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From the OWL, December, 1902:
"TEMPORARY organization of "The Wing Family Association, Incorporated" was made at Sandwich in June and a committee appointed to draft articles of incorporation, by-laws and constitution. Several meetings of the committee have been held in Boston and numerous obstacles have been met and overcome. The necessary legal documents for this somewhat unique corporation have been prepared under the wise guidance of Judge Geo. C. Wing of Maine and before this is read by Owl readers a charter for the Association will have issued from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The members of the family whose names will appear as applicants for the charter are Daniel Wing of Maywood, Ill., John Wing of New Bedford, Stephen Wing of Yarmouth, George Homer Wing of Springfield, Alvin P. Wing of Sandwich, George C. Wing of Auburn, ME., Mitchell Wing, Daniel G. Wing and Henry T. Wing of Boston." 
From The Owl, March, 1903 "The Wing Family of America, Incorporated, now has an actual existence by virtue of the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We present a photographic copy of it's charter upon the opposite page. the first officers of the corporation are: President, George W. Wing, Kewaunee, Wis.: First Vice President, George Homer Wing, Springfield, Mass.; Second Vice President, Elizabeth Brown Wing, North Bloomfield, Ohio; Secretary, Daniel Wing, Maywood, Ill.; Treasurer, Mitchell Wing, 113 Broad Street, Boston; Historian, Emma Bartleet Chamberlin, 5127 W.Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago; Directors, Arlon Mowry, Woonsocket, R.I.; Albert T. Wing, Palmer, Mass.; Alvin P. Wing, Sandwich, Mass.; John Mansir Wing, Chicago; Asabel R. Wing, Fort Edward, N.Y.; George Wing Sisson, Postsdam, N.Y.; There are now members of the corporation in nearly every state and territory of the Union, including one in the Phillipine Islands. Send the treasurer one dollar and become a member. A copy of the constitution and by-laws will be sent upon application."
Wing Family Background The Organization Wing Family of America was incorporated as a non-profit association in 1902 having for its purposes – the collection and publication of family history – cementing of family ties and cultivation of fraternal relations among members – and the creation of a Family Memorial Hall for historical and literary archives. Background Members in the United States and Canada trace their ancestry back to Matthew Wing of Banbury, England. One of his sons, the Reverend John Wing, a graduate of Queen’s College, Oxford, was a prominent clergyman in London in the years just after the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He became a dissenter from the teachings of the established church, crossed the English Channel and preached to the English Churches in Germany and Holland. After his death, his widow, Deborah, came with her four sons and her father to Boston in 1632 and settled in Saugus. When the “ten men of Saugus” received a grant from the crown in 1637 to that part of Cape Cod which lies south of Plymouth Colony, Mother Deborah and three of her sons, John, Daniel and Stephen, joined this group and were among the original settlers of Sandwich. There is evidence that the fourth son, Matthew, returned to England, Descendants of John, Daniel, and Stephen, in successive generations, followed the tides of migration into many parts of the United States from Maine to California; into the Southern States and north to Ontario and Western Canada. They made substantial contributions to the American way of life. They continue a solid, God-fearing citizenry ranging from the more humble to high positions in agriculture, arts, commerce, science, government and the professions. During more than three hundred years they have built a family record of which we may justly be proud. How It All Began The Wing Family of America owes its inception to the interest in family ties that began developing in the mind of Col. George W. Wing and his family of Kewaunee, Wisconsin. In 1899 Col. Wing set up a small printing establishment in the attic of their home for his twelve year old son, George Dikeman. Young George, with some help from his father began to put out a periodical designed to collect and disseminate family news. The attic room where they worked was referred to as the Owlery, so they decided, quite naturally, to call their publication The Owl. Little did they realize that some seventy-five years later a contemporary Wing would add to the name’s significance by suggesting that the letters stand for Our Wing Lineage? As interest in the Wing family grew there developed an urge to see if the clan could not be brought together in a common meeting. Steps, which led to this action, are related by Col. Wing as told in Volume 25 of the Owl, Page 2392. “We are frequently called upon to explain how and why and by whom these great Wing family gatherings were originally planned – what primal force suggested them and put them in motion. In the spring of 1901, with members of my family, while upon an eastern tour, we drifted down upon Cape Cod. I had some previous knowledge that Sandwich was in some vague sort of way closely identified with the Wing family. While there we fell into the acquaintance of Prof. Henry Newell Hoxie and his estimable wife, and sister, Miss Lucy, Alvin P. Wing and family, and Mr. Asa S. Wing. We visited and marveled at the rare old patriarchal homesteads and came away filled with the wonder and pride of it all. On the way home…. we tarried for a day (at Chicago) as guests of the hospitable family at “The Old Corner,” where lived in stately quiet, John Mansir Wing and his sister, Anna. Around their board in after dinner chat we told of the wonderful things we had seen at Sandwich, of the dignified, proud old ancestral homes there belonging to us, and of the warm and cordial reception of the resident kinspeople. Cousin Anna listened to it all in rapt attention and finally exclaimed, “Let us all go back and hold a family reunion there next year,” The idea took root; we discussed the feasibility; talked of those whom we might interest in the movement, and from that hour the Sandwich reunion of 1902 was a surety.” 
In respectful regard for the accomplishment of Col. George W. Wing it is fitting that each and every one of us whose last name is Wing or who is a descendant of the Wing family do everything we can to support The Wing Family of America to assure it's continuance for the next 100 years. How to join the Wing Family of America |