Titus, a well-known citizen of the place, set the ball rolling by subscribing a hundred dollars towards a fund for this purpose, with twenty-nine dollars additional, to pay the fares of the men to the camp of the Seventeenth Regiment in New York. He was closely followed. May 3d, by Mr. W. P. Abendroth, with a hundred dollars, and, by the 9th of May, the subscriptions amounted to four hundred and forty-four dollars. All this money, and much more afterwards, was raised by a " Union Defense Committee," of which Mr. Titus, an ardent Republican, was chairman, and Mr. John, E. Marshall, an equally uncompromising Democrat, >
THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-65.
of the war stamp, was treasurer. This union of both l)artics, in the same cause, did much to soften the acerbities of political strife in Port Chester all through the war, and makes the personality of this Defense Committee -- the first in the county -- as interesting as that of the banner company of the county, for whose assistance it was originally organized. The names are as follows:
Chairman, James H. Titus ; Secretary, George P. j Titus ; Treasurer, John E. Marshall.
Military Committee : Messrs. S. K. Satterlee, August AViggen, August Van Ammeringe, William L. Bush, George P. Titus and Augustus M. Halsted. Relief Committee : Messrs. William P. Abendroth, Noah Tompkins, John W. Lounsberry, George L. • Cornell, James H. Titus and E. Sones. Finance Committee : Messrs. E. S. Swords, William B. Halsted and John E. Marshall.