Thomas Alden Hornsey was a native of New York State, and on his grandfather's side was of colonial stock, being a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla, and was a member of the John Alden Society, the motto of which was, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" His grandmother was a full-blooded Indian, of the Mohawk Tribe. For many years he conducted a unique business in Lexington under the sign of the "Wun Hos Hardwair Stor." Brother Hornsey became a charter member of Osceola Tribe, No. 8, at its institution in Lexington in 1866, and was its first Senior Sagamore, succeeding to the stump of Sachem at the next election. He was admitted to the Great Council of Kentucky in 1873, and was at that time elected Prophet, it not then being necessary that one be a Past Great Sachem to be eligible to that stump. The following Great Sun he was chosen Great Sachem, and performed the duties of that chieftaincy with marked ability. Shortly after the expiration of his term, his Tribe, Osceola, No. 8, became defunct, but before its demise he asked for and was granted a withdrawal card. Twenty years later, at the institution of Miantonomo Tribe, No. 1, he became a charter member by depositing his card, and his honors gained in the old Great Council were recognized. He was a charter member of the present Great Council and was twice raised to the stump of Great Prophet of that great body, thus having the distinction of having served three terms as Great Prophet. No Red Man was held in greater veneration in this Reservation, and when the Great Spirit called him on the 12th of Beaver Moon, G. S. D. 413, the Order lost one of its most valued counselors and the members of his Tribe a true brother, who never wearied in well doing. [Illustration: THOMAS ALFRED DAVIS] =PAST GREAT SACHEM THOMAS ALFRED DAVIS= 1875 Brother Davis was born in Maysville, Ky., January 17, 1840, and was educated in the public schools of that city, with one term in the old Maysville Seminary, leaving that institution at the age of fourteen. He learned the printing business in Louisville and Memphis, Tenn., from 1855 to 1858, when he went to Philadelphia, where he enlisted in 1861 in the famous Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, from which he was discharged for disability. Subsequently he became war correspondent with the Army of the Potomac for the Philadelphia "Enquirer." Later he rejoined the army as private in Company L, 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving under General Sheridan, and was mustered out in 1865, then being adjutant of that regiment. He returned to Maysville in 1866, where he founded the Maysville Republican, which later became the Daily Public Ledger, which publication he edited for forty-two years.