QUESTIONS
If you correctly answer these 24 questions, you will most assuredly know more about this prominent family than you now know. The stem for all of these questions begins with: What member of the McLane family:
No. 1. Married the son of Alexander Hamilton? ____________________
No. 2. Was a friend and diplomatic colleague of Washington Irving? ____________________
No. 3. Was elected president of the Delaware Abolitionist Society? ____________________
No. 4. Became president of the Wells Fargo Bank? ____________________
No. 5. Went into the Fort at Stony Point New York to gather vital military intelligence? ____________________
No. 6. Was killed in battle while fighting with General Custer? ____________________
No. 7. Served as the first Federal Marshal of the Delaware District? ________________
No. 8. Warned General Washington at Whitemarsh of an impending British attack? ____________________
No. 9. Was elected Governor of Maryland? ____________________
No. 10. Was married to Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston? ____________________
No. 11. Was called on to do psychiatric examinations of the men who assassinated President William McKinley and President James A. Garfield? ____________________
No. 12. Alerted the Marquis de Lafayette of a British force of 5000 led by General Howe at Barren Hill? ____________________
No. 13. Served as Collector of the Port of Wilmington for 32 years? ____________________
No. 14. Served as a member of President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet? ____________________
No. 15. Was one of the signers of Delaware’s Ratification Document making Delaware the “The First State?” ____________________
No. 16. Was elected Mayor of the City of Baltimore? ____________________
No. 17. Was commissioned to deliver the stolen British naval signal codes to the French Admiral the Count de Grasse? ____________________
No. 18. Became the President of the B & O Railroad? ____________________
No. 19. Served as Speaker of the Delaware House of Assembly? ____________________
No. 20. Served in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate? ____________________
No. 21. Was referred to by author Fred Cook as “The Unknown Hero of the Revolution?”_____________
No. 22. Was referred to by a writer as “Washington’s Favorite Cavalryman?” ____________
No. 23. Was referred to by a writer as “Delaware’s Daredevil?” __________________
No. 24. Was such a thorn in the side of the British that a one thousand pound price (bounty) was placed on his head? ___________________