for that expressed purpose. Accordingly, in February 1906, a meeting was held at Shepherd College to organize an association to facilitate the monument's construction. The meeting decided to proceed with incorporation as "The Rumseyan Society", selecting Beltzhoover as chairman, and Daniel B. Lucas, Beltzhoover, state senator Campbell, and William Price Craighill as incorporators. The meeting also agreed once the society secured a charter, the organization would elect a board of directors. In June 1906, the society was formally chartered to facilitate the monument's construction, following a meeting in Shepherdstown. The society's incorporators were elected as its board of directors with Lucas as president and Beltzhoover as vice president. Society members Lucas and Craighill were appointed to a committee to select a site for the monument. In August 1909, the society's officers prepared and exhibited a model of the proposed monument in Shepherdstown. The Rumseian Society attempted to secure a site for the monument on a promontory along the Potomac River on property owned by the Norfolk and Western Railway. The site was known as "Crazy Rumsey's Walk" because Rumsey reportedly paced atop this location, meditating on his inventions, and it also overlooked the sites of many of Rumsey's early experiments on the river. Beginning in 1905, Lucas and the society sought to acquire a deed to the Norfolk and Western right-of-way at the promontory site. By January 1907, a Rumseian Society committee including Beltzhoover and state senator Campbell traveled to Philadelphia to meet with Joseph I. Doran, the chief counsel for Norfolk and Western. The company agreed to transfer property at the selected promontory site and a deed to the property was executed. The promontory property was subject to a mortgage with stringent conditions, requiring the company to charge the Rumseian Society for the deed. Norfolk and Western officials expressed their support for the monument project. On August 16, 1907, Beltzhoover and Lucas transferred to the Rumseian Society for the monument's construction. In April 1910, Governor William E. Glasscock visited Shepherdstown and formally designated the monument site. In 1915, the society agreed to pay property owner U. S. Martin $300 () for his alleged rights to the land purchased from the railway to avoid further delay to construction and the potential for litigation. The monument's cost was $15,200 (). In December 1914, the society held a meeting with representatives of firms that competed to design and build the monument, and