John Berwick Legare (1794–1850), attorney, was a native of Charleston who graduated in 1815 from Yale College (later Yale University). He was admitted to the Charleston bar in 1818, and four years later he gave the Seventy-Six Association’s annual Independence Day speech. In 1832 Legare attended the South Carolina Union Convention, at which he signed a protest against the Ordinance of Nullification. He died in Charleston (Dexter, Yale Biographies description begins Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 1885–1912, 6 vols. description ends , 6:773; A Catalogue of the Linonian Society, of Yale College, Founded September Twelfth, 1753 [1841], 41; A Catalogue of the Connecticut Alpha of the ΦΒΚ [1826], 23; Legare, An Oration, delivered in St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, South-Carolina, on the Fourth of July, 1822; before the ’76 Association [Charleston, 1822]; Baltimore Niles’ Weekly Register, 29 Dec. 1832).

Arthur Harper O’Hara (1794–1826), attorney, was a native of Charleston. He graduated from South Carolina College (later the University of South Carolina) in 1812, was a student at the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut in 1814, and in 1820 ran unsuccessfully for the South Carolina House of Representatives on the Republican ticket. O’Hara died in Charleston (Roll of Students of South Carolina College, 1805–1905 [(1905)], 5; The Litchfield Law School, 1784–1833 [1900], 16; Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 7 Oct. 1820, 26 Sept. 1826; Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church Burial Register, Charleston [ScCF microfilm]).

John Withingham Sommers (d. 1848) was a factor and accountant in Charleston who inherited property in Saint Paul’s Parish in 1828 and owned eighty-four slaves in 1840 (Abraham Motte, Charleston Directory, and Strangers’ Guide, for the year 1816 [Charleston, 1816], 79; James R. Schenck, The Directory and Stranger’s Guide, for the city of Charleston … for the Year 1822 [Charleston, 1822], 79; DNA: RG 29, CS, S.C., Colleton Co., 1840; James A. Strobhart, Reports of Cases in Equity, argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of South Carolina [1848–51], 4:37–58).

Edward Peter Simons (ca. 1794–1823), attorney, studied at the College of Charleston before graduating from Yale College (later Yale University) in 1814. He was admitted to the Charleston bar in 1818. Simons served in the state militia, was a city warden, and was elected twice to the lower house of the state legislature, in 1820–21 and 1822–23. Before completing his second term he was killed in a duel in Charleston (Dexter, Yale Biographies description begins Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 1885–1912, 6 vols. description ends , 6:702–3; BDSCHR description begins Walter B. Edgar and others, eds., Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1974– , 5 vols. description ends , 5:242–3; A Catalogue of the Connecticut Alpha of the ΦΒΚ [1826], 22; Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 8 Oct. 1823; Boston Columbian Centinel, 22 Oct. 1823; Samuel Gilman, Funeral Address, Delivered at The Second Independent Church, Charleston, [South-Carolina] at the interment of Edward Peter Simons [Charleston, 1823]; gravestone inscription in Unitarian Church Cemetery, Charleston).

Richard Osborne (Osborn) was a factor in Charleston from at least 1806–24. Margaret Obsborn was listed as a widow at his former address in 1831 (Negrin’s Directory, and Almanac, for the year 1806 [Charleston, 1806], 61; Directory and Stranger’s Guide, for the City of Charleston [Charleston, 1824], 71; Morris Goldsmith, Directory and Strangers’ Guide, for the City of Charleston … from the fifth census of the United States [1831], 100).

On this date the Standing Committee sent the same oration to James Madison (Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 1:316).