Joe:
Thanks for that link. Now I understand what happened.
There are some remarkable coincidences there that involved GMGC that I never realized. For instance, had SDGC's membership agreed in that meeting in the spring of 1916 to go along with A.J. Drexel Paul and the land the club had paid a $1,000 option on then today what is now Gulph Mills G.C. would have been the new course of St. David's Golf Club and GMGC would never have existed, at least not where it is.
In that case it would've also meant that SDGC course where it now is would never have existed. But what is also interesting to me that when A.J. Drexel Paul's SDGC membership turned down his idea to move the SDGC course to where GMGC now is, Paul apparently within a month or so interested about ten of his Merion GC fellow members in creating GMGC and they excercised the option on the land that SDGC had.
But even more ironic is that when SDGC about a decade later decided to finally move their course where did the end up but right on the Paul property that was Woodcrest (sold at that time (1925) to the Dorrance family of Campbell Soup Co. and part of the remaining land to SDGC. AJ Drexel Paul retained maybe 50 acres of the old Woodcrest estate that is now called Box Hill and which belongs to my first cousin A.J. Drexel Paul III (Tony Paul).
But again, going back even earlier the whole thing (the entire Main Line) was once a semi-unified massive grand land development plan (maybe 40,000 acres) essentially of the Pennsylvania Railroad Corp and all the people connected to it in various ways. Matter of fact, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Corp. even got into renaming some of the little old towns along their new Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line corridor with names that sounded more English. The town you now live in, Wayne, was formerly Louella, I think.