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? ___________________