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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William Benjamin Neal, M.A.T., the son of William Benjamin Neal, Sr. and Marion Laird McGinnes, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His family resided in Delaware for more than 250 years. Mr. Neal graduated magna cum laude from <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.gcc.edu/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grove City College </a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with a Bachelor of Arts degree, received a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree from <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.harvard.edu/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard University</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and was a Taft Fellow at the <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.udel.edu/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Delaware</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a senior personnel specialist. He was Chairman of the History Department at Pierre S. du Pont High School for many years.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Memberships
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swedish Colonial Society (Honorary Governor)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society Sons of the American Revolution (Three terms Genealogist General and recipient of the Minuteman Award; former President of the Delaware Society; Delaware Society Registrar for the past decade; Founder and former President of the Major Peter Jaquett Chapter)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the Pennsylvania Society)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saint Andrews Society of Philadelphia
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colonial Order of the Acorn
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Society of the War of 1812 (Member of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Societies; Organizing State President of the Delaware Society)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of Washington
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society of the First Families of DELMARVA (Founder and Honorary Governor General)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society of Sons of the American Colonists
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench & Bar
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey (former Board Member)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Delaware Senior State President and current Senior State Registrar)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Order of the Crusades
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delaware Genealogical Society (First President)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard Club of Delaware
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other Notes
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Neal was listed in the Hereditary Society Blue Books of the 1990's and descends from King Henry II Plantagenet. He authored an unpublished history and genealogy of 6,000 descendants of John Neal and Margaret White of Sussex County, Delaware.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a NSSAR member, he earned thirty-one (31) Liberty Medals, five prestigious Florence Kendall Awards and was a George Washington Fellow.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem and a life member of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Neal was a 32nd Degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the York Rite College, and was elected Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons of Delaware. He served as a Deacon of the Presbyterian Church.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was a life member of the American Legion and served as Post and District Commander and as a member of the State Executive Committee. He was selected to be a member of Voiture Nationale.

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