The Philadelphia Club - Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CLUB HISTORY

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CLUB HISTORY. mm IN the year 18 30 a number of gentlemen were in the habit of meeting to play cards at Mrs. Rubicam's Coffee House, at the northwest corner of Fifth and Minor Streets. They were joined later by another party of gentlemen who met at Mrs. Arney's Coffee House, at Sixth and Minor Streets, and early in 1834 removed to the old Adelphi Building, on the west side of Fifth Street, below Walnut Cnow No. 212 South Fifth Streetb. At this time they adopted the name of The Adelphi Club, and on March 2ISt, 1834, held their first recorded meeting for the purpose of organizing and adopting a Con- stitution and By-Lawsq At this meeting the following gentlemen, who may fairly be regarded as the Founders of the Philadelphia Club, were present :-- Henry Bohlen, Thomas W. Francis, George Cadwalader, P. L. Laguerenne, Henry Chancellor, james Markoe, William F. Clemson, Henry Pratt McKean, George C. Craig, james McMurtrie, George Follin, Henry Ralston, Thomas Rotch. f47l