Computers with NELIAC"; Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 32, 607 (1960).

• "The Influence of Diffusion Losses on the Probe Potential in a Dense Plasma," with G. Ecker; 13th Gaseous Electronics Conference, 12-15 October 1962, Monterey, California.

• "Nuclear Matter Calculations and Phenomenological Potentials," with K.A. Brueckner, Physical Review 128, 2267 (1962).

• "Probe Theory in Dense Plasma," with G. Ecker and J. J. McClure; University of California Radiation Laboratory Report 10128, 21 March 1962.

• "Properties of Finite Nuclei," with A. M. Lockett; Physical Review 129, 776 (1963).

• "Uncoupled Nuclear Matter Approximation"; Physical Review 135, 776 (1963)

• "Energy of a Many Particle Normal System," with K. Sawada; Physical Review 133, B595 (1965).

• "Numerical Methods for the Many-Body Theory of Finite Nuclei"; Methods of Computational Physics, Vol. VI, edited by B. Alder, S. Fernbach and M. Rotenberg. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. (1966) "The President and Advisors on Science Policy" in "The President: Defense and Diplomacy, The Miller Center Forums, 1981, Part IV," edited by Kenneth W. Thompson, University of Virginia Press (1981).

Listed In

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012, Marquis Who's Who

• Who's Who in America 2011, Marquis Who's Who

• Who's Who in the World - 27th Edition 2010, Marquis Who's Who

• Dictionary of International Biography - 35th Edition, International Biographical Centre

Other Notes

• Awards: Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3 awards), Navy Commendation Medal (3 awards, 2 with Combat "V")

• Past President, Old Town Civic Association, Alexandria, Virginia

• Past Chairman, Historic Alexandria Resources Commission

Michael Scott Swisher was born in Stillwater, Minnesota. He attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota. 

He has worked as the Director of the First State Bank & Trust since 1999, the Director of Universal Financial Services since 1991 and as the Director of the Valley Agencies, Inc., since 1991. He currently serves as their Chairman.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (past President, MN Society)

• General Society, Sons of the Revolution (past President, MN Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (past President, MN Society)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)

• Sons of Colonial New England (Honorary Governor General)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)

• National Society Sons of American Colonists (Governor General)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Commander)

• National Gavel Society

• General Society of Colonial Wars 

• Order of Founders and Patriots of America

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne

• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Descendants of Templar Knights

• Order of Three Crusades

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• National Guild of St. Margaret

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Order of the House of Wessex

• Order of Alba

• Order of the First Families of Maine

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy

Chivalric

• Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

• Knight Commander, Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni

• Grand Cross, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem

Civic/Charitable

• Chairman, Religion and Society Foundation

• Director, the Lakeview Hospital Foundation

• Secretary, the John Quincy Adams Foundation

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

• Helen Keller Sight Award, Minnesota Lions Eye Bank

• Member, Advisory Council of the Hereditary Society Community of the USA

• Kentucky Colonel

Social and fraternal

• University Club of Saint Paul, Minnesota

• University Club of San Francisco, California

•  The Arts Club of Washington, D.C.

•  St. John’s Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M., Stillwater, Minnesota

•  St. Paul Lodge No. 3, A.F, & A.M., St. Paul, Minnesota

•  Prometheus Lodge No. 851, F. & A.M., California

•  The Morgan Lodge No. 9816, E.C., Malvern, Worcestershire

•  York Rite Bodies, St. Paul & Minneapolis

•  Scottish Rite (32º), Valley of Minneapolis 

•  Stillwater, Minnesota Lions Club

•  Rolls Royce Owners’ Club

•  Morgan Sports Car Club

Listings  

• The Social Register, 1999 – present 

• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2018              

Merry Ann T. Wright was elected as the President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for the term of 2010-2013 at the 119th DAR Continental Congress, the annual convention, in July 2010. Wright has been a DAR member for 43 years with a distinguished service and professional background. She comes into the role after serving the National Society at every level, including being one of the first Presidents General to have also served on the NSDAR professional staff. These positions give her a unique understanding and expertise of management of this multifaceted membership organization.

Wright grew up in New Woodstock, New York, and now resides in Leland, North Carolina with her husband Lawrence F. Wright. She is the mother of two sons and two stepsons and grandmother of four. Mrs. Wright attended Franklin College of Indiana and University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her career has included, among other things, serving in the roles of Development Director, NSDAR; President and CEO of the American Lung Association of Mid-New York; and as a French teacher. In addition to Wright’s extensive DAR service, she is also very active in her church and community, including serving on boards of local charities and being a past member of the Rotary Club and Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Wright was the first NSDAR Director of Development, being recruited by the organization to launch its first development department in 1998. She served in that position for nine years, building the foundation of successful funding initiatives that thrive today. Prior to that, Wright served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of the American Lung Association of Mid-New York in ten upstate New York counties for 13 years after serving for three years as their Development and Public Relations Director.

Wright retired as the NSDAR Director of Development in order to assume the second highest volunteer leadership position in the organization, the NSDAR First Vice President General, from 2007-2010. Her additional extensive national leadership service in the Daughters of the American Revolution include 12 years on the National Board of Management (the governing board of the Society), eight different national chairmanships, and four different national vice chairmanships.

This varied executive experience gave her liaison and oversight over such key committees of the Society as Public Relations and Media, the annual convention of DAR, Development, Long Range Planning, Personnel, Investment, Finance, and Special Projects and Events. She also spent six years on the Technology Advisory Committee, which was a driving force behind the digitization of millions of the National Society’s genealogical records.

She has distinguished service in New York State, including serving as State Regent of New York, as well as many other state offices and chairmanships. She was twice honored as the DAR New York Outstanding Junior and was named one of eight division finalists for National Outstanding Junior of the year. 

Additionally, Mrs. Wright is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, and is listed in the 1979 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary President General)

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots

• National Gavel Society