Notable Members and Officers
- George F. Edmunds, founding member
- John Fiske, founding member
- Frank B. Gary
- Madison Grant, vice president
- Prescott Farnsworth Hall, executive secretary
- Joseph Lee, vice president
- Robert Treat Paine, founding member
- James H. Patten, secretary in Washington, D.C.
- Nathaniel Shaler, founding member
- Francis Amasa Walker, vice president
- Robert DeCourcy Ward, founder
- Owen Wister
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