The Chairman for the Josiah Fogg Award is Honorary Vice President Dennis Hahn.

Please submit your scoresheets to him by March 15th per the instructions. You may contact Dennis using the form below.

Dennis J. Hahn

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Josiah Fogg Award
By Dennis J. Hahn

A MOSSAR committee was formed in 1988 to develop an award to annually honor a single chapter for excellence in performance and to encourage Compatriot participation. The result was an award first known as the “Best Chapter Award”. The Best Chapter Award Committee was chaired by Compatriot Clarence Mott Pickard, MD of Columbia, Missouri. The goal of the Committee was to initiate the contest effective April 1989 – the Centennial Year of the Missouri Society. The award was approved to be a traveling plaque with the winning chapter’s name engraved on it. A Scoring Sheet was approved by the MOSSAR Board of Directors. The Scoring Sheet was to be sent to all the chapter presidents.

The Scoring Sheet has seven sections, as follows, with appropriate items of participation listed under each section for scoring.

I. Membership
II. Contributions
III. Attendance
IV. Publicity
V. Contests and Awards
VI. Displays
VII. Programs

At the 1990 Annual MOSSAR Convention hosted by the M. Graham Clark and Braxton C. Pollard Chapters in Columbia, the “Best Chapter Award” was renamed the “Josiah Fogg Excellence Award”. The first recipients were two chapters that tied with the same score for 1989 – the Ozark Mountain Chapter and the Harry S Truman Chapter. At the 1991 Annual MOSSAR Convention, the Award was presented to the Ozark Mountain Chapter for 1990.

The Josiah Fogg Award is named for Josiah Fogg, MOSSAR Member No. 001. He was key in the Society forming and he served as the first President of the Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (MOSSAR). He served as President the first two years of the Society, 1889-1891.

In 1889 a circular sent to Missouri Governor David Rowland Francis by William Osborne McDowell of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolution who was working on forming a National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was the beginning of the thought to form a state society in Missouri. The circular set forth the objectives and aims of the proposed society. Governor Francis sent the circular and other papers to Josiah Fogg of St. Louis and stated that he had no objection to have the organization in St. Louis. Josiah Fogg immediately published a notice in the newspaper and met with interested men, and formed a committee. He published a second notice resulting in nearly 50 men in attendance on April 23, 1889. The previously appointed committee reported in favor of organizing and presented a constitution and bylaws. Those in attendance at the meeting voted in favor of organizing the proposed Missouri Society, SAR and adopted the constitution and bylaws. The Missouri Society, SAR, was officially organized on April 23, 1889.

Josiah Fogg was a St. Louis businessman who lived from 1824-1901, and died in St. Louis. He signed his SAR Application as “Retired Hotel Keeper”. He, along with his wife, son, and daughter, are buried at the Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida County, New York. This is the cemetery where Josiah Fogg’s wife’s parents are buried.

In July 1991 the MOSSAR Board of Directors approved adding a Certificate of Excellence for all chapters that participate and submit a Scoring Sheet by the stated deadline. This has become known as a “Certificate of Participation”.

The Award has become known as the “Josiah Fogg Award”. In 2005 the Board of Directors changed the Award to have one award for Large Chapters and a second award for Small Chapters. The first winner of the Small Chapter Josiah Fogg Award was the Fernando de Leyba Chapter for the calendar year 2006.
In April 2020 the MOSSAR Board of Directors changed the Award to one award for Large Chapters, a second award for Small Chapters, and a third award for Mid-Size Chapters.

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