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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rella, post: 1135358, member: 29931&quot;]Well, whatever the problem, I only have the option to do a quick reply- and I don&#039;t think that I can upload a picture through that. The paragraph reads: &quot;... He was appointed a member of the Assay Commission of the United States Mint during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson and had served in that capacity until the time of his death (1942). About three years ago he was elected chairman of the Comission.&quot; And here is text from the Proceedings of the 1919 Assay Commission proceedings: </p><p style="text-align: center">ADJOURNMENT.</p><p>The commission having brought its work to a satisfactory completion, on motion of Maj. Fischer, seconded by Mr. McNeil, adjourned sine die.</p><p>William A. Ashbrook (chairman). G. E. Vaughan.</p><p>George P. Darrow. Geo. P. Merrill.</p><p>John L. McNeil. Herbert Adams.</p><p>Richard P. Morris. Geo. C. Mclntyre.</p><p>A. R. Johnston. Geo. Burnham, jr.</p><p>C. L. McCracken. J. Whitaker Thompson,</p><p>Michael F. Phelan. judge United States Dis</p><p>Isaac E. Emerson. trict Court, Eastern Dis</p><p>Calvin Page. trict of Pennsylvania, ex</p><p>Vail Pittman. officio member.</p><p>R. L. Alworth. Geo. R. Comings, assayer.</p><p>Edward T. Newell. United States Assay </p><p>Joseph A. Riordan. Office, New York, ex officio</p><p>Louis A. Fischer. member.</p><p>John W. Heck.</p><p style="text-align: center">ASSAY COMMISSION MEDAL.</p><p>The Assay Commission medal, designed and made in the engraving department of the mint at Philadelphia, presented to the members of the commission, bears on the obverse side a head of the President of the United States, modeled from life by the engraver, Mr. George T. Morgan. The design on the reverse represents the god Mercury or Hermes, who was worshiped in classic times as the special patron of commerce and inventor of coined metal as a medium of exchange. He carries the well-known symbols of his powers, the caduceus, symbol of trade, and the purse, which have been associated with him since a very early period in Greek art. On the left of the figure is a reproduction of one of the earliest coins of ancient Greece, that struck at Miletus in Ionia. This coin is a type of the first period.-&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I hope that this has been readable... it&#039;s one unending line to me. Anyway.... this is an Aha moment from me. I am a family genealogist and I love, Love, documentation!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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