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TWENTY-SECOND REPORT OF
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY
OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
MARCH 1, 1918, TO MARCH 1, 1919
June 2 (calendar day, June 5), 1920.— Referred to the
Committee on Printing
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1921
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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 397.
[Reported by Mr. Moses.]
In the Senate of the United States,
December 11, 1920.
Resolved, That the report of the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution for the year ended March 1, 1919,
transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, pursuant to law, be printed as a Senate document, with illus-
trations.
Attest:
George A. Sanderson,
Secretary.
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, Jtme h 1920.
To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the act of incorporation of the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, approved February 20,
1896, 1 have the honor to communicate to Congress the annual report
of that society for the year ending March 1, 1919.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Charles D. Walcott,
Secretary*
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LETTER OP SUBMITTAL.
National Society op the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C, February ftf, 1920.
Sir: In compliance with the act of incorporation of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, approved
February 20, 1896, and by the direction of the national board of
management, I have the honor to submit the report of the work ac-
complished from March 1, 1918, to March 1, 1919.
Respectfully submitted.
Nettie Morgan Haley Heath, Editor,
(Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath),
Reporter General to the Smithsonian Institution,
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Dr. Charles D. Walcott,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Pago.
List of Illustrations 5
Act of incorporation — 7
National officers and board of management 9
Foreword 15
A brief report of the proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress 16
Real Daughters 60
Patriotic activities of the Daughters of the American Revolution - 117
Graves of Revolutionary soldiers 118
The flag - 140
Historic spots 142
Old trails roads 145
Welfare of women and children . 146
Prizes and medals • 147
Southern mountain schools 147
Scholarships 148
War relief and Red Cross 148
Special memorials 149
Americanization . 150
Appendix — 151
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Facing
page.
Frontispiece, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President General, N. S.
D. A. R 9
Plate 1. The American's Creed 15
2. Grave of Hannah Mcintosh Cady, a Real Daughter 60
3. Marker to the memory of Mrs. Huldah Brown, a Real Daughter- 62
4. Bowlder erected to the memory of Revolutionary soldiers and
sailors of Franklin County, Mass 120
5. Memorial to the Mickley Family 124
6. Bowlder erected to the memory of the soldiers in Scott's Army
in Revolutionary War T 126
7. Flagstaff erected by the Minneapolis Chapter, D. A. R., of Minne-
sota 142
8. Tablet erected by Merion Chapter, D. A. R., of Pennsylvania— 144
9. Bowlder erected by Abraham Lincoln Chapter, D. A. R., of
10. Historic oak at Grafton, Mass 146
11. Memorial drinking fosintain, erected by Battle of Charlotte
Chapter, D. A. R., Charlotte, N. C 147
12. Tablet marking the site of block house of James Neal, pioneer,
Parkersburg, W. Va 148
13. D. A. R. Lodge at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio 149
14. Bowlder erected by Webster Groves Chapter, D. A. R 150
15. " Tocsin of Liberty " 151
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ACT OF INCORPORATION.
[H. R. 3553. Fifty -fourth Congress of the United States of America; at the first session,
begun and held at the city of Washington on the second day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five.]
[Public — No. 19.J
AN ACT To incorporate the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State*
of America in Congress assembled, That Mary Parke Foster (Mrs. John W.
Foster), of Indiana; Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell (Mrs. William D. Cabell), of
Virginia; Helen Mason Boynton (Mrs. Henry V. Boynton), of Ohio; Henrietta
Oreely (Mrs. A. W. Greely), of Washington, District of Columbia; Lelie Dent
Saint Clair (Mrs. F. O. Saint Clair), of Maryland; Regina M. Knott (Mrs. A.
Leo Knott) , of Maryland ; Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Mrs. Roger A. Pryor) , of New
York; Sara Ford Judd Goode (Mrs. G. Browne Goode), of Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia; Mary Desha, of Kentucky ; Sue Virginia Field (Mrs. Stephen
J. Field), of California; Sallie Kennedy Alexander (Mrs. Thomas Alexander),
of Washington, District of Columbia ; Rosa Wright Smith, of Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia; Sara C. J. Hagan (Mrs. Hugh Hagan), of Georgia; Mary
Stiner Putnam (Mrs. John Risley Putnam), of New York; Mary Leigh ton
Shields (Mrs. George H. Shields), of Missouri; Ellen Hardin Walworth, of
New York; Mary E. MacDonald (Mrs. Marshall MacDonald), of Virginia;
Eugenia Washington, of Virginia; Alice M. Clark (Mrs. A. Howard Clark), of
Massachusetts; Clara Barton, of Washington, District of Columbia; Mary
S. Lockwood, of Washington, District of Columbia; Frances B. Hamlin (Mrs.
Teunis S. Hamlin), of Washington, District of Columbia; Martha C. B. Clarke
(Mrs. Arthur E. Clarke), of New Hampshire; Lucia E. Blount (Mrs. Henry
Blount), of Indiana; Jane A. O. Keim (Mrs. deB. Randolph Keim), of Con-
necticut; Louise Ward McAllister, of New York; Effie Ream Osborne (Mrs.
Frank Stuart Osborne), of Illinois; Maria Devereux, of Washington, District
of Columbia; Belinda O. Wilbour (Mrs. Joshua Wilbour), of Rhode Island;
Georgiana E. Shippen (Mrs. W, W. Shippen), of New Jersey; Julia K. Hogg
(Mrs. N. B. Hogg), of Pennsylvania ; Katherine C. Brecken ridge (Mrs. Clifton
R. Breckenridge), of Arkansas; Sara Isabella Hubbard (Mrs. Adolphus S.
Hubbard), of California; Mary L. D. Putnam (Mrs. Charles E. Putnam), of
Iowa; Delia Clayborne Buckner (Mrs. Simon B. Buckner), of Kentucky; Emily
Marshall Eliot (Mrs. Samuel Eliot), of Massachusetts; Lucy Grey Henry
(Mrs. William Wirt Henry), of Virginia; Blair Lee, of Maryland; Mrs. Frances
P. Burrows (Mrs. Julius C. Burrows), Mrs. Mary H. McMillan. (Mrs. James
McMillan), Mrs. Emma Gregory Hull (Mrs. J. A. T. Hull), Mrs. Mary B. K.
Washington (Mrs. Joseph Washington), and their associates and successors,
are hereby created a body corporate and politic, in the District of Columbia,
by the name of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, for partriotic, historical, and educational purposes; to perpetuate the
memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American independ-
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ence; by the acquisition and protection of historical spots and the erection
of monuments ; by the encouragement of historical research in relation to the
.Revolution and the publication of its results ; by the preservation of documents
and relics, and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary sol-
diers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anni-
versaries; to carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address
to the American people, "to promote, as an object of primary importance,
institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," thus developing an en-
lightened public opinion and affording to young and old such advantages as
shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of Ameri-
can citizens; to cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of American
freedom; to foster true patriotism and love of country, anoTto aid in securing
for mankind all the blessings of liberty.
Sec. 2. That said society is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the
United States, so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to an amount
not exceeding $500,000, and may adopt a constitution and make by-laws not
inconsistent with law, and may adopt a seal. Said society shall have its head-
quarters or principal office at Washington, in the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. That said society shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution concerning its proceedings, and said secretary shall com-
municate to Congress such portions thereof as he may deem of national interest
and importance. The regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to
permit said national society to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamph-
lets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in- the
National Museum, at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules
as they shall prescribe.
Approved February 20, 1896.
Grover Cleveland,
Thomas B. Reed,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A. B. Stevenson,
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.
Department of State.
I certify that the above is a true copy of an act of Congress, the original of
which is on file in this department.
In testimony whereof, I, Richard Olney, Secretary of State of the United
States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Depart-
ment of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 5th day of May, A. D. 1896, and of the
independence of the United States of America the 120th.
[seal.] Richard Olney.
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Senate Document 346, 66-3 FRONTISPIECE.
MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD MINOR.
President General N. S. D. A. R.
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NATIONAL BOARD OP MANAGEMENT, 1918-19.
President General.
Mrs. George Thachee Guernsey,
Memorial Continental PJall, Washington, D. 0.
Vice Presidents General.
[Term of office expires 1920.]
Mrs. James Benton Grant, 700 Emerson Street, Denver, Colo.
Mrs. Fred H. H. Calhoun, Clemson College, S. C.
Mrs. Charles B. Longley, 87 Walcott Street, Pawtucket, R. I.
Miss Jeanie D. Blackburn, 718 Upper Eleventh Street, Bowling Green, Ky.
Mrs. Samuel McKnioht Green, 3815 Magnolia Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster, 711 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. William H. Talbott, Rockvillo* Md.
[Term of office expires 1921.]
Mrs. William N. Reynolds, 644 West Fifth Street, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mrs. Frank B. Hall, 27 May Street, Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Charles H. Aull, 1926 South Thirty-third Street, Omaha, Nebr.
Mrs. Andrew Fuller Fox, West Point, Miss.
Miss Stella Pickett Hardy, Batesville, Ark.
Mrs. Benjamin Ladd Purcell, 406 Allen Avenue, Richmond, Va.
Mrs,. William A. Guthrie, Dupont, Ind.
[Term of office expires 1922.]
Mrs. William H. Wait, 1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, Eola Road, Salem, Oreg.
Mrs. John P. Hume, 539 Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.
Mrs. William D. Sherrerd, Highland Avenue, Haddonfield, N. J.
Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Amarillo, Tex.
Mrs. Frank W. Bahnsen, 1720 Twenty-second Street, Rock Island, 111.
Miss Louise H. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me.
Chaplain General.
Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce, The Portner Apartments, Washington, D. C.
Recording Secretary General.
Miss Emma L. Crowell, Memorial Continental Hall.
. Organizing Secretary General.
Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, Memorial Continental Hall.
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Treasurer General.
Mrs. Robert J. Johnston, Memorial Continental Hall.
Corresponding Secretary General,
Mrs. Woodbuby Pulsifer, Memorial Continental Hall.
Registrar General,
Miss Grace M. Pierce, Memorial Continental Hall.
Historian General.
Mrs. Edmund P. Moody, Memorial Continental Hall.
Reporter General to the Smithsonian Institution.
Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Heathcote, Charlotte, N. G.
Librarian General.
Mrs. James M. Fowler, Memorial Continental Hall.
Curator General.
Miss Catherine Brittin Barlow, Memorial Continental Halt,
STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS, 1918-19.
Alabama Mrs. Robert H. Pearson, Birmingham.
Mrs. Gregory L. Smith, Mobile.
Arizona Mrs. Otis E. Young, Phoenix.
Mrs. George L. Reid, Tucson.
Arkansas Mrs. Frank Tomlinson, P. O. Box 584, Pinehurst, Pine
Bluff.
Mrs. Clarence E. Woodward, 2005 Scott Street, Little
Rock.
California Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, 1502 Victoria Avenue, Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Oswald O. Harshbarger, 269 Mather Street, Oak-
land.
Colorado Mrs. William H. R. Stote, Alta Vista Hotel, Colorado
Springs.
Mrs. Herbert Hayden, 803 Spence Street, Boulder.
Connecticut Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, Litchfield.
Mrs. Charles H. Bissell, Southington.
Delaware Mrs. George C. Hall, 706 West Street, Wilmington.
Mrs. Ernest Frazer, Newark.
District of Columbia— Miss Hilda Fletcher, 2230 California Street, Wash-
ington.
Miss Lillian Chenoweth, 1318 Harvard Street, Wash-
ington.
Florida Mrs. W. Charles McLean, Orlando.
Mrs. John J. Kindred, De I^and.
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Georgia Mrs. James S. Wood, Savannah.
Mrs. Oscar T. Peoples, CartersviUe.
Hawaii Mrs. Francis Judd, 66 Wylie Street, Honolulu.
Idaho Mrs. Fred Kress, Caldwell.
Mrs. Joseph T. Young, Pocatello.
Illinois Mrs. John H. Hanley, 724 West Broadway, Monmouth.
Mrs. H. E. Chubbuck, Grand View Avenue, Peoria.
Indiana Mrs. Frank Felter, 1224 North Jefferson Street, Hunt-
• ington.
Mrs. Otto Rott, 611 North College Avenue, Blooming-
ton.
Iowa — — — Mrs. Arthur W. Mann, Onawa.
Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glen Avenue, Council
Bluffs.
Kansas _* Miss Catherine Campbell, 316 Willow Street, Ottawa.
Mrs. William H. Simonton, 750 South Judson Street,
Fort Scott.
Kentucky .Mrs. Samuel J. Shackelford, Shelby Street, Frankfort
Mrs. C. D. Chenault, Lexington.
Louisiana Mrs. Willis B. Graham, Shreveport
Mrs. Graham Surghnor, Monroe.
Maine Mrs. Lucy Woodhull Hazlett, Bangor.
Miss Maude E. Merrick, Waterville.
Maryland .Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott, EUicott City P. O.
Mrs. Weems Ridout, 200 Duke of Gloucester Street,
Annapolis.
Massachusetts Mrs. Frank Dexter Ellison, 44 Clark Street, Belmont.
Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway, 25 Bellevue Avenue, Mel-
rose.
Michigan Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, 1012 West Main Street
Kalamazoo.
Mrs. L. Victor Seydel, 143 Lafayette Avenue NE.,
Grand Rapids.
Minnesota Mrs. James T. Morris, 2101 Blaisdell Avenue, Minne-
apolis.
Mrs. A. E. Walker, 2103 East First Street, Duluth.
Mississippi — Mrs. E. F. Noel, Lexington.
Mrs. John Morris Morgan, Columbus.
Missouri Mrs. John Trigg Moss, 60i7 Enright Avenue, St Louis.
Mrs. George Edward George, 4556 Walnut Street
Kansas City.
M6ntana Mrs. Charles A. Blackburn, 804 West Silver Street
Butte.
Dr. Mary B. Atwater, 516 Hayes Avenue, Helena.
Nebraska-— Mrs. F. I. Ringer, 935 D Street, Lincoln.
Mrs. C. S. Spencer, North Platte.
New Hampshire Mrs. Charles W. Barrett, Claremont
Mrs. Lorin Webster, Plymouth.
New Jersey Mrs. James Fairman Fielder, 1139 Gifford Avenue,
Jersey City Heights.
Mrs. Henry D. Fitts, 172 Lincoln Avenue, Newark.
New Mexico——— Mrs. James H. Wroth, Albuquerque^
(Mrs. Jamas F. Hinkle, Roswell,
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New York Miss Stella Broadhead, Jamestown.
Mrs. Charles W. Nash, 8 Lafayette Street, Albany.
North Carolina Mrs. W. O. Spencer, Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Wm. Parker Mercer, Elm City.
North Dokota Mrs. George Morley Young, Valley City.
Mrs. J. M. Martin, Bismarck.
Ohio Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, 6719 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland.
Mrs. John Talman Mack, 712 Wayne Street, Sandusky*
Oklahoma Miss Sarah A. Crumley, Alva.
Oregon Mrs. F. M. Wilkins, 187 West Ninth Street, Eugene.
Mrs. Walter F. Burrell, 827 Hawthorne Avenue, Port-
land.
. Pennsylvania Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Cooksburg.
Mrs. H. Grant Driesbach, Lewisburg.
Rhode Island Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2d, 85 Angell Street, Provi-
dence.
Miss Edith May Tilley, The Worthen, Newport
South Carolina Mrs. E. Walker Duvall, Cheraw.
Mrs. John Trimmier Sloan, Columbia*
South Dakota Mrs. Amos E. Ayres, Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Francis W. Warring, Yankton.
Tennessee Mrs. Edwin A. Price, 2222 West End Avenue, Nashville.
Mrs. L. M. Short, Brownsville.
Texas Mrs. Lipscomb Norvell, 1628 Franklin Street, Beau-
mont.
Mrs. Louis J. Wortham, 100 Penn Street, Fort Worth.
Utah Mrs. Lee Charles Miller, 943 East First South Street,
Salt Lake City.
Mrs. George V. Lawry, 728 East Second South Street,
Salt Lake City.
Vermont .Mrs. Harris R. Watkins, Burlington.
Miss Jennie A. Valentine, Bennington.
Virginia Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Alexandria.
Mrs. Robert L. Pierce, Wytheville.
Washington M rs. George H. Goble, 1019 Seventh Avenue, Spokane.
Mrs. William A. Johnson, Commerce Building, Everett.
West Virginia Mrs. Clark W. Heavner, Buckhannon.
Mrs. Robert J. Reed, 100 Twelfth Street, Wheeling.
Wisconsin Mrs. Rudolph B. Hartman, 4001 Highland Park, Mil-
waukee.
Miss Helen Dorset, 880 South Sixth Street, La Crosse.
Wyoming Mrs. Bryant Butler Brooks, Casper.
Mrs. Maurice Groshon, Cheyenne.
Orient™- Mrs. Charles Sumner Lobingier, Shanghai, China.
Mrs. Truman Slayton Holt, Manila, Philippine Islands
HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE.
Honorary Presidents General.
Mas. John W. Fosntt, Mas. Maithkw T. Scott,
Mas. Daniel Manning, Mm. William Gumming Stobt.
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Honorary President Presiding.
• Mbs. Maby V. E. Cabell.
Honorary Chaplain General.
Mbs. Maby S. Lockwood.
Honorary Vice- Presidents General.
Mbs. A. Howabd Clabk, 1895. Mbs. J. Moboan Smith, 1911.
Mbs. Mildred S. Mathes, 1899. Mbs. Theodore G. Bates, 1913.
Mbs. Maby S. Lockwood, 1905. Mbs. E. Gaylobd Putnam, 1913.
Mbs. William Lindsay, 1906. Mbs. Wallace Delafield, 1914.
Mbs. Helen M. Boynton, 1906. Mbs. Dbayton W. Bushnell, 1914.
Mbs. Saba T. Kinney, 1910. Mbs. John Newman Cabby, 1916.
Mbs. George M. Sternberg, 1917.
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REPORT OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, FOR THE YEAR BEGINNING
MARCH 1, 1918, AND ENDING MARCH 1, 1919.
By Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Reporter General to the Smithsonian Institution,
FOREWORD.
This report of the work accomplished by the Daughters of the
American Revolution from March 1, 1918, to March 1, 1919, might
well be termed the " war volume " of the national society.
While the regular lines of work were kept up to the highest
standard, still the main efforts of the Daughters — chapters, States,
and National society— were directed toward war work.
From the following reports you will glean something of the
scope of the work undertaken and accomplished during the year
from March, 1918, to March, 1919. It is a regrettable fact that many
reports have been necessarily left out of this volume because of fail-
ure to fill out and return the questionnaires sent to the historians;
however, the facts and figures herein given will stand as a test that
the Daughters of the American Revolution did aid and will ever
be found ready to " aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of
liberty."
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OPENING SESSION OP THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS,
APRIL 14, 1919.
The Twenty-eighth Continental Congress was called to order by
the president general, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, at 10.35 o'clock
a. m. The chaplain general, Miss Elisabeth Pierce, read the Twenty-
fourth Psalm and a few verses from Zachariah and the Gospel of
St. John, after which she gave an appropriate prayer, and closed
with the Lord's Prayer, in which the congress joined.
The president general introduced to the congress Mr. William
Tyler Page, author of the "American's Creed," who led in reciting
the creed. Then followed a salute to the flag, led by Mrs. John P.
Hume, chairman of the committee to prevent the desecration of the
flag. "America" was sung by the congress, accompanied by Mr.
Arthur S. Whitcomb, cornetist.
Mrs. George T. Guernsey, president general of the national society,
made the following address :
It is with much pleasure that the president general again greets and wel
omes the officers and delegates, as well as all others, in attendance at this
Twenty-eighth Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution.
Much of world Importance has taken place since last we met in this Memorial
Hall just one year ago. How little did we then think that the armistice would
be signed in less than seven months, the signing of which would bring to an end
the greatest war in the history of the world. More great events have occurred
during the past five years than during any preceding century. It seems as if it
were hundreds of years since August 1, 1914. Already we are living in a new
world. Hardly anything seems as it did a few years ago.
The war is over. The old world lies in ruins. We are Uving in a new age.
We have entered into a new world of democracy. Yesterday we were in the
habit of saying, "Autocracy is doomed." To-day we say with jubilant hearts,
"Autocracy is dead." In one week, last November, 22 kings and kinglets
toppled from their thrones and 22 crowns toppled from their heads. The old
days of the " divine right of kings " are gone forever. Our Government is now
regarded by the civilized peoples of the earth as the "premier of the world."
It has been pathetic to see the many age-long crushed peoples of Europe turn-
ing to us a savior, to aid them into settled freedom. The old map of Europe is
dissolving into a new one, the frontiers of the countries still only dimly outlined.
There are only three kings of any importance now left in Europe — King George,
King Albert, and King Emanuel — and all three are more firmly entrenched in
the affection of their people than before the war. It is because they are kings
of a free people and their Governments are thoroughly democratic.
It is not a surprising thing to one familiar with the history of nations that
the Prussians and Russians have gone headlong into anarchy. Any people
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crushed under the tyrannical heel of autocracy will, when the power above
them is suddenly removed, leap to the other extreme and rush out of autocracy
into anarchy. They face many difficulties and it may be years before they
come to any stable form of self-government.
It will not be difficult for the great democracies, such as those of the United
States, England, France, and Italy, to adjust themselves to the new political
world. We live in a new world of ideals. No longer do material might and
material wealth and material fame dominate the thinking of thoughtful men.
Truth, justice, and righteousness are the ideals which dominate legislation
and all human relationships. Our Government does not need to make any
internal changes. Its chief task will be to learn how properly to relate itself
to the rest of the world. We who have been so long known for our parochial-
ism must learn how to be citizens of the world. Our Nation has suddenly been
shaken out of its complacency. It has come to take its place among the world
powers, and has come to understand that no nation liveth to itself as " no man
liveth to himself," and we, as Americans, must come to understand that in any
righteous league that shall bind the nations together we must give as well as
take.
It was once questioned whether the world was growing better or worse, and
to answer that question correctly one had to look back along the centuries.
Comparing decades was confusing and misleading. Our civilization has been
a slow evolution; but during the past five years the wheels of progress have
been thrown into " high gear " and we have leaped forward with unprecedented
progress. It would seen as though God had grown impatient with our slow,
dull progress, and so He permitted this World War to shake us out of our com-
placency and fit us for larger and finer life. Thus already we find ourselves
possessed of new sensations, nobler ideals attract us, loftier impulses con-
trol us.
A little reflection will show us how far we have traveled from our old posi-
tion ; how much nobler the life is which we are now living.
In the first place there has come to us a new sense of human relationship. It
was a difficult lesson for the old Jew to learn ; that lesson taught by the story of
the "good Samaritan." The lesson that no man should lose his sense of
humanity in the presence of an alien's need. " The Jew had no dealings with
the Samaritans." A high wall separated them. But in like manner did the
Greeks think of the barbarians, and the Romans of their captured slaves. After
many centuries of Christian civilization nations stood over against nations
and all relationships changed at national frontiers.
Slowly through the years nations have grown less provincial and extended
friendly relations to their neighbors near and distant. And yet how slow has
been the growth of human brotherhood. Each nation has held itself in higher
esteem than its neighbors and felt it must ever be on the alert to guard against
any encroachment upon its own individual rights and privilege* Down to our
time we have had "hermit" nations. Nations have maintained their own
peculiar speech and customs. They have clung to their own forms of faith
and worship. They have worshipped their own tribal gods. Eac'i nation sup-
posed itself favored by its own peculiar deity. This is the tragedy and crime
of Germany to-day. It is the national conception of superiority which has
killed in the whole blinded and enslaved German people the idea of God's
universal fatherhood and man's universal brotherhood.
The chief task of the allied nations to-day is to lead the German people to
see that they are not superior to other folks and that their German god is the
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devil of the civilised world. The dehumanized slaves of a royal brute must
learn that other peoples have rights which they are }>ound to respect and that
their national boundary lines stop at their neighbor's frontier.
This war has done what is worth all it has cost in producing among the
nations of the world (the Central Powers alone excepted) the sense of universal
brotherhood. That fine feeling which Tennyson expressed in his Hands All
Round (written long' years before the present war) concerning the relation
between Great Britain and America is coming rapidly to be the feeling which
exists between all well-meaning 'nations. His words are those of a prophet:
Gigantic daughter of the West.
We drink to thee across the flood ; l
We know thee most, we love thee best,
For art thdu not of British blood?
Should war's mad blast again be blown
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy broadsides roar with ours,
Hands all round !
God the tyrant's cause confound.
That cry, " Hands all round," is coming to be the tocsin of the civilized world.
This fact is also shown in the sweeping tide of democracy which dominates
mankind. The old figment, "the divine right of kings," is going. Every auto^
crat is doomed. Thrones unfounded on constitutions which recognize the ulti-
mate authority in the people are crumbling.
We have come to see how near we were, only a few years ago, of gaining the
whole world of material wealth and losing the Nation's soul. We have awakened
from a deadening stupor ; we are to-day breathing the pure air which blows on
us from the mountains of high unselfish ambitions. We have taken our place
among the free peoples of all the world and have been freely granted leadership
amid such companionship as we had never dared to expect. No longer will
America be called the nation whose god is the almighty dollar.
Even that old saying, once uttered with pride, " My country right or wrong,"
the implication being that one's own country must never be criticised and that
the State can do no wrong, is obsolete. Much as we love our land and proud
as we are of our own Nation, we have arisen above that meanness of mere
nationalism, which steels its heart and withholds its hands when its own
frontiers are crossed.
We recognize that he who does not love his own best can love no man well.
But we no longer think in terms of clan, county, or country, but in terms big
enough to take in all our human race. I am not now referring to some sort of
Irresponsible Bolsheviki internationalism, such as that which has betrayed Rus-
sia and disgraced Germany and threatens to overrun other countries, but I am
trying to say that our fine young America has grown tall enough to look over the
petty prejudices which too long have divided the human family and to see the
fine traits and qualities which belong to others than ourselves.
But the time has come when all constructive forces in the land must make
. contributions to aid the United States in performing her part of the new world
order. All institutions having only selfish national ideals in view must change
their objectives. Many agencies hitherto efficient for their prewar programs
must cease to exist. They have no place in this new era. Our society must now
face this new world. Fortunately it has been recognized by the Government as
an institution of great value, both in times of peace and war.
We have always sought to hold in high regard the memory of our forefathers,
and we have always sought to exercise our influence in creating in the rising
generation a fonder love of country and a deeper devotion to its institutions.
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We must continue to magnify our appreciation of our past history as a country;
but we must be brave enough to take into our love and friendship all the new-
found members of our common Father's great family.
The new era upon which we are entering does not require any governmental
revolutions. Our needs are not to be met by legislative changes. Our democratic
Republic needs no political tinkerings or patchings. Our problems will not grow
out of our form of government. There is no excuse here for the Russian and
German Bolsheviklsm. Our democracy has proven adequate, even in such a
crisis as this world upheaval. The ex-Kaiser vainly boasted of the strength of
the autocracy in times of war, and scorned the weakness of a republic in a na-
tional and international crisis. The answer to that claim 5s the present condi-
tion of Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, as compared with the
free democracies of the Allies.
Our society in this crisis will continue to teach proper reverence to the
heroism and noble deeds of our forefathers, because our society is peculiarly
adapted to carry on an educational propaganda. Our patriotic education com-
mittee has for its object the Americanization of all strangers within our gates.
Owing to the fact that the Government of the United States recognizes our
society as a vital institution necessary for the proper training of our American
youth, we will be expected to carry on some definite work, having in view the
training of our youth, and all who come as strangers to eur shores, In all the fine
lessons of patriotism.
I wish in this connection to emphasize one task for which our society, through
its patriotic education committee, is peculiarly fitted — namely, the development
of an American consciousness in all our people, but especially in those of foreign
birth and parentage. The American consciousness will not grow in an alien
atmosphere, nor on foreign soil. It is like a plant — Its development depends upon
the elements which environ it and the forces which are within it
I wish first to speak of the importance of a proper atmosphere for the im-
migrant candidate for American citizenship. Nothing will be so effective for
good as the friendly and sympathetic treatment of the foreigner by the Ameri-
can people with whom he comes in contact. The welcome given him at the very
threshold of. the country will largely affect his whole attitude of mind and 'the
character of his conduct. If he is met with the spirit of welcome, and not of
suspicion ; if he finds at once that he is not regarded as an intruder but as a
new candidate for citizenship, coming with a high expectation of freedom and
brotherhood, he will gladly respond to leadership and instruction. Kindly and
courteous treatment will at once inspire a love for the adopted land ; yet, how
frequently the lonely and homesick immigrant is insulted and laughed at.
His strange costume, his unfamiliar appearance, his peculiar speech, and his
furtive, embarrassed manner somehow challenge the sneer of the average man
he meets. Children laugh at him, and older folk take advantage of him. Is it
not a wonder that he ever comes to have any love for such a people or to feel
at home in so unwelcome a land? Never again will he be so open to Instruction
and so ready to take on the ways of his adopted country, as in the first days of
his arrival, when his heart is so tender and his mind is so receptive. Thorough
neighborliness is what he most craves.
There can be no surprise that foreigners ever remain aliens and refuse to
coalesce with the native population and seek fellowship only with their own
little groups, when they are made to feel that they are something less than
human. Bitterness and hate have too often been planted in the breasts of
people who came here all aglow with a fine enthusiasm concerning the new and
promising country, of which they have heard so much, and to which they have
come leaving everything they held dear behind them in their far-away native
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lands. An American consciousness never will develop, never can develop, in an
atmosphere of suspicion and ill treatment. No wonder there are " Little Italys,"
" Little Polands," and " Little Germanys," and similar foreign groups scattered
all over the country, as well as in the cities, and new candidates for citizenship,
from the unfriendly approaches of those who seem to have no further interest
in them other than to exploit them, flee on landing at once to the groups of their
own nationality and continue to speak the language, breathe the spirit, and live
the same life they did in the motherland.
I know of nothing so potent to grow an American consciousness in one of for-
eign birth as the kindly spirit of brotherliness and neighborliness which greets
the new arrival at the Nation's threshold and gives him to know that he is
welcomed as a friend and will be treated as a brother.
The fine idealism in the breasts of most of those whose have had the initiative
and courage to break from the old ties and come to the new world of hope and
promise is too often killed at the first contact with the new life in the new
world. Hate and suspicion are engendered at once, and the heart closes against
the folk who seem only to seek their exploitation. One kind word spoken, one
unselfish hand extended on that first strange and startled day, when he puts
foot on the soil of his future home, will do more to inspire in his heart a love
for America and everything American than anything which may occur in later
days. Just as many a good horse is spoiled in the breaking, so many a useful
American citizen is ruined the first day he reaches our shores. He never re-
covers from the shock of unkindness and the laugh of thoughtless and heartless
derision.
However, in spite of what I have been saying, the American consciousness
may be developed, even in such an atmosphere as I have been describing, if
only one will firmly resolve to forget these things which are behind and to press
forward to the things which are before. Almost everything depends upon one's
own purpose to grow an American soul in his own bosom. That growth will
depend upon certain well-defined processes. Let me outline them :
In the first place, there must be a positive purpose to become a real Ameri-
can, 100 per cent pure. The first step toward citizenship must be taken at once.
The intention to become an American citizen should not be delayed.
So-called " first papers " should be taken at the earliest date possible. Then
as soon as the law will permit he should become a full-fledged citizen and
foreswear all past affiliations and proclaim allegiance only to our flag and Na-
tion. He must acknowledge no dual allegiances nor retain any dual citizen-
ship. He must never think in terms of the hyphen. He is not now an Irish-
American nor a German-American ; he is an American. You can never grow an
American soul so long as you use a hyphen.
The very next requisite is to learn the American language. It has been
tragically demonstrated that no man can grow an American consciousness so
long as he speaks a foreign language. He needs the new language more than
he needs the native tongue. The sooner he forgets the language of his native
land the better for his Americanism. It is not a theory with which I am deal-
ing. It has been demonstrated that one of the greatest barriers to patriotism
is a foreign language. This war has taught us that the supreme mistake in all
our educational methods has been right here. The use of a foreign language in
our public schools has been almost an act of treason. We might just as well
have been teaching Sanskrit as German, and far better ; for Sanskrit would not
have kept American youth from growing American souls.
The most essential element in the development of the American consciousness
is the total exclusion of all languages but one, and that one English.
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How mistaken we have been. We thought we were making Americans out of
foreigners, all the time permitting them to speak a foreign language, read
foreign newspapers, hear sermons in a foreign tongue, do business at foreign
banks and stores, and teach a foreign language which they asserted would
some day supplant the English speech. You might as well try to grow roses
in the Arctics as to develop an American consciousness while speaking a foreign
language.
Cooperation of the entire Nation is spreading to the alien population of the
country the spirit and truths of Americanism, and in ending illiteracy among
the native-born population, was urged by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, at an Americanization dinner in New York, marking the formal
opening of a campaign to be conducted by the Government through the Bureau
of Education of the Department of the Interior, looking to that end. Asserting
that the war had brought home to America the imperative need for Ameri-
canization work, the Secretary said:
What should be said of a world-leading democracy wherein 10 per cent of
the adult population can not read the laws which they are presumed to know?
What should be said of a democracy which is challenged by the world to
prove the superiority of its system of government over those discarded, and
yet is compelled to reach many millions of its people through papers printed
in some foreign language?
What should be said of a democracy which permits tens of thousands of
native-born children to be taught in foreign language — the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and Lincoln's Gettysburg speech in German and other tongues?
In 1918, the Secretary declared, there were more than 7,000,000 persons in
the United States above 10 years of age who could not read or write English.
Eighteen per cent of the children of school age did not attend school. Out of
the first 2,000,000 men drafted there were 200,000 who " could not read their
orders or understand them when delivered*"
Asserting that "Americanization " as it is known in the past has "meant only
the boycott," Mr. Lane declared the time has come when a new meaning should
be given to the words if the ideals of America were to be preserved.
" We want it to mean help, sympathy, largeness of view," he said. " We want
it to mean, not patronage, but largest human fellowship. We want that word
to be translated into terms of wages for men, of living conditions for men, of an
America that will mean something to the man that comes across the water from
the other side, who has come to us with a different understanding of the word
liberty from that which we have had."
We are strangely affected by the clothes we wear. Witness children at play.
Their very manners are affected by the grown-up clothing they have borrowed
or purloined. Garments create a mental and social atmosphere. What can we
hope for the Americanism of a man who insists on employing a London tailor?
Ten to one he will say "bawth" for bath, "bean" for been and "ither" and
" nither " in violation of the best usage both in England and America.
One's very food affects his Americanism. There is a grocery store in Chicago
which has made its owner rich, which has for sale only such articles of food as
it has imported from Germany. Thousands of Chicago Germans have supplied
their tables with only such food as came from their fatherland. What kind of
an American consciousness can grow in the atmosphere of sauerkraut and
Llmburger cheese, or what can you expect of the Americanism of the man whose
breath always reeks with garlic?
I am insisting that one's very food affects his consciousness. Again I aver
chat nothing has been so vital to the growth of an American consciousness as
the segregation of people of like nationality.
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If I had my way I would transport thousands of Minnesota Scandinavians
into the Southern States, and I would scatter thousands of Wisconsin Germans
into New England, and I would compel hundreds of thousands of New York Jews
to find homes in the far West. How can you grow an American soul in a New
York eastside tenement house or develop an American consciousness in a Dakota
Menonite community? American neighbors are needed by every one of foreign
birth or ancestry.
It is quite important that all forms of social entertainment, including music
and dramatic representations, shall combine to create a new appreciation of
everything American. The children of the foreign born should be steeped in
our American literature. They should be thoughtfully informed of our national
history. All membership in societies and organizations seeking to retain allegi-
ance to one's native country should be prohibited. The foreign youth should be
taught always to be alert to discover favorable comparisons between the country
of their adoption and the land of their birth. All foreigners should be com-
pelled to quit telling how they used to do it in their native country. The
children should constantly be reminded that they are Americans. One day last
October I was heartened when I said to a little Italian on Bunker Hill, " You
are an Italian, aren't you? " With great indignation he replied, " No, I'm an
American." All youth, especially those of foreign birth or ancestry, should be
constantly led to possess a sense of proprietorship in everything that is Ameri-
can.
What I have been trying to say Is this: The Daughters of the American
Revolution are already organized in such a way as to enable them to go about a
strongly constructive method to cultivate throughout our land in the breasts of
all foreigners or those of foreign parentage a genuine loyal American conscious-
ness, and never before has there been so great a need for such an organization
as is ours. In the name of our society I wish to pledge all our energies and
varied talents to the one great business of making every dweller in our land
the proud possessor of an American soul.
Madam Catherine Breshkovsky, " the mother of the Russian revo-
lution," was introduced to the congress and gave the following brief
talk:
Madam President, and all of you excellent American women, I thank you
very much for the honor, for the great pleasure you give me to address you at
this congress. I know you are all patriots and children of the fathers of the
American Revolution. Your forefathers gave to everybody the beautiful love
and happiness of family life and freedom. The Russian revolution occurred at
a later time, and I am proud and I am so thankful to have had the honor to
take part in that, the other revolution, and to be a part of the great things done
50 years ago. Therefore I can praise the efforts and deeds of your fathers and
great grandfathers and their work for you who observe the great results of
that work in America. Even in Siberia I followed your deeds and saw how
mighty and how excellent is your organization, and I knew of your excellent
work here in America, the work of your women. I saw how strong you are
and how good you are and how devoted you are to your ancestors and to the
traditions and laws of your own great Washington. Therefore I wish that now,
as you are free and as you are happy, you will sympathize with our ancestors
to be free and happy, and turn your faces, your hearts, and your thoughts to
our needs at this hour, and especially remember that Russia is to be free. I
am sure you good American women, with your talent for organization, can aid
us, and that you will utilize your energies and your talents for the excellent
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and righteous cause with us. It is our Russia, your Russia; it is for our
Russian women and children especially that I plead — children who must be
fed and taught to know what shall be right for all, and to know what is each
citizen's proper share in good civilization. That is what we need. And thus I
ask your attention to this, but I shall talk no longer, for I know you have many
tasks before you to-day. But I go out feeling sure you will not forget that
outside of America there is another very great country, Russia, that hopes to
be as free* and as civilized as you are. Don't forget us, dear excellent women.
Mrs. Robert J. Johnston, chairman of the credentials committee,
next gave her report :
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Having labored with the credential proposition for the past two years, it is
quite evident that other matters should be reported besides that of the number
of voters present. > .
Even a worm will turn, and while the balance of the committee rather object
to being classified as worms, the chairman has reached the point where she is
willing to be called almost anything, if thereby an impression can be made upon
the minds of chapter officers that they, as well as the credential committee, have
a few responsibilities connected with this important work.
A few of the mistakes made that would never have occurred had the regents
been reasonably familiar with the constitution and by-laws and carefully read
the instructions sent with the blanks, will be called to your attention, with the
hope that it may lessen them in the future, saving time, energy, and money.
It is absolutely necessary that the election of new officers be reported imme-
diately to the office of the organizing secretary general. It is not possible to
seat a chapter regent as such just because she says she is the regent. The
official record must show that she has been duly elected, entitled to hold the
office, and the election properly reported. - -
If a chapter is not to be represented, it is a small matter for the regent to so
inform the credential committee. Failure to do so has caused the writing of
numerous letters, as well as anxiety for fear the blanks had gone astray in
the mails.
Chapter regents should bear in mind that when they attach their signature
to the credential blanks they say, "Our election was held in accordance with
the rules of the national society, the names correctly listed and as shown on
the national records; all listed are in good standing on the books of the
treasurer general, and all transfers to and from the chapter properly reported."
Your registrar should have a copy of the application paper of every member,
and from her files you should obtain the names, in order that they may agree
with the national list of members.
Your treasurer should see that she is not holding the dues of any member
and that she has filed her quarterly reports, thus giving much needed informa-
tion concerning marriages and transfers. No doubt Miss Sailie Jones is highly
pleased to become Mrs. Capt. Claude Theodore Frelinghysen. and we should be
glad to rejoice with her had the glad tidings been conveyed to us. But I am
sure you will agree with me that it is somewhat difficult to locate her on our
records under her new name until we know that she possesses it. Just re-
member that the credential committee is not blessed with any of that super-
natural wisdom that enables it to know something it does not know.
There can be no question but what " Margaret Elizabeth " is much more digni-
fied than " Birdie," but if a member joins as " Birdie " she should, regardless of
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dignity, be listed as " Birdie " until such time as steps are taken to have the name
corrected on our records. But the credential committee is not the proper
medium through which such a change can be made.
If you elect a member to represent you known as " Rachel Louise," but whose
friends have a pretty nickname for her, please remember we know nothing about
such names anc leave them off the credential blanks.
If there is some One living in your city who would make a desirable repre-
sentative and who is willing to attend congress just because her mother or sister
may belong to the chapter, and you know her papers would be all right if she
only had time to copy them and send them in, do not elect her to represent you.
Only members of the society may be seated as delegates. Neither should you
elect some one whose papers are in the hands of the registrar general and not
yet approved. A failure to hold elections on or before March 1 has caused sev-
eral chapters to lose representation at the present congress and also disappointed
those who were elected. Whose fault was it?
Your attention is called to the fact that the date of election must be filled in
and that the date should be the day the election actually took place, rather than
the day the blank was filled out or mailed.
It is no excuse for a regent to say, " I can not use a typewriter, and I had my
husband's stenographer fill out the blank for me, and I signed it without looking
it over to see if it was correct." It was your business to look it over and know
that it was correct. If you fail to fill in the date and your attention is called to
the omission, it is a small courtesy to reply to the inquiry asking when it was
held. A refusal to do this has caused the expense of 11 telegrams.
It is greatly to be desired that regents will familiarize themselves with the
difference between " delegate " and " alternate." Many chapters having less
than 50 members, knowing that the regent could not attend congress, have
elected a delegate, and in some instances delegates. When written to concerning
this matter, the almost invariable reply has been, " I shall not be able to
attend congress and Mrs. was elected to represent the chapter." In
several instances the additional information has been given " that it is very
queer how the credential committee tries to keep the chapters from being repre-
sented, and that it would be beneficial if some one was selected to handle
credentials who would know what the chapters intended without so much fuss."
Now, we are perfectly willing Mrs. shall represent the chapter, but, at the
risk of seeming stupid, must insist that she be listed as an alternate.
When a chapter treasurer attaches her signature to the credentials blanks, she
says: "All members are in good standing and the national dues properly re-
mitted to the treasurer general, and all marriages and transfers reported."
If chapter treasurers would comply with the rule that they shall make quarterly
report to the treasurer general, much confusion as well as many disappointments
regarding representation could be avoided.
When I tell you that over 75 per cent of the blanks come to us in such shape
that it is necessary to correspond concerning same, you can readily see what a
needless waste of time and money you cause just because you will not take the
pains to inform yourselves regarding the rules governing representation.
Explicit instructions are sent out with the blanks and there are no reasons
why the errors mentioned should occur.
None of us are infallible — we all make mistakes ; but when the same women
year after year make the same mistakes, it is time that they either inform
themselves or else allow some one who will do so to take the office. At a con-
servative estimate $100 in postage has been wasted — to say nothing of time-
just because regents do not take the pains to study and enforce the rules.
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Several chapter regents, having made errors that, if they had known about
them in time, could have been corrected and the chapters represented, have
complained because they were not informed concerning them in time, so that
these corrections might have been made. To these regents, I desire to say,
representation is based upon the membership in good standing according to
the treasurer general's books March 1 preceding congress. For this reason
it is impossible to check the blanks as they come in; they must all wait until
the books are closed March 1. With the quantities of money coming in by mail
and wire at the last minute, it takes several days to do the necessary posting.*
After the books are closed the membership must be counted one by one. This
takes several days, or rather nights, as this work is done after business hours.
After this the blanks must have the State and name of chapters placed on the
back, as also the number of paid members and unpaid members. Each blank
must be checked to see that the election was held at the proper time, the
correct number elected, that all listed are on the chapter roll, and that none
are in arrears. With almost 1,700 chapters, this of necessity takes time, and
it is well toward the middle of the month before we feel that we have time
to eat or sleep. With the accumulation of blanks it is not possible to check
all in one day. The errors are written about as fast as we get to them, but with
so many chapters there must be delay.
This information is given you that you may know how impossible it is under
the present system to write you immediate regarding any corrections that may
be needed in your blanks. A remedy for this situation is offered in the pro-
posed revision of constitution and by-laws, and I trust you will give it your
most careful consideration, always bearing in mind that it may be your lot
some day to struggle with credentials, and if that day ever comes it will not
take you long to decide that at the best it is not a bed of roses.
Before closing my remarks I wish to say to the State regents present that
there are several delegates in the city representing chapters whose elections
were held after March 1. There are also some in arrears on the books of the
treasurer general ■ March 1. All these have been notified they could not be
seated. Regardless of this they have come, believing that they only have to
appeal to their respective State regents and as a last resort to the president
general, and they will be seated. Please understand the credential committee
can grant no favors to one that can not be granted to all, and when you ask
to have these representatives seated you are asking the credential committee
to do something for you that you would condemn them for did they do it
for some one else.
Do not waste your time. Do not impose upon the president general by
attempting to discuss these matters with her. And, finally, do not think that
you can talk the credential committee over. The decisions have been made and
are final.
To the many chapter officers who have been so willing to make corrections
when attention has been called to the need of them, and to those State regents
who have cooperated with the committee in settling little difficulties in their
States, we extend our sincere appreciation.
If all entitled to seats were present, the total representation would be 2,415.
We report as present, registered, and entitled to vote, at 9 a. m. : National
officers, 10 ; vice presidents general, 21 ; State regents, 34 ; chapter regents, 681 ;
delegates, 447. Total, 1,193.
Respectfully submitted,
Maby H. S. Johnston,
Chairman Credential Committee.
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Mrs. Ellison, chairman of the committee on standing rules, gave
the following report :
Standing rules for the Twenty-eighth Continental Congress.
Rule I. The credential committtee shall report immediately after the president
general's address of welcome the number of members registered as present with
the proper credentials. The committee shall make daily supplementary reports
during the session.
Rule II. All resolutions submitted to the continental congress by individual
members other than officers may be presented from the floor when there is
nothing before the house, and shall at once be referred to the committee on
resolutions. The committee on resolutions shall give the mover of every reso-
lution that requests it an opportunity to explain her resolution to the committee.
The committee shall report to the congress all resolutions presented to it, except
such as three-fourths of the members of the committee vote not to report. In
making their report the committee may recommend the adoption of the resolu-
tion or recommend that the resolution be amended in a specified manner and then
adopted, or it may recommend that the motion be not adopted. The committee
may also report resolutions proposed by the committee itself. The congress by
a majority vote may order the committee to report any resolution presented to
the committee even though the committee has voted not to report such resolution.
Rule III. The recommendations of officers and national committees, after they
have been submitted to the continental congress, shall be referred to the com-
mittee on resolutions, who shall formulate resolutions to carry into effect the
recommendations and report them back with the committee's recommendation
as to their adoption.
Rule IV. All original main motions presented to the continental congress shall
be in writing and signed by mover and seconder of the motion.
Rule V. Roll call shall be answered by State regents for -their delegations.
Rule VI. The reports of State regents shall be limited to six minutes, except
those having gifts to present to Memorial Continental Hall, who shall be allowed
two minutes additional.
Rule VII. Public presentation of gifts, other than flowers and gifts to the
National Society, shall not be permitted during any meeting of congress.
Rule VIII. Reports and material for the proceedings and minutes of the
congress shall be typewritten in shape for the printer before they are handed in,
and all such material shall be sent to the table of the recording secretary general
before the close of congress.
Rule IX. No member shall speak more than twice during the same day to
the same question nor longer than five minutes at one time without leave of the
assembly, and the question of granting the leave shall be decided by a two-
thirds vote without debate.
Rule X. The rules contained In Roberts Rules of Order Revised shall govern
the continental congress in all cases in which they are applicable and in which
they are not inconsistent with the constitution, by-laws, and the standing rules
of the organization.
Mrs. Barnes, chairman of the program committee, made her report
as follows:
Madam President General, National Officers, Members of the Twenty-
eighth Continental Congress:
I am sure you are all familiar with the little saying that certain things are
"as easy as taking candy from a baby." I want to say that my part in this
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program has been even easier than that, because my committee has been willing
to do all the work, and have me stand here and say " Behold, how good it is."
Of course you understand that the business sessions are necessarily very similar
to that of previous years, because we have the same officers' reports, the same
committee reports and so on, and so you will find that much the same as it has
been in former years. But in the evening we had a chance for a little variety ;
and this evening, perhaps you have noticed, we have arranged to have all the
speakers women. We think this is very fine. To-morrow evening we have made
another little innovation by preceding the president general's reception with a
banquet. We hope you will all attend that; and if for any reason you have
made other arrangements for the banquet hour, we urge you most cordially to
come in at 10 o'clock, and we will be very glad to have you — accompanied by
your husbands. We women like to think we are self-sufficient, but when we are
really honest with ourselves we know we like the men for a background. On
Wednesday evening we are going to have Mr. Wilson, who has been very suc-
cessful down at Quant ico, the big marine camp, as a song leader. There is one
thing, if no more, that this horrible War we have just been through has done for
us, and that is it has made us a singing nation. We are always happy when we
sing, and we thought that would be a very good thing on our program. Thurs-
day evening, of course, we will have D. A. R. affairs on hand. On Friday we
have our business session in the morning, and then we have our " pilgrimage " to
Mount Vernon in the afternoon. We hope you will all try to go, so that we
can have as large and representative a body as possible. Friday night we have
speakers again — two men who have a message full of interest and meaning to us.
On Saturday we end the business of the congress.
And now, hoping that you will find your program and all your stay in Wash-
/ ington full of pleasure and very comfortable, I move that the program sub-
mitted by the program committee be adopted as the regular order of business for
the Twenty -eighth Continental Congress.
During the afternoon session the president general appointed the
following committee on resolutions: Mrs. S. A. Ammon, chairman;
Mrs. Reynolds, North Carolina; Mrs. Grant, Colorado; Mrs. Kite,
Ohio ; Mr^. Heath, North Carolina ; Mrs. Howell, Iowa ; Mrs. Whit-
man, New York; Mrs. Swormstedt, Massachusetts; Mrs. Fox, Mis-
sissippi ; Mrs. Talbott, Maryland ; Mrs. Draper, District of Columbia ;
Mrs. Smallwood, District of Columbia; Mrs. Egbert Jones, Missis-
sippi ; and Mrs Rand, Massachusetts.
The reports of national officers filled the remainder of the program
for the first day, and follow in regular order :
Report of chairman of Continental Hall Committee, Mrs. George T.
Guernsey.
Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental Congress :
It is the pleasure of the president general to present to you to-day her second
annual report as chairman of the national board of management and Continental
Hall committee.
Following out the plan adopted last year, five regular meetings of the national
board were held. One on Monday following the close of the last congress, one
on June 26, October 17, February 4 and 5, and on April 12; also four special
meetings, in May, November, January, and February. Three Continental Hall
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meetings were held. The one called for October was omitted on account of the
influenza.
Your president general has presided over all the regular meetings of the board
of management, executive, and Continental Hall committees, and the special
meetings of the board with the exception of two.
In preparing the committee lists the president general followed the same plan
she adopted last year, which gives the State regents the right to select for ap-
pointment by the president general most of the active members of the national
committees. She believes in most cases that this has lead to greater effective-
ness and consequently better results in the work of the State. She again
wishes to impress upon the State regents the necessity of giving serious
thought to the selection of their State chairman, because upon the choice made
depends the effective work of the national society. It is sincerely hoped that
each State regent will send in the names of her State chairman whom she
wishes appointed by the president general for the coming year promptly, and
that those receiving appointments will acknowledge them at once. By doing
this they will greatly aid the early issuing of the completed printed committee
lists.
As was stated in the report of last year, several of the national committees
were discontinued because they had either served their purpose as separate
committees or the work could be better carried on through other channels.
This year the president general announces the discontinuance of the com-
mittee children of the American Revolution.
Several years ago the founder of the Society of the Children of the American
Revolution requested the parent society, through its board of management, to
create a committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution to promote
interest in the society of the Children of the American Revolution. The re-
quest was granted and State chairmen were appointed in many of the States.
Feeling that this committee of the parent society has created some confusion
between the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the So-
ciety of the Children of the American Revolution, which worked through State
directors appointed by the board of that society, the society of the Children of
the American Revolution, deciding it can work better alone, has now requested
the discontinuance of the Daughters of the American Revolution committee,
which request has been granted by our board, and there will no longer be a
national committee for the Children of the American Revolution, so the State
regents in the future will not appoint State chairmen for that committee.
The improvements and repairs on the hall have continued during the present
year, and a number of valuable gifts have been made.
The president general especially wishes to thank the members of the States
of Iowa, Tennessee, and California who so kindly took the hint given by her
last year and have redecorated their rooms. She also wishes to express her
thanks to the Daughters of the State of Pennsylvania, who have redecorated
the vestibule.
Special gifts, consisting of a handsome new bookcase, mirror, and new appro-
priate chandelier and sidelights, were given by two New York chapters to the
New York State room, which is known as the recording secretary general's
room. Several handsome chairs have been given to the museum, either* by indi-
viduals or States; and glass tops have been placed on the tables in the Ten-
nessee room. Special mention will be made in the reports of the national offi-
cers occupying the rooms where the gifts have been placed. Now, if the Daugh-
ters in the State of New York will, during the coming year, make the redecora-
tion of the museum possible, we shall be most grateful to them, as our building
will then have been put into first-class condition.
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We are especially indebted to the Daughters of Vermont for completing the
stair rails. This year the State has placed the rails on the two stairways lead-
ing from the first floor to the basement.
Window boxes have been placed at the front and two side windows of the
building. These boxes, as well as the improved appearance of the ground in
the rear, which has been graded, seeded, and attractive flower beds arranged,
have caused many complimentary remarks by visitors to our building.
Knowing that several States and many chapters are only too anxious to help
add to the beauty of our building as well as its protection, your president gen-
eral is going to offer the suggestion that a fitting lamp is needed for the south
portico, and bronze grill protections for the museum glass doors. Which State
or chapter will be the first to respond?
The debt on the land at the rear of our building is gradually being reduced,
$16,000 having been paid during the year. The remaining $10,000 due on the
$25,000 borrowed for the publication of the magazine during the last adminis-
tration, when the magazine was sent free to every member of the society, also
has been paid, thus clearing the debt of that transaction.
Your president general does not wish in any way to infringe upon the report
that the chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution magazine com-
mittee will make, yet she feels that it is most fitting she should place before the
members of our society at this congress an outline of the policy of this adminis-
tration in regard to the magazine.
When at the congress of 1917 the magazine was again returned to the sub-
scription basis and the free distribution of the magazine to all members in good
standing was discontinued, the great burden of not only meeting the large debt
of over $80,000, which was caused by the free distribution of the magazine for
the duration of nine months, but also the still greater burden of again estab-
lishing a worth-while magazine upon a subscription basis fell upon the newly
elected national officers at that time. We are proud of the success that has
been made since July, 1917, when the first issue of the magazine under the new
administration came from the press.
While the subscription list has steadily increased from the first issue in July,
1917, up to the present time and the per cent of renewals is much greater than
the nonrenewals, we yet have a small subscription list compared with the mem-
bership of the society. Why is this? To my mind, this condition exists because
of the three following reasons :
First. Incredible as it may seem, but nevertheless true, lack of knowledge that
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution publishes a
magazine of its own.
Second. Knowing the society has a magazine, lack of knowledge of its con-
tents, both as to historic interest and valuable information of the active work
of the society.
Third. Procrastination in either subscribing for the magazine or regularly
renewing expired subscriptions.
Your president general is convinced, from the knowledge which she has
gathered in visiting State conferences and chapter meetings, that the principal
reason why members fail to subscribe for the magazine is the third reason which
she has mentioned — procrastination — because when an opportunity is given at
State conferences and chapter meetings to those members present, many are only
too willing to turn over $1, the price of a subscription, to some one who is willing
to assume the responsibility of sending in their names and money to the treas-
urer general. She has seen this method of securing subscribers to the magazine
work wonders. She recalls to mind two chapters, where at one 16 subscribers
were secured and at the other 20. She attended two State conferences recently
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where 48 subscriptions were taken at the first and 64 at the second. She
knows of two chapters where one of the requirements to become a member of
either is that one must take the magazine. She wishes every chapter in the
society would adopt the same requirement.
She feels so sure that the third reason is the greatest reason why our members
fail to subscribe for the magazine, we have decided to prove it by giving eve»vy
person attending the congress an opportunity to subscribe for the magazine,
and we use the word " person " advisedly, because we feel sure that you will
not only* be surprised but gratified to learn that over 500 persons not members of
our society recognize its historic value and are taking it for that reason.
Your president general, treasurer general, editor of the magazine, chairman
of the magazine committee, in company with the representative of the pub-
lishers of our magazine, have carefully taken up in all its varied forms the
matter of subscriptions, the make-up of the magazine as to cover, quality of
paper, type, illustrations, as well as contents, both as to historical articles and
official information. We are all agreed if we are to have a magazine it must be
in keeping with our great society. To have such a magazine it of necessity
means the expenditure of money. Who is to furnish the money?
In carefully going over the budget of the society we find that a definite sum
must be set aside each year for heat, light, insurance, and repair of the building,
as well as for postage, membership certificates, printing of the proceedings,
lineage book, application* blanks, and much other printed matter ; also for the
salaries of the clerical force, superintendent, messengers, guide, janitor, and
charwomen.
If you will carefully examine the treasurer general's report presented to you
to-day you will see the exact sum required for all these different items of
expense and the amount left with which to reduce our indebtedness, pay for the
magazine, and all incidental expenses.
We find that the society can afford to set aside a sum each year to be spent
upon the magazine, which otherwise would have to be spent in printing the
minutes and other official information necessary to the successful running of
the society ; but the sum is not large enough to pay ail the expenses of such a
magazine as we are now publishing.
We have realized from the beginning that to be able to establish the magazine
upon a paying basis would be " up-hill " work, even if normal conditions existed,
and much more so in war times. But we have succeeded, to the wonder of those
fully conversant with existing conditions, in producing a most excellent maga-
zine, although as yet we have not succeeded in securing the required number of
subscribers to make it self-supporting.
As has been stated, the society can afford to set aside a certain sum which
would make it possible to continue its publication, but we do not feel justified
to do so for an indefinite length of time unless we receive encouragement by
steady increase of subscriptions.
The time has now arrived when the members must come to learn that the
magazine is necessary to the better growth and life of our society.
While the subscription price of $1 under the high cost of everything necessary
in the make-up of a magazine such as is ours will never pay the entire cost
of its publication, but with a subscription list large enough to meet a reasonable
proportion of the expense we can afford to pay the remaining amount, just as
other necessary expenses are met.
Last June Mrs. Sarah Hall Johnston was obliged, because of continued ill-
health, to retire from active service as editor of the Lineage Book, and with her
retirement a new method of issuing the volumes was established.
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Under the new method, which places the responsibility for the accuracy of the
records on our application papers upon the shoulders of the society's genealogist,
where it belongs, the work has progressed much more rapidly than ever before,
so that since the last congress four volumes, the forty-sixth to the forty-ninth,
have been compiled and printed and are now ready for distribution, with every
indication of issuing as many or more volumes each year hereafter; the number
published being limited entirely by the amount of money available to pay for
them. Many letters have been received asking about the progress of the work
and the possibility of issuing the volumes more rapidly. To answer these ques-
tions the president general desires to state that with the present force in the
office of the historian general four, or even five, volumes can be issued a year.
Assuming that you will be interested in the movements of the president gen-
eral since the meeting of our last congress, she will state that Flag Day was
spent with Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, at Indianapolis; on the following
day going to La Fayette, Ind., to visit with the members of the home chapter of
our librarian general ; and coming direct from there to Washington for the June
meeting of the board.
The summer months were spent at her summer home at Chautauqua Lake,
N. Y. During the summer it was her privilege to meet at Chautauqua many of
the members of our society.
Early in October she had the pleasure of attending the Indiana State confer-
ence, at Evansville, before going to Washington for the October board meeting.
She was unable to attend several State conferences which were scheduled for
that month, due to their postponement on account of the influenza, which was
sweeping the country at that time.
After the October board the president general, in company with the vice
president general of Nebraska, went to Massachusetts to attend the State con-
ference of that State, at Greenfield, and chapter meetings of the Hannah Win-
throp, Warren, Prescott, and Attleboro Chapters. A visit was also at this
time made to the Gaspee Chapter, of Rhode Island.
Following the meetings in Massachusetts, they, in company with the. vice
president general from Connecticut and the State regents of Massachusetts and
Connecticut, visited the New Hampshire State conference, going by automobile
from Greenfield, Mass.
November 6 found the president general in Dallas, Tex., attending the State
conference of Texas, going directly there from Massachusetts.
On December 10 she was present at the White Breakfast given by the General
Henry Dearborn Chapter, of Chicago.
January 1 the president general was again at her desk in Memorial Conti-
nental Hall, where she remained until January 27, when in company with the
recording secretary general she was present at a perfectly appointed luncheon
with the New Jersey daughters at the home of the State regent, in Haddonfield.
They left that same afternoon for Harrisburg to attend the postponed State
conference of Pennsylvania, where they were joined by the vice presidents gen-
eral of Connecticut and Iowa and the State regent of Wisconsin, who were also
visiting guests of the conference. The two days spent with the Pennsylvania
daughters were full of interest.
From Harrisburg several of us (Miss Crowell, Mrs. Minor, and Mrs. Hume)
went to Wheeling, W. Va., and the two days spent there were most delightful.
A very interesting feature of this conference was the youthfulness of the dele-
gates. Your president general has never before seen so many young women
representing their chapters at a conference. It speaks well for the growth and
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perpetuation of our society in West Virginia, where so many of its younger
members have become active.
February 1 found us all returned to Washington ready for the February
board, called for the 4th and 5th of that month.
On February 6 your president general, in company with Mrs. Ellison, the
State regent of Massachusetts, left Washington for the Pacific coast to attend
the State conferences of California, which was held in San Francisco, Oregon
in Portland, and Washington in Tacoma. We found that while the Daughters
on the Pacific coast were not in so close touch with the national society as
those living nearer our headquarters, they were alive to the basic principles of
our society and were far ahead of those living nearer in the great work of
Americanization.
Your president general, while much as she should like to do so, has not the
time to tell separately of the wonderful work of our Pacific coast Daughters,
but she must take time to speak of two features of the Oregon conference.
First, every chapter was represented at the State conference — the State is
large and the chapters scattered. Second, they have made a careful study of
the flag laws and every flag used in decorating the ballroom of the hotel where
the meetings were held was properly hung.
On February 27 we turned our faces eastward. After spending three days
at her home in Independence, Kans., we journeyed to Little Rock, Ark., where
we spent three days with the Daughters of Arkansas and attended their State
conference. Resuming our journey we were joined at Chicago by the vice
president general of Nebraska, all three arriving in Cleveland, Ohio, on the
evening of March 12, where we attended two evening and one day session of
the Ohio State conference, making the fifth State conference since the February
board meeting.
On March 21, your president general and recording secretary general spent a
day — a most delightful one — at Scranton, Pa., with the members of the Scranton
City Chapter and visiting Daughters from near-by chapters. It has also been
her pleasure to attend several chapter meetings in the District of Columbia.
The president general regrets exceedingly that it has been impossible for her
to accept all of the cordial invitations received from practically every State
holding State conferences, to be present at those meetings, but she hopes by
the close of her administration to have visited every State conference at least
once. Incidentally, it may interest you to know that your president general has
had the good fortune to visit officially 20 State conferences, and in the years
immediately before she became president general conferences of 11 other States ;
one or more chapters in nine other States also have been visited in the past two
years.
These visits have taken her from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts twice, and
from the far North to the far South. Most of the States not visited have but
one chapter or possibly two, and consequently the State conference is little
more than a chapter meeting.
She is frank to say that she feels repaid for the time it has taken and the
expense incurred in making these visits because of the knowledge she has
gained, thus enabling her to have a better understanding of the conditions and
the work done in the States and chapters. It also gives her an opportunity to
meet personally the real workers among the members throughout the country,
and so helping her to appoint effective members of committees. She feels sure
that a keener knowledge of our society and a better understanding of our alms
are brought about by these personal visits of the president general and national
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The past year of war and stress has added many burdens to your national
officers' already arduous duties, but all of the officers have been most willing to
assume these extra burdens imposed upon them, and your president general
feels sure that all attending this congress will be gratified to learn of the great
work as a whole which has been accomplished, and she earnestly requests that
the Daughters of the American Revolution in taking up the work of recon-
struction and Americanization, which by right of heritage belongs to them,
will see to it that they work through our own organization which has been in
existence for over 28 years and not through organizations of mushroom growth.
Daughters, it rests upon you to make our society a power of strength in the
world.
In this great work of Americanization which lies before us your president
general is most anxious that the Daughters enter heart and soul.
Never in the history of our country has the necessity been so great as now of
making thorough Americans out of the aliens in our midst. And while we are
grandly coming to the front in helping to care for the French war orphans
do not let us forget in our D. A. R. reconstruction the care of our American
war orphans.
Your president general is quite anxious to have every chapter see to it that
the men in its county are listed who went into the Army and Navy, and in
case of any having lost their lives to investigate the condition of their families,
and unless they have decided means of caring for the children to the limit of
receiving a good education see to it that they are provided for in this at least.
What better safeguard to our country could we have than thoroughly devel-
oped good citizens, and how better could we show our appreciation for the
fathers of these children, who gave their lives that we might enjoy all the lib-
erties of a free country, than by educating their children?
Another line of work which needs to be pushed on vigorously is the publicity
of the American's creed and the placing of the Constitution in public places.
We have done great work in the publicity of the flag code and were the real
power back of flag legislation ; let us now do as well with the creed and the
Constitution. They will be read if placed in prominent places in both large and
small cities and villages, and, when read, surely will leave an enduring im-
pression.
In this great undertaking of creating a new Americanism in this new era
just opening before us the National Society, Daughters at the American Revolu-
tion, should stand out more prominently than any other organization, because
this is the primary cause of our existence.
During the past year so intense and world wide had been the business of war
that peace came like an unsubstantiated dream and found the Nation half in-
credulous in their rejoicing. We all know that in the days of peace and pros-
perity there had always been sorrow and tragedy as incidental to our stage of
civilization, yet we had a wide diffusion of comfort. The war came, and then
everything worth while was at stake. The war demanded complete concentra-
tion, and energy was aroused to an extent never before known in the history of
the race. Everything was done toward bringing the war to a successful end,
and I know of no group of women who gave more substantial aid to this pur-
pose than the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, who en-
tered whole-heartedly into this work. Now that peace has come are the forces
which you Daughters have stimulated and have united in under public control
to be dissolved and turned back to former conditions? No; we feel sure that
these aroused energies in you will expand themselves into efforts of one kind
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or another to help carry on the necessary work of reconstruction which must
of necessity follow in the wake of the war.
This period of reconstruction will require almost as much self-sacrifice,
anxious toil, and guidance as has the war period itself. There will be leader-
ship needed in education, industry, and social efforts of all kinds more than
ever before. But this will be a building up, giving us incentive to go on and
on, while war of* a necessity carries with it the discouragement that must
always go with the process of violence and destruction.
This new period will not be one of ease and self-indulgence as formerly, but
it will appeal to the enthusiastic and hopeful. This will be a time in which
great things can be done quickly, because the world has become accustomed to
boldness of design, rapidity of action, and unlimited expenditure for desired
ends. The public motive has made the private and selfish motive as unpopular
as it is unworthy.
Now that peace. has come the public motive will still dominate. Private
objects must be made to fit in with new standards of public good. Even as in
war time, so now in the period upon which we are entering all resources for
the supreme effort in a public cause will exert themselves through their own
chosen agencies for obtaining a common end.
Fortunate indeed will be the country which prefers order to chaos and is able
to readjust itself to new conditions in this time of vigorous assertion, uncen-
sored press, political equality, and the power of labor control, and which will
listen to moderate counsel, keep itself sane, sober, and industrious,* while at the
same time holding firmly to the high principles for the vindication of which the
war was fought. Again we affirm that the members of our great society stand
ready to do their part.
With the coming of peace there will be a tendency to forget what the boys
have done in this war. On the way east quite recently we overheard a cynic
remark, "Already a uniform looks different," and to him it probably did. But
to the great mass of Americans it does not and it must not. We must not let
our ardor for the soldiers cool off. They are still our soldiers; they are still
entitled to all the consideration, to all the love, to all the affection they would be
entitled to if the war was still going on at this very moment. But it must be
confessed there is a tendency to forget. Few of us remember the bridge that
bore us across the stream after we have safely crossed over. Deep down in our
hearts we can resolve that we shall not forget the uniform nor treat it with less
respect when a peace treaty is signed than we did in the dark days when the
boys went marching away.
Daughters, let us stand with Theodore Roosevelt, who in his last message to
the American people declared :
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an
American at ail. We have room for but one flag — the American flag — and this
excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization,
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
We have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American
people. We have room for but one language here and that is the English lan-
guage.
But one soul loyalty! But one flag! But one language! Does that mean
anything? It does to some.
" There must be no sagging back in the fight for Americanism merely because
the war is over."
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Report of the chaplain general. Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce.
Mme. Pbesident General, Members of the Congress, by the Divine Favor:
I am happy to report attendance on all meetings of the national board of
management (five regular meetings and three special meetings) during the past
year. Bible readings as chosen under the Spirit's guidance for the meetings
brought, I believe, strength and vision to heart and mind, as the interests of our
great society were considered. I would refer to the proceedings of the national
board meetings as published in the magazine, where report is given of the de-
votional exercises, in the hope that the Scripture selections and comments may
prove helpful at State and chapter meetings whenever it is desired to follow the
thoughts suggested.
The compilation of the Remembrance Book is a part of the duty of the
chaplain general, as you doubtless know ; therefore I would report that the two
numbers, as directed, have been issued during the year — July, 1918, January,
1919. These contain tributes and names placed there in memory of our de-
ceased members in so far as they have been received in time for publication.
(Copies may be secured at the business office.) "The righteous shall be held
in everlasting remembrance.'* (Psalm, 112:6.) "And I heard a voice from
heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and
their works do follow them." (Revelations, 14: 13.)
I would ask, Mme. President General, that the congress rise and remain
standing while the names of those who have died are being read. First in
memory of members who have died whose names as yet are unknown to us :
1. Mrs. N. D. Sperry, former vice president general from Connecticut, who
died December 16, 1917, but whose name was not included in the last year's
report to congress.
2. Mrs. Ruth M. Griswold Pealer, former registrar general, who died May 12,
1918, tribute to whom appeared in the July issue of Remembrance Book.
3. Mrs. Clayton R. Truesdall, former vice president general from Ohio, who
died November 30, 1918 ; tribute in January, 1919, issue of Remembrance Book.
4. Mrs. Mary M. Hill, former vice president general from Connecticut, who
died May 23, 1918.
5. Mrs. George Kuhn Clarke, historian general, National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution, who died January 15, 1919, a beautiful tribute to
whom appeared in March issue of the magazine, and in whose memory resolu-
tions were passed at the national board in February.
6. Mrs. Elizabeth Letson Bryan, State regent for Hawaii, who died February
28, 1919 ; tribute will follow in next issue of book.
" Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world."
To close this report may I add this quotation of the poet :
Rouse to some high and holy work of love
i And thou an angel's happiness shall know;
Shall bless the earth when in the world above
The good begun by thee shall onward flow.
In many a branching stream and wider grow
The seed that in the few and fleeting hours
Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow
Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers
And yield thee fruit in heaven's immortal bowers.
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With the Minute Men of Lexington, the men of Chateau Thierry will live in
the memory of the world forever ; so may our work continue to be animated by
the same spirit and thus prove to be of equal value to America.
I would offer the following resolution in memory of our late lamented Mrs.
George Kuhn Clarke, late historian general :
Whereas, in the providence of God, a loved and cherished member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, the historian general, Mrs. George Kuhn
Clarke, has been called to larger service in the life beyond since last we met in
continental congress :
Therefore be it resolved, That we mourn her loss, and greatly miss her presence
to-day ; and while the unusual character of her service to the society is difficult
to replace, we rejoice in the belief that her entrance into life eternal was an
abundant one, and that she merited in an especial way the welcome, " Well done,
good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." She was a royal
daughter of the kingdom, and so, a loyal patriot of her country.
Be it also resolved, That we, the Daughters of the American Revolution in
twenty-eighth congress assembled, under the inspiration of her life and work,
pledge ourselves to renewed loyalty to our society, our country, and our God.
Be it also resolved, That our loving sympathy be hereby expressed to the
family of Mrs. Clarke in this, the hour of our mutual bereavement, stating our
faith that " we sorrow not even as others which have no hope."
Respectfully submitted.
Elisabeth F. Pierce, Chaplain General.
Report of the recording secretary general.
Madam President General and Members or the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress.
In presenting my second report to the congress I take* pleasure in stating that
it has been the earnest endeavor and constant aim of my office to record and
transmit through the proper channels the rulings and wishes of the society as
ordered by the continental congress and the national board of management
Immediately following the twenty-seventh congress copies of the various
resolutions adopted by that body having to do with legislation in the United
States were sent to both Houses of Congress, and all congressional rulings were
sent to the various offices, chapters, and members affected by them.
Carrying out the wish of congress, a letter and copy of the resolution on the
subject were sent to Mr. Hugh Morrison expressing the appreciation of the
Daughters to the women of Islay for their loving sympathy manifested in the
making of the United States flag for our soldiers who lost their lives when the
Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk off the Scottish coast at that place. Mr.
Morrison's reply and several pictures of the funeral cortege were received and
turned over to the custodian of flags to be filed with her correspondence on the
same subject.
Notices of the regular and special meetings of the board have been sent to all
members at least two weeks in advance of each meeting. The meetings have been
reported, minutes prepared for the magazine, and proof read, and all rulings of
the board sent to the various offices and to members affected thereby.
Notices for meetings of the Memorial Continental Hall committee in October,
February, and April were sent, although only two have been held, the one called
for October having to be omitted because of the influenza epidemic
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Notification of the meetings of the executive committee have been sent, the
meetings reported, and the action decided upon in each case presented to the
board for confirmation.
The president general's appointments on all national and congressional com-
mittees have been listed, notification of such appointments sent, the letters
received in reply filed, and the lists of their committees sent to all chairmen.
Notification of admission to membership in the society have been sent to 5,685
members.
The ruling of the president general that all reports presented to congress must
be in proper form to be printed and sent to the recording secretary general's
desk before the close of the congress greatly lightened the task of preparing for
the printer the proceedings of the twenty-seventh congress, the strict observance
of this rule making it possible to have the manuscript ready and in the hands of
the printer before the 1st of June. It was through no fault of the recording
secretary general that the book was not received by the members early in Sep-
tember, the delay being caused by the inability of the publisher to retain his
printers because of the second draft and the great demand by the Government
for such workers.
For the first time in the history of the society the certificate division reports
its work up to date, all certificates having been sent to the members entitled
to them up to and including all members admitted in February. Since the
last congress 17,862 certificates have been issued, 10,873 of the past administra-
tion and 6,989 to members admitted in the past year.
By-laws of chapters and States, when submitted, have been carefully scru-
tinized to see that they do not conflict with the national constitution and by-
laws. While the recording secretary general has nothing to do with the draw-
ing up of these State and chapter by-laws, suggestions have been made to those
submitting them when it seemed that such suggestions would be helpful.
The revision of the constitution and by-laws offered to the twenty-seventh
congress and recommitted by that body, was again prepared for the printer in
this office, the proof read, and the completed copies placed in the office of the
corresponding secretary general for mailing to the chapters.
The work of classifying, filing, and cataloguing all the records of the society
which should be in the custody of the recording secretary general is progressing
satisfactorily, and it is hoped that in future it will be less difficult to locate all
information desired on any given subject.
The New York room, which is the office of the recording secretary general,
has received several additions to its furnishings this year. A beautiful colonial
mirror has been presented by the Philip Schuyler Chapter and is in place over
the mantel given by that chapter several years ago. The Mary Washington
Colonial Chapter has been most generous. Immediately after the twenty-seventh
congress that chapter gave the room a large mahogany bookcase, made espe-
cially to match the one already in the room, and within the last month they
have ordered a handsome colonial crystal chandelier and four wall bracket
lights, the addition of which will make the New York room one of the most
beautiful in the building. The recording secretary general desires to express
her appreciation to these chapters for their gifts.
While the year just passed has been a very busy one for the recording secre-
tary general, it has also been a very happy one because of the spirit of harmony
and intelligent cooperation prevailing in her office.
Respectfully submitted.
Emma L. Cbowell,
Recording Secretary General.
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The Report of the Corresponding Secretary General.
Madam President General, National Officers, and Members of the Twenty-
eighth Continental Congress :
It is with pleasure that I report to you the work which has been done in my
office since the last congress.
The year just ended has been a most interesting one, though with many per-
plexing phases, as the correspondence received has embraced many lines of
thought and endeavor. We have given to the best of our ability the information
which has been requested, referring in some instances, however, to different
Government departments and bureaus the matters which were beyond our ken,
as questions have come to us not only pertaining to the society and its work,
but also to the various activities which the World War has brought forth.
While perhaps the number of application blanks and other supplies sent out
from my office during the past 12 months does not equal that of some of the
preceding years, I do not think it signifies a lack of interest, but rather it is the
result of an appeal which we sent to the chapter officers some months ago when
we asked them to be as sparing in their use of the blanks as possible, giving
only where there was a likelihood of securing members, or where they were
reasonably sure additional lines would be traced. This appeal was occasioned
by the great expense these application blanks are to the society, with the in-
creased cost of paper and printing. '
As will be noticed in the registrar general's report, the number of application
papers examined and approved is as large, if not larger, than in former years.
In some instances the blanks given out several years ago, before the dates were
required, are now being returned made out with the dates filled in.
The following supplies have been issued : Application blanks, 40,129 ; leaflets,
"How to Become a Member," 3,477; leaflets, "General Information," 3,517;
transfer cards, 2,443; constitutions, 1,216; 3,871 letters have been received and
recorded, while 3,338 letters have been written.
During the summer months the national committee lists were mailed to the
members of the national board, chapter regents, committee chairmen, vice
chairmen, and division directors, making some 1,800 copies in all. Copies of the
proposed revision were also sent from my office in February to the members of
the board and the chapter regents.
Adopting the suggestion of the Government that the use of paper and printer's
ink be reduced to a minimum, the society did not issue an edition of the
constitution following the twenty-seventh congress. The old edition con-
taining the amendments adopted in recent years is about exhausted, and it
has therefore been impossible to comply with all of the requests which have
come to us for additional copies of the constitution, only one copy being
sent instead of the former liberal supply.
As usual, the clerical work of the finance committee has been done by a
clerk in my office.
I can not close my report without expressing my appreciation of the efficiency
and the untiring efforts of my clerks, one of whom has recently been assigned to
the office of the curator general, though still giving a portion of her time to the
work of my office.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. Woodbury) Adelaide P. Pulsifer,
Corresponding Secretary General.
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Report of the Organizing' Secretary General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Your organizing secretary general reports for the past year the following
work:
Organizing regents confirmed, 41 ; organizing regencies expired, 36 ; organizing
regents reappointed, 12 ; organizing regents resigned, 1 ; chapters authorized, 6 ;
chapters disbanded, 11; chapters organized, 42; total number of chapters
to date, 1,662.
Commissions issued to national officers, 8; vice presidents general, 7; State
and State vice regents, 38 ; reelection cards to State and State vice regents and
national officers, 57 ; charters issued, 35.
Permits issued for regents and ex-regents' bars, 161 ; permits issued national
officers, State and State vice regents for bars, 16.
Lists of chapter regents issued without charge to national officers and chair-
men of national committees, 14 ; lists issued with permission of State regent for
which charge was made, 8 ; letters received, 1,093 ; letters written, 1,172 ; letters
written for election of chapter officers, 850 ; notice of election of chapter officers
received, 1,420; guides to chapter regents sent out, 125; circular letters issued,
1,000.
Catalogue reports. — New members' cards filed, 6,925; records made on mem-
bers' cards of changes of address or chapter, 5,103 ; deaths, 1,416 ; dropped for
nonpayment of dues, 992; marriages, 1,165; reinstatements, 164; resignations,
809; vacant numbers, 1; errors (as reported by chapters, to be accounted for),
9 ; total number of cards filed, 16,506 ; admitted membership, including all mem-
bers who have ever been admitted, 146,290 ; actual membership, 106,103 ; numeri-
cal increase, including reinstatements, 7,089; actual increase, excluding dead,
dropped, and resigned, 3,871.
In comparing the work of the past year with that of the year before* we find
only a small percentage of falling off of activities, and that may be accounted for
from the fact that Daughters wishing to do active service have joined organized
chapters — organized for immediate work — rather than form new chapters not
prepared for prompt, efficient service.
We are enjoying another beautiful gift in the shape of a mahogany desk from
the State of Illinois; also the artistic silk curtains for our marriage files, for
which we wish to express our deep appreciation.
Respectfully submitted.
Anna Louise Fletcher,
Organizing Secretary General.
Report of the Registrar General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
The great World War has passed into history, and, despite all predictions to
the contrary, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion has neither gone backward nor remained stationary in the interest of the
women of our country. War activities may have absorbed much of the energy
of women not already members of the organization, but the desire to be per-
manently identified with the greatest patriotic society of America is still preva-
lent among them. From Oregon, Idaho, Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, and
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the Dakotas come indications of a special awakening of interest, and letters
from the regents of these respective States report a greatly increased number
of chapters and applications for membership in process of completion. All other
States show a continuous increase of membership, but New York remains the
banner State for total membership and increase in membership during the year.
Mothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, grandmothers, and grandchildren of members
continue to be enrolled; and we now note as a special feature that we are
beginning to admit the great-granddaughters of the early members of our
society; 6,.925 applications for membership have been approved during the past*
year, and 1,717 supplemental papers have been verified in addition, making a
total of 8,642 papers verified ; 1,710 of these added new Revolutionary service
records to our files.
The uew papers being received are much more complete as to necessary data
than formerly, thus showing a better cooperation on the part of the chapter
registrars with the national office — a fact greatly appreciated by the registrar
general and her clerical force, as it means a saving of time, labor, postage, cor-
respondence, and delay in acceptance. This means, also, a corresponding de-
crease in the number of papers returned from the office unverified, of which
there has been during the past year 494 original and 498 supplemental.
In returning papers unverified from the national office, one copy of the papers,
together with copies of all correspondence, is placed on file in what is known as
" Returns," so that if later any additional data is received that will enable ns
to complete the papers, the applicant can be immediately notified to return the
copy sent back to her in order that her application may be approved. Frequently
these papers wait several years before the necessary information can be ob-
tained, yet not a week passes but information is received which enables us to
take papers from these files and complete them. The papers being received
from children and grandchildren of early members, when the application papers
did not require dates for each generation, are also supplying this deficiency,
consequently the records of the national society are becoming more and more
valuable as to the genealogy and history of our Nation.
Of papers in the office other than returns, awaiting additional information
written for, there are 141 originals and 102 supplemental. This is the smallest
number of this class of records remaining at the close of any year's work.
There have been issued permits for insignia, 2,957 ; permits for ancestral bars,
1,033 ; recognition pins, 3,026.
This congress may be interested to know that the total number of permits
issued since the founding of the society has been 58,303 for insignia, 29,674 for
ancestral bars, and 26,059 for recognition pins, while our total enrollment of
membership to date is 146,290.
The record of correspondence of the office shows 12,248 letters and 7,084
postals written.
During the past year the office has lost by death from its faithful working
force, Mrs. Ruth M. G. Pealer, for 14 years the efficient genealogist ; two clerks
resigned to accept Government positions ; and one clerk was transferred to the
position of clerk to the magazine and assistant in the business office.
During the " flu " epidemic the office was much hampered by illness among the
individual clerks and in their respective families, but owing to the splendid
esprit de corps and efficiency of the force the work of the national society has
not suffered, and all papers, including supplemental applications, are being
taken care of promptly as they are received each month.
Respectfully, submitted.
Grace M. Pierce, Registrar General.
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Report of the Treasurer General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Some adopt the slogan, " Watch us grow," and in most instances it is a very
good one ; but should your treasurer general adopt it she would immediately be
called to account by the registrar general for infringing upon her prerogatives ;
therefore, in the interests of self-preservation, one equally as important to us
has been selected — " Watch us pay."
We entered congress a year ago owing $84,806.72; to-day we owe but $58,-
158.93, a reduction during the past year of $26,647.79.
The first mortgage, covering lots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11, amounting to $2,000, has
been paid and released; $2,000 of the second mortgage covering- these same
lots has been paid ; the mortgage of $10,000 covering lots 23 to 28 has been paid
in full, and the release of same will soon be a matter of record.
The amount borrowed from the Philippine scholarship fund ($1,130) has been
paid, as has also the amount borrowed from the Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean
fund ($1,517.79).
The balance of our heritage of the magazine indebtedness of $10,000 has been
paid; and, while it was a great waste of money, I trust the lesson will not be
lost upon the Daughters, and the next time they feel inclined to throw away
$90,000 they will stop and consider. Our indebtedness at the present time con-
sists of one demand note of $38,000, being the balance of the purchase price of
the lots directly back of our building, and being rented to the Government for
such a period as it may see fit to occupy it, and three notes amounting to
$20,158.93, secured by mortgages on lots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11. It has not been
easy to make this reduction and not hamper the work of the society, but it has
been done ; and in the printed report you will find much to be proud of.
We have $61,300 invested in Liberty bonds, all bearing 4i per cent, and we
have, as you will see by examining the report, quite an amount on hand for
the next issue. The entire contribution to this fund, State by State, will be
found in the back of the report, and I trust each State delegation will carefully
scan the amount given by its State, and if the full quota has not been met make
a determined effort at this time to do so.
The entire contribution to the Tilloloy fund is also given in the same way,
and with a small effort on your part the full amount for this can be raised.
The amount contributed during the past year only for support of French
orphans is tabulated, State by State, and each State has reason to be proud
of its efforts. During the coming year it is to be hoped the interest in this
wonderful work will not abate. r
The subscriptions to the magazine show a material increase over last year,
but it still deserves more whole-hearted support. If you could read the letters of
commendation coming to us from prominent educators and others whose opin-
ions are worth while concerning the value of the magazine from an educa-
tional and historical standpoint many of you would feel ashamed of yourselves
for the unconcerned attitude you adopt regarding subscribing for what you
should consider your magazine.
You will no doubt notice a large increase in expenses in the certificate divi-
sion of the office of recording secretary general. In considering this fact it
should be taken into consideration that this covers not only the handling of
all certificates issued during the past year but 11.436 left over from the pre-
vious administration, and which the last congress authorized the signing and
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distribution of, with the increase in postage, price of seals, mailing tubes, etc.
This has increased the expense of this division at least $2,000.
The matter of the amount due the originator of the Block certificate plan —
one long discussed — was, after a full investigation of the same, settled for
$1,500; and after inspecting the amounts expended in the work by Mrs. Block
it is no more than an act of justice that this congress extend a vote of thanks
to Mrs. Block for this generous settlement.
At the risk of being accused of " talking shop," I wish to call the attention
of chapter treasurers to a receipt book published by our official stationers,
Caldwell & Co., and would suggest that they investigate the merits of it. In my
estimation it would save much confusion regarding dues if the use of the same
was more generally adopted. A sample will be on exhibition at the time of the
conference between the chapter and State treasurers and treasurer general.
I also suggest that chapter treasurers more generally adopt the idea of keeping
a set of books for a record of financial transactions of the chapter, with members
and the national society. Your head is not the proper place for such records.
It is quite necessary that the board proceedings reach all national officers.
State, and chapter regents, as well as the various committee members. Even
though they attend the meetings, it is essential that this information be ac-
cessible at all times. To publish this and distribute it after each board meeting
would entail an expense to the society of at least $5,000.
All this is published in the Magazine, and it seems hardly fair that the
society should reap the benefit of this and not credit the medium through which
this information is disseminated, with the amount it would cost if handled
otherwise. If the space used for this purpose in the Magazine was available for
advertisements, the Magazine could make a much better showing. I therefore
recommend that $5,000 be appropriated from the current fund and placed to the
credit of the Magazine as recompense for publishing and distributing the board
proceedings.
After a full investigation of the source from which the Emily Nelson Ritchie
McLean fund was derived, it has been found that the major part of this fund
consists of contributions made for the use of our building, with the accumulated
interest on same. Of necessity it is not possible to use the money for the pur-
pose for which the fund was created. I therefore recommend' that the amount
in this fund be transferred to the permanent fund, where it properly belongs.
A debt is a debt, but it is not quite so appalling if it is not connected with a
mortgage. In days gone by this organ zation could not borrow money upon its
note without security, but we have outgrown that and have reached the stage
where we are rated as a " safe risk " and can borrow on the note of the society.
We have but one remaining mortgage and in order that we may have all our
holdings clear from mortgages I recommend that this congress authorize the
procuring of a loan for such an amount as will cancel the indebtedness in the
form it now Is.
This money can be secured at the same rate as our other indebtedness and
payable upon demand, enabling us to make payments as we see fit. With proper
economy we can, at the longest, in three years, be entirely out of debt and in
shape to make plans for an office building properly equipped for convenience and
efficiency in carrying on our work.
For the convenience and information of congress, a tabulated list of the
voting strength of congress under present rules and under the proposed revision
has been placed at the close of the printed report. These figures are based limn
the supposition that every member in every chapter is in good standing; un-
fortunately that is not the case. This information is given you in order that you
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may vote understanding^ upon the representation question when it is presented
to you. If any further information is desired it will be given upon request.
In closing I wish to express my appreciation of the many courtesies extended
me by my fellow officers, and I also desire to express publicly my thanks to my
efficient office force. I should be lost without "my girls," and my one wish is
that you will appreciate their conscientious efforts to please everybody all the
time. That is not an easy thing to do, but they strive to do it.
Respectfully submitted.
Mary H. S. Johnston,
Treasurer General.
Report of the Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Madam President General, National Officers, and Members of the Twenty-
eighth Continental Congress:
As chairman of the finance committee I have the honor to submit my report
for the year ending March 31, 1919.
Contributions have been received by the treasurer general for relief and edu-
cational work comprising war relief, $95,772.54; patriotic education, $5,050.07;
Red Cross, $1,017.56.
During the year vouchers have been approved to the amount of $219,352.12,
which amount included the disbursing of the above-named contributions.
The following are some of the larger amounts that have been expended:
Clerical service, $36,294.64 ; magazine, $29,312.73 ; employees of hall, $7,913.85 ;
postage, $6,784.22; support of Real Daughters, $2,816; expenses of twenty-
seventh congress, $2,969.77; proceedings of twenty-seventh congress, $2,240.87;
lineage, $2,444.85; handbook, $1,055.70.
For a detailed statement I must refer you to the treasurer general's report.
While some of the figures here given seem larger than in former years, the
price of everything has increased because of war conditions, and as every
woman here knows from her own individual experience, both labor and material
cost nearly twice as much as they did two years ago.
Before closing my report I wish to thank Miss Bertha M. Wolfe, who, dur-
ing the three months of my absence from the city last summer, performed the
duties of chairman of the finance committee.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. Woodbury) Adelaide P. Pulsifer, Chairman.
Report of the Chairman of the Auditing Committee.
Madam President General and Members of the Continental Congress :
Your auditing committee begs leave to report :
1. That it continued the contract with the American Audit Co. to make
monthly audits of the accounts of the treasurer general.
2. That it has held regular monthly meetings, at which it has received, ex-
amined, and compared the monthly reports of the treasurer general, and the
monthly reports of the American Audit Co. thereon, which latter reports were
based upon a monthly examination of the books, bank accounts, and vouchers
of the treasurer general's office, and have found the same to be correct and in
accord.
3. From these reports and examinations we believe that the books and ac-
counts of the treasurer general are well and properly kept, and that the finan-
cial condition of the national society is strong and prosperous.
Bespectfully submitted.
Bertha H. Talbott, Chairman.
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Report of the director general in charge of the report to the Smith-
sonian Institution, Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath.
[See Twenty-first Report.]
Report of the Librarian General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
It is safe to say that never before has the interest in our library been greater.
We are realizing, more and more, that the books we need are becoming scarce.
Many of them are hidden away in the attics and trunks of our older homes, and
we need your help in saving these records of the past for generations that are to
come.
In Memorial Continental Hall we have a storehouse for everything in the way
of history and genealogy, and it is the duty of every chapter and every Daughter
to see that this storehouse (our library) is made an asset to the society.
You elected me your librarian general, and then what did most of you do?
You went home and forgot me; forgot that this office carries with it an
immense amount of work and responsibility; forgot that we owe it to our
ancestors to make this the best historical and genealogical library in the coun-
try; forgot that the ambition of your librarian general is to see a D. A. R.
librarian in every State.
There are 51 State organizations. If your librarian general of the future
could work through 51 State librarians, can you not imagine the results that
would follow?
I hope every Daughter will pay a visit to the library during congress week.
When you enter do not fail to notice the portrait of our beloved founder, Mrs.
Lockwood. which hangs over the desk of the librarian general. Mrs. Lockwood
really presides over the library, and will ever be an inspiration and an incentive
to work to those who are elected to sit beneath her watchful eyes.
Twenty-one States have complied with my request and elected librarians, as
follows: Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Texas,
Florida, Montana, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, Maine, Iowa,
Louisiana, Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, and South
Carolina.
Several State regents have assured me that at their next conferences State
librarians will be elected.
Several States have book committees and are doing splendid work, showing
that they are interested. Then why not do our State work through State
librarians as well as through State historians?
Let us hope that if we have a list to read next year it will only be of those
States still without librarians
The question is so often asked, " What are the duties of a State librarian?"
First. She must be enthusiastic in her work, and the best way to get enthu-
siasm is to visit the library, see what a wonderful collection of books we have,
and realize how many more we need to keep pace with our growing society.
Second. She must get in touch with the chapters of her State and communi-
cate her enthusiasm to them. Many books are presented by chapters or mem-
bers, or even by authors themselves, many of whom are pleased to know that
their books are on our shelves. But there are times when begging or bribing
will not be effective, and then, if you have not a State library fund, you can
appeal for help to the librarian general.
Third. Beginning right after this congress, keep a list of books sent by your
State and report the number to the librarian general, that she may include it in
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her report to congress, and have it appear In the printed proceedings It would
be impossible in the short time allowed for this report to mention the titles
of books sent in. These always appear in the magazine after our national
board meetings.
Fourth. The State librarian must report any change in office to the library,
to facilitate correspondence ; and
Fifth. After we have 51 State librarians, I hope the interest will be so great
that chapter librarians will naturally follow.
Then my dream of seeing a great chain of workers for the library will be
realized.
I wonder how many Daughters will come to the library during congress week
to look up an ancestor or to straighten out a tangled line.
Our books are consulted every day in the year, not only by Daughters, but
by our officers, genealogists, and men. The soldiers have shown a great interest
in their ancestors during the past two years, and come often to the library for
information. All this is an argument for a larger and more efficient library.
Not long ago a Mr. Brown, of Tennessee, came to Memorial Continental Hall,
looking for something he could do in memory of his mother, Mrs. John C. Brown,
honorary regent of the Campbell Chapter, of Nashville, Tenn. Nothing seemed
to appeal to him until he reached the library. They tell me his face lighted
up with joy. He had found work to do for his mother. He has been given a
whole shelf, and he intends to fill it with Tennessee books, and just outside of
that shelf you will see a small tablet marking it as his gift to the memory of his
mother.
Mrs. Gross, of Middlefleld, Mass., and Mrs. Bingham, of Hartford, Conn.,
are doing a unique and valuable work for the library. They are indexing the
genealogical columns of the Boston Transcript and Hartford Times, thus pre-
serving genealogical records that might otherwise be lost.
Mrs. Samuel Ammon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and her sister, Miss Darlington,
have again remembered the library, this time presenting 166 books in memory
of their mother, Mrs. Mary Darlington.
When Mrs. Clark, the historian general, passed away, the library lost an
admirer and a generous contributor. Although her chair is vacant to-day she
will always be held in loving remembrance by her fellow members.
The congress of 1918 granted an appropriation of $200 for the purchase of
books not obtainable by gift or exchange. I recommend that the appropriation
be continued this year.
You are acquainted with my librarian, Miss Griggs, and know that we could
not do without her. The librarians general are elected every three years, but
Miss Griggs, like the brook, goes on forever.
In April, 1917, we had 8,000 books; in April, 1918, we had 8,500, a gain of 500.
This year we have added 654, making a total of 9,154 books on our shelves
to-day. With your help we are going to report a still larger gain in 1920.
Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. James M.) Eva Gross Fowler,
Librarian General.
Report of the Curator General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress Assembled:
The curator general's report will have its usual brevity, and I trust will be to
the point
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I have the honor and pleasure to report the progress of the museum during
the past year, and I am happy to state that the museum is realizing the closing
of the war, and the gradual cessation of war activities has produced an acceler-
ated activity in our own work.
The gifts donated are improving in character as the requirements of a
woman's museum, in a woman's organization, would naturally call for articles of
the home or the personal possessions of women, and with the museum directly
under your observation the needs and desires are easily seen.
Through a very favorable opportunity a set of mantel ornaments were pur-
chased from the museum fund. These girandoles once belonged to an old dis-
tinguished family of this city, so they have found a fitting resting place in this
beautiful hall.
It gives me pleasure to report that the State of Virginia has presented a wall
case in honor of its retiring State regent, Miss Alethea Serpen.
The beautiful chairs, which are so enhancing the furnishing of the museum,
are most essential, and I earnestly hope you may seriously consider them and
donate them, that the furnishing of the room may soon be complete. During
the past year the State of Michigan presented a chair in honor of Mrs. Lucius E.
Holland; two armchairs have been presented by chapters in the District of
Columbia, one from the Captain Molly Pitcher Chapter in honor of its regent,
Miss Mary Elizabeth Ford, and the Dolly Madison Chapter in honor of its mem-
ber, the curator general ; and one from Mrs. Charles E. Longley, the vice presi-
dent general of Rhode Island. These chairs may be presented as memorial gifts.
Ten chairs and one wall case are needed to complete the adornment of the
museum.
I take this opportunity to express my appreciation of my very capable assist-
ant, Miss Mary E. L. Hall. She has an extensive knowledge of the value of
Revolutionary relics, as well as the intricacies of museum work, and she dis-
charges her duties to entire satisfaction.
The number of accessions, 114. Glass, 15 ; luster, 4 ; pewter and tin, 5 ; silver,
27 ; fans, 2 ; china, 18 ; jewelry, 11 ; Continental money, 3 ; manuscripts, 2 ; and
miscellaneous, 36.
I want to add to my report that the State of Wyoming will present to the
hall a handsome silk flag to take the place of the bunting flag which has been in
the collection since 1915. This silk flag is the gift of the four chapters of the
State.
The bunting flag will be returned to Wyoming, where it will be used for
educational and patriotic purposes. This report carries two recommendations —
for the appropriation of $50 for the purchase of Revolutionary relics and that
the $50 be continued for repairs of manuscripts.
Respectfully submitted.
Catherine Bbittin Barlow, Curator General.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental.
Congress Assembled :
I have the honor to report to you the proceedings of the national committee
on Revolutionary relics. In my report of last year I prophesied that the results
of this committee would be greater this year, and am happy to relate that of the
47 States being represented by one State chairman, 30 of these women have re-
sponded to the honor of the appointment, in .letters to the national chairman, and
in a more substantial research for Revolutionary relics.
It is quite true that such articles are more prevalent in the East, yet the West
could express itself in responding to correspondence, and at least let the national
chairman know she Is living,
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Of the 30 certified members of the committee, 16 have sent gifts as follows :
District of Columbia, Miss Dorinda Rogers, chairman, 17.
Massachusetts, Mrs. Frank H. Warren, chairman, 12.
Maine, Miss Jessica J. Haskell, chairman, 2f>.
Ohio, Miss Lynn Chapman, 3.
Virginia, Mrs. W. W. Richardson, chairman, 6.
Nebraska, 20 articles through Mrs. J. J. Stubbs.
New York, Mrs. L. B. Prince, chairman, 4.
New Jersey, Mrs. Wm. C. Mulford, chairman, 3.
Illinois, Mrs. Fred Ball, chairman, 5.
Texas, Mrs. Hebor Stone, chairman, 1.
Connecticut, Mrs. R. F. Cheney, chairman, 9.
Indiana, Mrs. John L. Dinwiddle, chairman, 2.
Vermont, Mrs. John Stewart, chairman, 1.
Florida, Miss Sallie Yewell, chairman.
Delaware, Mrs. E. P. Moody, chairman, 1.
Alabama, Mrs. C. M. Tardy, chairman, 5.
I extend to these active members of my committee my sincere thanks and
appreciation of their efforts. Where gifts were not available, letters were sent
me, expressing pleasure in their appointment, which I can assure you is most
encouraging to the chairman.
Respectfully submitted.
Catherine Brittin Barlow, Curator General.
Report of the Historian General {Mrs. George Kuhn Clarke, who
died January 15, 1919) .
[Prepared by Miss Eleanor Clarke and read by Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath.]
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
There has been an enthusiastic and very general response to Mrs. Clarke's
circular giving suggestions for the work of the committee on historical research
and preservation of records. To the true historian research is a tranquil relax-
ation from the stress of the present day. Thus it is that in spite of the pressing
requirements of the war, time has been found to accomplish much in the field
of original research. Furthermore, in our service to the heroes of this world
conflict it was not fitting that we should utterly ignore our debt of gratitude to
the brave men of that other war of freedom in 1776.
Mrs. Clarke called especial attention to the locating and marking of the graves
of Revolutionary soldiers. This has been extremely well done in many States.
In Connecticut energetic and systematic work is being accomplished through-
out the State. The position of numerous graves has been determined and the
list sent to the Smithsonian Institution. At the West Thompson Burying
Ground, West Thompson, Conn., a bowlder has been dedicated to 40 Revolu-
tionary soldiers buried there. The records of the early history of this place
have been the subject of research.
In Vermont a complete record of all Revolutionary graves have been made
and filed in the State historian's archives. Government stones have been
placed on unmarked graves, as well as D. A. R. and S. A. R. markers. A Ver-
mont chapter has erected a granite bowlder with a tablet near the resting place
of about 40 pioneer soldiers.
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Maryland D. A. R. have compiled most elaborate lists of the Revolutionary-
soldiers, including 38 officers, who lie in Westminster and Old St. Paul's church-
yards in Baltimore, with records of their service. This has also been done in
reference to the graves of 12 other officers and 62 privates of the Revolution
situated in other parts of the city and State.
Eleven Revolutionary graves have been located in Maine, of which nine have
been furnished with markers by the S. A. R. A handsome bronze marker has
been put on the resting place of Col. Nathaniel Dunmer.
More than 16 graves of heroes of the Revolution have been marked in North
Carolina.
A Massachusetts chapter has marked seven Revolutionary graves in one of
the ancient rural cemeteries, and the location of other Revolutionary graves in
Massachusetts has been established.
The graves of Revolutionary soldiers have been found and marked in Rhode
Island, North Carolina, and West Viriginia.
Most valuable work in collecting the names of Revolutionary men is repre-
sented in the list of soldiers of Mount Sterling County, Ohio.
Maine reports complete records of a hundred Revolutionary soldiers. Maine
D. A. R. have also finished a colossal task in preparing a list more than 11 yards
long of over 1,000 Revolutionary names.
But there are historical records to be preserved besides those of Revolutionary
heroes. It is only in the East that many Revolutionary graves are to be found.
Veterans of the Revolution migrated to the Middle West and settled there, but
their graves are scattered.
Chapters in Idaho are making collections of old wills and legal documents — a
most valuable work historically.
In Ohio a copy has been made of a land grant signed by Thomas Jefferson.
From Missouri come copies of the original bills of sale of Negro slaves, taken
from the records of Lincoln County, Ky.
In Connecticut records are being made from the tombstones of Old Woodbury.
A Massachusetts chapter is doing commendable work in copying the inscrip-
tions in the cemetery of Old Rochester.
Vermont D. A. It. have brought to light an original charter of George III
authorizing John Olcott, of Charlestown, N. H., to keep a ferry and to use a
ferryboat on the Connecticut River for 2 miles this side of the Cheshire Bridge.
By this ferry Gen. Stark and 1,200 men crossed the river August 13, 1777, to the
Battle of Bennington.
A New York chapter is at work on the preservation of ancient records and
the collection of pictures of old historic houses in their part of the State.
Maine D. A. R. are busy with research regarding the early history of their
churches — always a profitable field of study in old New England. A chapter has
copied the records of the Congregational Church of Norway.
Those of the other churches of that town no longer exist. An interesting
item unearthed in the case of the earliest church in Gardiner, Me., which,
unusual for a New England community, was Episcopalian, is that it is gov-
erned according to the English custom of presentation, so that the founder and
his heirs forever have the right to choose the pastor.
In the State of Washington a member of the D. A. R. has loaned to the
State Historical Society the documents signed by the President giving the
Quinault Indians their reservation, a grant which was afterwards repealed.
Lists of early settlers in Maryland between 1634 and 1710 have been com-
piled and placed with the Maryland Historical Society by a D. A. R. chapter.
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Vermont has prepared lists of the passengers of the Mayflower and also of the
members of the Boston Tea Party.
Ancient diaries fur Dish an extensive field for historical investigation, which
has been availed of by a Massachusetts D. A. R. The largest single piece of
work is a manuscript of 80 pages from a Mass. husetts member covering a con-
siderable portion of the records of the town of Sherborn, some of the originals
of which no longer exist
An exceptional and important educational task has been undertaken by the
regent of a chapter in one of the old Massachusetts coast towns. She is giving
a course of 12 lectures at the local high school. The program includes twp
lectures on "The Early Settlement in 1628, and the Development to 1650";
three on the part played by the town in King Phillip's War; two on "The
French War and the Expulsion of the Arcadians"; two on the Revolutionary
history of the town ; one of the War of 1812 ; and two on the era of prosperity,
enjoyed by the community during the flourishing days of wooden shipbuilding.
"The Expulsion of the Arcadians" proves to be local history as well as that
of a more distant colony, insomuch as troops from this village under Gen.
John Winslow took part in the expedition and as many of the exiles were bil-
leted on towns of this ^coun.ty. The patriotic value of such a course delivered
before the mixed nationality of our public schools can not be overestimated.
The late chairman (Mrs. Clarke) in her circular laid particular stress on
the society's collection of historical essays. She urged the preparation of
biographies of the heroes and heroines for whom chapters are named and of
the ancestors of D. A. R. members. Indian traditions, pioneer history* the
first settlement of counties, colonial customs, handicraft, and arts were also
suggested topics. Papers have been received or reported on every conceivable
phase of national history. Following the recommendations of the late chair-
man, Ohio has sent a splendid collection of ancestral sketches. Another has
been received from a Kentucky chapter. A fine history of Cabarrus County
comes from North Carolina. Oregon has sent valuable contributions to the,
society's collection, on such subjects as " Colonial Painting," " Oregon Indians
and Their Legends," "A Brief History of Barlow Road," and "The First
Courthouse in Polk County." Long lists of new papers have been given by
Missouri and by Maryland. Oklahoma sends a fitfost -interesting paper on the
history of Okmulgee, the capital of the Creek Nation . during the days of the
Indian Territory. New Hampshire reports a paper on " Old Rumford." West
Virginia sends an important account of the fort of Neals Station, where a
bowlder has been placed, and other papers. From Wisconsin is reported a list
of papers of attractive historical titles. A long biography of a Revolutionary
soldier has been received from Texas. The District of Columbia has prepared
sketches of Revolutionary soldiers buried within the District and of noted
historical personages. Several of these are unusually long and very fine.
Other splendid additions have been reported from Connecticut, Georgia, Ken-
tucky, South Carolina, Mississippi, Illinois, New York, Maine, Washington,
Michigan, and California.
Mrs. Clarke's own State, Massachusetts, has responded most enthusiastically
to her call with an exceptional list of 50 sketches. Many of these are ances-
tral. A chapter in western Massachusetts has compiled an "Ancestry Book,"
bound in regular form, in which is given the history and service of the Revo-
lutionary ancestors of all the members. Other sketches in the State collection
have for their subjects prominent men and women of Revolutionary times.
A paper entitled "Jewelry" promises to be an interesting thesis artistically.
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H Stage Coach Days " has a quaint and romantic flavor. Other notable papers
deal with the history of an old church, early country schools, and ancient
buildings. A number of important family histories are included.
An interesting pamphlet from New Jersey is written in French, and gives a
full account of an event of great historic consequence. The Washington Camp
Ground Association of Boundbrook, N. J., that historic town where Wash-
ington had his camp, where he first flew the new flag of Stars and Stripes, and
where his first meeting with Lafayette took place, has sent to Prance a fac-
simile of our original flag. With great ceremony it was on July 14, 1918, placed
in the Hotel de Ville, in Puy, in the French Province where the great Marquis
Lafayette first saw the light of day.
Of much interest to Mrs. Clarke was the large historical library of Memo-
rial Continental Hall, ably presided over by Mrs. Fowler, librarian general.
Since the historian general's department is necessarily somewhat dependent
upon the society's library, Mrs. Clarke frequently urged the donation of books
by the chapters. Thirty-four books have been contributed to Mrs. Fowler's
department through the office of the State historian of Massachusetts. These
include town histories, town records, and other historical works of reference.
Certainly there has been a tremendous response to the.suggestions of the late
historian general and chairman, and she would be pleased beyond measure at
the amount accomplished if she could but hear the sum total. Surely she would
not feel that her patient work had been in vain.
A large amount of valuable and important historical work, directed by the
historian general in fields which come within the scope of the report of the com-
mittee on historical research and preservation of records, has been accom-
plished by different States throughout the country.
Through the enthusiastic and efficient work of the clerks in the historian
general's office it has been possible to issue four volumes of the Lineage Book
since the last congress — volumes 46, 47, 48, and 49. Volume 50 is ready for
the press, and volume 51 is in process of preparation.
A picture of Mrs. Clarke forms the frontispiece to volume 48, and the short
preface contained in volume 47 is one of the last writings of Mrs. Clarke.
The evening session was opened with an invocation by Bishop
John W. Hamilton, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wil-
liam Tyler Page, author of the "American's Creed," recited the
creed while the audience stood. Mr. Lang led the singing of "The
Star-Spangled Banner."
The president general, Mrs. Guernsey, presented Mrs. Philip
North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, who ad-
dressed the congress on "Woman's relation to the League of Na-
tions." She was followed by Mr. Heartsill, who rendered three
vocal numbers, after which Mrs. George Barnett spoke on her im-
pressions of the war zone.
Mr. Arthur Whitcomb, member of the United States Marine
Band, next gave a cornet solo, "When the Boys Come Home."
This was followed by an introduction from the president general
of Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, who addressed the audience on the subject, " To
Have and to Hold."
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Madame Slavko Y. Grouitch, wife of the Serbian minister to the
United States, spoke on the "Effect of the American Revolution
on the History of the Serbian Nation."
"America" was sung by the audience, led by Mr. Lang, after
which the benediction was pronounced by Bishop Hamilton.
Tuesday morning began the regular business of the organization's
congress with national committee reports. Report of the chairman of
the banquet hall committee, Mrs. Charles Wesley Bassett, follows :
Madam President General, Members or the Congress:
Whenever our society has used in full measure the democratic idea of co-
operation, it has gone forward by leaps and bounds. The main reason why
this D. A. R. organization has attracted the attention of the whole world dur-
ing this war was because it has presented under your able leadership, Madam
President General, a solid phalanx of vital women doing vital things in a vital
way. What the D. A. R. Society is doing is — moving! What it is trying to
catch and interpret is the best spirit of the times. For the accomplishment of
the manifold purposes of our society we drew our plans, specified our equip-
ment, and came into as beautiful a building as any city in the world possesses.
We claim confidently for our memorial, " None but itself can be its parallel."
It is generally conceded that one of the most beautiful rooms in our building
is the memorial of all the chapters — the so-called banquet hall. Owing to differ-
ent causes, the day for its occupancy as originally planned has been often de-
ferred. The banquet hall has stood deserted, like a beautiful empty shell wait-
ing for its soul. Magnificent and orderly, but order without movement is icy
cold. The room has contributed its full quota of meaning and beauty to the
home atmosphere and given a suggestion of domesticity to these marble walls ;
for this building was to be the domain of women, and a true home always has
the human qualities of its inhabitants, and women are born hostesses.
The banquet hall committee has a plan for social service connected with the
use of the room. It is a democratic plan; not one-half conscription and one-
half volunteer, but all draft The plan is to capitalize the personality of every
member of this society and set it to work — first, to dedicate anew the banquet
hall as the family reunion room to its function as the heart of the home;
second, to dedicate the room to its opportunity to be the dispenser of hospi-
tality; third, to dedicate it to its rightful place — our need of a homelike
gathering place.
People like to see one another, renew old acquaintances, make new friends,
talk over the past, plan for the future. Does the banquet hall take up valuable
space now that our congested offices cry for expansion? Yes ; we know space is
expensive when it is not being used profitably, but do you know of any business
more profitable in life than the business of knowing one another? Can't we
raise a family reunion room to the level of our own friendly library, which says
with a welcome, " Come in ; take a book ; be at ease, but don't talk." Can't the
library and living room vie with each other in hospitality, and the living room
say, " Here is open house for all daughters ; a cup of tea and a cozy chat." In
our library we may burrow for our roots in a common past, but in the living
room it will be opportunity to make acquaintance with the living products —
the flowers and fruitage of those roots — as exemplified in American womanhood.
Both processes are necessary to our completing the understanding of life.
The awakened social consciousness has made itself felt here in our midst,
and the banquet hall committee in response to its impulse is opening a new way
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for this consciousness to find expression. War has taken on! the crust of for-
mality that inclosed each of us as individuals, and has made plain our common
human elements. We must each get rid of our little individual top crust and
learn to recognize and value the rich surprises hidden under all the other little
top crusts.
The banquet hall committee wants to try the effect of breaking bread together.
We think it would make for friendliness and good will. Perhaps after ail the
greatest inspiration one gets in a D. A. R. congress is from the friendly
interchange of ideas about life and work ; in the cementing of old friendships
and the forming of new ones. We feel at home wherever people think and work,
but where in this busy hive of ours, in congress week, shall we go for that real
talk with friends?
Oorot said that to get the soul of a landscape you must know just where to
sit down. In our building it is pretty difficult to find any place to sit down, let
alone having a choice. Meanwhile you are on the brink of a mild adventure.
You are invited to go on a tour of inspection and stop for tea daily in your
own banquet hall, hitherto deserted. Tea and tea drinking are not hospitality
alone, but something very significant. Remember they played no small part in
the American Revolution.
There has been no attempt to fix up for your home-coming tea. The rooms
are as always. There has been no plan making during the war. Not a penny
has been appropriated by the society for the use of the committee. Whatever
the income may be from the room during the tea hours will go for its upkeep
and service. You are to see for yourselves just what your opportunity is. If
you see the big field, your domestic tastes and inclinations will perhaps prompt
you to supply some one of the various necessities and you will tell your
chapters.
Your committee covenanted to start simply and taxed itself and asked a few
friends to help serve a simple cup of tea. You are to expect little and do all
you can for the committee. To do anything beautifully we must have time to
do it in, wisdom to do it with, and an ideal to work for. As a committee we
confidently believe that while you may have bought grapes in Malaga, hats in
Manila, lace in Malta, cashmere in India, or mandarin coats in China, when
you buy your cup of tea in your own tea room you will forget all your other
purchases and travels and sigh contentedly, " Now, this is what I call homelike.
Why didn't we have it sooner? "
Report of the Committee on Preservation of Historic Spots.
Madam President General, National Officers, and Daughters of the
Twenty-eighth Continental Congress:
Never before in the history of this splendid organization has it been such a
pleasure for your chairman on the preservation of historic spots to submit her
report as at the present time. Never before have the Daughters in each State
in the Union taken such a keen interest, or given more time to this subject, as
in this past year, for never have they had such a wonderfully glorious and
beloved spot to preserve — a spot in which every member is deeply interested,
that spot being America.
Early last September I commenced receiving communications from nearly all
the members of this committee, asking for information as to the plans the com-
mittee would adopt for their work for the coming year. But, as the chairman
from Georgia writes, "As State chairman it has been difficult to induce our
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women to take time from the preserving activities of war work In 1918 to seek
to preserve historic spots. I inclose a letter sent to every chapter In the State,
with the hope that the coming year will bring better results."
From the chairman of Wisconsin: "As State chairman I regret that I have
not an interesting report to give you of what has been done by the committee in
the preservation of historic spots. We have been very much handicapped by
the war work and have done absolutely nothing in that line, but now all that
has changed and we hope to accomplish something during the next year, for we
have some interesting plans under way." And so on and on. These voice the
sentiments of so many others received.
The chairman of Oregon writes : " Our town is on the ' Old Oregon Trail,'
the ' Old Emigrant Road/ over which my parents traveled in 1852, mother on
foot and father driving an ox team, on their wedding journey," and signs her-
self, "Yours for home and country." And is this. not just the k eynote — for
home and country — to preserve the great land which our ancestors have built
up and made the greatest Nation in the world? So, when in October I received
a note from our most capable president general requesting all national chair-
men to. send any circular letters that were sent to the committee chairman,
also to the State regents, were not the four issues of the Liberty bonds, the war
and thrift savings stamps, the requests from the Red Cross, the Y. M. O. A., the
Y. W. 0. A., the National League for Women's Service, and the Salvation Army
the very best circulars that could be sent to preserve for all time the spot we
hold most dear? And this explains the reason, when the chairman of the
western division wrote : " I shall be very glad to receive instructions regarding
our work, for the preservation of historic spots is very dear to my heart, but
as I failed to receive any response from you I was all at sea as to what was
required, and finally concluded that the all-pervading war work had laid ours
on the shelf for the time being. I truly regret it, for it is the first time in
many years of service in my State Daughters of the American Revolution and
in national committees that I have ever failed to have a report when called
for." What a splendid sentiment; every word denoting love of country and
untiring service. Indeed, the chairman of the western division has not been
found wanting in doing her part this past year, nor have the chairmen from
California, West Virginia, Washington State, Florida, Kansas, Indiana, North
Carolina, Missouri, Massachusetts, etc. — North and South, East and West, from
the 48 States, all standing with their hands on the helm, eagerly asking,
" Watchman, tell us of the night — what the signs of promise are," and always
willing to obey when the call for service comes.
The director from the southern division writes of continued critical illness in
the family which prevents her from completing her book on "A Story of the
Life of Paul Jones," to be published for children. I can safely say every
Daughter present sends Mrs. Mercer her love and sympathy and realizes how
many historic spots she will preserve when her story is finished and little
children all over the country hear it read. The chairman of the central division
writes that " of course, very little work has been done along this line for the
past two years, but I am sure the coming year will see much accomplished," and
incloses a report from Illinois which shows that two of the chapters raised flag-
staffs, two chapters unveiled bowlders, one chapter placed a bronze tablet on the
site where Abraham Lincoln made his "Lost speech," 1856; another chapter
placed a tombstone, with bronze tablet attached, at the grave of her Real
Daughter. Two sketches of Revolutionary soldiers were written by Chicago
chapter and two other papers on Illinois history were written and will be
printed in book form.
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From Ohio: The Cincinnati chapter has erected memorial arches at the en-
trance to the Old Fulton Cemetery, and several chapters have located the
graves of Revolutionary soldiers.
From Michigan: Abiel Fellows chapter, Three Rivers, placed a bowlder to
mark the trading post and territorial road east of Centerville. This was a
branch of the Chicago road which ran through the southern tier of counties to
Chicago, and the old territorial road ran through to St. Joseph. Stevens Mor-
rison Mason chapter, Ionia, placed a bronze tablet on Sessions Schoolhouse, the
oldest cobblestone schoolhouse now standing in Michigan. Several of the chap-
ters have marked graves and a number of graves have been located, and one
grave of a Real Daughter, who was born in Wayne County, N. Y., was marked
by her chapter at Grand Rapids.
Many of the States belonging to the northern division have marked and
located graves and have cared for several old cemeteries. The White Plains
chapter of New York has purchased and occupies as its chapter house an attrac-
tive old house which Washington had as his headquarters at the time of the
great battle there. But all the reports close by saying the majority of the
chapters are actively engaged with war-relief work, and one State chairman:
" Trusting you may find the star of service, I am yours most sincerely." Indeed,
every Daughter has her own star of service, worn with pride and honor. It is
most gratifying to learn so many chapters have marked the graves of Real
Daughters, but never before have we had such an opportunity to prove to the
world that we are real daughters of those valiant men of '76, and that we are
willing to serve and sacrifice as true Daughters of the American Revolution,
to maintain and uphold and preserve this beautiful country, our rightful
heritage.
Mas. John Fbancis Yawgeb, Chairman.
Report of the National Old Trails ConvmAttee.
Madam President General, Officers, and Daughters of the Twenty-eighth
National Congress;
Reports this year of the work of the national old trails are not very numer-
ous, but some of those that have been received are very excellent and bespeak
the interest in and loyalty to this beautiful and worthy undertaking of preserv-
ing to posterity the historic trails and roads of our own beloved country. Many
and unforeseen things have arisen in the past two years to cause work on the
. old trails to be 3idetracked for the time being — urgent demand for immediate
war-relief work along various lines, and later a country-wide visitation of the
influenza epidemic that completely paralyzed the efforts of entire communities
for weeks and even months. But for all that, courage was undaunted in many
directions, keeping alive the hopes of those to whom this work is distinctly
paramount Too many thanks can not be accorded those who have been so
persevering, for it means much to the one to whom it has been intrusted to carry
on this work. To fulfill the duties of her office, her energies must not lag a
moment to cover this immense territory with due instructions of work to be
done, along with words of encouragement to create and preserve interest in what
she is so honestly trying to accomplish. Vital to us to-day as the Red Cross
work — in fact, all war-relief work was yesterday — is the reabsorption of war
labor with peace industries, and one method of solving that problem seems to
be universally thought of. It is the building of national roads. All of us have
a vivid recollection of last winter's freight blockade and the failure of the rail-
roads to relieve the situation. We must build highways; that has been one of
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the lessons of this war. Men from every State in the Union meet in Chicago
to-day and to-morrow to strive to formulate a plan for a national roads system.
What are the Daughters of the American Revolution doing? They have
pledged their support to a great 6,000-mile road — our National Old Trails Road.
Are they keeping that pledge? This road, carved out of the wilderness by our
fathers — our road — is not only the most practical road proposed, but has the
sacredness that anything made by those who have gone on beyond the touch of
our hands must always have for us.
This is our chance to preserve it, to make it our first great national highway.
We can do it if we — 100,000 earnest, patriotic women — will only stand together.
Will you do it?
Respectfully submitted.
Mrs George Edward George,
Second Vice Chairman.
Report of the Committee " To Prevent the Desecration of the Flag?
Mrs. John P. Hume, Chairman.
Madam Pbesident General, National Officers, and Members of the Twenty-
eighth Continental Congress :
The National Committee to Prevent the Descration of the Flag has worked
untiringly during the past year, and reports from the division directors and
State chairmen prove that many cases of careless desecration have been cor-
rected, attention called to requirements of State flag laws, and thousands of
flag codes have been distributed in schools and at public gatherings and patriotic
meetings.
Another State flag law has been added to the list. Through the efforts of the
State flag committee, aided by the State regent, a law was passed by the legis-
lature of Oklahoma and signed by the governor of that State on March 12, 1919.
That a Federal law for the protection of our flag has not been passed is to be
regretted, but we must not relax our efforts to secure this much-needed legis-
lation within the next year.
The frequency of the misuse of our flag in theatrical and other forms of enter-
tainments, or costumes, draperies, and curtains has increased. One State or
local flag law may cover the offense and correct it; in an adjoining city or
State the laws may not be so explicit, and the offender can not be punished.
Just as " a whole is greater than any of its parts " so a Federal law will be
more powerful to prevent this evil than any one of the State or city laws on
the subject.
During the latter part of the war, at the time of the signing of the armistice,
and now when welcoming home the returning soldiers, sailors, and marines, we
find that our national emblem, our precious Old Glory, which has, is, and ever
will stand for all that is true and best in this great world, is constantly being
denied, desecrated, and misused. How and why? A few Instances of the how
will sufl&ce : Costumes made entirely of the flag, with the stripes becoming soiled
and muddy as its wearer marches enthusiastically along the streets ; mutilated
flags being used as crowns of hats, bonnets, aprons, handkerchiefs, pillow covers,
horse and cattle blanke'ts; incorrect use of the flag in decorations of halls,
windows, and on the walls of buildings. Alas, the constant desecration of our
flag in cartoons, catalogues, and magazine covers, in posters and bulletins. It is
earnestly requested that you examine closely the flag exhibit in this hall; note
the well-named " horrible examples," and then resolve to help abolish this evil.
Why is desecration of our flag so frequent? One reason is the increase^ use
of our national emblem ; another is because of ignorance of laws and the cor-
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, ^he- remedy can be found in two ways — education and publicity. Educate
tjie school children to love, respect, and correctly use our flag. Make this
branch of education prominent in all Americanization work. Give a nation-wide
publicity in magazines, newspapers, and textbooks to the history of our flag,
the principles and liberties it upholds and protects, and the correct uses, also
citing known cases of its misuse.
- The great sacrifices that this Nation has been called upon to make in order
that we may keep our colors pure, true, and undefiled, that our liberties may be
preserved, should make it an easy task to teach all who love our country to also
love our flag, and I appeal to every member of this great society of Daughters
of the American Revolution, particularly to every member of this continental
congress, to aid in the work of publicity to prevent desecration of our flag.
Cooperate with the chapter and State committees, study the laws on the subject,
teach it to others, and keep our colors aloft and waving.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. John P.) Julia Cracbaft Hume, Chairman.
Report of Miss Grace M. Pierce, Chairman of the Genealogical
Research Committee.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Daughters of the American Revolution who were privileged to hear Madam
Mountfort in her lectures on the people and customs of Bible lands will recall her
accounts of the importance with which genealogy was regarded by the eastern
people. The keeping of these family records was intrusted to a chosen group ot
women, who passed them from one to another and who were held in great esteem
and veneration. You will also recall her great interest in this organization and
her gratification that we, too, in America had a specially selected society of
women to keep the records of the genealogies of our Nation.
The past year has found many willing workers among the State and chapter
registrars, and the importance of having copies of original documents on file
among the archives in Continental Hall is more widely extended. From Miss
Mary I. Stille, of Philadelphia, has come a very valuable collection of genealogical
notes on 81 colonial families of Philadelphia and vicinity. Through the State
registrar of Massachusetts there have been received copies of the following list
of documents:
Copy of original letter from John Heald, jr., July 6, 1775.
Copy of original letter from John Heald, jr., October 22, 1776.
Sketch of Nathaniel Nichols, jr., activities during the Revolutionary War.
Family record of Maj. Peter Harwood.
Biography of Robert Hale.
Capt. Lieut Oliver Brown (Revolutionary soldier).
Edward Ruggles, of Pomfret, Conn. (Revolutionary soldier).
Deacon Aaron Hill, of Cambridge (Revolutionary soldier).
Copy of ancient deed of land in the old township of Taunton. Josian and
Samuel Woodward to Stephen Linkon, A. D. 1770, in the eleventh year of His
Majesty's reign. *
Copy of pew in Congregational Church, Manchester, Mass., December 22,
A. D. 1780.
Copy of deed of one-half of pew No. 23, St Michael's Church, Marblehead,
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From Massachusetts also has come, through its State regent, Mrs. Ellison, the
honor roll of the World War of the chapters of Massachusetts. This list is
made by the chapters, and the roll gives the name of each man in service, his
rank or service, and his relationship to a member of the chapter. The value of
these records in years to come is incommensurate, and it is hoped that every
State will compile a similar roll of honor. What more fitting place could there
be for such records to be preserved of the men who fought for the liberty of the
world than side by side with the records of their forefathers who fought and
won American independence?
Texas, through the State registrar, Mrs. Walker, has sent several copies of
early wills and a list of North Carolina soldiers. Lists of marriages and copies
of family records have been received from individual members and chapters.
Miss Todd, State registrar of New Jersey, has brought to us the following
list of copies from original documents:
Marriage license given by Philip Carteret, governor of East Jersey, to Vincent
Rongnion and Ann Boutcher, June 28, 1668, descendant of John Boutcher,
burned at the stake on May 2, 1550, in the sight of Canterbury Cathedral*
Discharge of Lieut. Henry Dikeman, July 7, 1824.
Will of Daniel Stretch, March 19, 1735.
Indian deed, given June 8, 1696, from Jacob Cuddeback.
Petition presented by John Runyon, member of New Jersey Legislature, on
October 22, 1791.
Bill presented to New Jersey Legislature on Thursday, May 24, 1792 — an act
to enable the church wardens to repair their meetinghouse, which was destroyed
by the enemy.
Gen. Washington's dinners, carried by Sarah Wheaton, 1777.
Copy of Pennsylvania Packet, Wednesday, February 18, 1778.
Proclamation (rom Gen. Washington, Valley Forge, January 30, 1778.
Gen. Washington's letter to Gen. St. Clair, June 2, 1779.
Military document signed by Christopher Billopp; signed 1799. Christopher
Blllopp, the last Billopp to occupy the famous Billopp house on Staten Island.
Order of March — , dated Middle Brook Camp, June 14, 1777 ; Ebenezer Elmer,
scripist, aid to Gen. Washington.
Document signed by George III, relating to forces serving in the East Indies,
dated* 1790.
Letter written by Elias Boudinot, dated 1792.
Letter written by Elias Boudinot, dated 1779.
Passport signed by Tobias Lear, dated 1801 ; private secretary to Gen. Wash-
ington.
Military pass, signed by Brig. Gen. Alexander McDougall, dated 1776.
Legal document, signed by Attorney General Courtland Skinner, undated.
Last royal attorney general of New Jersey.
Military document, signed by Col. Elias Dayton, dated 1780.
Will of Thomas Walling, of Plymouth, November 22, 1675.
Ralph Wallen and his wife, Joyce, Pilgrims, coming to Plymouth in 1623.
Thomas Walling and Mary Abbott married January 22, 1651.
(Ancestors of Mrs. Mary Craven Thomas) William Murdock and Mary
Hammond.
Old roads in Somerset County, N. J.
Plan to regulate the militia of the Colony, Trenton, N. J., June 3, 1775. (The
act passed.) Under this act two regiments were raised in Somerset County,
August 16, 1775.
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Gresham Craven, 1745, surgeon, Second Regiment, Hunterdon troops, during
the Revolution.
Letter from Lieut. Col. Henry Clinton to Lord Greenville, September 10, 1799.
Copy of the will of Peter Barberie, Esq., March 18, 1725.
Copy of the will of John Barberie, December 27, 1727.
Copy of the will of Gertrude Barberie, of the city of Amboy, N. J., November
26, 1775.
Last will and testament of Joshua Allen, dated 1710.
From Miss A. M. C. Riley, of New Hampshire, has come the offer of a
quantity of manuscripts of unpublished records accumulated in her 30 years'
experience as a genealogist.
The United States Census of 1850 was the first in which the names, ages, etc.,
of the individual members of families were taken; also the first in which a
general census was taken of owners of farms, manufactures, and other indus-
tries. At the same time the enumerators were instructed to take a record of
all deaths occurring in the families during the preceding years, age of de-
ceased, place of birth by State or country, and places of birth of parents. All
of these records are invaluable to one tracing the migrations of families from
the eastern States in that wonderful exodus westward from the Allegheny
Mountains.
Some time ago the space of the Census Bureau became so restricted that an
order was given for the destruction of the so-called mortality lists just referred
to and the other compilations which seemed most unimportant. The geographer
under whom these records came and who, by the way, is the son of an early
member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Gist, felt these
records were really too valuable to be destroyed, asked and received permission
to make an effort to place them with the respective States. Nearly all of the
States were glad to receive them ; a few, however, declined to do so, as did also
the historical societies of those States. Learning of the decision of these
States through a Daughter of the American Revolution, Miss Mary Oursler, of
the geographer's office, your chairman immediately paid a visit to the Census
Bureau, inspected the rejected records, and realizing their value to this society
for genealogical research, so reported to the president general. The president
general at once made a request of the Director of the Census that these records,
condemned for destruction by the National Government, rejected by the States,
should be transferred to the custody of the National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution. Within 48 hours word came that the request was
granted, and thus have been preserved from destruction and placed in the
possession of this national society about 150 volumes and parts of volumes of
valuable genealogical data pertaining to all counties of the States of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Colorado, Arizona, and the District of Columbia.
These volumes are the bound original tabulation sheets of the censuses of 1850,
1860, 1870, and 1880, of the reports on agriculture, mortality, social statistics,
manufacture, and industry. This is really one of the greatest recognitions
which has been extended to our society on the part of the National Government
For years it has been the dream of your national chairman that our society
should have in its possession the name and record of service of every soldier
and patriot of the American Revolution, so far as they could be ascertained,
whether they had descendants among the members of this society or not. About
six months ago, with this end in view, she began the compilation of such an
index, which has already reached more than 10,000 names, with reference for
service.
In closing I wish to call your attention to the copy of the Pennsylvania
Packet presented by Mrs. Lippincott, State secretary, through the State regis-
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trar of New Jersey. Among the news items is the report of the proceedings
of the Continental Congress, then in session ; a proclamation by Gen. Washing-
ton, dated at Valley Forge, in regard to the establishment of markets for the
Army ; and a letter from a gentleman from Baltimore giving various gossip of
the day, among other items that of conditions in Rhode Island. The report
of the proceedings of the Continental Congress contains the oath prescribed by
that body to be taken by all officers in the military and civil service. The
proclamation issued by Gen. Washington from Valley Forge is as follows :
The good people of the State of Pennsylvania, and particularly those in the
vicinity of this Camp, having expressed a desire of furnishing the Army with
the produce of the country, were Markets regularly established for that purpose :
In order to encourage so laudable a design, I have thought fit to make known
that on the second Monday in February, at eight o'clock in the morning, the
Market will be opened at the Stone-chimney Picket, in front of the Camp, and
the same will be continued on every Monday and Thursday following at that
place : That on every Tuesday and Friday the Market will be held on the east
side of Schuylkill, near the New Bridge; And on every Wednesday and Sat-
urday, in rear of the Camp, near the Adjutant General's Office. That a Clerk
of the Market, an inhabitant of this State, will attend on the respective days
and at the places before-mentioned, whose duty it shall be to protect the
inhabitants from any kind of abuse or violence that may be offered to their
persons or effects, and to see that they receive pay for their articles according
to the prices hereafter mentioned, and for others not particularly enumerated
in like proportion, viz. :
*******
Then follows a list of the prices to be paid for the commodities offered for
sale;
• * * * * * *
The Clerk of the Market is also to take effectual care that there be no fraud
in weight or measure, and that whatsoever is offered to sale be of good quality.
All persons coming to the Markets aforesaid for the purpose of supplying them,
or returning from the same, may depend that their carriages and cattle shall not
be impressed or otherwise detained. The inhabitants are to take notice that
they will not have liberty to receive from the Soldiery any kind of cloathing or
military stores in pay for their provision, or upon any pretence whatsoever.
It is hoped that all persons well affected to their country, both for their own
advantage and from a regard to the accommodation of the Army, will manifest
their zeal upon this occasion, and chearfully contribute to the success of a plan
intended to answer the most valuable purposes.
G. Washington.
Head Quarters, Valley Forge, January 30, 1778.
Extract of a letter from a Baltimore gentleman, having recently arrived
from Charleston, S. C, contains the following information regarding condi-
tions in Rhode Island :
The legislature of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations are actually
collecting 48,000 1. money of New England, equal to 60,000 1. Pennsylvania cur-
rency, by present taxes. This State is of very narrow extent. It never con-
tained, of whites and blacks, 58,000 inhabitants. The capital, Newport, a town
of one thousand dwellings, together with Rhode Island, is in the possession of
the enemy. This island lies imbayed in the midst of the State, and affords
easy recourse to the shore of the main land encircling it, and several smaller
islands for an extent of perhaps 80 miles, if the windings of the land can be
considered. To guard this coast against an enemy most advantageously posted,
and without covered by their shipping, harrasses the militia with constant
fatigue, and yet the country is not secured from the ravages of the enemy.
How spirited, then, must be the temper of the people of this state, who can in
such circumstances submit to levies of money so large and burdensome : a mode
of supporting the credit of paper money, that is solid and certain, whilst at the
same time, it manifests their full determination to defend the country as their
own.
Respectfully submitted.
Grace M. Piebce, Chairman.
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A letter was read from the Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K.
Lane, as follows :
My Deab Mbs. Guernsey: I was very much gratified, indeed, in reading
what you had to say about Americanization in your opening address. It seems
to me that as a national duty the task of a proper and sympathetic assimilation
of our foreign-born peoples is second to none before us to-day. A little later on
this department expects to have a very definite program of Americanization,
in which we hope to have the cooperation of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. We are also asking Congress for funds with which to provide work
and farms for returning soldiers, and I trust that your organization will also
take an active interest in this.
Cordially, yours, Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior.
Mrs. Guernsey said it had been a long cherished hope that the
Daughters of the American He volution " would be able to work as
an arm of the Government on this great task."
The report of the committee on real daughters, Mrs. James T.
Brayton, chairman, next reported as follows:
Madam President Genebal and Members of the Congress :
We have enrolled in the membership of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution 40 real daughters.
Reverently I speak the names of three who have entered into rest since
April, 1918:
Mrs. Lydia Wixon, May 4, 1918: Mrs. Belinda M. Thomas, June 5, 1918;
Mrs. Nancy H. Reynolds, August 12, 1918.
When we consider the advanced age of these precious members of our society
the mortality indeed seems very small.
Wonderful to relate, four real daughters have been admitted into our mem-
bership during the past year. Mississippi, Tennessee, and the District of Co-
lumbia were the States fortunate enough to add these real daughters to their
list of members. June 26, 1918, Mrs. Marish Storts Allen, National No. 140153,
and Mrs. Mary A. Thompson, National No. 140768, were admitted into our
society, and on October 17, 1918, two more real daughters were able to prove
their titles clear to membership. These were Mrs. Mary Martha Dawson,
National No. 142095, and Mrs. Julia Purcell Gray, National No. 142157.
Mrs. Julia Purcell Gray is a member of Sarah St. Clair Chapter, District of
Columbia, and is 87 years young, and has been presented with the real daughters'
spoon of the national society and is receiving a pension.
Mrs. Mary Martha Dawson lives in London, Tenn., but is a member of Old
Glory Chapter, Franklin. Miss Gentry, of the chapter, like Christopher Co-
lumbus, was a discoverer, and of her efforts in discovering and proving up the
papers of Mrs. Dawson their local newspaper says : " Miss Gentry always makes
good what she undertakes and defeat is unknown to her." Mrs. Dawson was
born in 1842, and is now 77 years of age. The stone house built by her father,
James Wylie, in 1828, is still standing, and in this house she was married in
1856. Seven children were born to her and she was herself one of seven children.
She was a Methodist until five years ago, when she became a Presbyterian, Of
the other two admitted I have been unable to obtain any personal data.
May your national chairman suggest to the State chairmen the desirability
of their obtaining all the interesting facts and data about our remaining real
daughters before they pass out through the sunset gates and no one is left to
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furnish this information, which it is so easy to secure now and which is also
most valuable.
Our eldest Real Daughter, Mrs. Samantha S. Mellis, of New York, celebrated
on January 7, 1919, her one hundred and ninth birthday, and the New York
chairman reports that "Mrs. Mellis is still able to do much for herself and
about the house." The youngest, Mrs. Caroline P. Randall, is 69, so there is a
difference of 40 years in the ages of these two Real Daughters. Mrs. Randall
lives in Springfield, Vt, but is a member of the chapter at Claremont, N. H.,
and was born, as the chairman says, when her father was 90.
From the reports sent to me I find several Real Daughters are over 100 years
of age and few are under 75.
Mrs. Mary O. Pike is 104, and on her last birthday drove 5 miles in a carriage
to attend a Methodist camp meeting, and on this same birthday purchased a
$100 Liberty bond, and her signature was as firm, it is said, as it was when
she was 80.
The funeral services of Mrs. Lydia Wixson, who died May 4, 1918, were
attended by a large number of Daughters. Mrs. Wixon's father, John Rollin,
was a member of George Washington's bodyguard, and she used to tell many
interesting stories of his experiences while in the Revolutionary War. Her
chapter will soon mark her grave.
Mrs. Thier, of Wisconsin, and a member of a Milwaukee chapter, is 103, and
knits industriously baby socks for the French and Belgian babies. On her
one hundred and third birthday she received many of her friends and was able
in the evening to be present at a family dinner given in her honor by her
daughter.
Mrs. Sarah Bosworth Bradway is a member of Elizabeth Porter Putnam
Chapter, Putnam, Conn., and on April 30 will be 101 years old, and of this event
Mrs. Kinney, State chairman, writes me: "Mrs. Brad way's birthdays are
always made as pleasant as possible, and this year a delegation will visit her
carrying gifts, among them a birthday cake on which will be 101 lighted candles.
Mrs. Bradway enjoys these occasions very much and is always ready to furnish
her part of the entertainment by telling stories of olden times." Writing of
Mrs. Bradway and the influenza, Mrs. Kinney further writes : " Last fall the
influenza attacked every member of her family except herself. When it seemed
to be coming her way she regarded it with such stern disapproval that the flu
stopped and flew away. Connecticut Real Daughters won't stand for that sort
of nonsense."
Mrs. Annie Knight Gregory, of Pennsylvania, aged 75, is regent of the Conrad
Weiser Chapter. Is it not remarkable and splendid to have as a chapter regent
one of our Real Daughters.
Thirty of our Real Daughters receive the pension granted by our national
society. One of our State chairmen, in speaking of the great assistance these
pensions are to Real Daughters, says : " Our Real Daughter is a childless widow
living with a niece, and when she was granted this pension was almost at the
end of her bank account, so it was indeed a godsend to her."
Michigan, at its State conference in 1915, created a Real Daughter's fund to
supplement when necessary this pension given by the national society, and in
one instance it helped to defray the funeral expenses of a Real Daughter. I
would suggest that the action taken by the Michigan Daughters is one that
might well be followed by the other States who are blessed with Real Daughters.
One of Michigan's twin Real Daughters is still living and 76 years old. The
other two Real Daughters are, respectively, 84 and 88.
The two Real Daughters of Kansas are 90 and 92 years old,
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Illinois State regent writes of their Real Daughters in these words: "Mrs.
Josephine Wodttski will be 89 December 30, 1919. She was married in 1847
and came to Illinois to live. In 1915 she was present at our State conference
and in a clear voice and beautiful language greeted the conference."
The chapters report progress in the marking of graves. The grave of Mrs.
Euphasia Smith Granger has been marked by the Sophie de Marsac Campau
Chapter, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Cottle, chairman of the Pacific coast
division, informed me that a number of graves of Real Daughters had been
located in California and will soon be marked. Your chairman hopes that this
good work will go on and on until not one Real Daughter's grave in our country
is unnoticed and unmarked.
% Massachusetts leads in number of Real Daughters, having 8 ; New York comes
next, with 6 ; New Hampshire has 4 ; Michigan and Ohio, each 3 ; and Kansas,
Indiana, Connecticut, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Mississippi, Tennessee,
South Carolina, New Jersey, Nebraska, and Texas, 2 or 1. The remaining States
have none.
One year ago, when I submitted my report to the Congress, our beloved coun-
try was at war. Since that time the signing of the armistice has brought about
a cessation of warfare, and our hopes are now centered in the speedy ratifica-
tion of the terms of peace, which shall bring tranquillity and prosperity to a
war-weary world.
(Mrs. James P.) Emma Sanfobd Bbayton,
Chairman Committee Real Daughters.
Report of the Founder and Chairman of the Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution Committee,
For a previous report I made the keynote preparedness. For this one I strike
the note of cooperation. There is a peculiar satisfaction in these days of
speaking to this topic. All the world since the Great War began has been swept
together with an uncontrollable impetus. The electric and vital currents of a
common cause have crossed the paths of all thinkers and workers, compelling
us to come together in labor for the world's betterment, till a community of
interest is spontaneously and genuinely called into being. Whether the subject
is directly connected with war relief work, or is one of the countless divisions
of philanthropic endeavor, or of organization, does not signify.
The Great War has done this for us all. It has united the work of different
organizations. No one halts a message to any old or new field of service. No
one dreams of refusing cooperation. If the work is needed, there is speedy
response by everybody to help it along. The vision that flashed upon a startled
world in 1914 of the advancing horror, desolation, and death also stamped
on the soul of mankind a companion picture of what was to be the awakening
of that soul to meet the demands of the cataclysmic struggle. And a com-
munity of interest, otherwise termed cooperation, naturally was formed ; and it
swept over the world. This is one of the best results of the Great War.
This community of interest or cooperation was the basis on which this com-
mittee was formed by my request. It was " the committee of cooperation to
awaken interest in the Children of the American Revolution." I quote from
one of my earlier reports :
Knowledge through the committee would give the D. A. R. an insight into
the spirit and methods of the C. A. R. Interest in and sympathy for the
society would inevitably follow. Then the work of the two societies must be
cooperative and retroactive ; for when two national organizations arrive at this
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point the sense of the benefit each would derive from the other must find swift
. recognition from both.
Another vital reason for desiring this committee on cooperation to be formed
was to draw the C. A. R. to a deeper interest in and affection for the D. A. R.
The work of the committee therefore was to get into sympathetic touch with
the C. A. R., employing those cooperative forces that always follow an interest
in a work, thus bringing the two national societies closer together.
During the past year I have followed the same course as in former years, and
covered the entire country by sending leaflets and lists of "suggestions" to
the members of the committee, all printed and forwarded, as in those former
years, at my own expense. These " suggestions " have in the main been under-
stood, many members voicing their appreciation "of them as being very clear
and making good working equipment. But in so many instances confusion has
ensued, the idea in these cases being that some jurisdiction over instead of
cooperation with the Children of the American Revolution was included, so
that the committee has not worked up its best hoped-for results as a committee
of cooperation.
Also I have to state that very few reports have come to me from State chair-
men. I begged that they would send me monthly data. This is the only way I
think the national chairman of a committee can really know what the members
are doing and whether there is real life and growth in the work. I am very
regretful to say that less than half a dozen responded to my request, and those
for but a month or two. The yearly reports have been similarly negligible ; so
much so that I am forced after the thorough trial of the plan to admit that the
Daughters of the American Revolution are far from being enthusiastic over the
idea of having such a committee. I attribute this in a great measure not only
to the fact that the Daughters of the American Revolution are so busy with
the war relief work but that the duties of their own big organization are so
constantly and so rapidly increasing as to absorb their time and attention.
Perhaps you quite understand the splendid war work achieved by the National
Society of the Children of the American Revolution during the past four years.
I take it that you have had the requisite interest to inform yourselves of the
records. At any rate you would like to hear of the achievements of »the
Children of the American Revolution. This will surely awaken your interest.
Our national board Children of the American Revolution has voted to have
the complete war-relief work, together with the records of all members who
have served "overseas," printed and suitably bound or issued in pamphlet
form for distribution.
When a child works for the love of a cause it is a spontaneous contribution.
A child's heart is a big thing, and its outpouring is quite worth while. So the
National Society Children of the American Revolution stepped into war-relief
work and did its very best at top speed to lead the endeavors of other children
not eligible to membership in the society. This is always part of the work the
Children of the American Revolution is seeking — to lead in school and com-
munity the children and youth who are so unfortunate as to possess no claim to
the ancestry of the founders of the Republic.
The war-relief work of the Children of the American Revolution is quite sig-
nificant, as ours is the first, so I am informed, national society founded
expressly for children and youth in this or in any other country.
Let us look a little at the war-relief work of the Children of the American
Revolution. It is in this way we can best awaken interest in the society. The
brevity of all these reports hampers one who has a rich year's work to recount.
Therefore but brief glimpses can be given, and those from only a few States,
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The complete record that the Children of the American Revolution will issue, as
I state above, will supply all the data covering the entire country*
We will begin, and most properly, with the District, and the work of the
Children of the American Revolution director, Miss Helen E. Stout. She has
exhibited talent for real executive leadership and that of a kind that wins
the heart of a child. She immediately took the initiative and set her young
folk to work. She formed last year a Red Cross class for the younger members
of the District Children of the American Revolution, who met once a week in
the children's room. Their work this year was hampered, of course, by the
prevailing influenza, but, notwithstanding that, they accomplished wonderful
results.
Last April a surgical dressing class was formed for the older members of the
District Children of the American Revolution, who met once a week at the
Church of the Covenant workroom, where they worked regularly until surgical
dressing work was stopped by the Red Cross. The District Children of the
American Revolution have taken part in soldier parties, reciting, singing, and
dancing, taken soldiers on auto rides, helped in serving dinners, helped in
nursing during the influenza epidemic, and have been most generous in their
donations and general help for the Liberty loans, war savings stamps, and Red
Cross and United War Workers' drives. The District Children of the American
Revolution have taken up the campaign for the American committee for devas-
tated France for establishing poultry farms in the devastated sections. Al-
though they have only just started, they have raised $280 in their poultry
work. They will have an especial tag day on Easter Monday. The District
Children of the American Revolution purchased the four Liberty loan bonds
to the extent of $15,800 and war savings stamps to the value of $1,854.50. For
actual service in the war the District Children of the American Revolution
records an honor roll of 89, 8 of whom are yeo women. One gold star shines
as a memorial for Lieut. George V. Seibold, a former member of the Gov.
Thomas Welles Society. This society of 200 members has been incessantly
at work in all lines of patriotic endeavor. Its president, Mrs. Clayton Emig,
is a president to hold up as a pattern to all future presidents of the Children of
the American Revolution.
Through the inexorable demand for brevity in reports we must take leaps
and bounds in reviewing the year's work, and, swifter than the aeroplane's
flight, we reach the Pacific coast There in California is Mrs. Theodore Gray,
the State director Children of the American Revolution. She is indefatigable
in the work, as I can well testify, being in cooperation with her during my
residence in that State for several winters. She organized the "peck o' pen-
nies" idea, whereby the children of California sent in such a good fund for
* the suffering little ones of France; also the clever scheme for the saving of
sugar during the days when the food question was such a vital one, besides the
actual work of the little fingers to help the Red Cross activities.
I especially want to mention the valuable services rendered to the war-relief
work by Miss Virginia Talbot, of Baltimore, Md., duplicating these other reports
I have mentioned.
We must give a glance now at New England, and we find Mrs. William B.
Rand, State director Children of the American Revolution of Massachusetts
turning in a splendid report — money contributed to various war-relief funds,
French orphans adopted, clothing collected and sent to the devastated regions,
and local appeals for help all met by the young members. Liberty loan bonds
also were bought very generously.
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Then we take a trip to the South and find Miss Mary Louise Stewart, presi-
dent of the Judge Howell Tatum Society, of Chattanooga, Tenn., perfectly alert
with enthusiasm. They have supported two French orphans for two years, corre-
sponded with them, and kept the kindly, beneficent, and personal interest alive.
They contributed generously for the chickenization of France, also for the poor
children of their own city. They adopted a contagious ward in the soldiers'
hospital, keeping them supplied with many comforts.
The Bemis Heights Society, of Saratoga, and the Nathan Beeman Society,
of Plattsburgh, N. Y., come under the same category of incessant and gen-
erous work and contributions. In fact, almost the entire list of Children of the
American Revolution societies over the country fall splendidly into line in the
war relief work.
These condensed data from the northern, southern, eastern, and western
Children of the American Revolution societies must suffice until our complete
war record is tabulated and printed.
NOTABLE INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLES OF PATRIOTIC WORK OF CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION MEMBERS.
We must take time to hear a few of these.
The first American flag to be carried in France was presented in Califoroia.
Its color bearer was Roland Root Speers, a graduate of the Los Angeles Children
of the American Revolution Society. He received the croix de guerre.
Charles Horton McDowell, of the Signal Lantern Society of Massachusetts,
in addition to his wonderful record of war work already listed, earned $106,
and he collected through the sale of Liberty loan bonds $21,265. He was pre-
sented by the town of Brookline, Mass., with a medal made especially for him,
as he was too young to obtain it through the Boy Scouts. His record was the
finest in New England. For rechickenizing France he is selling bookmarks, his
own invention.
Eleanor Fayerweather, of the same society, sold $8,600 Liberty loan bonds at
the fourth drive.
Two Iowa boys gave a circus for the benefit of the Red Cross.
Lester Watson, of the Capt. Elijah Hall Society of Massachusetts, planted a
war garden of one-quarter of an acre, and raised enough vegetables to supply a
family of five persons.
Whole number of Liberty loan bonds secured by the National Society Children
of the American Revolution was $51,030.
Total thrift or war savings stamps, $9,748.40.
Figures are cold things unless life pulsates through them. " A little one shall
become a thousand." The Great War has shown us that. Brigades and regi-
ments decimated ; a few heroic souls stormed the foe. " Over the top " went
gallant boys — into 'the jaws of hell — but the " Little One " conquered !
Eighty-nine of our Children of the American Revolution in the District alone
are enrolled in the records of the United States Defenders of Justice and
Freedom. How many there are from the entire country we do not yet know,
until the data is collected for the printing of our complete record.
For justice and freedom — we stand to-day in a more perilous condition than
the Great War engulfed us. That, awful as it was, holds no comparison to our
situation at this present moment. Justice — let it be done as speedily as it is
possible for God to execute it, on the maker of this world slaughter, and those
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who worked with him. Our flag that we carried to the fields of France demands
it; the blood of our boys cries out from those blood-soaked fields where tue
red poppies of France grow over their graves; that blood demands it. Let
America speak — justice shall be done — and that speedily. And after justice is
done, and not before, the freedom that we fought for shall encircle the world.
Respectfully submitted,
Harriet M. Lotheop, Chairman.
Report of the Insignia Committee.
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Since the marking of time began, badges have been used to designte an honor
conferred, a distinction gained, or a membership in some order or clan acquired.
The appreciation of the honor, distinction, or membership has always been
manifested by the dignity with which the emblem has been worn, no matter
whether it was one of intrinsic value and beauty, a string of beads, a painted
feather, or a common leather string.
We who are descendants of the men and women who achieved American
independence, and, belonging to the National Society, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, have as a badge our insignia the spinning wheel and distaff, with
13 stars of gold ; and it should be the proud privilege of every member to guard
it from misuse and refrain from using it to serve any other purpose than
as a badge of membership in a society holding a place of such importance that
by special act of the United States Congress our insignia for the second time
has been so protected that an infringement on our patent is an unlawful act.
The by-laws state definitely u that it shall be carried only on the left breast."
How many of us either did not know of the existence of such a provision or
were perfectly indifferent to the requirement just stated, and through lack of
knowledge or sheer neglect have violated the rule we have pledged to respect,
thus failing to outwardly express any pride felt in the fact that we had for our
ancestors those brave men who fought and died, and the noble women who
made such tremendous sacrifices in order that we might " enjoy all the blessings
of liberty"?
A clear understanding regarding the chapter regents' pin is found to be lack-
tng. The society has authorized the wearing of a prescribed pin by the regent of
a chapter during her term of office, but at the expiration of her period of service
the pin must remain the property of the chapter because of the fact that the
permit for such a badge is issued only once to a chapter. However, a pin
bearing the inscription " ex chapter regent " can be obtained when the regent
has actually become a past regent, which becomes her personal possession. All
permits for the purchasing of official badges must be secured through the organiz-
ing secretary general's office, and our official jeweler will recognize no other.
Carrying out the resolution adopted by the twenty-seventh continental con-
gress, that a distinctive badge for the honorary vice presidents general be
authorized, your insignia committee has to report that designs were drawn,
and because the term of office is for life and there can only be 13 honorary vice
presidents general at one time it was quite feasible to submit the designs to the
women now holding that honorary title. This was done and the design selected
by the majority of the honorary vice presidents general received the unanimous
indorsement of the committee, and the pins have been manufactured ; the con-
tract has been signed and is on file in the recording secretary's office. The
question of the necessary increase in the price of the insignia was brought,
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through this committee, to the attention of the board, and the action taken
ha^been presented to this body.
Jiespectfuliy submitted.
Annie M. Atjix, Chairman.
Mrs. William Rand, Massachusetts.
Mrs. William N. Reynolds, North Carolina.
Mrs. John M. Morgan, Mississippi.
Mrs. R. G. Hooan, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Ferguson read the following report of the reciprocity com-
mittee:
Madam President General, National Officers, and Memders of the Twenty-
eighth Annual Congress :
Notwithstanding the fact that the past year has made great demands on
patriotic women for all kinds of war relief work, has brought sorrow to many
of us and great anxiety to all, the committee on reciprocity can report progress
in its work and evidence of much interest in it.
A year ago our report showed a small beginning of what we were trying to
accomplish, but to-day we can say that the work is really understood by many
chapters and is rapidly growing hi favor. Many fine papers have been sent to
us and many more are promised.
During the past year papers have been received from the following States:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, Virginia, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, and one from the District of Columbia.
These papers are in the hands of the chairman, and others from Ohio, Colorado,
and Idaho are on the way to her. This list includes all papers received since
the meeting of the congress of 1918, the papers actually received by the chair-
man numbering 119. With the addition of the 15 or more on the way and those
reported last year, we have a total of 181 papers in our possession. Iowa leads
in the number contributed, followed closely by South Carolina and Michigan.
The subjects of the papers are very varied, among them being many fine his-
torical papers, papers concerning men and women of the Revolutionary time,
their homes and customs ; and other papers give very interesting accounts of the
great patriotic work of our society.
As our work has progressed it has shown opportunity to make it a really
practical work, as well as an educational one. We have asked for papers con-
cerning the vital affairs of the day, and especially those that would be helpful in
our work. The first to respond to our appeal was Mrs. Charles H. Bond, of
Massachusetts, who has written for us a very instructive paper on "America's
Duty to the New Citizen," a subject which is of greatest importance to us all
at the present time. This paper has been sent to a number of the chapters, and
in every ease has received strong commendation. Another valuable paper is
one on " International Marriages," by Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. We have promises of other such papers which we hope will
be realized in the near future.
From Mrs. Ward Stone, director of the Pacific coast division, came the first
suggestion that soldiers' letters should be included in our papers, and the same
suggestion has been made since by others. It seems a good method of preserv-
ing first-hand information concerning the World War, and we have coming from
Idaho a collection of combined soldiers' letters and have received a very fine
soldiers' letter from Mrs. Kate W. Barrett, of Virginia,
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From Connecticut came a copy of an old manuscript, "An American's Experi-
ence in the British Army," a most interesting paper and one of which the origi-
nal is accessible to only a favored few. This gives us a new idea — why not try
and obtain copies of old manuscripts of this kind, and of old papers and old
letters, of which there must be very many packed away in old desks, trunks,
etc.?
This committee can become a really valuable asset to the National Society if
supported and aided by the members of the society. We must rely upon you
for the papers needed for the work and also upon you to use the papers so
collected. A collection of such papers means nothing to us unless they are used
by the chapters and members. If read at chapter meetings and kept in circula-
tion they will prove one of the most simple and easiest methods possible of
carrying every phase of our work and valuable information of all kinds to the
many chapters throughout the country. Many of these papers are ready for
such use, and a little later all will be ready and may be obtained by any chapter,
the only expense being postage both ways. Lists of papers will be provided,
together with the address of the vice chairman from whom the papers can be
obtained. Will you all bear this in mind and urge your chapters to send for
at least one of these papers during the coming year? It is only in this way
that the best results can be obtained.
To those of you whose State is not represented in the list of those furnishing
papers, our request is that you try to interest your members to procure a
paper for us, and also use our papers, for it is our ambition that every State be
represented in our work. Great credit is due to the vice chairman, directors of
divisions, and many of the State chairmen of this committee, who have labored
untiringly and with great interest to make this work successful and to them
I extend my most hearty thanks.
Respectfully submitted.
Mrs. Wilbub G. Chapman, Chairman.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, chairman of the war relief service com-
mittee, gave the following report :
Madam President General and Ladies of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
After listening yesterday morning to the inspiring address of the president
general, gathering together and summing up the influence and power of the
mighty forces confronting this period of reconstruction; after listening last
evening to the masterly defense and analysis of the League of Nations with
its relation to the welfare and deepest interests of womanhood by that noted
patriot, worker, and thinker, Mrs. Philip N. Moore ; after listening spellbound to
the magic of Mrs. Pennybacker's eloquence in her plea for the maintenance of
democracy in its highest sense as the outcome of this world-rending war ; after
thrilling to the magnetism of Mrs. Barnett's fascinating reminiscences of de-
vastated France; after listening to the scholarly resume of Balkan history by
that gifted daughter of West Virginia, Madame Grouitch, as she told with re-
pressed emotion of Serbia — the Rachael among nations — weeping over her
tortured and slaughtered children, refusing to be comforted, but courageously
taking up the broken threads of life ; after those soul-stirring pleadings I have
felt that the war, its results, the evils it has overcome, the aspirations it has
kindled, the new birth of nations, the resurrection of dead issues among the
peoples, had passed beyond the province of further enlightenment or further
discussion of these great themes. But deeply impressed on me is the conviction
that the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, as the true
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heart of the great American Commonwealth, the typical model, the concentra-
tion, the intensive expression of what all the world dreams of as America. The
obligation now rests with us to translate these ideals and standards into
twentieth century vernacular, to put to the test the promise and prophecy of
these great prototypes, typifying and realizing — we Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution — America's reason for existence and destiny in the world.
It is true that in colonial days English, French, and Spanish set about means
to make the New World British, French, or Spanish, as the case might be, and
succeeded in making it only American at last.
All were at work, as we see now, in building up together the American empire,
which is to save Europe at its desperate crisis from the lurch back into the
Middle Ages, plotted and planned for it, for the past two generations by sur-
vivals, " in strange trappings," of the castled robbers of the Rhine, with their
autocracy, their hierarchy, their blood-soaked robber — " Gott," their dependent
peasantry, breeding docile cannon fodder. All that we have and are ; all that the
conquest of a continent by those great spirits of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries have created and developed, of wealth, manhood, and ordered lib-
erties; all of that enlightened self-rule and public spirit that the world calls
America is going back to those nations that gave it. It is a just debt, and there
is joy in paying it with all its accumulations — a pure, unselfish, most grateful
return in good measure, pressed down and running over. The door of oppor-
tunity has opened wider here than anywhere in the world upon unmatched
resources for industry unhampered by politics, militarism, or caste. Our service
is to hand these blessings on. On no finer lines, on no grander scale, has this
service been rendered than through the glorious accomplishments of our part in
this war, as the typical representative American woman.
The way in which we have come out of the conflicts of labor and of politics,
of polyglotism and of war, is part of our glorious accomplishment as the typical
representative American democracy par excellence. This character, let us
admit it, is our heritage from England — from those English colonies which, as
Bancroft has said, " had English liberties in greater purity, and with far more
of the power of the people, than England." We have improved on and broad-
ened this inheritance with the distinctly representative innovations of our
great universities.
Friends, let us never forget, and this is the hour to recall it — while our
hearts and hopes, " our prayers and tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears,"
are all with France, aye, all with France — let us bear in mind more constantly
hereafter than we have ever done before the proud and immensely significant
fact that in our deepest historic sources and origins we are French— French of
the most glorious period of France — the France of Louis XIV, the France when
not only the military and political prestige of its imperial and colonizing sway
in the world reached their height, but also the glories of its literature and arts,
and the polish of gentle manners, and the elegance of ways of living, of house
and garden, of dining and dancing and dressing — the finishing school to which
all the world has been willingly and delightedly going ever since. This heir-
loom of ours, association with the most splendid pages of French history, has
become hallowed an<* sacred with a fresh baptism of fire, and sealed with our
best, most precious blood.
The long-elaborated plot to «• bleed France white " culminated in the last foiv
ever-baffled and defeated raids on Paris. The devastation it has left, " lest we
forget," /orbids for us mere exultation.
Devastated France! Friends, can human language convey to the human
heart and brain one tithe of the tragedy of that lurid phrase, devastated
France? Can imagination picture the Gehenna boche savagery has made of
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her sacred, battle-scarred fields, theater of the noblest conflict ever waged be-
tween might and right. With its homes in ashes, its men killed, deported or
enslaved, its maidens ravished, its children robbed of youth and life, by disease,
starvation, and the tortures of deportation — humanity shudders and stands
aghast at the ruin.
But what of France? France, courageous, unconquerable, her inextinguish-
able spirit rising triumphant over disaster, wings its flight beyond the limits of
time and space and takes its place among the stars; France, devotee of the
soil ; her soldiers heroes, her women heroines, wresting victory from despair,
defying fate to conquer her invincible destiny. Watch that slender line of
refugees wearily plodding on its homeward way — watch those stricken groups
creeping from caves and dugouts, from shell pits and other hiding places, who
practically without houses or utensils, or seed, or feed, are patiently and even
joyously starting upon their own work of reparation, not waiting for the passage
of the " loi de dommages de guerre." Is earth worthy of such a race, and can
civilization afford to deprive these people of devastated France of help they do
not ask?
.Imagine the despair of these people, but bend the knee in adoration of their
courage, which from the ashes of their homes rings out " Vive la France."
These desolated ones need the inspiration of hope, and of the sympathy that
promises relief, almost as much as they need material help. Can we steel our
hearts against such heroism — a heroism that has elevated France to the plane
of the immortals?
In a moment of exaltation, in the fervor of sympathy with France at white
heat, we pledged our word of honor to help with her fatherless children, and to
help with the restoration of her devastated homes. How splendidly the pledge
for orphans of France has been redeemed under the masterly guidance and
unwearied labors of Mrs. Hodgkins, you will learn from her heart-stirring
report at congress. I believe in the history of our great organization there is
no instance of a more self-sacrificing, devoted, and brilliantly successful patri-
otic work than that which has been carried on day after day and week after
week through long and weary months by Mrs. Hodgkins. The results of her
work are an honor to our society. I am confident that no patriotic organiza-
tion in our country or in any other country has achieved more appealing results
than those that have been achieved through the efforts of this devoted woman
in placing through the Daughters of the American Revolution more than 3,000
of the fatherless children of France. Such results merit more than a mere
formal vote of thanks.
As to present-day conditions at Tilloloy, again ravaged by the Huns, we have
only postponed contributions for the full amount promised. Twenty-six thousand
dollars is now in bank ; $20,000 is still to be raised in order to make good our
pledge for the restoration of this hamlet
The following is a translation of a letter from the mayor of Tilloloy, dated
November 18, 1918:
Paris, 60, bite de Vabenne.
Mrs, Matthew T. Scott.
Madame : In these days of victory and triumph, while the flags of the Allies
are waving everywhere, I take the liberty of writing to you in order to send forth
our exultation at being delivered of the nightmare which had been shocking us
for over four years ; and so doing, I naturally turn my eyes toward the powerful
and charitable association, the Daughters of the Revolution, which has promised
to help us in our distress.
Last spring's invasion has added new ruins to the former devastations. And
when, about a month ago, I went, in a sort of sad pilgrimage, to the place called
Tilloloy, In order to see what was left of the material gathered, in view of the
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restoration, after the first German withdrawal, I could but verify that it had
become their booty, and that they had not neglected to tear away the least par-
ticle of metal, copper, lead, or iron which they were unable to get otherwise.
I found myself alone in the midst of a wreckage representing our homes ; and
I also had to flee, for one can not pretend to live isolated in a region deprived of
means of communication, housing, and revictualing, the scattered population of
•which is wandering through France, anxiously waiting for the authorization of
coming back for good, which can not be granted for fear the said population
might starve to death, as the enemy does. .
The steady success of our arms, since American help brought us comfort, shall
gain for us a peace even more glorious than that deserved by our constance, the
sublime sacrifice of so many heroic lives, and the atrocities which we had to bear
from the barbarians.
To avoid being qualified as a bore, I will not go into details about the material
wounds, which ought to be healed as quickly as possible. Tilloloy is too near
Paris and too far from the front lines, as they are now fixed by the armistice, to
be mentioned any more in the newspapers. The work of reconstruction, requir-
ing legions of workmen, practically unbelievable, demand immediate considera-
tion; also to agricultural effort when railroads will have reestablished their
regular traffic. How solve all these problems?
Please accept, madame, the most respectful regards of your servant,
The Ma yob of Tilloloy,
(Signed) d'Hinniodal.
Can we, the Daughters of the American Revolution, afford to go back on our
pledged word to restore this devastated village? Can we afford to plead in-
solvency? Can we afford to say to the world, we, the Daughters of the American
Revolution, gave our note to France and repudiated it? Can we 110,000
Daughters of the American Revolution hold our claim to be representative women
of America and yet fail to raise the $1.50 per capita to redeem pledges as binding
and sacred as any ever assumed by individual or corporate note of hand? Is the
word of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, to be
security or not? It is for this congress to maintain our proud, instinctive pre-
rogative of honor and good faith that no shadow of dishonor or disgrace dim
our fair escutcheon.
Friends, that we have entered upon a new era, industrial, political, financial,
social, can not be denied. New standards have been set up, new ideals recognized,
but the one element fundamental to these new departures can not be ignored if we
would keep pace with the march toward a millennial goal.
In order that the spiritual significance of this war be not lost, we women must
fight the fight of faith, the fight " not to let God go " ; in the midst of this cata-
clysm of materialism, keeping pure and bright faith that can alone sustain the
heart " with the will to believe," while the forces of evil are still struggling for
dominance.
While the warring nations consciously had been mobilizing their material
forces — their fighting men, their industrial, financial, and agricultural re-
sources^ — instinctively and subconsciously they had been mobilizing something
that has proved to be the animating, victory-organizing power behind all the
rest — the really decisive factor of the war — their spiritual resources. Without
this unconscious mobilization France could not have risen to those heights of
national unity of purpose and action which have crowned her military cam-
paigns with victory and her head with a deathless glory. Without this spiritual
mobilization England could not have reconstructed her sordid, individualistic
industrial life on a basis of patriotic national efficiency.
If we do not now succeed in rebuilding civilization upon solider foundations
than selfishness, greed, and the other purely animal instincts of man, then this
war against war will have failed, will have been without spiritual significance
or value.
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Our publicity director, Mrs. Wait , will give in detail results of the work so
splendidly carried on by our division directors, and by Mrs. Hodgkins, secretary
for the Fatherless Children of France. If response to all the suggestions made
by your war relief service committee has not been all we hoped, it is because
Red Cross and other patriotic organizations have drawn so heavily upon the
personnel and resources of many of our members.
Why the $100,000 Liberty loan fund has not come up to the mark is a mystery
which passes the bounds of comprehension. This pledge for $1.50 per capita
was recommended by the war relief service committee to the national board of
management, was indorsed and recommended by that board to the Twenty-
seventh Continental Congress. Congress indorsed and adopted the recom-
mendation of the board, and until redeemed these pledges are equally binding
upon Daughters of the American Revolution who were not members of the
Twenty-seventh Congress, but who are equally responsible to-day as representa-
tives of this society.
In closing may I add that the archives of a nation are its ineffaceable monu-
ments, cherished as Its most priceless treasure in sacred trust for generation
following generations. To this high plane the United States Government has
exalted the records of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, by charter and by remission of taxes, making this society an
integral part of the United States Government.
We can easily calculate the amount saved to our society to-day for remission
of taxes on our income and real estate — $110,000 income, $1,000,000 in real
estate.
We are required by a provision of the charter to make, through the Smith-
sonian Institution, an annual report of our work to the United States Congress,
exactly as the War, Navy, Treasury, Agricultural, and other departments are
required to report annually, by carefully collected items in detail, all work
planned and carried out in part and in full by the departments designated.
No Secretary of any department would be considered fit for or equal to his
position if there were failure in the slightest detail to report to the Government
the work of his department The same exacting service is required of the
officials of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and if, through carelessness, ignorance, or indifference, this duty of collecting
reports, which devolves upon our State regents, is ignored, we stand a byword,
discredited, disgraced.
It is impossible to believe that we are willing to write ourselves incompetent
for a service that requires especial consideration and especial effort this year —
a year fraught with the mightiest achievements the human race has ever
planned and carried out — achievements in which we have taken no ignoble part,
but have voluntarily measured up to every requirement. There has been no
limit to the unselfish work of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Until every Daughter of the American Revolution realizes that she is a unit
in this organization, pledged as by oath to do her part in maintaining its
principles and expanding its influence, we can not expect that rigid adherence to
governmental requirements that makes for the efficiency of other departments.
As chairman of the war relief service committee I would be recreant to the
fundamentals that our organization stands for if, at the risk of being voted
superfluous and a bore, I should fail to add my importunate plea to that of the
president general and the publicity director, for full and prompt itemized
reports of the Daughters of the American Revolution work of the States.
We have not wrapped our talent in a napkin, or set our light under a bushel.
It is no partial record we ask; it is a full, honest, Itemized report of the
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splendid work our women have done, meeting the tremendous possibilities that
loomed up Defore us.
It goes without saying that when the gleaners have gathered the last grains
of the harvest we will know our national fund has been subscribed for, and the
restoration of Tilloloy provided for. As to the French orphans' work carried
on with such splendid courage and purpose, our hearts thrill through every
generous fiber we are endowed with.
Respectfully submitted.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott,
Chairman, War Relief Service Committee, N. 8. D. A. R.
Keport of the publicity director, war-relief service committee, Mrs.
W. H. Wait was next in order. (See appendix.) ~-"
Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, chairman of the committee on French
orphans, reported as follows:
Madame President General and Members of the Twenty-eIghth Continental
Congress :
For nearly two years the work in behalf of the French war orphans has been
carried on by Daughters of American Revolution chapters with ever-increasing
enthusiasm. I reported last year that almost 100 orphans had been adopted
each month. The past year adoptions have been at the rate of 200 a month.
Three hundred and four dollars and fifty cents was the amount received by
the treasurer general during the first month after we decided to show our
gratitude to France for help given the patriots during the Revolution by adopt-
ing her war orphans ; $12,316.56 was the amount received during the month of
March just passed. During our first year of this work $39,595.25 was con-
tributed. The past year $87,849.69 has been received by the treasurer general,
making a grand total of $127,444.94 to April 1, 1919. During the first 14 days
of this month enough money has been received by the treasurer general to
raise the total to $135,708.85 for French war orphans. In addition to that
amount, thousands of dollars have gone to French orphans from members of
the Daughters of the American Revolution through the treasurers of committees
of the Fatherless Children of France Society, whose Paris committee prepares
the list of orphans sent to this country for adoption. The committees of the
Fatherless Children of France Society bear the same relation to that society
that chapters do to our organization.
The orphans whose names are sent to this country are placed on the lists only
after investigation in regard to their worthiness. The fathers of these children
must have been killed in the present war, and to remain on the list the children
must remain with the mother or near relative.
The only information which comes to us with the name of the orphan is its
address, age, sex,, and sometimes the occupation of the mother or of the father
before he joined the fighting forces of France. A few of the lists furnished us
have been accompanied by pictures of the children, which were forwarded to the
adopters with the above-mentioned information. As the name and address of the
adopters accompanied the money and the name and address of the orphan to
France, additional information in regard to the life of the orphan comes to the
adopter and not here. We are notified, however, of any change in the address of
orphans on the lists sent to us and also of the elimination of the name of any
child from these lists on account of death or because the mother has remarried, or
because the child can no longer be cared for outside of one of the institutions in
France organized to care for orphans. The Paris committee assigns orphans to
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take the place of those who, for any cause, are removed from their lists, and we
pass the information on to the adopters and make the necessary corrections to
our records. . Sometimes a child dies before the money for its adoption reaches
Paris. In that case, when the reply of thanks reaches the adopter, it is from
the orphan assigned by the Paris committee to take the place of the one whose
name we had sent the adopter. During the past summer war conditions in Paris
made it impossible for the Paris committee to send to this country enough lists
to supply the demand. For several months we were without names to send to
those who had sent money to the treasurer general, and the New York head-
quarters of the Fatherless Children of France Society had a list of 3,000
adopters waiting to be supplied with names when the lists could be sent from
Paris. The cause of the delay in the arrival of these lists was the nervous break-
down of some of the most efficient workers for the Paris committee, on account
of the long hours or work given for several years under the trying conditions, re-
sulting from air raids, bombardment by the long-range gun, and the nearness
of the enemy to Paris. The French Government, in an effort to relieve the
situation, assigned Some of the school-teachers from the evacuated districts of
France to assist the committee in making out the postal money orders used to
send to the more than 90,000 orphans the quarterly installments of the $36.50
given annually by each adopter, and also to help in the preparation of the lists
of names needed to supply the ever-increasing demand in this country.'
Every cent of the $36.50 goes to the orphan, and as the majority of adopters
send the full $36.50 in the beginning and not in the quarterly installments in
which it is paid to the orphan, the Paris committee has some interest money
which can be added to the contributions of money which are given to the Father-
less Children of France Society for general running expenses, clerical assistance,
etc.
The demand of the United States Government for all available clerical help
in Washington, D. C, added to our difficulties here. It made it necessary for
awhile for one person to do as much as possible of work which, to be done satis-
factorily, needed the additional clerical help which the National Daughters of the
American Revolution board had planned that it should have but which war condi-
tions made unobtainable. During the summer just passed the curator general
shared her clerk with the French war orphan work, and for the past few months
the work has had capable clerical assistance especially appointed for it
Special thanks for help given as their contribution to our war work is due
Miss McCabe, regent; Thomas Marshall, chaplain, who made our card cata-
logue of the orphans ; to Miss Mildred Bromwell, granddaughter of our dearly
loved chairman, who prepared and typed the record of the orphans adopted by
a number of the large States ; to Mrs. Boynton, honorary vice president general ;
to the treasurer general and the young ladies of her office; to Mrs. Volland,
State treasurer, District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution; to
Mrs. Van Blarcom, of the Pittsburgh Chapter; to my sister, Miss Wilkinson,
and to my son, George, all of whom gave valuable help at various times and
In various ways.
Our honored president general, in spite of the many, many demands upon her
time, went to New York, accompanied by our treasurer general, several weeks
ago to consult with those at the head of the Fatherless Children of France
Society in regard to the most practical method of continuing our work for these
orphans after the close of this congress, when the war relief service committee,
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, had ceased to exist. I
am happy to state that, as the result of this trip to New York, adopters can
continue to send money for French war orphans to the treasurer general, receiv-
ing in return the name of the orphan and accompanying data, as in the past
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After the congress an expert will be sent from the New York headquarters of
the Fatherless Children of France Society to arrange our records according
to the plan which has proven to be the most satisfactory for this work. It is
no longer necessary that our records should be kept according to a plan made
necessary by the lack of adequate clerical help.
The Fatherless Children of France Society sees the mutual benefit which must
result from cooperation with our chapters. Lately one of our chapters has
been recognized as having charge of the orphan work in a certain locality in
place of a committee of the Fatherless Children of France being organized
there.
The question in regard to whether the orphans adopted through the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution can count on the quota desired from each State
has been asked several times, and in reply I have written that the matter
was one that could only be settled by the Fatherless Children of France Society ;
but that as the list furnished the Daughters of the American Revolution are
the same as those given the Fatherless Children of France committees, and as all
the money sent to the treasurer general for orphans on these lists is forwarded
to the Fatherless Children of France Society, it would seem that the matter
might be satisfactorily arranged.
In October the president general asked me to explain to the national board
the difficulty, under war conditions, of attending to the details connected with
the adoption of an unlimited number of orphans, and also to communicate with
adopters of the previous year In regard to their wish to continue the support
of the orphan for another year. In reply the State regents present offered to
attend to the matter of readoptions if they could be furnished with lists of
the adopters, accompanied by the necessary details. I had hoped that these
lists could be completed for the State regents before very long, but it has not
been possible to keep the other part of the work reasonably up to date and
finish all these lists even yet.
The trials and tribulations incident to the war and associated with under-
taking a work new to our organization are now apparently of the past. I am
happy that it has been possible to do all my war work through our organization,
and now that the war is over that matters could be so arranged that I will not
be missed from the orphan work, to which it is impossible for me to continue
to give so much of my time. Soon after taking up this work I realized that it
made necessary a duplication of records for the work to be handled outside of
the treasurer general's office, but if our war relief service committee was to have
a record of all its activities, such duplication was necessary. The treasurer
general is assured of my hearty cooperation and knows that she can call upon
me at any time for information which might be needed about the work when
It belonged to the war relief service committee.
The total number of one-year adoptions for which money has been sent to
the treasurer general is 3,655.
The five States sending in the largest amount of money for orphans during
the year just passed are: Iowa, $15,775.29; Ohio, $13,491.26; South Dakota,
$7,265.85; Texas, $7,098; and Michigan, $6,070.45. Last year, ending April 1,
1918, Ohio led, with $7,515.10; followed by Iowa, with $3,203.42; New York,
$2,536.10 ; Connecticut, $2,490.15 ; and Michigan, $2,380. The five States having
the largest number of adoptions to their credit from the beginning of our work
for the orphans until no v are : Ohio, 582 ; Iowa, 564 ; Texas, 337 ; South Dakota,
235; and Michigan, 234. Ohio also leads in the total amount of money sent,
$21,006.36, followed closely by Iowa, with $18,978.71. Should the Daughters of
the American Revolution membership in the States be taken into considera-
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tion, the highest praise would go to South Dakota, which, with a membership
of only 294, sent in during the year just passed $7,285.85.
The five chapters adopting the greatest number during the full period of time
are: Colonel George Moffett, of Texas, 224; Mary Bali Washington, of Iowa,
154; New Connecticut, of Ohio, 102; Mary Chilton, of South Dakota, 84; and
Western Reserve, of Ohio, 72.
In Ohio the French war-orphan work, splendidly supported by the State
regent, Mrs. E. L. Harris, has been carried on by correspondence between those
having the work in charge for each chapter and the war relief service com-
mittee. Mrs. C. C. Viall, of New Connecticut Chapter, and Mrs. E. A. Campbell,
of Western Reserve, secured adopters for the largest number of orphans.
In Iowa the work had the advantage, during both years, of the devoted serv-
ice of the State chairman, Mrs. Eleanor S. Biggs, ably supported the first year
by Mrs. Arthur W. Mann as State treasurer. During the present year Miss
Amy E. Gilbert, State treasurer, has worked most enthusiastically.
Texas has had as State chairman for the French war-orphan work Mrs.
W. G. Lovell, who has worked untiringly and most successfully. In South
Dakota the State regent, Mrs. Amos E. Ayres, has personally handled the work,
with wonderful results. In Michigan the work was at first given personal at-
tention by the State regent, Mrs. W. H. Wait , and later, when adoptions had
reached a splendid number, all the details of the work were taken over by Mrs.
L. E. Holland, first as State treasurer and later as chairman of the French war-
orphan work for her State.
This report would not be complete without an expression of thanks to the
French ambassador and Madame Jusserand ; to the ambassador for suggesting
our adoption of French war orphans from the lists prepared by the Paris com-
mittee of the Fatherless Children of France Society and for cabling to Paris for
our first list of 2,000 names ; to Madame Jusserand for her help in verifying the
names and addresses of the orphans on the lists which had to be prepared by us
to accompany the money, and for forwarding the money.
I will read from an alphabetical list of the States the total number of or-
phans adopted by each. This total number combines all one-year adoptions,
whether for the iirst or second year:
Alabama, 25; Arkansas, 55; California, 55; Colorado, 29; Connecticut, 105;
Delaware, 2; District of Columbia, 81; Florida, 14; Georgia, 93; Idaho, 22;
Illinois, 120; Indiana, 23; Iowa, 564; Kansas, 32; Kentucky, 22; Maine, 11;
Maryland, 19; Massachusetts, 78; Michigan, 234; Minnesota, 9; Mississippi,
132 ; Missouri, 64 ; Montana, 6 ; Nebraska, 32 ; Nevada, 1 ; New Hampshire, 25 ;
New Jersey, 35 ; New Mexico, 3 ; New York, 135 ; North Dakota, 3 ; North Caro-
lina, 15 ; Ohio, 581 ; Oklahoma, 10 ; Oregon, 5 ; Pennsylvania, 148 ; Rhode Island,
20; South Carolina, 39; South Dakota, 235; Tennessee, 30; Texas, 337; Ver-
mont, 17; Virginia, 21; Washington, 39; West Virginia, 52; Wisconsin, 67;
Wyoming, 5 ; Philippines, 5.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. Howard L.) Marie Wilkinson Hodgkins.
Report of the chairman of the national service school committee,
Mrs. G. Wallace Hanger, follows:
Madame President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Conti-
nental Congress:
Last year I had the honor to report on the official war service questionnaire
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. My report embodied the state-
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inent that $19,044.50 had been pledged in response to the appeal on the ques-
tionnaires for funds to send students to training camps for women. In re-
sponse to notices given to those pledging, $6,309.69 have been received by the
treasurer general to date. This sum made possible one of the constructive
pieces of war work done by the Daughters of the American Revolution, namely,
the training of 113 women in national service at the National Service Schools
in Washington, D. C, and Chautauqua, N. Y., during April, May, and July
of 1918.
This work was undertaken by your war relief service committee in response
to an invitation from the National Service Schools (Inc.) to cooperate in
its plan for training women for specific war service. The National Board
of Management indorsed the plan to raise a company of the States to consist
of women whose expenses were to be paid from the redeemed pledges. I was
appointed by the president general to take charge of this work, and for many
weeks before the opening of the third encampment of the National Service
School in Washington in April, 1918, had much correspondence in regard to the
matter. Splendid cooperation was given by the State regents and widespread
interest was exhibited in the plan.
The National Service School offered intensive courses in agricultural, recon-
struction crafts, food conservation, the business arts, and Red Cross courses.
The agricultural course gave practical training in agriculture, intensive gar-
dening, and increased food production. The reconstruction crafts enabled
students to teach the maimed and disabled from the war such simple means of
livelihood that they might be reclaimed to economic independence, and the
business arts course was planned to train women to release men for the front
and fill the business trenches as typists, accountants, and telegraph operators.
Daughters of the American Revolution students were asked to contribute only
their time and interest, the Daughters of the American Revolution defraying all
expenses from redeemed pledges, including travel to and from their homes,
uniforms, tuition, board ; in some cases even the expense of camp kit, bedding,
and blankets was met.
In the first encampment, held in Washington, D. C, from April 22 to May 8,
each State was not represented as originally planned, but 25 women were
enrolled by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and were known as the
" D. A. R. Company." They came -from 12 different States, widely separated,
and I feel sure that they left the encampment with a broader vision of our
country and an increased national spirit, for they met 200 other women, repre-
senting practically every State in the Union, and the contact and inspiration of
such association was most valuable.
I am proud to be able to report that the women holding the Daughters of
the American Revolution scholarships in these national schools have proven
themselves worthy of the trust. Their war services have not as yet been fully
compiled, but will be before our next congress, as the National Service School
is preparing a " Golden Book of War Service," which will give their records
in full. The Daughters of the American Revolution students took a prominent
part in the encampment activities and won, in the competitive drill held at
the end of the course, the highest marking for inspection, which meant the
care given to their tents individually and company street. They contributed
to the school management one of the staff officers, and three of them were
honor students in agriculture. One reconstruction crafts student became an
assistant instructor in weaving for the second term, so rapid was her progress
in the reconstructive crafts, and five became commissioned and noncommis-
sioned officers in the second term.
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Of the Daughters of the American Revolution students in the first term, a
number entered agricultural work in the woman's land army and school garden
work; three became reconstruction aids under the direction of the Surgeon
General of the United States; and two of them are now overseas in this
capacity; five entered the Government service on the strength of the training
in business arts they had received at the encampment; and one became a
leader of community singing in one of the largest cities of the country.
In the second term of the third encampment of the National Service School,
held in Washington, D. C., May 10 to 31, 1918, the Daughters of the American
Revolution sent 58 students, which was one of the largest companies in the
encampment.
The plan was adopted of giving scholarships to women already engaged in war
work in Washington, in case students could not be found willing to come to
Washington to take the courses. The State regents were consulted in the matter,
and in a number of instances they gladly agreed to release a portion of pledges
from their State to pay for the training of patriotic women who already had left
home at the call of the Government to assist in keeping the wheels of the war
machine moving on toward victory in the National Capital. Despite the fact
that they were working long hours for Uncle Sam, these Government women
eagerly took the opportunity to acquire still more training to be of service.
Instruction was given to them in the evening hours, after supper, and Govern-
ment officials have testified that their training at the National Service School
greatly increased not only their own morale, but that of the other women
working in their offices. The women themselves have been most appreciative
of the opportunity, and say that the training quickened their patriotic im-
pulses and gave them a broader national viewpoint. One, a full-blooded Indian
girl from a Southwestern State, who had been working in the Indian Office,
became a captain of the camp established on the site by the War Gamp Com-
munity Service after the National Service School adjourned, and thus had
part in the recreational training and direction of 500 women war workers
who formed "Camp Columbia," as the War Camp Community Service recrea-
tional camp was named.
Another one of these Government workers, representing a Middle Western
State, became the director of woman's welfare in one of the largest govern-
mental departments in Washintgon, having under her charge nearly 17,000
women. From this same coterie of women war workers, representing the
Daughters of the American Revolution, came two women who utilized their
trianing at the National Service School in canteen work, and entered the Red
Cross canteen service overseas. Twelve of them went into agriculture and
food-production work during the summer, and five more entered actively Into
reconstruction crafts work.
In addition to the above record of students given training in the National
Service School in Washington, D. C, 30 received training of similar character
in the National Service School at Chautauqua, N. Y., later in the summer.
Their expenses were also defrayed from the amount received by treasurer gen-
eral in redeemed pledges. It is reported that these also have been engaged in
important and active war work, both at home and overseas.
A course for national service will be given under the joint auspices of Chau-
tauqua Institution and the Woman's Naval Service (Inc.), to be held in Chau-
tauqua, N. Y., from July 15 to August 3, and again from August 5 to August
24, 1919.
I wish to incorporate as part of my report the following letter from the
chairman of the National Service School:
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Washington, D. C,
1606 Twentieth Street NW., April 10,4919.
Mrs. G. Wallace Hanger,
Continental Memorial Hall, Washington D. 0.
My Dear Mrs. Hanger : As an expression of our appreciation of the Interest
taken by the Daughters of the American Revolution in the third encampment
of the* National Service School, Washington, April-May, 1918, and the sixth
National Service School, Chautauqua, N. Y., July, 1918, the committee in charge
of the National Service School wishes to offer to the National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution five complete scholarships in the fourth encamp-
ment to be held in Washington June 15 to July 5.
The committee desires that one scholarship be known as "The President
General's Scholarship," and that the appointee thereto be the personal selection
of Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, your honored president, and that the second
scholarship be known as " The Mrs. Matthew T. Scott Scholarship " and be dis-
posed of in such manner as Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, your distinguished chairman
of war service, directs. The other three scholarships may be allotted according
to the wishes of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
The committee has asked me to express to you its thanks and appreciation of
the loyal and untiring efforts you gave in bringing the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution to the third encampment of the National Service School.
In announcing the fourth encampment of the National Service School the
committee in charge is actuated by the belief that constructive national service
is at hand for the American woman. The American woman must " carry on "
in national service. There can be no slump in the morale of Americans who
believe in the great future of this land saved for us and for our children's chil-
dren by our defenders on the fighting frontier of civilization in France. It is a
national duty for every man, woman, and even child to be trained and ready
to give definite service. Therefore the National Service School believes that in
asking American women to give only three weeks out of the year, aside from
accustomed duties, occupations, and pleasures, it is only presenting an oppor-
tunity for which every patriotic woman is eager.
The National Service School feels that its training this year should be along .
four great lines of national service :
1. Agriculture and increased food production, home gardening, and food con-
servation. The reason for this is plain when it is realized that millions of the
earth's population are either starving or on the verge of it.
2. Reconstruction crafts, which means the rehabilitation of our military,
civilian, and industrial cripples. The Surgeon General's Office of the Army is
still in need of reconstruction aids to take up the work of giving our wounded
soldiers, sailors, and marines the incentive in wage-earning crafts that they
need and to reeducate the army of civilian and industrial cripples. According
to statistics furnished by an eminent alienist of St Elizabeths Hospital, the
civilian and industrial cripples in our country number nearly a half million,
and the saddest feature of this is that many of them are children and young
men and women. Practically nothing is being done for them in the way of
reeducation, and reconstruction aids will find a large field among institutions
for their care, etc., either as volunteers or paid workers.
3. Community service.— Many women who found their desire to give definite
service answered in the war demands are now asking " What is there to do for
my country now that the war is over?" The answer is "Give community
service." Service to the community in which one lives is always seasonable.
The war has taught the enduring lesson of the value of community cooperation
and effort. This lesson should not be lost; and, if I might suggest it, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, tenacious of the country's ideals and conser-
vators of our historical prestige, are splendidly fitted for leadership in this
community work. Among the subjects in this course are: Community singing,
pageantry, rhythmic and folk dancing, community games, out-of-door gymnas-
tics, formation of children's community units, Americanization; community
health crusading, which embraces home nursing of the sick, invalid diet cook-
ing, community sanitation and hygiene, and elements of domestic science, and
essentials of national government and patriotic information.
4. Domestic science and home management. — The State is affected by any-
thing that affects the home, and in this reconstruction period " better homes "
should be the slogan of American women. Home-making is but another form
°f national service, and requires training to as great an extent as Red Cross,
canteen, and other features of national service do, The practical education in
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home-making arts is one of the imperative present-day duties of women. This
is specially the duty of young women, the brides-elect and home-makers of
to-morrow. Every woman who is a home-maker, potential or actual, will find
the domestic science course at the National Service School one of real inspira-
tion and practical assistance.
I am sending circulars of the National Service School for the use of any dele-
gates to the congress who might be interested in the fourth encampment. It is
our aim to be as progressive as possible, and therefore we have made several
changes in the routine of the day, especially as regards morning drills, which
we have set aside in order that the students may go unfatigued to their class-
room work. All the courses are intensive.
With renewed thanks for all your interest and cooperation in this work, 1
am, faithfully yours,
(Signed) Elisabeth Ellicott Poe,
Chairman National Service School,
1606 Twentieth Street NW., Washington, D. C.
In closing I wish to make acknowledgment of the valuable assistance and
cooperation of the president general, the State regents, and the chairman of
the National Service School.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. G, Wallace) Lucy Galt Hanger.
Wednesday morning's session was filled with reading of the previ-
ous minutes, offering resolutions of varied nature, discussions, etc.
(See Report Twenty-eighth Continental Congress for details.)
Mrs. Henry S. Bowron, chairman of the committee on interna-
tional bureau of lantern slides and lectures, gave the following
report :
. Madam President General, Officers, and Members :
The work of this bureau for the first six months of the season 1918-19 was
almost entirely confined to the use of the Tilloloy slides; very few other lec-
tures were called for, for two reasons — first, the interest in completing chapter
quota's for the Tilloloy fund ; secondly, many of the chapters felt there should
be no charge for the use of slides on any subject.
Your chairman has written many letters explaining that the charge made
does not defray the cost of replacing breakage, while all new sets must be paid
for out of the national treasury.
While the account possible to keep for the bureau is not accurate, it is esti-
mated the expenses have been as per memorandums of the chairman, $154.90
(income, $17.40), several sets used for raising funds for war orphans having
been rented a third off.
New sets have been added this season. " The Romantic History of the May-
flower Pilgrim" is especially attractive. A gratifying report comes from
Missouri. The new sets on the war are very interesting and instructive.
A set of 40 slides taken from the various lectures and named "Historic
Pictures " has been sent abroad through the Y. M. C. A.
It is impossible for any series of pictures shown to teach the history of this
country, either historically or patriotically, without the spoken words to impress
the truth we seek to instill in the minds of the people. Last summer your
chairman saw a motion picture of our early flags and historic scenes. It was
pleasing, but received without enthusiasm. Our own lecture, " Our Flag," was
given one evening in the same locality with community singing. The en-
thusiasm, applause, and after comments were most satisfactory.
Daughters, you have a committee, you have had for two years a chairman,
intensely interested in the work, entirely at your service, and she looks to you
for cooperation in the work at Jionie and abroad.
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An authorized fund for the work abroad would bring better results ; also an
Interest in sending negatives, not post cards or prints, with authentic history to
the chairman would greatly assist in the compilation of lectures ; greatly desired
information of the locality in each State, where our flag was first displayed.
Your chairman trusts you will study the leaflet, giving lecture subjects, prices,
and information ; finding something attractive to start this form of educational
work, East and West, North and South, so that increasing numbers of patriotic
Americans will answer " present '* whenever and wherever the call.
As the sun rises over the Atlantic in the morning, in its glorious rays, we see
the vision of the character which has given present achievement and promises
coming glory in America, making an earnest spirit give praise and thanks for a
land and government that is worth while.
Authorized by the national board, your chairman prepared a special set of 76
slides, entitled " France and the Daughters of the American Revolution,** which
has been presented through the Y. M. C. A. to the men in arms in France. A
letter of presentation from the president general accompanied the gift ; a letter
from the Y. M. C. A. expresses appreciation of this gift.
There has been such a demand for these lectures that five sets were made up
from historic spots and *' Our Flag " which are the property of Captain Robert
Nichols Chapter.
Our regular sets can not be broken without considerable expense for replace-
ments; the future for this work therefore depends upon the interest of the
daughters in authorizing and encouraging it.
The work at home has lately been most satisfactory ; the very best work hav-
ing been done by the Andrew Hamilton Chapter of Abbeville, S. C. One set has
been shown each week for five weeks. Mrs. Russell, the regent, writes " after
our first pictures, the superintendent of the cotton mills offered to pay the
charges of securing the pictures if we would allow the mill people to see them
free of charge."
Will not other chapters follow this plan? Can not some generous friend in r„
locality be found to pay the small charge for a series of lectures for the benefit
of some members of the public?
Your chairman has often been told " moving pictures answer the purpose quite
as well." Most emphatically she answers " they do not."
I will not read these letters but just simply say that five sets of the lectures
have gone over to France and been used there, and I received a letter the other
day asking for a set of the negatives to make sets of to go into Russia.
Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. Henry S.) Elizabeth M. Bowron, Chairman.
Miss Lottie E. Jones, chairman of the patriotic education com-
mittee, next read her report as follows:
Madam President General, and Daughters Assembled in the Twenty-eighth
Congress :
For the second time I have the honor of submitting to you the report of the
committee on patriotic education of the National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. It is a gratification that this report can be made full
and very nearly complete, since not one State has failed to send a report or
material for the exhibit, or in some way to give data from which to make the
following compilation.
Year by year the Daughters of the American Revolution are coming to
realize more generally that we are a woman's organization at once unique and
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important. Chartered by the United States Government, reporting to the Gov-
ernment, which has the power to revoke our charter at will, we are a part of the
Government all our own.
We are not as a federation of States nor chapters ; the national society directs
each individual daughter. Every Daughter belongs to the national society first,
without the necessity of afilliation with any chapter or State, other than the
obligation to support home effort and the pleasure of home associations. It is
not as the sum of all the societies nor as the federated interests of individual
chapters that we assemble in congress to report how extensively and intelli-
gently we are carrying out the wishes and ideals of the national society.
As chairman of the very important committee of patriotic education it is
my desire to first note and report the loyal and active support accorded by the
vice chairmen, by the division directors, and by every member of the committee.
The chairman of the committee visited and addressed by invitation four State
conferences, and the vice chairmen as many more, in all of which there was
manifest an earnestness of purpose and a desire to unify all work of patriotic
education. * * *
The lines of activity as determined upon by the committee on patriotic edu-
cation and approved by the national society fall naturally into eight groups,
although collectively all may be considered under the one effort toward Ameri-
canization. Classified, these efforts are : Training for the child and the adult,
the boy and the man, the foreign born and the native born, for the weak and
the strong, forming habits and reforming habits already held, to the end of
best citizenship in the United States.
Before reporting the response made to the committee by the States I beg
to review the many lines of work undertaken. The first group includes all
coming under schools and colleges. To many education is limited to the schools.
To this committee, however, the schools form but one factor in the education
for citizenship. The first item in this first-named group is aid to schools of all
sections of the country, particularly of the southern mountains. There are
43 schools of this kind aided by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
This is effort toward educating illiterates. This last year, although the
amount of money appropriated for that purpose has been limited, it is known
to have been not less than $5,050.07. This sum is estimated as very much
less than has been appropriated, because of the fact that many chapters have
sent amounts directly to the school chosen. Chapters should send this money
through the State treasurer, when there would not occur the confusion which
otherwise arises and the exact amount could be known by this committee.
As it is, only an approximate amount can be reported. One school which is
conducted for the foreigner is the most worthy of all in our plan of educat-
ing for best citizenship. This is the American International College, located
at Springfield, Mass. It has the hearty indorsement of the committee. Its
claims will be presented by one who has the school in charge, immediately
following this report, so that I need say no more about it.
It has been the pleasure of the Daughters of the American Revolution to
secure scholarships for worthy young women of Revolutionary descent. These
scholarships have been in schools located in Washington so far. However, the
location is not necessarily in any one place. Why can not every State secure
such a scholarship in its own State and the Daughters of the State either give
or loan the money to the girl who wins the scholarship, if she is not able to
bear her own expenses? Illinois has set a good example in securing one scholar-
ship in Monmouth College. The securing of scholarships in State universities
for children made orphans through death of the father in service in the late
war, will help materially in the proposed care of the American orphan.
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Contests in highest grades of the schools in study of history and civics, as
well as in composition on historic subjects, all help lay a foundation for best
citizenship.
An injunction, through posters, to *' make history, not read it," was broad-
cast during the month just following the entrance of the United States into
the war. A most dangerous idea this, and a perversion of history itself.
It will be noticed in the reported activities, particularly in the reports from
the States of Kansas and Michigan, that the Daughters are alive to our obli-
gation to the American Indian, first owners of the land and the original
American Guards.
How far the defectives and the delinquents can be helped toward patriotic
impulse by us, and consequently how far we are obliged in this direction, only
experiment can determine. The most important because the most extensive
experiment of this kind is being tried at Industry, N. Y., where American
creeds and United States constitutions are doing their part toward bringing out
a sense of national responsibility.
The next group of activities is listed under direct Americanization. That
another woman's organization, temporary as it was, undertook this particular
work and set ours aside was most unfortunate. A readjustment of this special
work of the Daughters must be made. I can not but wonder if the Daugh-
ters themselves were not in a way to be blamed for this, because if the work
in Americanization had been done to the limit by all chapters, there would
have been no room for any other organization to have slipped in to this work
peculiarly our own.
A project being pushed to good results in Chicago is the new America shop,
where the new America women can bring the work they learned in the Old
World, and find not only the market but the kindly treatment and encourage-
ment most needed in a strange country. The men and women coming to
America bring with them the habit of obedience from the old country, where
fear and superstition hold them within the law. It is the next generation
which creates a criminal.
The ounce of prevention comes in the clubs of Children and Sons of the
Republic and Girl Home Makers. While attending the Ohio State conference I
realized the possibilities of these clubs as I never did before. A hundred and odd
(was told there might have as well been 600 had there been enough room pro-
vided) little girls, with their foreign faces and American ways, filed into the
room eager to do as they were told. Little Americans these in the making.
Later a couple dozen boys passed the receiving line, with still the foreign
faces and the American ways, young fellows, Sons of the Republic, American
citizens in the making. The same evening a group of young people, Children
of the Revolution, Americans they by right of birth, entertained the assembly
in the graceful figures of the minuet. All these made a demonstration of Amer-
icanism calculated to thrill the most pessimistic soul.
Wherever a chapter economizes do not let it be in the support of these clubs
of Children and Sons of the Republic, of Girl Home Makers, or of Children of
the Revolution. I wish you would look up the picture of the Booker T. Wash-
ington club in the exhibit, and form one in your community. It helps solve one
great problem of our country.
The welfare of women and children under the direction of our committee
has been and yet is without limitation of effort. The committee this year asked
the chapters to look after the women under the abnormal conditions of war
work, such as employment in munition factories, life in cantonments, etc. Also
in the welfare of children to care for the education of all dependent children
left fatherless through service in this war. This care involves a knowledge of
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men going into service from the county in which the chapter is located, their
number and the number of men who lost their lives in the service, and of the
dependent children, if any, that were left. Surely there could be no better nor
more fitting work for the Daughters of the American Revolution than this care
of the American orphan. Let us care for our own. It is for these children that
the committee has asked scholarships; it is for these American orphans that
many States have already appropriated sums of money to their needs and will
the coming year give more money. Massachusetts, I believe, was the first
State to contribute to the fund, and North Carolina was the first to vote a
scholarship. Illinois has secured a scholarship in the State University, and I
believe all other States could do the same with little effort.
As a means of patriotic education the placing of the Constitution of the
United States where it can be consulted and become a guide to all citizens, such
as in men's clubs, railroad stations, hotel lobbies, barber shops, etc., Is inval-
uable. These Constitutions are furnished at actual price of printing through
the committee on patriotic education. There is no reason why every man in
the United States should not have the Constitution of the United States where
he can consult It at will, nor, for that matter, that every woman should not
want to consult that document now she has the obligation to vote Its support.
The American's creed such as has been used in this congress are also supplied
at the same low cost through the committee. All chapters are urged to take
these means of patriotic education Into their communities. Through the gener-
osity of the national society a large number of these creeds were sent to camps
for distribution, particularly the camps of debarkation.
The story telling, based upon authentic history of our country, is by no means
an insignificant part of training to best citizenship.
All this work as outlined, together with special effort in lumber camps and
In mining communities, has met response from the States where such oppor-
tunities offer. The reported work done is found at the close of this report.
Many States held back their reports, some of them coming to me after the
opening of congress. In such cases it Is almost Impossible to give due credit
to work done.
Friendship House, Washington, D. C.
George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
Italian Free Kindergarten, Washington, D. C.
Juvenile Court Protective Association, Washington, D. C.
Young Women's Christian Association, Washington, D. C.
Berry School, Mount Berry, Ga.
Free Kindergarten, Dalton, Ga.
Mineral Bluff School, Mineral Bluff, Ga.
Social Service and Training School, Atlanta, Ga.
Southern Dental College, Atlanta, Ga.
Berea College, Berea, Ky.
Hindman School, Hindman, Ky.
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, Ky.
Junior Republic, Annapolis, Md.
Plney Woods School, Braxton, Miss.
Work In the Pine District, New Lisbon, N. J.
Asheville Normal and Industrial School and Peace Memorial, N. C.
Cower Mountain School, Franklin, N. C.
Dorothy Sharpe School, Edneyville, N. C.
Lees-McRae Institute, Banners Elk, N. O.
Plumtree School, Plumtree, N. a
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Oodman's Guild, Columbus, Ohio.
Georgetown School, Georgetown, S. O. <
Epiphany Mission, Sherwood, Tenu.
Grandview Normal Institute, Grandview, Tens.
Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
Tennessee D. A. R. School, Flag Pond, Tenn.
Rev. Josiah Ellis School, Yancey, Va.
Mountain Missions, Ivy Depot, Va.
Southern Industrial Educational Association.
Florence Crittenton Home, Washington, D. C.
Home for the Blind, Washington, D. C.
Roe Indian Institute, Wichita, Kans.
Matthew T. Scott, jr., Academy and Industrial School, Pine Mountain, Ky.
Witherspoon School, Breathitt, Ky.
Valle Crucis Industrial School, Valle Crucis, N. C.
Tusculum School, Greeneville, Tenn.
Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Milwaukee, Wis.
Tomassee Industrial School, S. C.
States report as follows:
Alabama reports work on school held back by the request of the Govern-
ment that no building be taken up; that the chapters have kept up contribu-
tions, and the money is at hand, and work on buildings will be undertaken this
coming summer.
Arkansas reports a $50 and $25 scholarship was sent to the Helen Dunlap
School ; $25 box of clothing sent to the Helen Dunlap School. Another chapter
is paying tuition to Helen Dunlap School for a girl who is of Revolutionary
descent Another chapter donated $10 to Girls' Industrial School, and also
cooperated with School Improvement Association in giving patriotic talks,
teaching the American's Creed and patriotic songs, as well as introducing the
telling of historic stories. Another chapter donated $10 to assist in supplying
books to needy pupils of the public schools, and yet another chapter gave $25
to the general fund of patriotic education.
Arizona, with its two chapters, reports limited work other than money
spent for creeds for soldiers, direct Americanization, and celebration of his-
toric days.
California reports much work in direct Americanization, and much of work
hitherto done in this line having been turned over to the public schools. Mutf
interesting work has been done in Los Angeles in the way of classes in sew-
ing and English for the foreign-born mothers. This work so interested the
school board that they furnished a teacher for the class. Many young Italian
mothers in their eagerness are obliged to take their nursing children to the
classes. Every southern California chapter outside of Los Angeles has con-
tributed toward the support and welfare of some foreign element in its imme-
diate locality, Japanese and Mexican nationalities predominating in the smaller
cities. Many chapters are giving scholarships. The Hollywood Chapter em-
bodied in their by-laws a permanent regulation, whereby one scholarship each
year is furnished to a student at Berea College, Berea, Ky.
Colorado reports that they placed copies of the Constitution for consulta-
tion and distributed the American's Creed.
Connecticut reports appropriating $1,490 for Southern Mountain schools,
direct Americanization, and distributing the American's Creed. Beside the
$1,400, the chapters of the State have united to raise a fund of $1,000, which
will be a perpetual scholarship fund at Maryville College. This sum was
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donated to the Margaret E. Henry Memorial Scholarship fund. Only 4
chapters of the 50 of the State took no xrnrt in this. An annual scholarship of
$100 is given to the Suffield Literary Institute by the local chapter. The several
chapters have made donations individually. One gave $15 to the Pine Mountain
Settlement ; another sent the Youth's Companion to the Oneida Indians ; another
gave a sum of money in aid of the students at Wilgraham. Eleven chapters of
this State spent $82.50 in prizes through the public schools. They have spent $542
on books, magazines, etc., for libraries and schools. Altogether this State has
reported a vast amount of work done in the various lines of patriotic education.
Some of the work mentioned, while of great value, belongs to another committee,
and will, it is presumed, be found elsewhere in the year's report. One chapter
has spent $428 to complete the volumes of the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register for the public library, and another spent $101 in library
gifts. Thirteen chapters have interested themselves in direct Americanization.
Two chapters have given money toward the training of teachers in Americani-
zation summer classes. One chapter cooperated in a patriotic meeting among
the Italians, and another chapter worked among the colored people. Many
copies of the American's Creed have been distributed in this State.
Delaware reports much good work was done throughout the State,
The District of Columbia reports much valuable work done. American's
Creed has been distributed to soldiers, workmen, and the public generally ; to
settlement houses, banks, and elsewhere. A gold pin was given as a prize for
essay on " Why I became an American citizen." This pin was presented at
the housewarming on graduation night of the School for Foreigners, March 12.
At this time silk flags were given with the diplomas to the newly made Ameri-
can citizens by the Bureau of Naturalization, Department of Labor. The com-
mittee on patriotic education of the District of Columbia cooperated with the
woman's club in the movement inaugurated to secure full attendance of the
foreign-born women and girls to the free day and night schools* A prize was
^iven for the best pen-written copy from memory of the American's Creed at the
schools for foreigners. The prize is a gold medal, the gift of the State regent,
Miss Hilda Fletcher. The chairman, Miss Glassie, gave as her present, a framed
copy of the Constitution of the United States. By favor of the author two
books, one the History of the United States, the other Stories of Useful Inven-
tions, by Dr. Samuel E. Foreman, have been placed in the library of the School
for Foreigners. This committee called the attention of the national committee
to the two Federal bills now awaiting legislation. These bills provide for an-
nual appropriations from Congress for the training of teachers and providing
other facilities for instruction to immigrants in the language, the laws, and
the ideals of the United States. Through the efforts of the committee copies
of these bills have been placed in the hands of the president general for her
consideration of their worth to the national society. A gold badge representing
the national coat of arms was given as a prize at the night school to the pupil
who brought in the greatest number of new pupils. This prize was given by
the American Liberty Chapter. A young girl who brought in 40 pupils won the
prize. This same young girl raised $700 for the wool fund. This chapter has
given copies of the American's Creed to the colored and white mountain schools
of Virginia. Continental Chapter has for six years contributed $20 to the sup-
port of Vera Arnold, a young giri of the Downing Industrial School at Brew-
ton, Ala. It has also given $30 to the support of the Willet girls (triplets.)
Another chapter has confined its work exclusively toward helping the foreign
night schools directly. It has given handsome silk flags for speeches made in
the language of our land. This chapter also presented the night school 200
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copies of Weems's Life of Washington and Morse's Life of Lincoln. The chapters
of the District have remained loyal to their pledges to support the southern
mountain schools.
Florida reports placing the Constitution of the United States in public places,
distributing the American's Creed, and giving prizes to encourage the study of
United States history; also appropriating sums of money for southern moun-
tain schools.
Georgia reports from Atlanta Chapter the sum of $825 for scholarships ; from
chapter at Athens $50 for scholarships at State Normal. Columbus pays tuition
for two girls at orphans' home and $15 to free kindergarten for factory chil-
dren. Dalton Chapter gave two scholarships in high school and contributed
$55 in support of free kindergartens in mill district
Another chapter sends two children to county school; another has taken
short-term scholarship at normal school ; another has taken short-term scholar-
ship at State agricultural school valued at $25; another chapter has taken
scholarship in local high school; another chapter gave $12 to city mill school
and $5 to students' loan fund. Social Circle has contributed $10 for loan fund
and $18 for mountain schools. One chapter presented prize for highest average
in study of United States history in high schools; another a copy of Jackson
County history to library ; another awarded gold medal to pupil making highest
average in high school in study of history ; still another chapter gave medal for
same purpose. Waycross Chapter has given prize to high-school pupil for best
essay on old trails roads. Other commendable work done by Georgia chapters
includes celebration of historic days, adoption of a little girl, planning equip-
ment for playgrounds, and, best of all, the extensive publicity of the Constitu-
tion of the United States and the circulation of the American's Creed through-
out the State.
Illinois reports donation to southern mountain schools; has secured scholar-
ships in State University for child whose father lost life in recent war as a
conscripted soldier, sailor, or marine. Gives a scholarship in Monmouth Col-
lege to a girl of Revolutionary ancestry. The Chicago chapters have united
in the project of a New America's shop. One chapter found a unique plan of
teaching the language of the land to foreign women which has met great suc-
Clubs of Children and Sons of the Republic and of Girl Home Makers are
found in limited numbers through the State. The Constitution of the United
States has been placed in public places, and the' distribution of the creed has
received attention.
Iowa reports contributions to the following schools: Dorothy Sharpe, $74;
Piney Woods, $85; Martha Berry, $152; Helen Dunlap, $35; Tomassee, $50;
Hindman, $10; also a scholarship at the International College at Springfield,
Mass. One chapter placed the American's Creed in all schools. Another chap-
ter presented a $5 medal to pupil in senior class having the highest grade in
study of American history. One chapter gave a $5 thrift stamp to child of foreign
parents who wrote the best essay on the subject, "Why my parents came to
America." One chapter gave $25 to local playgrounds, and another sent $5
to Dorothy Sharpe to purchase a sheep for the school herd. Another gave $8
in prizes for essays.
Kansas reports chapter at Emporia as giving $25 to Martha Berry School;
Lawrence Chapter as instituting a loan scholarship fund of $100, to be awarded
by Kansas University each year to a worthy senior girl, who will repay the
money without interest four years after date. Wichita Chapter is now in its
second year of supporting a scholarship at the Roe Indian Institute. The
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scholarship amounts to $150 per year. Kansas makes good report in welfare
work. Wichita reports the upkeep of a baby chest for the use of the city
nurses; sewing for the Children's Home; contributing to the free-milk fund
for the needs of sick children. Another chapter of that city donated $25 to the
local baby hospital. Newton Chapter cooperated with other local organizations
in the care of soldiers' widows and children. Independence Chapter did similar
work. The chapter at Lawrence found a field of endeavor in the community
house for the S. A. T. C.
An interesting report is made in the line of contests. A flag was won by a
declamation contest in the Larned schools. Silk flags were given to those
reaching the highest grades in history in the high schools of Rozel, Garfield,
and Burdette. Many copies of the American's Creed have been taken in Kan-
sas, and some Constitutions of the United States have been placed.
Kentucky reports much interesting work along the various lines under
patriotic education. The Lexington Chapter had the Star-Spangled Banner
printed on slips and pasted in every hymn book in every church, colored and
white, in Lexington. The Owensboro Chapter sent Highland College $148 to be
used this year for Lottie Strong. An entire outfit (for summer and winter)
was made by the chapter for Maud Moody, the girl who graduated on the
chapter scholarship and who is now in training for a nurse at Buffalo, N. Y.
The other graduate married last June and was remembered by a wedding gift.
The Frankfort Chapter is educating Sammy Combs at Hindman. This chapter
has placed 12 copies of the Constitution of the United States in public places.
The chapter at Louisville, Ky., is paying for the second year for the tuition of
a bright girl at Lee College, Jackson, Ky. The chapter at Harrodsburg is pay-
ing $15 for the tuition of a boy in the Matthew T. Scott School. The John Mar-
shall Chapter at Louisville contributed $25 to the Hindman School. The
Paducah Chapter gave $5 to same school. The chapter at Paris gave as usual
$15 to Hindman, One chapter gave $10, another $4, two others each gave $5
to the Pine Mountain School. Six chapters gave $5 each to the General Edu-
cation Fund. Several hundred Constitutions of the United States and more
than a thousand Creeds have been placed by the Daughters of the American
Revolution in Kentucky.
Maine reports show an extensive circulation of the American's Creed and
that many chapters have placed the Constitution of the United States in promi-
nent places. A great work of that State is the raising, at 10 cents per capita,
$100 for the scholarship for Randall Shelley in the high school. In this State
are many of foreign birth, and the daughters take care to have the children
read such books as tend to their training in good citizenship, which books are
sent out by the Immigrant Publication Society. These books are placed in
libraries and in the public schools. Among them are counted " The Makers of
America " and the " Guide to the Immigrant," both by John Foster Carr.
Prizes have been awarded for the best essays on American history. The Port-
land Chapter has been of great assistance to the large boys' club of that city.
Many chapters help the boys of Opportunity Farm. More of the support of the
chapters of Maine goes to the Berry School than to any other of the southern
mountain schools. Many Constitutions of the United States have been placed
where they can be consulted, and the American's Creed has been freely
circulated.
Maryland reports through a State chairman of scholarships that in six years
the State has accomplished the following work : In St. Mary's Seminary, which
was established by act of assembly as a monument to the birth of the State of
Maryland, " where the mothers of the future generations may receive their edu-
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cation," one graduate, June, 1919 (three years) ; in the Emily Nelson Ritchie
McLean scholarship, supported by the cooperation of the parents of the young
student, the Maryland Daughters and the New York City Chapter of which Mrs.
Donald McLean was regent; the Francis Scott Key scholarship, supported by
the cooperation of the Southern Maryland Society and the Maryland Daughters
second graduate (D. V.) In 1920 (three years), a memorial to Francis Scott
Key. The Mrs. J. Pembroke Thorn scholarship, supported by cooperation of
the parents of the young student and the Maryland Daughters, a graduate in
1920 (three years). This is a memorial to Mrs. J. Pembroke Thorn, State regent
of Maryland. A memorial scholarship established through the Baltimore Chap-
ter of which Mrs. Swindell was an active member. The Children of the Re-
public of Baltimore are at this time all in one club. The City Club of Baltimore
gave eight of its girls and four of its boys to the war and then had to disband.
The Commodore Isaac Hull Club has done wonderful work not only in its own
club, but in interesting older people. The principal of the school where this
club meets gives all credit to the members, saying that they are the best stu-
dents in the school.
Massachusetts sends a full and commendable report, all of which evidences
the untiring zeal of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution.
For the various departments of the patriotic education work. Massachusetts
Daughters have contributed during the year $2,500. Among the specific
Children and Sons of the Republic clubs of Massachusetts there is the Ossoli
Club, under the direction of a Harvard student, whose expenses are paid by
the Hannah Winthrop Chapter, of Cambridge. Another club is the Colonel
Joseph Durfee, which meets in the King Philip Settlement House in Fall
River and is under the local chapter. Three years ago this club was composed
of both boys and girls, with a president drawn from its own membership.
Later the boys were gathered into a scout troop and its girls became a knitting
circle. The Frances Dighton Club for girls and the Hedijah Baylies Club for
boys are under the directorship of Mrs. Delia Chase Butler, of Dighton, assisted
by other members of the chapter at Taunton. Attleboro Club for girls (di-
rector, Mrs. Clara E. Brigham Perry) is doing valuable work among the young
people of that community. A mothers' club, under the directorship of Mrs.
E. C. Brown, does patriotic work. A large and energetic club of girls has been
formed at Shirley under the directorship of Mrs. Mary Win slow Hazen. Camp
Devens was right at the door, and much time and energy was given to work
among the soldiers. The work at Camp Devens has been one of the most stu-
pendous done by the Daughters in any part of the country during the war.
The members of the chapter, led by Mrs. Allen, of Shirley, gave all their time
every day to mending and sewing for the boys and in bringing to them a touch
of home.
Michigan reports appropriating $310 for scholarships in southern mountain
schools; $112.16 for Berea Fireside Industries; $117 by Commonwealth for
boys at Albion; $64796 for Philippine scholarships; $59.68 for Roe Institute
(Indian) ; $224.51 for University of Michigan; and is also creating a fund for
a scholarship in Wilberforce University (colored). Has placed Constitutions
of the United States where they may be consulted; given books to libraries;
had patriotic lectures and programs in settlements; has distributed the Ameri-
can's Creed to men in night schools; marked historic piaces and Revolutionary
soldiers' graves; reports six pageants and floats; maintained 62 clubs of Chil-
dren and Sons of the Republic and 1 club of Daughters of the Republic, and 6
Women of the Republic clubs.
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Missouri reports national holidays observed; placing Constitutions of the
United States where they may be consulted; medals given to winners in con-
tests; distributing of the American's Creed; giving silk flags to schools; con-
tributing to southern mountain schools; taking up the care of the American
orphans; establishing and maintaining night schools; establishing active clubs
of the Children and Sons of the Republic Clubs.
Nebraska reports 23 of the 34 chapters contributing $75 to the Martha Berry
School ; Deborah Avery Chapter has created a fund to be known as the Deborah
Avery Fund, which is to furnish $100 annually to be used to assist children of
soldiers of the late war to complete their education ; chapters situated in county
seats have followed the custom of giving each man completing his naturalization
papers an American flag, and whenever possible to see to it that an American flag
is hung above the desk where the new citizen takes his oath of allegiance; the
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine placed in public libraries.
New Hampshire reports much interesting work in direct Americanization,
particularly wonderful work with the Polish peoples; placed Constitutions of
the United States in lumber camps; use of American's Creed among aliens
in the night schools; presented books on historic subjects to city libraries;
awarding money prizes to public and private schools; including lectures on
patriotic education in many programs; and found parochial schools interested
in patriotic education.
New Jersey reports giving aid to southern mountain schools; prizes to
encourage the study of history ; appropriation for Philippine Scholarship Fund ;
placing 100 copies of the Constitution of the United States; placing 400 copies
of the American's Creed at Camp Vaile, N. J.
New York reported only in a general way, placing Constitutions of the United
States ; distributing Creeds ; giving prizes in schools ; aid to southern mountain
schools.
North Carolina reports a generous sum appropriated for work in patriotic
education, enough to secure a scholarship in State University. This State has,
to a limited extent, taken up the distribution of the Creed.
North Dakota reports outlining of a number of patriotic programs.
Ohio reports money sent to southern mountain schools; excellent work in
Children and Sons of the Republic and Girl Home Makers ; much effort placed
on direct Americanization work; Constitutions of the United States placed so
that they may be consulted, and Creeds distributed.
Oklahoma reports an appropriation of $50 and Christmas box sent to the
Martha Berry School ; Muskogee Chapter purchased 200 Creeds ; Tulsa Chapter
appropriated $50 to Helen Dunlap School.
Oregon reports 11 chapters represented on the Patriotic Education Committee ;
this committee called in Oregon the American Citizenship Committee, or the
A. C. E. Committee. Local committees of the chapters assist the young women
of the public libraries in entertaining the students from the night schools at
their receptions, furnish speakers for public schools on Memorial Day, circulate
the code for proper use of the flag, and strive to prevent its desecration. A
valuable set of water-colored copies of colonial flags has been prepared by Miss
Medora Whitfield, and was exhibited at State conference in February. Within
the year three large flags have been presented — one to the social center called
Neighborhood House, where English is taught under the Jewish Women's Coun-
cil ; one to the assembly room at county poor farm ; and one to the office of the
naturalization officer. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln given to the Open Air
School at Portland. All Daughters endeavor to make their influence felt wher-
ever it may reach in the interests of Americanization for native-born and for-
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eign-born alike. The committee owns and loans a set of 41 lantern slides illus-
trating historical events and historic localities. Plans have been made for edu-
cational work among foreign-born women.
Pennsylvania report sent in too late to be correctly placed, though good work
has been done. Over $1,000 expended, and at conference a scholarship at Mary-
ville established at a cost of $1,000 in honor of Pennsylvania women in foreign
service.
Rhode Island reports appropriations to the amount of $175, distributed to
Berry, Hindman, Industrial and American International schools and signal
school; for Americanization to amount of $25; established two large Little
Mothers' Leagues and one Camp Fire Girls ; story-telling illustrated by lantern
slides in Italian, French, and Yiddish ; 2,000 Creeds distributed ; 451 flags given
out.
South Carolina reports $4,100 raised in aid of southern mountain schools;
great work with the Tomassee School delayed by the epidemic and the holding
back of building; many Constitutions of the United States placed where they
could be consulted ; and hundreds of the Creeds distributed.
South Dakota reports two chapters conducting prize contests for best essay
on prevention of desecration of the flag ; one chapter giving two prizes for best
essay on " Patriotism," competitors being pupils of seventh and eighth grades ;
one chapter distributing American's Creed throughout the county.
Tennessee reports lectures, circulation of the Creed, and aid to mountain
schools in Tennessee and Georgia.
Texas reports appropriation of $00 for Denton State Normal School ; $250 for
Rice Institute Scholarship Fund ; $10 to Helen Dunlap School ; $5 to Philippine
Scholarship Fund ; $10 in gold for best essay in high school ; $110 for Normal
School Fund ; $10 to Southern Industrial Education ; $10 to Berry School ; $25
for flag. Also active clubs of Children and Sons of the Republic.
Vermont reports a Kenneth Earl Scholarship Fund ; aid to the Berry School ;
to the Kurn Hattin School for dependent orphan boys; appropriations to the
American International College; distributing of the American's Creed; publicity
of the Constitution of the United States ; prizes given for best essays.
Wisconsin reports one chapter appropriating $10 and another giving $5 to
Berry School ; another chapter organized classes of Italian and Polish women, to
whom they taught the language of the land ; another chapter sent out lectures on
the American flag, with slides to illustrate them ; and the chapter at La Crosse
has an essay contest in the high school.
The president general next introduced to the audience, Mr. Mc-
Gown, chancellor of the American International College for Immi-
grants.
Mrs. Foster, chairman of the conservation committee, reported as
follows :
Madam President General and Members :
As national chairman of conservation I wish to report that I have a report
from every State. Now, do not become panic stricken; I won't read then..
Yesterday I was requested to read one or two reports from each division. I,
too, am a firm believer in conservation of time and energy, and especially in
conservation of the efficiency of our organization by fully complying with the
requests and the rules of our president general, by making our reports in 15
minutes. Will you please call me?
In order to meet the war emergencies a brief outline for the development of
extension work by the Daughters of the American Revolution was submitted,
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and it was expected that the lines of effort would make a special appeal to the
daughters at this time as avenues for national service, and as a means for ex-
pression of the new patriotism that looked not only to the present but to the
future.
Taking our insignia as a standard bearer, with its 13 stars indicating con-
servation measures, the following 13 war measures were submitted by the
national chairman :
Altruistic appeal. — The greatest good to the greatest number, for the longest
period of time. Unity — cooperation — harmony.
Simple life. — Simplicity is the keynote of to-day. Simple food — simple
clothes — simple pleasures.
Community service. — Keep aroused public sentiment in order that measures
may be taken to stop waste.
Salvage. — Establish stations to receive all salvage and sell for war purposes.
Home demonstrations: Food production and conservation. — Food above every
other production in the world responds to individual attention. See that all
waste ground is cultivated. Produce varieties by practicing seed exchange.
Study the market resources of the city. Institute campaigns for food pro-
duction. Conduct harvest festivals in the schools and clubs and demonstrate
the use of corn and other foods not practical for use in Europe. Use potatoes
as substitutes to relieve wheat and meat.
Study economical methods of preparation and the use of by-products and
leftovers. Elimination of waste — reduction of consumption — substitution of
foods. Exchange menus. Study food values, canning, drying, and salting of
perishable food, and storage of fruits and vegetables.
Conservation of fuel. — Fuel is a matter of national and international moment.
Conserve fuel in households by use of fireless cookers, steam cookers, and steam
pressure cookers. Intelligent management of the oven and home furnace. In-
crease use of wood. Make fuel saving the social standard by making it a mat-
ter of fashion and good morals, by turning off the gas, radiators, and lights
when not in use. Use automobiles judiciously. Encourage lightless nights.
Conservation of income.— Conserve the family budget. Encourage public
opinion in reference to weights and measures in use In the cities, which would
increase the buying power of the consumer's dollar. •• Take care of the pen-
nies and the dollars will take care of themselves."
Buy Liberty bonds, war savings, and thrift stamps.
Conservation enterprises — Municipal markets. — The shortest route between
the farm and the kitchen. Neighborhood buying clubs and cooperative stores
enable householders to buy at wholesale prices. The community kitchen is one
of the most interesting by-products of the war.
Conservation of health and human life. — The greatest asset of any nation is
its people. Improve conditions affecting public health. Inspection of city wa-
ter, ice production, milk depots, and general sanitation is especially urged.
Enforce quarantine regulations for contagious diseases.
Conservation of children. — The conservation of the child is most essential.
Shield the child from physical weakness and death is our patriotic duty, as
they are to fill the gaps in the ranks of the flower of the Nation which is now
being sent to the front.
Conservation of statistics and records. — Conserve the history of your country
and State by keeping statistics and records. All work accomplished should be
recorded and reported so the vital statistics can be preserved. Give record of
your preserving and canning, also figures on conservation ; war gardens, butter,
sugar, and buying of Liberty bonds, war savings stamps.
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Conservation of ability and service, — " Self-preservation is the first law of
nature." Conserve your ability to safeguard your country; conserve strength
and mental efficiency.
Constructive aid. — Be a constructive patriot. Contribute to reestablishing
French homes. Give liberally of your time and means in helping to win the
war. Encourage public opinion in raising the standard of citizenship. Let
every daughter be an uplift in her community.
Conservation of ideals. — The ideals of our forefathers should be conserved for
the preservation of democracy and freedom of the world. Liberty has been
the yearning cry of the human soul since the world and stars first sang to-
gether. Conserve the principles of the Declaration of Independence, love of
God — love of country — love of home.
Northern Division. — Mrs. William Bernard Howe, director.
Maine. — Mrs. Charles H. Shaw, State chairman, has been most active in
distributing between 300 and 400 war recipes to chapter members; also type-
written measurements of substitutes equal to one cup of flour. The Maine
chapters have done their part in conservation.
Vermont. — Mrs. C. H. Lane, State chairman: All chapters gave up serving
refreshments at meetings during the war, thereby conserving food.
New Hampshire. — Mrs. Fred G. Demmond, State chairman: Daughters in
this State are active in conserving. Hoover pledge accepted by members ; elimi-
nation of refreshments and waste.
Massachusetts. — Dr. Emma R. Rich, State chairman, has been most active
and enthusiastic and successful in conservation work, having sent out bulletins
from time to time stimulating interest.
Massachusetts chapters show that thrift has been their watchword, and that
they have made good their promises to help in winning the war. They have
not only studied how to eliminate waste, but how to use substitutes to the best
advantage and to utilize all by-products. They have helped to stimulate en-
thusiasm for the work of conservation by means of posters and bulletins from
the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Agriculture College,
exchanged tested food recipes, distributed United States food leaflets, and
demonstrated food economics. They have studied selection of food and food
values and cooperated with clubs and classes and in the formation of
garden clubs and community gardens. The war gardens was reported
from many sections of the State. Back yards and vacant lots were
turned into vegetable gardens. Stimulated by a spirit of patriotism and
the thought of thousands of human beings in distant lands who are dying of
starvation, women who planted little gardens labored hard and accomplished
much. Some not able to work in the gardens have encouraged the work by giv-
ing large orders for vegetables and the canned products of her neighbor's
garden.
Hundreds of members rendered valuable service by caring for bees, raising
poultry and other live stock, thereby increasing the supply of food. In many
cases they did all the work without any assistance, and thousands of eggs were
water-glassed for winter use. In view of the fact that there was a shortage of
pork, it is interesting to note that many who had the facilities were patriotic
enough to raise one or more pigs. Great quantities of all kinds of vegetables,
berries, and fruits were canned and preserved and bushels of corn dried. Fruit
juices and Jellies were prepared for hospital use. Members of some chapters
have taken special courses that they might be educated in home economic?, con-
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served clothing by ingenious mending and remodeling garments. For conserva-
tion of life in Belgium many garments were made and clothing donated and
collected.
The problem of how to save coal was solved in different ways. One was to
blanket the radiators and the water would return to the boiler unchilled. In
many cases rooms were heated by wood fires and oil heaters. Many tons of
coal were saved., One member (a widow) reported that she had taken care of
her own furnace ; split two cords of hardwood, sifted the ashes, and saved about
8 tons of coal.
At the close of the war, when the United States Food Administration called
for the renewal of our pledge, our State regent had conservation made a feature
of the December meeting of the Massachusetts board, and the State chairman
presented the pledge, and resolutions were passed for its adoption. At a meet-
ing of the State committee of conservation the pledge was read and adopted,
and a message was sent to the 96 chapters of Massachusetts requesting them
to present the pledge at their next chapter meeting and to make " conservation
for world relief " a feature of the meeting. Programs are prepared for chapter
meetings making conservation the special feature. The Massachusetts regent
has. been a guest of honor at many meetings and has stimulated enthusiasm
for conservation. The State chairman and members of her committees have
attended many of these meetings.
Connecticut. — Miss Cornelia B. Smith, State chairman, has accomplished
excellent results, and reports that in every chapter of Connecticut the members
have complied with all the requirements of the Food Administration, both
National and State, using war breads and various substitutes, doing away with
refreshments at their meetings, and living up to the spirit of all requests for
conservation. Many of the members have served as chairmen of food and
home economics committees in their towns. One member reported that she
had not made a cake during the war. In many chapters members worked at
the community kitchen, gave food and canning demonstrations. Many hundreds
of vegetables and fruits were conserved, chapters reporting 1,000 cans.
Several chapters reporting " salvage sales " netting several hundred dollars,
two chapters selling newspapers enough to support two French orphans. Rub-
ber, lead, tin foil, old iron, silver, rags, clothing were sold, bringing in good
returns.
Aside from what might be termed war conservation, work has been continued
along regular lines of conservation — conserving trees by fire prevention and bird
life. One chapter reported lessons and essays on birds, and that the schools had
made and put up between 150 and 200 bird houses.
Connecticut has, as usual, been at the forefront in all forms of conservation.
Rhode Island. — Mrs. S. H. Davis, State chairman, reports that conservation
for Rhode Island Daughters during the past year has truly meant work and
self-sacrifice. Rhode Island State College sent out instructions in canning,
drying, and preserving fruits and vegetables and the preparation and use of the
various food substitutes. Many of the daughters took advantage of the oppor-
tunity, and the result was that thousands of quarts of vegetables were conserved
and much fruit preserved with small amounts of sugar.
The Rhode Island Daughters assisted the food conservation committee by
cooking samples, using all the substitutes, and distributed recipes of same. All
the chapters but one gave up their yearbook and leaflets and all have either
reduced their refreshments to tea and wafers or eliminated entirely for the
period of the war. Many have war gardens and conserved the entire output for
summer and winter.
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As a State organization they conserved tin foil, the returns from which were
turned into the State treasury. The gasless Sundays were strictly and cheer-
fully observed.
No organization in Rhode Island has conserved more consistently and effec-
tively in every way than have the Daughters of the American Revolution.
New York. — Frances Cruger Ford, chairman. The committee on conserva-
tion for New York State reports that much has been accomplished in this direc-
tion during the past year. There have been food conservation committees which
have done perhaps the most work of any line. This has been accomplished by
community canning kitchens, which have been established in clubhouses, schools,
and other available community centers. Much food has been saved and many
valuable lessons taught in this manner.
One of the strongest and most far-reaching effects of the war has been the
lesson women have learned in conservation of time. We have learned that each
day is truly composed of golden minutes, which must be used sparingly and care-
fully in order that we may give to each one of the duties the very best service
which is in us. The word " conservation " is so broad in its scope and meaning
and carries so much with it that work done in almost any direction would
properly come under that head.
It is hoped that our noble army of women under the flag of the Daughters of
the American Revolution will not cease in their efforts at being of service and
in conserving in every direction, though perhaps the need is not so great.
Eastebn Division. — Mrs* H. Grant Driesbach, Director.
This splendid report speaks for itself. During the war about 500 communi-
cations have been sent out, two to each chapter in the district. The chapters
reporting show the awakening of the conscience to the need of our country.
The following amounts have been subscribed toward war measures: Liberty
bonds, $732,463.50; war stamps, $65,091.85; tilloloy, $2,433.85; war relief,
$36,762.52.
In the eastern division 38 chapters report the banking system introduced in
schools; 36 chapters report food problems and conservation taught in schools;
51 chapters have had demonstrations in making Victory breads and canning;
23 chapters report work among the foreign born, establishing night schools, in-
structing women to sew, cook, and bake, teaching the flag law, thereby secur-
ing interest in the United States Constitution, Americanizing, and laying the
foundation of good citizenship.
Fruits, vegetables, and jellies sent to cantonments and convalescent soldiers;
553 children cared for; scholarships in universities established.
Delaware. — Mrs. S. M. Donnell, State chairman, reports $8,000 Liberty loan ;
$1,000 war-relief work ; $600 tilloloy ; and $1,000 war-savings stamps.
Food problems and conservation taught in schools, also canning of fruits and
vegetables and the demonstration work of Victory bread making. Great suc-
cess with knitting machines.
District of Columbia. — Mrs. Sol Langsburgh, State chairman, reports active
work in salvage, cooperating with the Red Cross and the Motor Corps of the
District. Conservation and food problems have been taught in the schools ; 608
glasses of jelly sent to cantonments ; reconstruction work at Walter Reed Hos-
pital.
Maryland. — Mrs. Samuel A. Hill, State chairman, reports general conserva-
tion.
Birds : Have worked to protect and increase the number of birds in Maryland,
as they are the most potent factor in holding the insect enemy in check.
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Food: Conserved wheat and meat, substituting corn, oats, rye, and barley.
Used plenty of milk, owing to its great value as a food.
Gardens: Back-yard gardens were developed and encouraged in the cities,
vacant lots were fenced and plowed and made into community gardens. In
Baltimore there is a record of over 90 vacant lota, with over 300 gardens,
raising crops estimated at $18,000. A dozen gardens in connection with public
schools showed over 300 gardeners and crops valued at $1,500.
Canning: Public school commissioners gave the use of the well-equipped
schoolhouses for canning purposes. Vegetables and fruits were secured at
wholesale prices ; canning machinery of the latest designs were installed, com-
petent teachers were supplied, and the poor were taught thrift and economy.
Trees: Conservation of the forests has been one of the items constantly in
our budget. The planting of trees and the protection of wooded land adjacent
to cities is felt to be of greatest importance. Extremes of heat and cold are
thus modified, and by this conservation make good some of the losses in timber
occasioned by the war.
Liberty loan and war saving stamps: The Daughters in Maryland have ex-
celled in their appeals along this line.
Americanization: This is one line of conservation of American principles.
Chapters visited and urged to help in this work of teaching English and civiliza-
tion and linking up the foreigner with American life. The Daughters showed
particular interest in fostering Americanization. Vision and vim are the twin
needs of the age.
Contributed $10,118 war stamps, $143 Tilloloy, and $614 contributed to other
relief work; 2,704 quarts of fruits and vegetables, 12 crates of beans, and 19
crates apples given cantonments.
New Jersey. — Mrs. William H. Bonnell, State cairman, submits the following
report: Liberty loan subscription, $86,687.60; war stamps, $9,736; Tilloloy,
$1,539 ; other war-relief contributions, $2,562.20. Banking system Introduced in
schools. Canning and preserving the most important work for conservation.
Adoption of French orphans ; Red Cross work ; instruction in English to foreign-
born children.
Pennsylvania. — Mrs. Silas Walker, State chairman, reports that 55 chapters
out of 84 responded to questionnaires sent out ; 55 have observed food conserva-
tion in their homes ; 41 had conservation taught in schools ; 55 have kept public
sentiment aroused; 45 have given demonstrations in canning and in making
bread ; 20 canned fruits for convalescent soldiers' hospitals ; 18 have done work
among foreigners ; 30 have done war-relief work ; a total of 150 orphans have
been adopted ; 14 rummage sales and 2 salvage stations have been operated.
Besides acquiring thrift brought about by the war there has been engendered
the conservation of friendship and generosity never experienced before. Intense
sympathy has brought women nearer together. Conservation in all its measures
will be practiced another year by the Pennsylvania Daughters in order that the
starving millions yet overseas may be fed and nourished.
Liberty loan, $380,704 ; war-savings stamps, $25,033.60 ; Tilloloy, $1,447.95 ; war
relief, $21,219.27.
Night schools for foreigners; banking system in schools for 17 years; most
excellent work done in war gardens; food demonstrations; gold and silver
trinkets collected ; and extensive canning.
Virgina. — Mrs. J. A. Alexander, State chairman, reports that the Virginia
Daughters of the American Revolution have conserved the spirit of their organi-
zation through the great stress of war work and have come into the reconstruc-
tion period under their own banner.
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Thirty-two chapters in the State have practiced conservation of food and fuel
and materials. Those situated near camps or cantonments have been more hos-
pitable to the soldiers, and all have done something to contribute comforts to
patients in military and naval hospitals and to* our forces in camp and overseas.
Fifteen chapters have contributed to Liberty loam fund for the National Society ;
13 have helped to sell bonds and 8 have bought bonds. There is no record at all
of the amount of bonds bought privately by the members. Twelve chapters have
helped to sell war-savings stamps, and 1 chapter has invested these securities
its money raised for a portrait of the Revolutionary hero whose name It bears.
Sixteen chapters are supporting one or more French orphans; 9 have con-
tributed to Tilloloy fund; 9 have made contributions to southern mountain
schools ; 4 have given medals or prizes in public schools to encourage the study
of history ; 2 have specialized in poultry for France, and 1 of these will have a
poultry farm in France named for its home city ; 1 gave an ambulance to West-
hampton Hospital in Richmond, and 1 made a contribution to our State Sani-
tarium for Tuberculosis. All have done knitting, sewing, and relief work.
Liberty loans, $36,810 ; war stamps, $3,600 ; Tilloloy, $142.50 ; war relief, $2,541.
Food-conservation problems have been taught in the school for eight years;
245 glasses of jelly for cantonments. Community kitchens have been introduced.
West Virginia. — Mrs. John B. Garden, State chairman, reports that the 19
chapters, Daughters American Revolution, in West Virginia, have all worked
for the conservation of food and have loyally supported both the National and
State administrators. In most of the chapters there have been appointed a
subchairman of conservation. Four-minute talks have been given at the
monthly meetings on some practical way In conserving food and avoiding waste
in the household. Canning and preserving has been* done on a large scale by
all the Daughters; war gardens have been cultivated, and many community
kitchens and demonstrations under the domestic science department of the
West Virginia University have been conducted and well attended by the mem-
bers of the organization.
The State chairman has also been a member of the conservation executive
committee for Ohio County, W. Va., in connection with the Food Administra-
tion. The chairman presided over the meeting at Wheeling of all women's
organizations during national conservation week.
At the Annual State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, held at Wheeling, when they had the honor of entertaining Mrs. Guernsey,
Mrs. Minor, Miss Crowell, and Mrs. Hume, State regent of Wisconsin, the State
chairman of conservation presented the following resolution :
That whereas we are apt to regard conservation of food as the main issue
and to lose sight of the fact that conservation of life and health, and especially
that of children, is of paramount importance ; therefore
Be it resolved, That a message be sent from the West Virginia Conference,
Daughters American Revolution, to the State legislature, assembled in Charles-
ton, W. Va., urging the passage of a proper and workable child-labor law.
This was adopted and the message was sent to the proper committee and no
doubt helped in the needed legislation.
Subscriptions have been made as follows: Liberty loan, $141,971; Tilloloy,
$1,820; war relief, $191.40.
Cektbal Division. — Mrs. A. W. Mann, Director.
Illinois. — Mrs. Charles W. Trion, State chairman: The outline of work sup-
plied by our national chairman was sent to each chapter in the State, Chapter
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regents were asked to appoint chairmen of conservation and to give special
attention to the preservation of bird life, preservation of wild flowers, for good
roads, bond issues, to create an interest In State and local parks, and urge the
necessity of protecting our forests and beautifying our roadsides. Papers on
conservation have been read in various chapters; study of housing the birds
and bird life in our schools. Chapters have followed closely the work laid out
by the Food Administration, as well as other lines of conservation ordered by
the Government.
Indiana. — Miss Minnie Butler, State chairman : The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution in Indiana lead in food conservation. At the first appeal the
Daughters began a campaign for simple living and set the example of omitting
refreshments at social functions. This was followed by strict adherence to the
food regulations, keeping not only the letter but the spirit of the request, thus
saving even more food for our fighting men than the required amount.
Lightless nights were observed and a systematic saving of light on all nights,
and the houses were kept at least 5° lower in temperature than had been the
habit in former years. In all the drives for Liberty bonds and war-savings
stamps our Daughters were capains and privates in the teamwork, and always
invested their own capital, while many of our chapters took bonds as a part of
their patriotic work. Helped in many ways In the conservation of child life in
France and Belgium. Our members have aided in conserving the morale of our
nurses and soldiers in many ways.
Michigan. — Mrs. William H. Gay, State chairman: Michigan has cooperated
in all plans made by national chairman conservation committee, Daughters
American Revolution, and by our Government.
The use of jelly has been conserved in the homes in order to send to our
hospitals.
One member of Copper County Chapter taught boys and girls to can foodstuffs
and gave demonstrations of cooking with substitutes of flour, meat, butter, and
sugar in several counties. Another member trained the banner children's can-
ning club* of the State, with 100 per cent achievement. Talks were given on
conservation and salvage of clothing and shoes. Prizes were given for chil-
dren's war gardens. Eliminated refreshments, the money thus saved being
turned into war-relief and reconstruction funds.
The greatest example of conservation of human life was given by Miss Flora E.
McEllinney, a Daughter member of Copper County Chapter. During the influ-
enza epidemic in Copper County a Finnish settlement, isolated from the outside
world by impassable roads, had whole families dying, with no doctors or nurses
in attendance. . Miss McEllinney, a Columbia dietitian, finally in her own machine
forced her way through the roads, reached the settlement, and became nurse
and dietitian for 41 cases. She taught the Finnish men and women how to take
car of their sick. When the crises passed she returned to her home in Huhbell,
only to be summoned by the county physician to go with him to another Finnish
settlement where there was an influenza epidemic. She stayed with these people
seven weeks, driving from house to house in farming districts, finding whole
families stricken. She cared for 310 patients, losing only 5; 261 of these had
influenza, the others diphtheria and spinal meningitis.
The State conference had as one of its prominent features conservation of
foodstuffs by having simple luncheons served and no receptions. Simplicity in
dress was also emphasized, no evening gowns being worn.
One Michigan Daughter secured $160 worth of beadwork and native hand-
work for Red "Cross from a Government school for Indians, and is encouraging
the Indians in making maple sirup and raising war gardens.
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Wisconsin. — Mrs. Norman T. Gill, State chairman, reports that the 35
chapters in Wisconsin are all doing something along the line of conservation;
especially are they stressing the 13 war measures indicated in bulletin sent out
by national chairman.
Demonstrations of war breads and typewritten recipes were given to mem-
bers ; exhibition of vegetables, shortenings, sugarless sirups, etc. War gardens
were supervised. Canning clubs reported : elimination of refreshments at meet-
ings, estimating the probable cost of same, and putting the amount in chapter
treasury. Carrying home parcels practiced; conservation of child life and
giving more attention to birds, forests, etc., which to a certain extent had been
relinquished for war measures.
Ohio. — Mrs. A. C. Messenger, State chairman, reports that the Ohio Daughters
have cooperated with the National Food Administration by serving on county
and State food commissions and reporting retail prices to Washington weekly,
have conserved clothing by making small garments for the French children from
old clothing ; have served more simple meals and eliminated refreshments ; have
endeavored to arouse public community sentiment by distributing literature and
holding war markets and giving canning demonstrations. Food production was
greatly increased by the war gardens. All surplus fruits and vegetables were
canned. Members were 100 per cent efficient in observing wheatless and meat-
less days. Conserved light, heat, and fuel whenever possible ; conserved incomes
by buying many bonds and thrift stamps. Assisted in public-health work and
thus conserved human life and health ; are now assisting in the work of estab-
lishing French industries and homes ; are endeavoring to set the example to the
people about them in being true Americans.
Minnesota. — Mrs. M. H. Cooledge, State chairman, reports that an Incom-
plete report of the Minnesota chapters shows 80,000 quarts fruits and vegetables
were canned and preserved for winter use, a large part of which was raised
in war gardens; 5,879 glasses of jelly and 1,567 J pints of grape juice for the use
of sick soldiers and sailors ; 200 quilts pieced on both sides of scraps of cloth,
useless for other purposes, made up and sold for the benefit 6f the Red Cross at
prices ranging from $2.50 to $8. Over 4,000 garments, consisting of underwear,
men, women, and children's clothing, overcoats, and furs collected, cleaned, and
pressed and sent to fire sufferers in northern Minnesota. '
A wide interest has been awakened in the gathering of twigs and waste wood
for the conservation of fuel, and some interest in the gathering and drying of
wild medicinal herbs for home use.
Great interest has been awakened in the exchange of conservation recipes
and ideas.
The State chairman of conservation spent 10 months working for the con-
servation of child life.
Southebn Division. — Mrs. W. H. De Voe, Director and State Chairman.
Georgia. — There has been much said and done about conservation of our
forests, birds, game, fish, coal and iron fields, but one of the most vital things
confronting our economic situation to-day is the conservation of our southern
harbors and waterways, and Georgia Daughters are using their influence to
promote the proper enactment of legislation for this conservation.
Georgia Daughters have done their utmost to conserve fruits, grain, and food
of all kinds in order to send to our allies in need. Canning, preserving, and dry-
ing fruits have been observed by all the Daughters ; 4.234 glasses of jelly have
been sent to the hospitals for soldiers. Salvage sales have been held ; 16 quilts
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have been knitted and 5 quilts pieced and used to substitute for blankets;
conservation of kid gloves for the purpose of making vests for aviators.
. South Carolina, — Miss Louise Fleming, State chairman : This State responded
to every call of the Government for conservation. Families eliminated wheat
flour and sugar entirely. Simplicity in dress was practiced; old gloves and
shoes were salvaged ; conserved rail travel to avoid congestion on trains.
North Carolina. — Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, State chairman: Food production
in North Carolina was increased 100 per cent In that arduous work the
Daughters of the American Revolution took a notable part from the very first.
Clothing was conserved ; leather, paper, everything needed by the Government,
became precious ; waste was looked upon as the attribute of a slacker. School
children were enlisted in the thrift campaign, and they entered* with the same
enthusiasm into conservation as did the elders. Jellies and delicacies were
conserved for sick soldiers or for the canteens that made a bit of home out of
the railroad station for the homesick boy on his way overseas or the wounded
or returning.
The Daughters are large holders of bonds and thrift stamps ; patriotic meet-
ings were held ; talks given on the war to children and foreigners.
A hotel was built and equipped with conveniences at Winston-Salem which
will accommodate 200 young women, thereby giving home comforts and sur-
roundings to the girls and women in daily employment. Community cannery,
a day nursery, and war gardens were encouraged at all times. During the in-
fluenza epidemic our members worked at diet kitchens and delivered soup to
the sick; worked motor service for the Red Cross; gave gifts of money and
fuel; took care of orphans and aided mountain schools; assisted associated
charities; furnished speakers for patriotic meetings of mountain people; talks
to school children on the war. Articles were written for papers and magazines.
Alabama. — Mrs. William Gay, State chairman: The Alabama Daughters
have responded nobly to the work of conservation. They felt that it was pecul-
iarly fitting at this time of World War and world need to conserve in all its
phases and that conservation should not only be preached but actually prac-
ticed. Letters were sent to the chapters of the State urging that phase of the
situation. All over the State our women have conserved food. Refreshments
at social and club affairs have been conspicuous by their absence.
Florida. — Mrs. G. H. Manlove, State chairman, reports that Florida Daugh-
ters are observing all conservation measures, especially fuel, clothes, money,
strength, and energy; interested in home economics and home demonstration
clubs.
Mississippi. — Mrs. Hiram C. Tye, State chairman: Daughters of Mississippi
have observed all the conservation war measures and have practiced self-denial
to a great extent ; interested in war gardens, canning and preserving fruits and
vegetables of all kinds; have been intensely interested in agriculture, and in
many instances have been lending helping hands.
Louisiana. — Mrs. Ethel Porter, State chairman: The Daughters of the
American Revolution have been foremost in everything concerning conservation
measures. They have planned war gardens and oftentimes cultivated them
without assistance; have canned numberless fruits and vegetables, and have
given hundreds of glasses of jelly to Camp Beauregard for hospital patients.
Conservation has been the keynote in every department of daily living, and
they have found much joy in their self-denial.
Kentucky. — Mrs. George H. Wilson, State chairman, reports cooperation
with all war measures along conservation lines. Child welfare, fuel saving, sim-
plicity in dress, and food conservation have been strictly observed. Canning
vegetables and fruits without sugar has been practiced largely, with much
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success. Practiced economy along the lines of conservation in the homes, and
deem it a patriotic duty. Tin foil and old kid gloves have been given to the
Red Cross, and simple entertainments have been practiced, eliminating elabo-
rate refreshments. Have striven in every way possible to conserve food and
win the war. Some of the chapters (Lexington Chapter) paid its per capita
to the $100,000 bonds to be given by the national society to help win the war.
War gardens were worked by individual hands \n order to do their bit toward
winning the war.
Tennessee. — Mrs. Thomas Day, State chairman : The Tennessee Daughters are
loyal, energetic, and earnest. Since the United States entered the World War
they have been a working body in all lines of patriotism and conservation;
conservation of ideals by instilling patriotism and trying to make better citi-
zens and soldiers of our youth ; trying to create a greater respect for the flag
and all American institutions; trying to morally uplift them in all ways and
make 100 per cent Americans.
To preserve our national unity we have given with Spartan courage our
sons, brothers, and husbands to the service of our country, realizing that Ameri-
can honor depended upon our soldiers in the field, and that we must fly to the
rescue of suffering nations and discharge our debt of 1776 to France.
Hoover pledge signed and religiously conserved food of all kinds; strictly
observed meatless and wheatless days; conserved fuel for light and heat and
motor cars. Back-yard and vacant-lot war gardens have been the rule ; canning
and preserving fruits and vegetables, conserving even the seed for gas masks,
became another fixed custom. Reports quantities of fruits and jellies for hos-
pitals and camps. Hundreds of books and magazines collected and sent to
camps and hospitals.
Underwits committee on conservation, Tennessee is repairing and renewing
the needs of the Tennessee room in Memorial Continental Hall.
For several years the paramount work of this State has been in conserving its
youth, in educating and making good, law-abiding citizens of the children in
the mountains of Tennessee, with several chapters cooperating with the moving-
picture managers in the selection of proper subjects from an educational stand-
point. Many members are active in the parent-teachers' association.
To conserve purity and higher morals, the Daughters have gone on record pro-
testing against the present suggestive, and in some instances indecent styles
of dress in public places.
Western Division. — Mrs. Louis H. J. Daniels, director.
California. — Miss Elma Holloway, State chairman : This enthusiastic and suc-
cessful State chairman gives a wonderful record of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution' work among chapter members, and conservation is the watch-
word. The California Daughters of the American Revolution believe that the
need for conservation is even greater than before the peace treaty was signed,
so have not in the least relaxed their efforts. *
Once each quarter the State chairman has sent an individual letter to each
chapter, suggesting new and original efforts and urging continued activity.
California had an official bulletin published in San Francisco, and at the re-
quest of the State chairman of conservation every Daughter of the American
Revolution in the State was placed on the mailing list, and the chapter regents
were urged to place these bulletins on file for ready access by the members ; and
it proved of inestimable value in carrying on the war work.
All refreshments were eliminated at chapter meetings; many members gave
up bread and butter; war gardens were emphasized, and a garden to every
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family was the result; fruits and meat markets were inspected, to guard
against waste; gasoline conserved; labor conserved by having one grocery
delivery each day; bundles and packages were carried whenever possible;
conserved paper by carrying home such articles as soap, thread, gloves, etc.,
unwrapped. Complete wardrobes were made for French orphans from old
materials.
Food substitutes were cheerfully used ; last year's gowns were worn a second
season ; all pleasure trips entailing money were given up, and the amount saved
was given to the purchase of thrift stamps. City markets were visited, and all
fruits that might have been otherwise wasted were preserved at a community
center. All fruits in neglected orchards were gathered, canned, and preserved
for the associated charities. California used substitutes almost entirely for
fuel. Generous investments in Liberty bonds. Had municipal markets and com-
munity kitchens. Daughters volunteered for service during tiie influenza epi-
demic. School lunches were conserved by placing a box on the school grounds,
asking the children to place all uneaten bits of food in this box, and a com-
mittee of Daughters would gather up the fragments and rewrap in fresh paper
for the poorer district children, and served as lunch next day, who otherwise
would not have had any.
Records were conserved and carefully compiled. Free night schools for the
foreign born — Mexicans, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Italians, and
Greeks.
Because 90 per cent of the food passed through the hands of the women of
our great State, the Daughters have tried to do their part in conserving it.
Because we are still alive to European needs; because we realize that famine
leads to anarchy ; because we know the need of multitudes in neutral countries,
the Californians are willing to do more than their part from now on to* the end,
whether the end be far or near.
Texas. — Mrs. Quitman Furley, State chairman, reports having sent copies of
National Bulletin to the different members of the State committee, asking the
ladies to specialize in these branches. The epidemic of " flu " has made every-
thing lag, and are unable to give statistics. Mrs. Waldrop, of Dryan, Tex.,
urged the need of gardens, chickens, and orchards, and has the assistance in
her work of the' Agricultural and Mechanical College. Mrs. Temple,' wife of
Bishop Temple, of Amarillo, Tex., is making the appeal for child welfare. For-
est conservation is stressed in a most forceful way, urging people to plant long-
lived and useful trees, such as pecans, oaks, walnut, etc. All Texas Daughters
are enthused in reestablishing the French homes, the adoption of French
orphans, and the purchasing of Liberty bonds.
New Mexico. — Mrs. Charles W. Potter, State chairman, reports that the
Daughters have been as patriotic and loyal as they could be ; have been active
in all lines of conservation ; have encouraged simplicity in food and clothing
and conservation in fuel. Most all the members have purchased Liberty bonds
and war savings stamps. The New Mexico Daughters are true Daughters of the
American Revolution in every respect.
Oklahoma. — Mrs. E. A. Maltoon, State chairman: All Oklahoma Daughters
have endeavored to comply with all the national conservation measures.
Kansas. — Mrs. C. F. Miller, State chairman: Mrs. Miller has been indefati-
gable and has accomplished splendid results.
The Kansas Daughters have developed a feeling of personal responsibility
toward the conservation movement, and are living up to the Hoover pledge and
backing the Food Administration by observing meatless and wheatless days,
conserving sugar and fats, and practicing thrift and efficiency in the kitchen;
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canning, preserving, and drying fruits and vegetables; and have lessened the
high cost of living by so doing.
The promoting and planting community back yards is universal in Kansas.
Kansas, being strictly an agricultural State, has realized that she is an integral .
part of that " second line of defense," whose business it has been and still is to
feed the Allies and the unfortunate Near East
Have stood for the conservation of bird life as a factor in the food production,
and it is truly a pretty sentiment. Encouraged tree planting and boosted the
good roads.
This is the children's year, so designated by the Government, and the con-
servation of child life is not to be neglected. Kansas has a department of child
welfare under the State board of health, with an active, creative woman at the
head. By intelligent planning, time and strength have been conserved and have
made their thinking And their doing go hand in hand.
Nebraska. — Mrs. Jennie M. Temple, State chairman, reports the following:
Thirty-four chapters In the State ; 17 chapters reporting on conservation ; 1,600
members; 1,450 following Food Administration plans; 70 supporting war
orphans; 10 chapters conserving bird life; 6 chapters conserving wild flowers.
The chapter at Lincoln has purchased more than $36,000 in bonds.
Iowa, — Mrs. V. G. Crossby, State chairman : Conservation is one of the neces-
sities of war and a duty in time of peace, but it has been war which has
brought home to the American people, as nothing else could have done, the
importance of this great movement. Iowa, according to the records at Wash-
ington, is in the front ranks of food conservation. The State regent of Iowa
has worked earnestly and sympathetically with the efforts of conservation in all
its phases. Refreshments at functions in Iowa were reduced to a minimum, and
the Daughters of the American Revolution were leaders in this line. The Iowa
Daughters subscribed liberally to all the war calls, Liberty loans, Red Cross,
Y. M. C. A., savings stamps, etc. ; have also been generous in their donations to
the French orphan fund ; have conserved in clothing, making left-overs serve two
seasons, and .avoided as far as possible the use of woolens ; have saved lead,
rubber, and other materials useful for war needs. The Daughters were most
active in the conservation of child life, and assisted patiently and patriotically
in the clinics for the examination of the children, and stood next to Illinois in
the number of children examined.
Idaho. — Mrs. Nora C. Buckner, State chairman, reports the following: Only
0.02 per cent of canned fruits bought ; 25 per cent of canned vegetables bought ;
98 per cent of bread used baked by Daughters; 97 per cent of pastry used is
home baked. Elimination of all extravagance, and all fuel conserved.
Utah. — Mrs. W. C. Ashwill, State chairman, reports that questionnaires were
sent to chapter regents with most satisfactory results, conservation being ob-
served and practiced by all.
Colorado. — Mrs. F. C. Moys, State chairman: The question of conservation
has been properly sent the chapter regents of our State. Of the 24 chapters all
have responded nobly. The State chairman says that strict adherence to all
things patriotic has been a great part of the constant effort of every individual
member, and conservation in all lines of endeavor has been carried out In time,
means, and energetic service, and the Colorado Daughters have measured up in
full.
Wyoming. — Mrs. Anna W. Carey, State chairman : The chapters kept the re-
quirements of food conservation as long as needed. They have denied them-
selves in different ways to save for the Red Cross and Liberty loan, and have
worked in the drives for Liberty loans and war certificates.
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The ladies and -their families have saved tin foil, canned vegetables from
their war gardens, preserved fruits and berries, and have paid much attention
to the feeding of birds in winter. They have conserved here and there until
there is no phase of convervation neglected. •
South Dakota. — Mrs. C. W. Cannon, State chairman: Each chapter has a
chairman of conservation, and they report that they are following all the
pledges of conservation. Elimination of refreshments and wastes in all things.
Many have war gardens and have canned much fruits and vegetables. Many
bake their own bread and pastries. South Dakota went over the top toward,
doing its share to win the war. The food conservation will be of lasting benefit
The rising generation will never forget the lesson taught by the Food Adminis-
tration — conservation and loyalty.
In conclusion, I suggest as national chairman that some of the most vital
points of conservation to be observed during the coming year are the conserva-
tion of health and human life, this to include the reconstruction work; con-
servation of statistics and records ; and conservation for world relief in all its
phases. The directors of divisions to formulate plans best suited to their States
and send to State chairman.
Mks. Sheppard W. Foster.
Report of the committee on international relations, Mrs. Charles
H. Bond, chairman, follows :
Madam President General and Members of Twenty-eighth Congress:
Since the last annual report of the committee on international relations
events in world history have shown the wisdom and need of following the sug-
gestions contained in the resolutions offered by the committee last year, and
indorsed by the Twenty-seventh Congress, if we are to live up to the objects of
our constitution, whose closing statement is "to aid in securing for mankind
all the blessing of liberty." To-day it is more and more evident that to be a
good patriot one must be actively interested in everything that concerns the
welfare of one's country or nation ; and the welfare Of the people who make up
a nation, whether native or foreign born, depends upon the laws of the nation
and the integrity and justice with which they are carried out. The war has
taught us the value of cooperation. The get-together spirit developed so mar-
velously in our war activities has shown what can be accomplished in a com-
mon cause. The lesson thus learned must not be lost, now that the need of
war work has ceased. Some one has said that Armageddon has but been re-
moved from the battle fields to the " peace table." So there is still vital work
for the Daughters of the American Revolution to do, but of a different kind.
We may not need to labor with our hands, nor make personal sacrifice of
luxuries, comforts, or necessities, as we have been doing ; but we must now use
our minds in learning what are America's immediate needs to preserve, protect,
and improve her, and in what way she can best assist in the welfare of the
world. With such an outline ahead of us, it is manifest that there is no leisure
for the true patriot.
That we, as Daughters of the American Revolution, have begun to awaken
to our duties in this direction, this year's report will show. Though only 50
per cent of States having committees on international relations have sent in
reports of work accomplished this past year, the character of the work done
by our chapters who have been interested is most excellent and gives cause for
real gratification and satisfaction to your national chairman. Nearly all of
the chapters reporting have had at least one meeting on an international sub-
ject. One of the most encouraging reports comes from the energetic and efficient
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chairman of California, Mrs. E. S. Johnson. Among other excellent statements,
she says :
This war has taught us to think internationally. Never again can we go
back to the old provincial viewpoint. The signing of the peace treaty will
usher in a new world order; not that the changes will he immediately accom-
plished, but the new basis will be there — of justice, of cooperation, of responsi-
bility on the part of the strong by the weak — and this new basis will underlie
all future development. All this simply means that the American ideals which
our ancestors fought to achieve for us are to be extended to other nations as
well and become a world heritage — that is, if America is ready to do her part.
It will mean sacrifice for us as a Nation and as individuals; but if we are to
be true to the spirit of those men and women whom we honor in this society
we will not falter, but take up the responsibility and the burden they place
upon our shoulders and strive to perpetuate their spirit.
Eschscholtzia Chapter has planned a most interesting program for the year,
in which each meeting is devoted to one of the allied countries, thus making
their whole year's work center in a practical and helpful way around this idea
of international relations. Hollywood Chapter gave one afternoon to considera-
tion of the general causes leading up to wars in the past and to the peace treaties
terminating these wars, contrasting them with the peace settlement that is now
being worked out in Paris, and bringing out the tremendous difference between
this and all other similar gatherings for similar purposes in the history of the
world. Covina Chapter held three programs devoted to the subject of inter-
national relations; these have proved so enjoyable that the chapter voted to
continue the subject through the rest of the year. They have had book reviews,
map talks, and such original work as comparison of Mary Antin (the Russian
Jewess, whose attitude toward America was loving patriotism of the highest
type) with Esther Cooper, another Russian Jewess of the bolshevik! iype,
now under arrest in Covina on the technical charge of disturbing the peace.
But best of all, the 18 members of the chapter have been diligently reading the
books on the list sent out by Mrs. Bond ; all but two have finished one book, one
has read three, one five, and one all except one book on the list.
Jumping from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, we find Massachusetts a strong
rival in earnest study and interest, many chapters devoting two meetings to
international programs; one chapter appointed a chairman who gave 5-minute
talks on some international question at each meeting; another chapter spent
10 minutes at each meeting for the same purpose. The verdict was that it was
astonishing how much of value can be stated and condensed into a few mo-
menta In compliance with the suggestion to hold meetings in honor of newly
naturalized citizens, 16 Boston chapters, under the leadership of the Massa-
chusetts chairman on international relations, Dr. Clara E. Gary, celebrated such
an occasion in the famous Faneuil Hall on Flag Day last year. It was a most
interesting and inspiring occasion ; 5-minute speeches made by five foreign-born
citizens was one of the chief features of interest The countries from which
the speakers came were Ireland, Russia, Armenia, Italy, and Greece. At this
meeting a flag was presented by the Massachusetts Daughters of the American
Revolution to the Church of All Nations.
Dr. Gary, who has given untiring zeal and earnest work throughout the year,
reports that in sending out 90 letters to the Massachusetts regents last Sep-
tember she received 65 favorable replies. This needs emphasizing from the
fact that one of the great discouragements all chairmen of Daughters of the
American Revolution committees encounter is the lack of replies or acknowledg-
ments of requests or notices of work outlined. As those studying the question
of international relations see such relations are nothing more nor less than the
establishment of cooperation between nations, it might be well if our members
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could apply this principle to a greater degree In our own organization, thud
training ourselves to extend courteous attention to all subjects brought before
us by national committees which are appointed by our president general to do
this work. But, to resume, at the Massachusetts board meeting in December it
was voted to cable President Wilson at Paris indorsing a League of Nations.
This proved to be among the first cables he received on reaching France the
first time, and he sent a cordial acknowledgment in return.
Several of the Massachusetts chapters have sent generous donations to the
American International College. It was the pleasure and privilege, of your
chairman to accept numerous invitations to speak at various chapters through-
out the State on America's duty in the present crisis.
No report of work accomplished by the chapters of the District of Columbia
has been received, but the chairman, Miss Janet Richards, has forwarded
copies of several resolutions offered by her committee.
Prom the governor's wife of Indiana, Mrs. James P. Goodrich, word is re-
ceived that more than three-fourths of the chapters in that State have been
interested in the suggested studies. Mrs. William Austin reports for Illinois
that she has sent two sets of letters to all chapters and says they are doing the
work requested and are interested in the work of Americanization. The Chi-
cago Chapter has kept up 14 clubs, teaching patriotism, civics, current topics,
especial attention being given to American citizenship.
Miss Mary • Rainey, chairman for Minnesota, writes interestingly of some
very earnest work in several chapters. Wenonah Chapter has secured the assur-
ance that all of the school-teachers of Wenonah will take a few minutes, two
or three times a week, to impress the pupils with the work of the Peace Con-
ference and our international relations.
The Colonial Chapter had 1,000 copies of the leaflet, " Neighborhood Ameri-
canization," reprinted for the use of the Women's Council of Defense. The same
chapiter had three delegates at the League of Nations Congress in Minneapolis
and contributed $5 toward the expenses of that body. The Rebecca Prescott
Sherman Chapter reports that it has made up its entire program along the
line of study suggested by the international relations committee. Some of these
subjects are : " The Causes of War," " Naturalization Laws and Their Appli-
cation," " The Obligation of American Citizens," " Social Justice," •• The League
to Enforce Peace," etc.
Prom Mrs. Witzel, of Oregon, comes the information that the work recom-
mended by the committee on international relations has been carried on suc-
cessfully by the American citizenship educational committee and the committee
on patriotic education, so, doubtless, will be reported under these committees.
Mrs. Drummond, of Maine, reports that many chapters In her State have
given time and study to the questions and topics suggested. Mrs. Robert
Sweet, of New Hampshire, states that a goodly number of chapters in that
State have taken up with the suggestion of devoting two meetings to interna-
tional topics.
The cheery news from Mrs. Pitts, of New Jersey, is most heartening to a
hard-working chairman. She writes : " It is with much pleasure that I can
report the letters I sent to all the regents in New Jersey met with instant
response, nearly every chapter being interested along the lines of international
relations." The Bergen Chapter has helped pay for a trained teacher among
the Italian and Polish women, and they have worked with the International
Institute of the Young Women's Christian Association. The Prances Hopkin-
son Chapter has carried on a detailed study of commercial, political, and finan-
cial international relations. The William Patterson Chapter is having a regu-
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lar "4-minute speaker" at each meeting. The Nova Gaesarea has given $25
as a first contribution for work among aliens, and is also giving personal atten-
tion to this work.
Mrs. Henry J. Howe, of Iowa, reports that many of the chapters have taken
up a systematic study of international problems, but the most interesting work
was that attempted by the Abigail Adams Chapter, of Des Moines. Mrs.
Howell, the regent, says :
As men were being naturalized in large numbers at Gamp Dodge last June,
one of the members of this chapter suggested giving to each naturalized man a
little silk flag to take with him over seas as a souvenir, and also to welcome
Mm into citizenship. The idea met with approval, and on the day appointed
about 20 of the chapter went to the barracks. After a group of men were
sworn in we were introduced to them and, telling them of our beginnings as a
nation and of the ideals of our Republic, we welcomed them as our newest
citizens, bade them Godspeed in their mission across seas, and told them we
expected them to return better citizens because they carried the ideals of
democracy and liberty to the world. We sang "America " and gave each man a
little silk flag. They were very responsive. One man from a southern Euro-
pean country kissed the little flag and in broken English cried, " My flag ! My
flag 1 " The officers and men appreciated the service and we were invited to
come again. Before the Eighty-eighth sailed we had met 1,500 naturalized men,
and in* September we met 900 more. We had similar meetings and had flags
for all. It was felt by the officers that such meetings were a great help to the
morale of men.
Among the other State chairmen who have worked earnestly to arouse in-
terest among their chapters is Mrs. Anna Jamieson, of Florida, and Mrs. S. W.
Walker, of .West Virginia.
Mrs. John Campbell, in speaking of the work done in Kansas, says that the
foreign population is small, but that there has been valuable work on the prob-
lems of national and international relations, talks have been given by chapter
members, lawyers.- university professors on the causes of war and rise of
democracy and kindred topics, and these talks were followed by discussions.
International relations will also be the study of the chapters for another year.
Colorado and Iowa are also awakening to interest and action. Miss Elizabeth
Wright, State chairman of Nebraska, writes that of the 18 chapters which
reported to her, 95 per cent had given or would give attention to the study of
international problems. The foreign population is small, but the chapters have
interested the foreign-born women in the Red Cross, working with them side
by side, and these foreign women were rapidly growing to see that it was a
great mistake for them not \o speak the English language.
At a national board meeting in February a resolution was passed indorsing
a League of Nations, and copies were sent to President Wilson and to the
Senate. It is hoped our twenty-eighth congress will go on record to the same
purpose, for if the League of Nations is not made an integral part of the treaty
of peace there will practically be no guarantee that the questions involved in
the treaty will be carried out. Very different settlements would have to be
made. There are 57 boundary lines to be decided upon ; if there were to be
no league the various countries would resort to old methods of spoils to the
victor, and revolution and anarchy will spread. Without a league there can be
no mandatories, and small, dependent nations will be left helpless. With sign-
ing of the peace treaty and the ratification of the League of Nations inter-
national questions will need continued study. As patriotic women we can do
no better consecrr.tecT work for our country than to seriously devote our time
to acquiring an intelligent insight into national and international questions
that we may be wise enough to see how best our society can help in attaining
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the blessings of " liberty for all mankind." And for this reason I offer the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the twenty-eighth congress, Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, realizing the importance to the welfare of our country of intelligent and
widespread information and public opinion regarding national and interna-
tional questions, recommend that the chapters devote as much time as can be
spared throughout the calendar year to the consideration and systematic study
of America's duty in the various international problems that affect her indi-
vidually and that confront the world.
Mrs. Charles H. Bond, Chairman.
Report of Committee on Legislation in United States Congress.
There were many resolutions adopted at the Twenty-seventh Continental Con-
gress which were referred to the committee on legislation, copies of which were
sent to the several committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and
since my report last year work has been done, "but I am sorry to say little accom-
plishd in the way of legislation or final passage of many bills in which we are
interested. I have communicated with Senators and Representatives with re-
gard to legislation recommended, and in almost every instance replies have been
to the effect that passage of bills not pertaining to war or reconstruction work
after the war was practioally hopeless.
This society is interested in Senate bill 5485, introduced by Senator New, of
Indiana, providing for a system of military training. The Senator wrote me in
part, as follows:
The chief difficulty toward the adoption of universal training is the Impression
In the public mind that it means militarism, but it is obvious, of course, to those
who have given the subject consideration that nothing could be further from
the fact. It is my hope that by a reasonable amount of military training we can
prevent the need for a large standing Army, and thus prevent militarism. AH
of our boys will be better American citizens for having worn the uniform of their
country.
Representative Miss Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, Introduced House bill
15624, to enable American women who marry foreigners to retain their American
citizenship. In a letter from Miss Rankin she thanks this society for its interest
in this bill. It was not passed, however.
Representative Vare, of Pennsylvania, proposed that the United States Gov-
ernment designate a badge of honor to be worn, instead of mourning, by mem-
bers of the families that have lost dear ones in the fighting forces; that the
creation of an insignia other than that of silent mourning would serve to elimi-
nate the wearing of black in memory of those killed in patriotic service.
Representative McArthur, of Oregon, introduced a bill to nationalize our serv-
ice flag. Tnis bill was of Interest to everyone, but the Daughters also want a
distinctive flag for women who served their country during the recent war.
We also wint the publishing of all German newspapers and periodicals
stopped in this country of ours. We want a distinctive marker for American
soldiers who are buried on foreign soil.
I know that you will understand the great difficulty the committee has en-
countered during the past two years. They have been confronted by a condi-
tion that has never before existed, and while perhaps little has been really ac-
complished. I am sure we have no reason to be discouraged, but will hope for
better results in the future.
Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. Louis T.) Helen W. McFadden, Chairman
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The first report on the afternoon program was that of the editor
of the magazine, Miss Lincoln, and follows :
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continental
Congress :
Notwithstanding the war and Its many calls upon one and all, the magazine
has continued to increase in circulation. With the coming of peace and the
general readjustment in this country it is to be expected that the development
of the magazine will continue.
If you will look over the files of the magazine from July, 1917, to the current
issue you will find articles which have helped to establish the reputation of our
publication. It is this historical interest which has gained us not only an
increased circulation in the National Society, but subscribers who are not mem-
bers ; among them Army and Navy officers and men of public affairs.
The magazine is now to be found in more libraries than ever before, in " Y "
huts, and at Army posts, and wherever it goes it is read. This-fact is attested
by letters not only to the editor, but to the authors. History, to-day in the
making, so parallels events of the past that students are giving more and more
attention to the great events of the Revolutionary period.
Buring the war with Germany the magazine responded to all calls to aid in
the Liberty loan drives, the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and other organizations
which were promoting the interests of the United States and its armed forces.
Now that peace is at hand the magazine will continue in its patriotic work, and
will endeavor at all times to aid in firmly maintaining the Government for
wliich our forefathers gave their lives and their wealth.
The magazine, besides recording the war work of the Daughters throughout
the country, has given attention to the current events of the war ; and an
article by the Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Josephus Daniels, in the December,
1918, issue, graphically describes the increase in our Navy from a peace to a
war basis, and the splendid response which was made to its call. The article
was illustrated with a reproduction of the famous painting, " The Return of
the Mayflower," which shows the first contingent of our destroyers entering
Queenstown Harbor to take up the work of circumventing the German U boats.
The magazine was, the first to reproduce this painting, through the courtesy of
the Secretary; two months later it was widely published in other magazines.
In other words, we beat them to it.
The New York Liberty loan oflftcials used Mr. J. C. Fitzpatrick's article, " A
Liberty loan of the Revolution," in their campaigns, and Mr. John Price Jones,
Liberty loan publicity director, wrote that our seciety was doing the most
efficient patriotic work in the publication of such articles. The Chief of Staff
of the Army asked to have our magazine on file in his office for use in patriotic
propaganda, while the Food Administration and the Shipping Board officials had
it on file for reference.
Since June, 1917, the national board of management has Appropriated $1,810
to pay for magazine articles. The sum expended for that purpose, which in-
cludes articles purchased for publication in the coming June, 1919, magazine,
totals $1,112.65. This expenditure covers two years and leaves a balance of
$687.35 of this special fund still in the treasury
The wisdom of the national board's policy has been amply demonstrated by
the increasing number of articles of general interest which the magazine has
published. Notable among them is the series on old turnpikes by Maj. Fred J.
Wood, United States Corps of Engineers.
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The president general's timely comments in the magazine carry a message to
every daughter, and the reports of the national board of management and State
conferences are of vital interest. These, with other official news, are published
monthly.
That the section devoted to chapter reports has interested a larger majority
of members throughout the country than ever before is proven by the number
of reports received daily, and it frequently happens that they are accompanied
by letters from chapter regent or historian stating :
Dear Editor : Our chapter has been in existence over 10 years and this is the
first time we have sent in a report, but we are so proud of our magazine we
hope you will give us space in an early issue.
Mrs. Margaret Roberts Hodges, who ably conducts our genealogical depart-
ment, has during the year prepared queries from 6,069 to 6,519; answers re-
ceived and sent, 550 ; new queries received, 525.
Four editions of the magazine have been sold out shortly after publication
and the sale of single copies is most encouraging. Among the contributors of
the past year are Mr. Theodore T. Belote, curator of the United States National
Museum ; Mr. Lee Phillips, chief of the map division, Library of Congress ; Mr.
R. T. Haines Halsey, the jrreat authority on colonial art; Senator Borah, of
Idaho; Dr. Everett T. Tomlinson; Miss Isabel Smith; and Dr. Charles A. East-
man.
It has been most gratifying to receive letters from, members of our society
speaking in high praise of the magazine. We shall strive to have it merit your
continued approval.
The cordial support which the president general, the national board of man-
agement, and the magazine chairman have given every effort to improve the
magazine, has been responsible for the advance which your publication is
achieving. I desire to express my sincere thanks to them for the interest
and encouragement which they have invariably shown whenever any policy
for the betterment of the magazine has been under consideration. The personal
kindness shown to me in both small matters and large is deeply appreciated.
Respectfully submitted.
Natalie S. Lincoln, Editor.
The report of Mrs. Minor, chairman of the magazine committee,
was next on the program and follows :
Madam President General and Members of the Twenty-eighth Continen-
tal Congress:
The following report of your chairman of magazine committee is for one year
from March 31, 1918, to March 31, 1919. During that time 12 numbers of the
magazine have been Issued promptly the first of each month, with but one ex-
ception, that of the September issue, which was a few days late owing to war
conditions which hampered our publishers, many of their employees going Into
the service of our country. Also, owing to war conditions, the high cost of
labor, paper, etc., the publishers notified your chairman last spring that they
would be obliged to raise th * price of the publication of the magazine on the
expiration of their contract, July 1, 1918. Your chairman so notified our presi-
dent general, who called a meeting of the executive committee, and they author-
ized your president general and your chairman to make a new contract wlrh
the J. B. Lippincott Co. at the advanced price. This contract is on file in the
office of the recording secretary general, and automatically renews itself unless
60 days' notice is given by either party.
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We have the largest paid subscription list we have ever had, the receipts,
for subscriptions being $9,322.55 ; and we have received $2,513.40 for advertis-
ing, which, with the sale of single copies, contributions, etc., brings the total
receipts up to $12,087.57. But our expenditures have been $19,789.03, distributed
as follows: . •- t ,- ;
Printing and mailing (which alone is $1,000 more than the total '
receipts) $13, 093. 80
For cuts for illustrations 1, 581: 60
Editor's salary . : __ 1, 750. 00
Articles for publication— ' 844.65
Clerical service, chairman f. 214. 45
Clerical service in business office under treasurer general £90. 00
Traveling expense, # chairman : 184. 82
Indexes 7b\ 20
Genealogical department 363. 75
Postage, telephone, telegrams, express blanks cards, file, envelopes, *
paper, receipts, etc _ 1, 090: ?6 :
Which brings the total expenditure to (as I said before) 19, 789. 03
Deducting the total receipts of 12, 087. 87
There remains expense above all receipts — 7,701.46
The bald, bare fact is that the magazine at $1 will never pay for itself at
present prices of publication. Our subscriptions are only 980 more ; than last
year, while our expenses, have greatly increased. The approximate increase is
as follows: For publishing and mailing, about $2,000; editor's salary, $600; illus-.
trations, about $500; postage, telephone, telegrams, etc., about f 400; article^, tot,
publication, about $500 ; while the price of clerical service and all materials have
aso greatly increased, as everyone realizes.
Moreover, your chairman has taken up with the publishers the matter of a
possible reduction in price after the present contract expires, and finds that there
will have to be another advance instead of a reduction, as per the following letter
from the J. B. Lippincott Co. :
Philadelphia, tyril 8, 1919, .
Mrs. George M. Minor,
235 North Main Street, Sauthington, Conn.
My Deab *Mrs. Minor : Your favor of the 5th duly received, and I have had 'a
new statement made up to the end of March, and inclose herewith our check for*
$296.31.
Concerning a lower price for the Journal, I have already stated to Miss Lincoln
and Mrs. Guernsey, when I saw them in Washington two or three weeks ago, that
after the present contract expired the price would be advanced, and I have since
prepared estimates for manufacturing the Journal along the same lines as the
last year, and the cost will be at least 10 per cent over the present price. Of
course, it is possible to get up a cheaper magazine, using a cheaper paper and,
lighter weight, and reducing the number of illustrations and the number of
pages; but paper and wages are higher than ever before, and printing of all
kinds is more expensive than a year ago, when the last contract was made.' I
will be In Washington on the 15th and 16th, and will be glad to talk over the
matter with you at that time. . t # -
Trusting that this reaches you before you leave for Washington, I am, ,
Very truly, yours,
A. C. Balch.
At the present price of publication and the present subscription list, the sub-
scriptions, advertising, etc., pay 61.6 per cent of the cost and the remaining 38.4 1
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per cent must be met by the treasury of the national society. The coming year
will bring a still greater tax on tlie society's treasury, as the letter just read
shows.
There are several ways to meet this situation, one of which is to use cheaper
paper, reduce the number of illustrations and the number of pages, as suggested
by the above letter, though this would only partly meet the situation. Another
way is to raise the price of the magazine from $1 to $2; at the same time
remembering that we must keep up the subscription list, else even the advanced
price of $2 will not meet the situation ; or, a third and better way, is to con-
sider the magazine as a legitimate expense of the national society, and let the
society pay the difference between the cost and the receipts from subscribers
and advertisers. It is costing us nearly $2 per year. At its present subscription
price it is obvious that the difference between the receipts and its cost must be
met by the national society.
If the subscription price remains at $1, with the society paying the difference,
then the members must cease to expect that the magazine will pay for itself,
and realize the fact that at this subscription price of $1 there will always be
a deficit and that this deficit ought to be regarded as a legitimate expense,
because the magazine promotes the aims and objects of the society and greatly
furthers our patriotic work. Why should it not be so considered as much as
the proceedings, lineage books, or any other publication of the society?
Your chairman knew when she accepted this chairmanship that it was no
small task to straighten out its business and to build up a subscription list
from nothing; and she is even more convinced of that fact now than ever
before — since she has worked "days, night, and Sundays" to that end, doing
as much clerical work as possible herself in order to keep down expenses. She
thought and believed that if this society could have a good magazine, containing
excellent historic and other articles, together with good illustrations ; if it main-
tained its genealogical department efficiently; printed the reports of the board
meetings ; the interesting chapter reports and accounts of State conferences ; and
gave to the members the messages of the president general — if all this could be
issued in an attractive form, well printed on good paper, and run on business
principles, she believed that the members when they realized they owned such
a magazine would support it by subscribing to it ; and she still believes they will
support it The thing is to get the members awake to these facts and to the
fact of its great importance to the society. Many of you will find it hard to
believe that we have members who do not even know the society publishes a
magazine. Many have never seen it and are not interested because it has never
been brought to their attention by anyone in their chapter.
Until the chapter regents show interest enough to take the magazine them-
selves, as they ought to do in order to keep in touch at all times with the ac-
tivities of the society; until they bring it to the attention of their chapters,
urging each member to take it, and will also have articles from it read at
chapter meetings — until they do all this, the magazine will never be the success
it might be or ought to be.
We have over 1,700 chapters in our society, and if every regent in those
chapters would see that some one interested made a personal appeal to each mem-
ber to take the magazine, I believe the subscriptions would come pouring in here
faster than our treasurer general could take care of them.
As all know who take the magazine, it has steadily increased in interest, lit-
erary quality, and appearance, until now we have a magazine we may truly be
proud of and enjoy reading. Many women, thinking it the highest praise they
could give, have told me that their husbands and sons like so much to read It
themselves that it is difficult to get it to read after they have finished it.
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Your chairman has visited the State conferences of Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio,
and Connecticut, besides several chapters in different States, where she has
spoken in the interest of the magazine, endeavoring to enlarge the subscription
list. Just what the results have been she Is not sure, except that in one case
when she offered to take subscriptions she received and forwarded 64 to the
treasurer general, and She has had numerous assurances from the chapter
regents present that they were going home to work with renewed interest for
the magazine.
Your chairman Is glad of this opportunity to express her appreciation of the
able work and cordial cooperation of the editor ; of the efficient handling of the
subscription list by the treasurer general ; and also of the splendid service ren-
dered by the State and chapter chairmen in securing subscriptions. The work
of all has been most valuable to the society.
Your chairman started out with the hope that she might be able to make the
magazine pay for itself, and perhaps become an asset to the society, hut, after
carefully studying its business, she is convinced that it can not be done at the
present price. She has outlined several ways by which you can handle the situ-
ation : First, by using poorer material, thus reducing the cost ; second, by raising
the subscription price from $1 to $2 ; and, third, by leaving things as they are,
letting the national society pay the difference in cost as a legitimate, patriotic
expense. Your chairman recommends the third alternative.
Anne Bogebs Minos, Chairman Magazine Committee*
The revision of the constitution, Mrs. Henry B. Joy, chairman of
the committee, occupied most of two days ; then the reports of com-
mittees continued.
The Philippine Scholarship Endowment Fund, Mrs. Holt, chair-
ihan, follows :
Madam President General, National Officers, and Delegates to the
Twenty-eighth Continental Congress — Greetings :
This year has passed so rapidly that It seems " but a day that is gone " since
the last report of the Philippine Scholarship Endowment Fund committee was
sent to the twenty-seventh congress by your chairman from these far-away
islands of the Pacific.
Prom a financial standpoint the year has brought a small addition only to the
endowment fund, so far as the Orient is concerned. We purchased a $100
fourth-issue Liberty bond, and the receipt for cash payment was forwarded
by registered mail to our treasurer general and the bank instructed to have the
bond delivered to her office.
Last April we added one more Filipino girl to those reported in training
one year ago — Elizabeth Camantilis, of Baguio, Mountain" Province, Luzon. An
American high-school teacher of that Province, Mrs. McWherter, of Columbus,
Ohio, bad found this girl to be so full of promise that upon her graduation from
the Baguio High School, wrote the director of the bureau of education, Manila,
asking him to intercede with the Daughters of the American Revolution Ir. her
behalf. At first we thought it impossible to add a fourth girl to our number, but
as time went on and Mrs. McWherter continued to write us about Elizabeth, we
began to feel it a duty, as there appeared to be no one else to give her a helping
hand. We therefore advised the director of the bureau of education that if her
expenses from Baguio to Manila wert defrayed we would pledge ourselves to
meet the expense of a year's training in St. Luke's Hospital, designating tftis
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hospital for the reason that Elizabeth had been named and baptized by Bishop
Brent, and therefore a member of the Episcopal Church. We have never re-
gretted the extra responsibility we took upon ourselves in behalf of this girl, as
she has proven herself to be all that Mrs. McWherter claimed of her.
The following letters from Deaconess Charlotte 6. Massey, of St. Luke's Hos-
pital; Mrs. Alma H. Burton, dean of women, Normal Hall; and Dr. Rebecca
Parish, of Mary Jane Johnston Memorial Hospital, will convey to you first-hand
information regarding the progress made by each one of the " Daughters of the
American Revolution girls," as they are universally called, and these letters are
In reality the pith of this report:
The Maby J. Johnston Memorial Hospital,
Manila, P. /., February IS, 1919.
My Dear Mrs. Holt:
Our little D. A. R. scholarship nurse, Damiana Dolorico, is proving better
even than our hopes. You remember what a shy, quiet girl she was at first ; she
is still quiet, but after a year in the hospital training school she has taken on
much of womanliness, responsibility, and devotion to duty. She is a good pupil
in her technical work and untiring in her efforts to learn the practical things on
the wards, which, after all, go to make up a real nurse training.
Though she is but a year-old nurse pupil, she is already the nurse in charge
of the babies' ward for the period of duty from 3 to 10 p. m., and does her
work with neatness and dispatch, directs others with a kind but firm and capa-
ble way, and, most of all, is devoted to the sick children and ever attends to
all things that are for their best interests.
I think she is one of our best ; and I am glad we have such a promising girl
on our D. A. R. scholarship. It is always a gratification to have those in whom"
there is special interest " make good," and she is so very appreciative of all that
is being done for her ; also I am confident that she will be an invaluable none
among her own people in that far-away home which is a day's Journey through
swampy roads, and where everybody needs her.
Very truly, Rebecca Parish.
Normal Hall, February 21, 1919.
Mrs. C. E. McWilliams Holt, City.
My Dear Mrs. Holt : I know you have long been looking for the right sort of
a Filipino girl to recommend for a scholarship in the States, and I know of no
better candidate than the one the endowment fund committee is now generously
supporting in our institution. Olympia Cayetano has refinement and courage,
and is admired by all who know her. Her teachers in the normal school report
high scholarship, and after serious discussion as to her qualifications we have
unanimously agreed that she would be most useful if she might specialize along
the lines of social welfare work.
Certainly you, my dear Mrs. Holt, and the great organization you represent
deserve the gratitude of all for helping even this little corner of the world to be
a better place to live in.
Cordially, yours,
Alma Hohman Burton,
Dean, Normal Hall, Manila, P. /.
St. Luke's Hospital, Manila, February 25, 1919.
My Dear Mrs. Holt: Montaya Salih entered the school of nursing of St
Lake's Hospital, Manila, in May, 1917, as a member of the class of 1920. She had
done part-time worlp at our branch hospital in Zamboanga for two years while
completing her intermediate school cours., and was therefore allowed a full year
on her four years' course here.
A Mohammedan and the only non-Christian in the school, and with an entirely
different background from that of any of the other nurses, her coming among
them must have been difficult for her, but she immediately won a place for her-
self and is now one of the most popular of their number. Her patients also are
very fond of her, and her sweetness of disposition gives her a very good influence
with them. Her class work is difficult for her, as she seems to have bad less
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thorough grounding In English and In methods of study than most of the others,
but on the whole she keeps up very well and is making a real effort to apply her-
self and improve; Her work with patients is excellent and unusually painstak-
ing and conscientious, and there is no reason to doubt that by the time she has
completed her course her nursing ability will be above the average and she will
be an incalculable help to her own people among the Moros she hopes to serve.
Elizabeth Camantillis (our fourth girl) entered the school in April, 1918, as a
member of the class of 1922, and if her work continues to be as good during the
remaining three years as it has been until now, she bids fair to be the best nurse
who has ever been graduated from St. Luke's. She is an Igorot, who has had
the advantage of American teachers for several years of her school life, which
undoubtedly accounts largely tot her ability in the dassroom and the high stand-
ard of excellence that characterizes all her work. Her eagerness to learn,
thoughtfulness about many little things, and winning manner give constant joy
to the American nurses whose privilege it is to watch all the Filipino nurses
develop from day to day, and she is easily the most promising among the fifteen
probationers.
Sincerely, yours, Chablotte G. Masset.
We also attach to this report and wish it embodied therein clipping from a
Manila daily paper regarding scholarships recently established by the Pacific
Commercial Co., the largest American business house in the Philippines, and
this is another proof to add to those reported in previous years that, although'
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has not
accomplished all that was hoped for by those who mothered the founding of
a permanent Philippine scholarship fund, our organization has " set the pace,"
for until less than three years ago no one, as far as your chairman is informed,
ever seriously considered the far-reaching results to be obtained through the
higher educational advantages in the United States of young Filipino women,
especially along the more practical lines of usefulness to future generations
of their own sisters, thereby helping them to become better citizens and
mothers. The article, in part, reads as follows :
Four scholarships! have just been established by the Pacific Commercial Co.
for the education of Filipinos in the United States. The company has
appropriated $15,000 for this end, and this sum is estimated to carry two young
women and two young men through four-year periods 'of advanced training in
the United States. The method of selecting the four who are to benefit from
the new scholarships, which are believed the first offered by any commercial
house in the Philippines, has not yet been decided upon, but will be announced
within a short time. The two scholarships provided for Filipino women are to
afford the most complete training for nurses which can be obtained in the
United States. The company's aim in establishing these scholarships is to
contribute toward higher education and training along the most practical lines,
to thus further the highest welfare of the Filipino people.
In closing this report your chairman desires to express her deepest gratitude
to every member and chapter in the national society contributing $1 (or more)
during the past year to the scholarship fund — a year so full of vital things
to do, that little has been expected. Also, especially does she herein wish to
express her grateful appreciation to the first vice chairman, Mrs. George M.
Sternberg, for her faithful devotion to the cause; and, last but by no means
least, warmest appreciation of individual effort of every member of the scholar-
ship committee. •
Respectfully submitted,
Caboline E. McWilliams Holt,
Chairman.
Thursday's session was taken up mainly with State regents' re-
ports. (See Proceedings Twenty-eighth Continental Congress.)
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Friday morning was devoted to much business, special mention
being made concerning gifts to Tilloloy, $100,000 Liberty loan pledge,
and various scholarships.
Friday evening's session was devoted in part to addresses by such
notable men as Mr. Orrin C. Lester, of the Treasury Department, on
"Perpetuating the Victory," followed by Dr. William F. Slocum
and others,
Saturday, April 19, marked the close of the congress.
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PATRIOTIC ACTIVITIES OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
The making of a report or summary of work accomplished by such
a large organization as the Daughters of the American Revolution
is no small matter, and certainly, when it comes to giving a detailed
report of every phase of the work, and doing justice to each, is next
to the impossible. However, in justice to the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution, is only right to say that this
report does not show all the work accomplished by the Daughters
during the year. It is correct as far as it goes, but ther^ are a great
many notable things which should have been reported for this volume
that were forgotten, because some one responsible for records did not
keep them or failed to report them in time, thus much » f actual worth
and value to the organization has been left out of these pages. But,
^vith all that, we show a wonderful record.
The main lines of work in the organization are systematically
conducted under the following heads;
The flag, which is one of the greatest works in the organization,
carrying with it the teaching of flag rules, both State and National ;
prevention of desecration of the flag; presenting flags, large and
small, to new citizens, public buildings, schools, churches, parks, etc.
Under this head will be found much of interest as well as instruction
further on in this report.
Patriotic education, which means teaching the foreigner, mainly,
true ideas of citizenship, loyalty, and liberty. Americanization
comes under this head and occupies a large place in the work of the
chapters in every State. Under the head of Americanization come
the following: Children of the American Revolution; children and
sons of the Republic; conservation of the home; distribution of
copies of the Declaration of Independence; the American's creed;
the Constitution ; lectures, lantern slides, etc. ; education in southern
mountain schools; Philippine endowment fund; marking historic
spots and buildings; locating and marking Revolutionary soldiers'
graves; marking old trails and roads; historical research; welfare of
women and children; chapter property; special memorials; conser-
vation; real daughters; charity and philanthropy; war relief and
Red Cross.
Each of these heads has received its full measure of attention by
the Daughters, as well as the various lines of work branching out
from these specific heads.
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The accounts which follow are only partial records, because many
failed to tell the full story of deeds done, dollars spent, and work
accomplished.
Summarizing the reports from the States there were 39 new chap-
ters formed during the year, viz :
Arkansas 4
California 1
Colorado 1
District of Columbia—-, 2
Florida 1
Illinois 4
Iowa , 2
Maine J. 1
Montana * . 2
New Hampshire , 1
New York 5
North Dakota 2
Ohio 2
Oklahoma 1
Pennsylvania 5
Rhode Island 1
South Dakota 1
Washington 1
Wisconsin 2
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Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers,
This is one of the most interesting phases of the work of the
chapters, and many graves have been located, and in many instances
marked with the Government marker. .During the year 1918 this
feature of the work was not lost sight of altogether, but did not
receive the attention of the Daughters to the extent of former times,
when the liviiig soldier did not need so much care. Following are
a few special occasions of the marking of graves:
CONNECTICUT.
Four graves of Revolutionary soldiers were located and marked
in the old town of Hartford, while 191 were located by the different
chapters in the State under the chairmanship of Miss Ella Danf orth.
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter dedicated the bowlder erected
to the memory of 40 Revolutionary soldiers buried in West Thomp-
son Cemetery.
ILLINOIS.
Mary Little Deere Chapter placed a Government marker on the
grave of George Nixon, Revolutionary soldier, located near Moline,
111.
MAINE.
Mary Kilton Dummer Chapter placed a fine bronze marker on
the grave of Col. Nathaniel Dummer, husband of the woman for
whom the chapter is named. This same chapter located during the
year 11 Revolutionary soldiers' graves and the Sons of the American
Revolution marked 9 of them with appropriate markers.
MARYLAND.
The General William Smallwood Chapter unveiled a panel in the
door to the vauljt of Col. Paul Bentalon, an officer in the Revolu-
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tionary War, who is buried in the West Presbyterian churchyard,
Green and. Fayette Streets, Baltimore, Md. It was in the arms of
Col. Bentalon that Count Pulaski died when he was mortally
wounded at the siege of Savannah. Col. (then Capt.) Bentalon
assumed command of his troops. The State historian of Maryland,
Miss Harriet Marine, caused the epitaph to be placed upon this
panel of the door to the uncompleted vault, and the ceremony of
unveiling same took place Flag Day, 1918. Prior to this time the
panel was blank. The historian gives the following inscription
found on the panel of the door leading to his wife's tomb :
Herein are deposited the remains of Katharine Bentalon, daughter of Jacob
Keeports, who was born in this city, Gay Street, on the 8th of April, 1759;
married at the home in which she was born, on the 20th of December, 1780, to
Paul Bentalon, and on the 11th of January, 1813, at 3.30 in the morning,
expired in the arms of her tender and disconsolate husband, at the age of
58 years, 9 months, and 3 days ; the last 32 years and 22 days of which passed
in a most endearing and reciprocal connubial happiness. Her death was calm
and resigned as her life was pure and virtuous.
Now that the General Smallwood Chapter has had the vault
pointed up and the inscription placed, his panel reads : " Col. Paul
Bentalon, born 1755 — died 1826. A hero of the Battle of Savannah."
The daily papers of that period state that he died December 29, 1826,
(being born Aug. 15, 1755), and was buried in the above-named
vault. His will reads : <k Remains, as privately as can be done, to be.
taken to the West Presbyterian burying ground, fronting on Green
Street, placed in my tomb alongside my dearly beloved wife."
% MICHIGAN.
Charity Cook Chapter, of Homer, Mich., marked the grave of
Eli Ball, Revolutionary soldier, with official marker. Algonquin
Chapter marked the grave of William Ferguson, Revolutionary sol-
dier, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his death. The marker was
presented by the chapter regent, Mrs. Beebe, and accepted by a great
grandson of the old soldier, Donald Ferguson. Algonquin Chapter
also marked the grave of William Dyckman, Revolutionary soldier,
buried at Paw Paw, Mich., and that of Joseph Darling, buried at
Jackson, Mich. (For services and dates, see List of Revolutionary
soldiers.)
MISSOURI.
The Kansas City Chapter presented a tablet bearing the names of
182 Revolutionary soldiers buried in Missouri. The tablet was
wrought by James Williams, of New York City, at a cost of $600.
The Missouri Daughters also presented a tablet in memory of Daniel
Boone.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Marjory Sullivan Chapter dedicated a tablet to the memory of
Ma.j. Richard Walderne, Dover, N. H.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Caswell-Nash Chapter, Raleigh, placed a marker at the grave of
Richard Caswell, in Kinston, N. C, bearing the following inscrip-
tion :
South of this tablet, 166 yards, is the grave of Richard Caswell, the first
governor of North Carolina as an independent State. " I will most cheerfully
join any of my countrymen, even as a rank and file man, and, whilst f have
blood in my veins, freely offer it in support of the liberties of my country •*
(Caswell to his son in 1775). The North Carolina Historical Commission —
1918. Citizens of Lenoir County. Caswell-Nash Chapter, D. A. R.
The Cabarrus Black Boys Chapter located the grave of one of the
signers cf the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, Charlotte,
N. C, will soon unveil a marker to the memory of Gen. William
Davidson.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Conrad Weiser Chapter, of Selinsgrove, erected a bowlder with
bronze plate bearing the following inscription :
Erected to the honor of our Revolutionary ancestors by the Conrad . Weiser
Chapter, D. A. R. .
WISCONSIN.
The Continental Chapter at Waukesha marked the grave of Lieut.
Hatch, Revolutionary soldier, buried in the little cemetery at Brook-
field, Wis.
LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS' GRAVES LOCATED BY, DAUGH-
TERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Abbott, Nathan. Born, 1744; died, January 19, 1794. (See pp. 2, 8, 87,
Records of Connecticut Men in Revolutionary War.) Grave located by
Elisabeth Porter Putnam Chapter.
4lbk, Thomas. Born, — ; died, 1862. Buried in the Lutheran Cemetery, Reis-
terstown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter, Maryland.
Alexander, Capt. Walter, captain of the Flying Camp Militia. Grave located
by John Eager Howard Chapter, Maryland.
Allen. Grave located by Downer's Grove Chapter, Illinois.
Allen, David. Born, 1734; died, December 9, 1815. (See pp. 5, 165, 207, 461,
Records of Connecticut Men in Revolutionary War.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter*
Allen, Pvt. Othniel. Born; 1757; died* December 11% 1822; served as private
in Capt. Parson's company ; pensioner ; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter. ,
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Anderson, Timothy. Born, August 6, 1762; died, October 31, 1842; enlisted
in Second Regiment of Col. Charles Webb in 1780 ; buried in Center Ceme-
tery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyilys Chapter.
Andrews, Nehemiah. Born, May 28, 1746 ; died, March 8, 1818 ; born in Farm-
ington, Conn.; buried in Maplehurst Cemetery, Guilford, Vt Grave located
by Battleboro Chapter.
Arbuckle, Capt. William. Born, 1752; died, March 21, 1836, aged 84. Capt
William Arbuckle served with Col. George R. Clark on his' " western cam-
paign." He was in the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774, and was
often heard to say " that terrible day, I shall never forget it." He com-
manded at Fort Randolph. He married the widow of Capt Robert M.
Chanahan, killed in the battle. Two daughters were born in the fort.
Capt. Arbuckle is buried in Arbuckle Cemetery, Mason County, W. Va.,
having many descendants in Mason County, of which he was a pensioner.
Grave located by Col. Charles Lewis Chapter, through research of Mrs.
John McCulloch, honorary State historian.
Armstrong, Col. Joseph. Served in Pennsylvania Militia; buried in Rocky
Springs Presbyterian Church graveyard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa.
Grave located by Franklin, County Chapter.
Arnold, Samuel. Born, 1747; died, January 7, 1829; served Hartford Com-
pany, Lexington Alarm; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyilys Chapter.
Abrauts, Lieut. Herman. Cecil County, Md. Lieutenant Flying Camp Militia.
Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Abrauts, Lieut. Jacob. Cecil County, Md. Lieutenant Flying Camp Militia.
Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Ashcraft, Capt. Daniel. Born, 1742 ; died, May 27, 1824 ; served July 24, 1782,
Cumberland Company, Committee of Safety; commissioned captain of
Second Guilford Company; buried in Baker Cemetery, southern part Guil-
ford, Vt, at the age of 82. Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter.
Ash mead, Capt. Jacob. Born, May 30„ 1712; died, July 10, 1811; Captain
Second Pennsylvania Line. Grave located by Germantown Chapter.
Austin, Richard. Born, ; died, 1780 ; volunteer in John Thomas's Com-
pany, Talbot County, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Rarer, Sergt. Herman. Born, 1748; died, January 21, 1777. Grave located
by Ruth Wyilys Chapter.
Ball, Eli. Born, August 5, 1766, at Brookfield, Mass.; died, December 11,
1857 ; enlisted June 8, 1782. at Brookfield ; private in Seventh Massa-
chusetts, under Capt. William Mills and Col. J. Brooks. Served until
fall of 1783; lived in Eckford, Mich., 1839; Clarendon, Mich., in 1840;
and Butler, Branch County, Mich., in 1855. Buried in Whig Center
Cemetery, 1 mile south of Herricksville, Branch County, M.ch. Grave
located by Charity Cook Chapter, July, 1918.
Bard, William (or Beard). Private in Capt. Matthews's company, 1776; in
Capt. William Hunter's company, January, 1778; buried in Rocky Springs
Presbyterian Church graveyard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, pa. Grave
located by Franklin County Chapter, D. A. R. Grave has a marker.
Barnard, Dorus. Born, 1759; died, January 18, 1818; served in Col. Woleott's
regiment, Capt. Prior's company; buried in Old South Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyilys Chapter.
Barnard, Capt. Ebenezer. Born, January 9, 1726; died, August, 1799; served
as captain under Brig. Gen. Wolcott; buried in Gold Street Cemetery, Old
Hartford, Conn. Graye located by Ruth Wyilys Chapter.
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Barnard, Grove. Born, 1762; died, February 8, 1832; enlisted January 1.
1777; discharged January 1, 1780; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Barnard, Capt John. Born, 1731 or 1732; died, December 28, 1813; captain
under Col. Samuel Wyllys, 1777-1781 ; buried In Gold Street -Cemetery, Old
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
BausmaN, John. Born, 1761; died, 1827; buried* in the Lutheran Cemeteryt
Relstertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Beckley, Jacob. Born, ; died, 1784; buried in Lutheran Cemetery,
Relstertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Beor:ley, John. Born, 1750; died, 1806; buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Relster-
town, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Beckleit, John, '2d. Born, ; died, 1871 ; buried in Lutheran Cemetery,
Relstertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Bennett, Dr. Jesse. Dr. Bennett married in Augusta County, Va., the daugh-
ter of Capt. Peter Hog. He was born in Edinburg, Scotland, and settled on
the Ohio River, 8 miles above Point Pleasant, on part of Capt. Peter Hog's
grant of land, given for French and Indian War services. He was a
surgeon with Gen. Morgan, in the "whisky rebellion." He married a
second time. He is buried on his farm. Grave located by Col. Charles
Lewis Chapter, West Virginia.
Bennett, John. Born, 1762; died, December 5, 1843. Pensioner in 1840 at
the age of 78; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bentalon, Col. Paul. Born, August 15, 1755; died, December 29, 1826; buried
\n West Presbyterian Churchyard, Baltimore, Md. It was in the arms of
Col. (then Capt.) Bentalon that Count Pulaski died when he was mortally
wounded at the siege of Savannah, when Paul Bentalon assumed com-
mand of the troops and was afterwards called " a hero of the Battle of
Savannah." Grave located and marked by General William Smallwood
Chapter.
Benjon, John. Born, November 10, 1724; died, November 9, 1805; served as
one of Knowinton's Rangers in 1776; buried in Old South Cemetery. Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bebbyman, William. Born, 1760; died, 1851; buried in Lutheran Cemetery,
Relstertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Biddis, Samuel. Born May 28, 1739 ; died July 25, 1811 ; served in Associated
Battalion and Militia, Fourth Company, Sixth class. Grave located by
Germantown Chapter.
Bidwell, Daniel, Jr. Born, July 10, 1748 : died, October 8, 1776 ; service short ;
buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Bigelow, Elisha, Jr. Born, 1751 ; died, May 28, 1823 ; served in Capt. Holmes's
Company, Col. Chapman's Regiment; buried in Old South Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bigelow, Maj. John. Born, November 20, 1739: died, June 23, 1780. Captain
in 1776; major in 1778. Buried in Gold Street Cemetery, Old Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bixby, Nathaniel. Born, July 30, 1758 ; died, January 21, 1841 ; born Shrews-
bury, Mass.; enlisted December, 1776, at Winchenden, Mass., for three
months in Capt. Ezekiel Knowlton's Company, Col. Nicholas Dyke's Regi-
ment of Massachusetts Militia ; ordered to Dorchester and dismissed March,
1777. Enlisted again August, 1777, in Capt. Boynton's Company, CoL
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Cushing's Regiment. Enlisted in summer of 1780 in Capt. Kellam's Com-
pany, Col. Putnam's Regiment,' for six months, Fifth Massachusetts Line.
Discharged West Point, December, 17&0. Buried m West Dummerston.
Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter, Vermont.
Buss, Isaac. Born, 1760 ; died, June 19, 1845. Served as private and received
pension. Buried in Old North Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave lo-
cated by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Boabdman, Rev. Benjamin. Born, August 8, 1731; died, February 14, 1802;
served as chaplain in 1775 and 1776; buried in Old North Cemetery, Old
Hartford. Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Boardman, Olivee. Born, August 2, 1758 ; died, July 28, 1826 ; served in expe-
dition against Burgoyne; buried in Old North Cemetery, Old Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Boardman, William. Born, March 2, 1768; died, May 29, 1821; served In Capt.
Granger's Company, Gen. Waterbury's Brigade ; buried in Old North Ceme-
tery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Brace, Henry. Born, June 15, 1740 ; died, March 17, 1814 ; served under Lieut.
Charles Seymour; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Breckenridge, James. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Grave
yard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County
Chapter. Grave has a marker.
Brewer, Daniel. Born, 1738 ; died, 1823 ; served three years ; buried In Spencer
-Hill Cemetery, Manchester, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bringhurst, Samuel. Born, January 6, 1742; died, May 87 1818; served In
Fourth Company, sixth class. Grave located by Germantown Chapter.
Brotherton, Samuel. Buried in Rocky Springs Church Graveyard, 6 miles
from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter.
Grave has a marker.
Brown, Elijah. Born, July 21, 1759; died, October 5, 1846; born in Lincoln,
Mass. ; enlisted as private at Stockbridge, Mass., in Capt. Williams** Com-
pany, Col. Patterson's regiment, Massachusetts; also one year, January,
1776, in Capt. Moses Ashley's Company; other service (see Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.) ; buried at West Dummerston, Vt. Grave located by
Brattleboro Chapter. <
Bryant, Ebenezer, Jr. Born, 1744; died, 1839; served under Capt. Jonathan
Wells and Capt. George Pitkin. Buried in Manchester Center Cemetery,
Connecticut. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bryant, Timothy. Born, August # 15, 1750; died, February 17, 1794; burled in
Manchester Center Cemetery. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Buckingham, Lloyd. Born, — . ; died, 1841 ; buried in Lutheran Cemetery,
Reistertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Buckland, George. Born, 1757; died, December 12, 1843; pensioner in 1832;
buried in Buckland Cemetery, Manchester, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Bugree, Samuel. Born, 1704; died, July 19, 1790; services (see p. 27 of Record
of Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War). Grave located by Eliza-
beth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Bugree, CorpL William. Born, 1736; died, November 18, 1815. (See p. 464,
Records of Connecticut Men in War of the Revolution for services.) Grave
located by Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Bull, Capt. Caler. Born, March 13, 1717; died, February 14, 1789; captain
in Col. Webb's regiment in 1777 ; buried in Gold Street Cemetery, Old Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford, Conn.
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Bunce, Sergt. Timothy. Born, 1752; died, April 5, 1842; served as quarter-
master sergeant in 1779; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford, Conn.
Bubnham, Phineas. Born, 1753; died, December 22, 1776; buried in Center
Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter,
Hartford, Conn.
Bubnham, Rogeb. Born, 1761 ; died, September 29, 1845 ; served in Capt. Ros-
well Grant's company; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Bubnham, Samuel. Born, 1748; died, June 28, 1819; buried in Center Ceme-
tery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hart-
ford.
Bubb, Timothy. Born, November 12, 1749; died, August 15, 1799; private in
Capt. Hill's company, Col. Whiting's regiment ; buried in Gold Street Ceme-
tery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hart-
ford, Conn.
Bubbell, John. Born, 1739 ; died, September 24, 1810, Grave located by Ger-
mantown Chapter, Pa.
Bushey, Henby. Born, 1753 ; died, 1827 ; buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Reister-
town, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Butleb, Dr. Daniel. Born, 1752; died, 1812; was at Ticonderoga (see Records
of Connecticut Men In the Revolution) ; buried Old North Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Butleb, Moses. Born, 1715 ; died, 1801 ; private in Lexington Alarm ; buried in
Gold Street Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys
Chapter.
Cadwell, . Born, 1760 ; died, August 4, 1802 ; served under Lieut. Charles
Seymour and Capt. J. Sedgwick ; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Cadwell, Matthew. Born, 1740 ; died, June 9, 1823 ; served three years, 1778-
1781 ; pensioner ; buried Spencer Hill Cemetery, Manchester, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Chambers, Capt. Benjamin, Jr. Son of Col. Benjamin Chambers, the founder
of Cbambersburg, Pa. ; buried in cemetery of Falling Spring Presbyterian
Church. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Grave has marker.
Chase, Pabkeb. Grave located by Downer Grove Chapter, Illinois.
Child, Euas. Born, 1757; died, November 28, 1824. He was a fifer (for
services see Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, pp. 88, 657).
Grave located by the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Connecticut.
Child, Jacob. Born, 1746; died, July 30, 1822. (For services see p. 27, Record
of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Child, Jonathan. Born, 1763; died, April 10, 1793. (For services see p. 657,
Records of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located
by Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Connecticut
Child, Samuel. Born, 1701 ; died, October 10, 17S6. (Services, p. 27, Record of
Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by the
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Child, Shubael. Born, 1735 ; died, June 7, 1811. ( See p. 27 of Record of Con-
necticut Men in the War of the Revolution for service.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.)
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Child, Sergt Thomas. Born, 170S; died, July 19, 1782. (For service, see p.
464, Connecticut Men in the Revolution.) Grave located by the Elizabeth
Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Clapp, Oliver. Born, 1760 ; died, August 19, 1840 ; private in Hartf0»ti> Guard ;
buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Clark, Corp. Samuel. Born, 1743; died, June 8, 1813; served in Capt Sedg-
wick's Company; pensioner in 1882; buried In Old South Cemetery, Old
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford, Conn*
Clay, Capt. James. Born, 1717 ; died, August 3, 1798 ; born at Rehobeth, Mass. ;
buried in Putney North Cemetery, Putney, Vt Grave located by Brattle-
boro Chapter; has Government marker.
Clendinen, Lieut. William. Born, 1752; died, September 28, 1828, age 76
years. Lieut. Clendinen was in the Battle of Point Pleasant; and often
spoke of this battle to his friends. He served with his brothers in Capt.
John Stuart's Company, of Greenwich County. He came with his father,
Charles Clendinen, and his brothers, to Kanawha County from Greenbrier.
They built "Clendinen's Fort** and founded Charleston, W. Va. (named
for his father). Lieut. William Clendinen and his wife (Margaret Han-
ley) are buried In Steenbergen Cemetery at Gallipolis Ferry; the graves
are marked at the Virginia side. Grave located by Col. Charles Lewis
Chapter, through the efforts of Mrs. John M. McCulloch, honorary State
historian, West Virginia.
Coggswell, Dr. Mason F. Born, 1761 ; died, December 17, 1830 ; buried in Old
North Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located >■ Ruth Wyllys Chap-
ter, Hartford, Conn.
Colt, Eusha. Born, 1757; died, August 23, 1827. (For services, see Daughters
of the American Revolution, vol. 3, p. 296.) Burled in Old North Ceme-
tery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford,
Conn. *
Cook, Capt. Aabon. Born, 1742; died, October 11, 1827; served as lieutenant,
First Company of Hartford, Conn., in August, 1777; buried In Old North
Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth. Wyllys Chapter.
Cooper, Maj. Leonard. Born, ; died, 1808; served seven years in the
Revolution; in Battle of Point Pleasant; was given a land grant No.
466623 in 1784, and No. 466623a in 1796. - Served in Eighth, Fourth Virginia,
1776-1783. Member of Sons Cincinnati. Buried on his farm on the north
side of Kanawha River ; grave not marked. Located by Col. Charles Lewis
Chapter, West Virginia.
Corbin, John. Born, 1741; died, April 23, 1807. (See Record of Connecticut
men in the War of the Revolution, p. 27, for service.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Craighead, Rev. John. Served as private inTJapt. Samuel Culbertson's Com-
pany, Col. Armstrong's Battalion, December, 1776; was the pastor of the
church ; buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles
from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Crawford, Lieut. Edward, Jr. Served as lieutenant and paymaster; buried in
cemetery of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, Chambersburg. Pa.
Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Culbertson, Pvt. Joseph, Jr. Served In Capt. Samuel Culbertson's company,
Col. Armstrong's battalion, 1776 ; name on Culbertson memorial ; buried in
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Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles from Chambers-
burg, Pa. Grave located by the Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg,
Pa.
Culbebtson, Col. Samttkl, Jr. Served in. Sixth Battalion, Cumberland County,
Associator, 1777; lieutenant colonel Fourth Battalion, May 10, 1780; name
on Culbertson memorial; buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church
Graveyard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin
County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Gummings, Charles. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Grave-
yard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County
Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Cushman, Ephraim. Died, February 26, 1883, aged 78. Grave located and
marked by Mary Mattoon Chapter, of Amherst, Mass., in the North Am-
herst Cemetery.
Cutting, Jonah. Born, 1751; died, October 31, 1842; buried in the Guilford
Centre Cemetery, Guilford, Vt., at the age of 91. Grave located by the
Brattleboro Chapter. , ,
Da nen rower, Ensign George. Died, August 1, 1843. Age, 91 years. Grave
located by Germantown Chapter.
Darling, Joseph. Born, September 3, 1764, at Middlebprough, Mass. ; died, June
3, 1844, at Jackson, Mich. ; served 1780 to end of the Revolutionary War.
In 1918 there were five of his descendants members of the Algonquin Chap-
ter of St. Joseph, Mich. His grave located and marked in 1918 by Algon-
quin, Benton Harbor, and- Sarah Treat Pruden Chapters, of Michigan.
Davis, William. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6
miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Deane, Capt. Barnabas, Jr. Born, 1743; died, December. 1794; apopinted first
lieutenant Ninth Company, Secoud Regiment, April, 1775; buried in Gold
Street Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys
Chapter, Hartford.
Deming, Sergt. Elijah. Born. 1756; died, 1821; enlisted February 11, 1777,
for the war; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter,
Deming, Capt. Pownal. Born, September 30, 1749 ; died, April, 1795 ; served as
first lieutenant, Fourth Regiment, 1778 ; captain at close of war ; buried in
Gold Street Cemetery, Old Hartford. Grave located by the Ruth Wyllys
Chapter.
Deyarman, Henry. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard,
6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa* Grave located by Franklin County Chap-
ter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Dickman, William. Born, December 9, 1761 ; died, September 6, 1846; an early
settler near Paw Paw, Mich*. Grave located and marked by Algonquin and
Benton Harbor Chapters of Michigan.
Dobson, Capt. Henry. Died, 1781; captain Third Maryland Line; killed at
Eutaw Springs, S. C; buried in Cecil County, Md. His grave located by
John Eager Howard Chapter, Maryland.
Dodd, Timothy. Served as private in Col. Wolcott's Regiment, also Col. Cook's
Regiment; buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford* Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Dow, Thomas. Born, 1743 ; died, 1822 ; hi* ied in Village Cemetery, Arcade,
Wyoming County, N. Y. Grave locat' * oy Buffalo Chapter.
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memory of soldiers of Scott's Army in Revolutionary War
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Downing, Hezekiah. Born, 1740; died, March 18, 1798. (See p. 505* Records
of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn. f
Dudley, John. Grave located by Downers Grove Chapter, Illinois.
Dugan, Col. Thomas. Died, April 26, 1805, aged 67 years, 1 month, 11 days.
Grave located by Germantown Chapter. . t
Eastman, Lieut. Ebenezeb. Born, May 31, 1749; died, November 7. 1820.
Grave located and marked by Mary Mattoon Chapter, Amherst, Mas?., in
North Amherst Cemetery. ,
Eastman, John. Died, August 6, 1829, aged 78. Grave located and marked by
Mary Mattoon Chapter, Amherst, Mass., in North Amherst Cemetery in
1918.
Eastman, Joseph. Died, March 26, 1826, aged 79. Grave located in North
Amherst Cemetery and marked by Mary Mattoon Chapter in 1918, Arn^
herst, Mass.
IjMston, Silas. Born, 1754; died, March 10, 1829; served in Hartford com-
pany, Lexington Alarm; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Cow*.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Evans, . Buried in Kirkland Cemetery, Montgomery County, 111., near
Sorento ; name and record on tombstone. Grave located by Benjamin Mills
Chapter, Greenville, 111.
Faxon, Ebenezeb. Born, October 12, 1749; died, January 15, 1811; served in
First Regiment, Fourth Company; buried in West Hartford Cemetery.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter. '
Faxon, Thomas. Born, August 11, 1751 ; died, August 7, 1789 ; served in Lieut.
Charles Seymour's Company; buried in West Hartford Cemetery. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Ferguson, Hugh. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard,
6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa.' Grave located by the Franklin County
Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Ferguson, William. Born, 1760; died, July 1, 1844, on a little farm near New
Carlyle, Mich. ; buried at Dayton, Mich. Grave located and marked on
seventy-fifth anniversary of his death by Algonquin and Benton Harbor
Chapters, Michigan. - it }
Ferris, Capt. Benjamin. Family tradition claims that he was a captain in
Revolutionary War ; a prisoner in Holland ; was a soldier in War of 1812 ;
entered the ministry in 1816; lived in State of Connecticut, also at Sher-
burn. S hen an go County, N. Y. ; came to Michigan in spring of 1832 and
located at Athens, Calhoun County, and lived with his grandson, Benjamin
Ferris ; died at the age of 100 years and is buried on the farm of his grand-
son in Calhoun County, Mich. Grave located by Abiel Fellows Chapter,
Finley. James. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6
miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Flagg, Arijah. Born, May 5, 1755; died, November 22, 1842; served in Col.
Wolcott's regiment; he was a pensioner; buried in West Hartford Ceme-
tery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Flagg, Sergt. Jonathan. Bom, 1743; died, February 12, 1810; enlisted in
Capt Clark's company in 1777; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford.
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
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Fletcher, .John. Died, about 1825; served as matross In North Carolina
Artillery from December 1, 1778 ; discharged February 28, 1779 ; he is
buried in the Old Lindsey Graveyard at Middlebrook, Randolph County,
Ark. Information given by Little Rock Chapter, Little Rock, Ark.
Rock, Ark.
Forbes, Edwabd. Born, 1733; died July 7, 1807; member Hartford Company,
Lexington Alarm; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Fobbes. Moses. Born, 1733; died, April 17, 1822; name appears as guarding
prisoners passing through Connecticut; buried in Hockanum Cemetery,
East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Fobd, Lieut. Hezekiah. Served as lieutenant, First Continental Line; burial
not known. Information given by John Eager Howard Chapter, Maryland.
Forney, Daniel. Born, 1761; died, 1846; buried in the Lutheran Cemetery,
Reistertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter, Balti-
more, Md.
Fox, Ephriam. Born, 1719; died, October 7, 1792; served in Capt. Jonathan
Wells's Company, Lexington Alarm; buried in Old South Cemetery, Hock-
anum, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Fox, Israel. Born, 1753; died, February 7, 1828; served 1776-1778; pensioner;
buried in Old South Cemetery, Hockanum, Conn* Grave located Hy Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Francis, Asa. Born, November 8, 1757; died, July 21, 1836; served in Capt.
Chester Wells's Company. Buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Freeman, Stephen. Born, 17§9; died, 1837; buried in Quaker Cemetery,
Orchard Park, Erie County, N. Y. Grave located by Buffalo Chapter.
Fbush, John. Born, 1765; died, 1828; buried in the Lutheran Cemetery.
Reistertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Gates, Gen. Oliveb. Buried in Harkness Cemetery, Pennsylvania. Grave
located by Oscahu Chapter* Pennsylvania.
Goodman, Sergt. Moses. Born, 1750; died, August 17, 1831; served as sergeant
under Capt. Rowlee; pensioner; buried iri West Hartford Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Goodman, Richabd. Born, 1748; died, April 8, 3834; served in Lieut. Charles S.
Seymour's company ; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, at Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Goodman, Thomas. Born, 1739; died, September 17, 1809; on pay list of ship
Oliver Cromwell; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Goodwin, Capt. James. Born, December 15, 1751; died, June 24, 1823; in Capt.
Gillett's company, Col. Eno's regiment, 1778 ; buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by the Wyllys Chapter.
Goodwin, Lieut. Jonathan. Born, 1733 or 1734; died, September 2, 1811;
served in Fifth Company, Eighteenth Regiment ; buried in Old North Ceme-
tery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Goodwin, Moses. Born, March 5, 1759; died, January 12, 1839; pensioned for
service in Connecticut Militia; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Goodwin, Timothy. Born, 1726; died, November 22, 1804; enlisted July 10,
1775, under Col. Jedediah Huntington ; buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
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Goodwin, Sergt. William. Bom, November 10, 1783; dted, May 26, 1805;
served in Capt. Moses Seymour's company; buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Gross, Sergt. Peter. Born, January 1, 1761; died, May 28, 1846; sergeant in
Capt. Theo. Drone's Company of Northampton County (Pa.) Militia, First
Battalion, commanded by Lieut. Col. Stephen Balliet, under date of Sep-
tember 10, 1781 (see Pennsylvania Archives, series V, vol. VIII, pp. 53-72;
vol. Ill, p. 595) ; buried in Jordan Reformed Cemetery, Walbert's Station,
Lehigh County, Pa. The inscription on his tombstone reads, "A Revolu-
tionary Soldier."
Grover, Joseph. Information furnished by Oscahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Gunn, Starling. Buried in an old family graveyard near Ganeyvllle, Caswell
County, N. C. ; Inscription on tombstone, " Starling Gunn, a soldier in the
War of Independence, who fired the first cannon at Yorktown, and was an
eyewitness to the surrender of Cornwallis. He was for more than 40 years
a prominent member of the Methodist Church. Died August 13, 1852, aged
88 years, 3 months, 4 days." Grave located by Mrs. W. O. Spencer, Winston-
Salem, N. C.
Hadlock, Retjren. Born, 1758; died, 1808; enlisted for war in Capt. Samuel
Mattock's company; buried in O'.d North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hall, Maj. Elihu. Died, 1791 ; he was major of militia ; buried in Cecil County,
Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Hall, Ruben. Born, 1747; died, August 8, 1799. (See pp. 74 and 534, Records
of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, of Putnam, Conn.
Hall, Dr. Timothy. Born, June 4, 1758; died August 6, 1844; served 1776-
1780 ; buried In Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Harbison, Adam. Buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church graveyard,
6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chap-
ter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Hark ness, Capt. John. Buried in Harkness Ometery, Pa. Grave located by
Oscahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Harkness, William. Buried in Harkness Cemetery, Pa. Grave located by
Oscahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Hatch, Lieut. . Buried in Little Cemetery, Brookfield, Wis. Grave
located and marked July 4. 1918, by Continental Chapter, Waukesha, Wis*
Hatch, Timothy. Born, 1757 ; died June 10, 1838 ; served in second company,
Capt. Prior, Col. Wolcott's regiment ; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hawley, Zachariah. Died, June 1, 1824, aged 71 years; buried in North
Amherst Cemetery, Mass. Grave marked 1918 by Mary Mattoon Chapter,
Amherst, Mass.
Hayes, Rutherford. Born, June 29, 1756; died, August 25, 1836. (See Ver-
mont Revolutionary Rolls, p. 822.) He was born in Bradford, Conn.,
and buried in West Brattleboro Cemetery. Grave located by Brattleboro
Chapter.
Hayland, Col. Stephen. Died. 1806; he was colonel of militia; buried at
Harmony Hall, Elk Neck, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard
Chapter, Baltimore.
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Haywabd, Benjamin. Born, 1733; died, March 8, 1814. (See p. 464, Records
of Connecticut Men in the Revolution.) Grave located by Elizabeth
Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Hempsted, Capt. John. Born, 1764 ; died January 14, 1827. Served in militia ;
buried in Old South Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Hills, David. Born, May 21, 1755 ; died, May 2, 1817 ; served Hartford Com-
pany, Lexington Alarm; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hills, Elisha. Born, April 21, 1753 ; died, August 9, 1804 ; served under Capt.
Jonathan Wells; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hills, Jonathan. Born, 1759 ; died, 1819 ; served at the time of the Lexington
Alarm; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hills, Nathaniel, Jr. Born, 1751 ; died, October 23, 1787 ; served in Hartford
Company, Lexington Alarm; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Holl.ingswobth, Col. Henry. Died, 1803 ; colonel of militia ; buried in EJlkton,
Cecil County, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter, Bal-
timore.
Hooker, Daniel. Born, 1758 or 1760 ; died, 1842 ; served in Capt. Ozias BisselVs
Company ; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. t Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hosmeb, Corpl. Alisha. Born, 1753 ; died, April 19, 1779 ; served as corporal in
Capt. John Stevens's Company ; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hudson, Ensign Barzillai. Born, December 25, 1741; died, July 31, 1823;
served as ensign guarding stores at Hartford, Conn., and other places;
buried in Old South Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Hughes, (Maj. or Lieut. Col.) Thomas. Buried in Cecil County, Md. Grave
located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Huntley, Ezekial. Born, April 1, 1750; enlisted in Col. Huntington's regi-
ment and Col. Parsons's regiment; buried at Spring Grove Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Hurlbut, Lieut. Samuel. Born, 1748 ; died, June 25, 1819 ; served under Lieut.
Col. George Pitkin, also Col. Webb; buried in Center Cemetery, East
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Huston, Capt. William. Served in Second Battalion, September, 1776; cap-
tain Sixth Battalion, 1777; captain Fifth Company, Sixth Battalion, 1778;
buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles from
Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambers-
burg, Pa.
Igan, Ephraim. Born, 1767; died, 1828; buried in the Lutheran Cemetery,
Reistertown, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Johnson, Lieut. Moses. Born, February 23, 1741; died, August 5, 1885; born
in Stafford, Conn.; buried in village cemetery, Putney, Vt. (See Revolu-
tionary Rolls, p. 40, for services.) Grove located by Brattleboro Chapter.
Johnson, Shadrack. Born, 1764; died, June 26, 1823; served in Capt
Hopkin's company, Col. Webb's regiment; buried in Old North Cemetery*
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
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Johnston, Col. Thomas. Burled In the old Johnston graveyard, about 8 miles
east of Greencastle, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter of
Chambersburg, Pa.
Jones, Isaac. Born, 1766 ; died, August 27, 1849 ; served in Col. Charles Webb's
company ; buried in Old South Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Jxtdd, Reuben. Born, August 9, 1750 ; died, August 18, 1800 ; served in Fourth
Company, Lieut. Charles's First Regiment ; buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Junkubth, Ensign Chbistophkr Feedebtck, also (Yonkers, Frederick). Born,
August 25, 1746; died, March, 1816; served in Seventh Battalion, Fourth
Company. Grave located by Germantown Chapter, Pa.
Keeney, Ashbel. Born, 1763 ; died, January 7, 1823 ; private in Capt. Jonathan
Wells's company ; buried in Spencer Hill Cemetery, Manchester, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford, Conn.
Kennedy, Samuel. Born, 1743; died, January 28, 1822; served in Fourth
Regiment of Light Horse; buried in Spencer Hill Cemetery, Manchester,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
King, Peter. Born, February 11, 1757; died, April 13, 1855; buried in North
Amherst Graveyard, Amherst, Mass. Grave located and marked by Mary
Mattoon Chapter, Amherst, Mass.
Kingsbuby, Andbew. Born, April 24, 1759 ; died, October 6, 1837 ; enlisted in
Col. John Chester's regiment, 1776 ; buried .in Old North Cemetery, Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Kitty, John. An officer of the American Revolution; buried, St. Anne's,
Annapolis, Md. Information given by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Kitty, William. An officer in the American Revolution; brother to John
Kitty; buried at St. Anne's, Annapolis, Md. Information given by John
Eager Howard Chapter.
Lxadenham, Edwabd. Died, 1$21 ; volunteer in Capt. Hamilton's company,
Broad Creek ; buried in Talbot County, Md. Grave located by John Eager
"Howard Chapter.
Ledoyt, James. Born, 1720; died, January 11, 1797. (See p. 464, Record of
Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by Eliza-
beth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Lee, Capt Pabkeb. Served in Maryland Line. Grave located at Churehville,
. Baltimore County, Md., by John Eager Howard Chapter.
Legge, Samuel. Born, 1750 ; died, 1790. Grave located by John Eager Howard
Chapter, Maryland.
Lewis, Lieut. Charles Camebon. Born, October 1, ; died, 1804. He was
the youngest child of Gol. Charles and Sarah Murry Lewis. His father
was killed in the battle, October 10, 1774. He was a lieutenant with
Gen. Wayne; his commission is preserved. He came to the Ohio Valley
after the treaty and settled on a farm 4 miles above Point Pleasant, pur-
chased from the land grant of his uncle, Gen. Andrew Lewis, the only
part of the land grant that remains in possession of the Lewis family of
Mason County. His wife was Jane Dickenson, and she came from Bath
County on horseback and carried her baby son, John D., who became the
wealthy coal operator of the Kanawha Valley. They are buried on the
farm in the old Lewis burying ground. Information furnished by Colonel
Charles Lewis Chapter, West Virginia.
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Little, David. Born, 1747; died, August 16, 1792; served In Capt Jonathan
Wells's company; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Lord, Frederick. Born, 1758 or 1760; died, November 13, 1843; served in
Capt. Pomeroy's company, Col. Chapman's regiment; buried in Old North
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Lyon, Amos. Born, 1733; died, February 26, 1812. (See pp. 27, 489, Records
of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by the
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Lyon, Warken. Borp, 1747; died, May 7, 1823. (See p. 464, Records of Con-
necticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by Elizabeth
Porter Putnam Chapter, of Putnam, Conn.
Machon, John. Private in Capt. Matthews's company, December, 1776. Grave
located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa., in Rocky Springs
Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles from Chambersburg.
Mackelfresh, John. Born, ; died, 1818- Grave located by John Eager
Howard Chapter, in Lutheran Cemetery, Reistertown, Md.
Marcy, Corpl. Asael. Born, 1738; died, March 2, 1819; corporal. (See pp. 27,
56, Records Connecticut Men, Revolutionary War.) Grave located by the
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Marsh, Sergt Daniel. Born, February 6, 1732; died, September 28, 1818.
Served under Lieut. Col. George Pitkin; buried in Spencer Hill Cemetery,
Manchester, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Martin, Cyrus. Born, October 21, 1763, at Rehoboth, Mass. ; died, Septem-
ber 26, 1831. (See Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, vol. 10, p. 280.)
Buried in Guilford Center Cemetery, Vermont. Grave located by Brattle-
boro Chapter.
Martindale, Samuel. Died, 1781; volunteer in Capt. Henry Downes's com-
pany ; he is buried in Caroline County, Md. Grave located by John Eager
Howard Chapter.
Mason, Noah. Born, 1741; died, December 27, 1798. (See p. 27, Records of
Connecticut Men in the Revolution.) Grave located by Elizabeth Porter
Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
McCalmont, Maj. James, Jr. Served in Fifth Battalion, July, 1776; major,
Sixth Battalion, 1777; major, Fourth Battalion, May 10, 1780; buried in
Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles from Chambers-
burg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
McConnell, Capt. John._ Served at lieutenant in Capt Matthews's company,
December, 1776 ; captain, Eighth Battalion, 1777 ; captain, Fourth Battalion,
May 10, 1780; he is buried in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Grave-
yard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County
Chapter, at Chambersburg, Pa.
Mecklin, Samuel, Jr. Died, April 12, 1819; age, 62 years; served Fourth Com-
pany fifth class. Grave located by Ascahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Mehl, Martin. Died, October 8, 1821 ; age, 60 years 9 months 21 days ; served
Fourth Company, second class. Grave located by Germantown Chapter,
Pennsylvania.
Miller, Jacob. Died, September 12, 1814; age, 67 years 6 months 16 days.
Grave located by Oscahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Moore, Abijah. Born, 1724, in Middletown, Conn. ; died, April 18, 1792 ; private
in Capt. Benjamin Hastings's company ; enlisted May 7, 1775 ; service, 3
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months and 2 days (see Soldiers and Sailors, vol. 10, p. 993) ; buried in
Putney North Cemetery, Vermont. Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter,
Vermont.
MoofiE, Capt David. Born, November 17. 1742; died, April 1, 1808; he was
born in Belton, Mass.; buried in North Cemetery, Putney, Vt. Grave lo-
cated by Brattleboro Chapter.
Moobe, Ebenezeb. Born, January 22, 1755; died, April 18, 1825; served as one
of the guard in Hartford, Conn. ; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Morris, Samuel. Born, 1730; died, — 29, 1801. (See pp. 28, 56, 199, Rec-
ords of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Mosseb, Capt. John. Born, April 16, 1741 ; died, October 11, 1810. He settled
in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pa., and became an elder in the
Jordan Lutheran Congregation in 1767. He married, in 1762, Miss Eliza-
beth Acker, who was born April 7, 1742, and died February 5, 1808. His
name appears as a first lieutenant in the Second Company, Northampton
County Militia, under Capt. George Knappenberger, of the Second Battalion,
commanded by Col. Stephen Balliet and Col. George Breinig, May 14, 1778.
His name is also given under date of May 21, 1777, and from November 1,
1781, to January 1, 1782. He was lieutenant in the Seventh Company of
Capt. Greiymer in the First Battalion commanded by Lieut. Col. Stephen
Balliet, of Northampton County Militia. Buried in the Jordan Lutheran
Cemetery at Walberts Station, Lehigh County, Pa.
Murby, Noah. Buried in Harkness Cemetery, Pa. Grave located by Oscahu
Chapter.
Naglee, Sergt Henby. Buried at the age of 64 years and 8 months ; died April
8, 1797. Grave located by Germantown Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Nice, Capt. George. Born, 1739; died, 1812; served Second Company, Second
Battalion, Philadelphia Artillery. Grave located by Germantown Chapter,
Pennsylvania.
Nice, Capt. John. Born, January 29, 1739; died, July 5, 1806; served as captain
in Pennsylvania line. Grave located by Germantown Chapter, Pennsyl-
vania.
Nixon, George. Buried near Moline, 111. Grave located by Mary Little Deere
Chapter. Grave had Government marker, placed by this same chapter.
Noble, Capt. Nehemiah. Died, 1798; served in the Independent Company of
Militia, Queen Anne County, Md. ; -buried in Talbot County, Md. Grave
located by John Eager Howard Chapter.
North, Jacob. Died. 1795; soldier in Capt. Greenbury Goldsborough's com-
pany; buried in Talbot County, Md. Grave located by John Eager Howard
Chapter.
Norton, Job. Born, 1720; died, 1778; in Hartford Company, Lexington Alarm;
buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ituth
Wyllys Chapter.
Olcott, Jonathan. Born, 1758; died, July 17, 1851. One of Hartford Guards;
pensioner; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Oldham, Capt. Edward. Was captain Fifth Maryland Line; buried at St.
Augustine Church, Cecil County, Md. Grave located by John Eager Chap-
ter.
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Olmstead, Aabon. Born, May 19, 1753 ; died, September 9, 1806 ; served in Hart-
ford Company, Lexington Alarm, Col. Wolcott's Regiment; buried Center
Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Olmstead, Asahel. Born, December 26, 1749 ; died, April 28, 1804 ; member Hart-
ford Company, Lexington Alarm; buried Center Cemetery, East Hartford.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Olmstead, Capt. Benjamin. Born, March 12, 1751; died, December 25, 1882;
served in Capt. George Pitkin's Company, Col. Spencer's Regiment; buried
in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Olmstead, Epaphbas. Born, October 24, 1742; died, September 22, 1896; served
1775, 1778, 1779 ; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by R-uth Wyllis Chapter.
Olmstead, Capt. Gideon. Born, February 12, 1748; died, February 8, 1845;
commanded privateers Raven and Sea flower; buried in Center Cemetery,
East Hartford. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Olmsted, Nathaniel. Born, July 27, 1751 ; died, 1792 ; member Hartford Com-
pany Lexington Alarm ; buried Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Olmsted, William. Born, July 10, 1748; died, April 28, 1822; member Hart-
ford Company, Lexington Alarm ; buried Center Cemetery, East Hartford.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Otlin, Sergt. Christopher. Died, November 20, 1820 ; age, 64. Grave located
by Germantown Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Paine, Benjamin. Born, 1728 ; died, 1782 ; enlisted May 14, 1775, In the Third
Regiment, under Capt. Clark; buried in Goldstreet Cemetery, Old Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Paine, Ebenezeb. Born, 1721; died, March 27, 1789. (See p. 412, record of
Connecticut men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by Eliza-
beth Porter Putnam Chapter of Putnam, Conn.
Pabkeb, Deacon Joshua. Born, June 4, 1720 ; died, February 20, 1813 ; bom in
Charleston, Mass. ; served in Col William William's Regiment from Septem-
ber 25 to October 17, 1777. Name on pay roll of Lieut. Moses Johnson's Com-
pany. Buried at Putney, North Cemetery, Vermont, at the age of 98L Grave
located by Brattleboro Chapter, Vermont.
Pabkeb, Capt. Robebt. Always called colonel after the war; buried in the
White Church Graveyard, near Mercersburg, Pa, Grave located by Frank-
lin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Pabkhubst, Maj. John. Buried in Grover Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Pa.
Grave located by Oscahu Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Patton, Capt. Samuel. Buried in Waddel's Graveyard, near. Lemaster, Pa.
Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Peabody, John. Born, July 24, 1762 ; died, January 3, 1851 ; served as private
in several companies from 1778 to 1781; he was born in Boxford, Mass.;
buried in Old Cemetery in Lunenburg, Mass. Grave located by Margaret
Corbin Chapter of Boston.
Peakey, Sergt. Jacob. Died, May 24, 1839, aged 83 years 6 months 13 days;
member Fourth Company Associators, Seventh Battalion. Grave located by
Germantown Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Pease Simeon. Born, August 22, 1764 ; died, May 12, 1827 ; residence in Hart-
ford, Conn. ; name on pension list ; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys, Chapter.
Pebbin, David. Born, 1723; died, October 20, 1788. (See p. 27, Record of Con-
necticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by Elizabeth
Porter Putnam Chapter, of Putnam, Conn.
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Perrin, Sergt. Elijah. Born, 1737; died, August 27, 1799. (See p. 464, Record
of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution. ) Grave located by Eliza-
beth Porter Putnam Chapter, Putnam, Conn.
Pitkin, Col. George. Born, 1729; died, April, 1806; commissioned captain,
176S; lieutenant colonel, 1774; colonel, 1775; buried in Center Cemetery,
East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Pitkin, John, Jr. Born, August 7, 1748; died, November 27, 1803; member
Hartford company, Lexington Alarm ; buried in Center Cemetery, East
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Porter, Job. Born, 1754 ; died, May 12, 1799 ; member of Capt. Jonathan Wells's
company; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Pratt, George. Born, 1755; died, 1805; enrolled March 14, 1778; buried in
Gold Street Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Rtuh Wyllys
Chapter.
Pratt, Capt. James. Born, October 12, 1754 ; died, January 3, 1820 ; enlisted for
three years in Capt. Charles. Whiting's company; buried Old North Ceme-
tery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Pratt, Sergt. Joseph. Member First Regiment, Col. Durkee, Capt. William
Lathan's company ; buried in Spring Qrove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Pratt, Phineas, Born, August 24, 1740; died, June 9, 1831; served as private
in Capt. Benjamin Blarney's company, Col. Eleazer Brooks's regiment of
guards ; joined January 12, 1778 ; served until April 3, 1778, at Cambridge,
Mass. (see Soldiers and Sailors of Massachusetts, vol. 12, p. 712) ; ouried
at West Dummerston, Vt. Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter, Ver-
mont.
Hanson, Amos. Born, December 4, 1760 ; died, January 29, 1843 ; enlisted June
1776, also reenlisted 1777 in the Sixth Connecticut; buried in Old North
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Reger, Jacob. Died May 20, 1812, aged 68 years 8 months 23 days. Grave lo-
cated by Germantown Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Risley, Job. Born, 1743; died, May 23, 1786; member Capt. Jonathan Wells's
company, Lexington Alarm ; buried in Old South Cemetery, Hockanum,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter. #
Risley, Levi. Born, 1764; died, 1834; buried Old South Cemetery, Hockanum,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Robbins, Ephraim. Born, 1753 ; died June 30, 1829 ; member Capt. Morehouse's
company ; buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Robbins, John. Born, 1765; died, 1827; member Capt. Blague's company;
buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllis Chapter.
Roberts, George. Born, November 14, 1752; died October 2, 1824; served in
Capt. Jonathan Wells's company; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Roberts, Capt. Jonathan. Born, 1734; died April 12, 1825; he was ensign in
1775; lieutenant, 1777; and captain in 1781; buried in Center Cemetery,
East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Roberts, Jonathan, Jr. Born, February 17, 1762; died, July 7, 1780; served as
flfer in Capt. George Pitkins's Second company ; buried in Center Cemetery,
East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter,
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Roberts, Capt. Stephen. Born, 1739; died, December 29, 1818; appointed
captain, 1779; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllis Chapter.
Robebts. William. Born, 1747; died, February 25, 1797; member Hartford
Company, Lexington Alarm; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Robertson, William. Buried in Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church. Grave-
yard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County
Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Robinson, John. Born, March 7, 1759; enlisted August, 1780, to April, 1781,
under Capt. Alexander and Col. William Polk, of North Carolina ; enlisted
April. 1781, for 10 months as dragoon under Col. Wade Hampton. Buried
in Thronsbury Camp Ground Cemetery, 25 miles from Bentonville, Ark.
Grave located by Mary Fuller Percival Chapter, of Van Buren, Ark.
Rosebebry, John. Born, April 29, 1760 ; died, August 20, 1855 ; was a private
in the Revolution; wintered with Washington's Army at Valley Forge;
enlisted in Pennsylvania and served through the war; came to Mason
County, W. Va., from Queen County, Va. ; his wife was Flora Cree ; he is
buried In the Old Point Pleasant Cemetery. West Virginia. Grave located
by Col. Charles Lewis Chapter, of West Virginia.
Rudolph, Maj. John. Died, 1782; was a major in Lee's Legion. Information
furnished by John Eager Howard Chapter, Maryland.
Sargeant, Jacob. Born. 1760 or 1761 ; died, 1842 ; served from 1777 to 1781-82 ;
pensioner; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford Conn. Grave located
"by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Savage, Luther. Born, 1759 ; died. June 21, 1835 ; served in Gen. Wolcott and
Gen. Wadsworth Brigade; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Sedgwick, Capt. Samuel. Born. 1753; on the roll of Hartford Minute Men;
had town bounty; buried in West Hartford Cemetery. Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Severance, Samuel. Buried in Grover Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Pa. Grave
located by Oscahu Chapter.
Seymour. Capt. Charles. Born, 1745; died, May 16, 1802; served in regiment
under Brig. Gen, Wolcott ; was a captain ; buried in West Hartford Ceme-
tery. Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Seymour, Capt. Israel. Born, 1735; died, 1784; Sixth Battalion, Wadsworth's
Brigade, Col. Chester; buried in Goldstreet Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Seymour, Corp. James. Born, May 12, 1751 ; died, February 28. 1814 ; he was a
corporal under Capt. Prior; pensioner; buried in West Hartford Cemetery.
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Seymour, Capt. John. Born, 1727; died, February 2, 1809; served in three
wars; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Skinner, Abraham. Born, 1717; died, June 21, 1800. (See p. 189, Record of
Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution.) Grave located by Eliza-
beth Porter Putnam Chapter, of Putnam, Conn.
Skinner, Emsha. Born, 1755; died, 1822; in the Commissary Department
under Gen. Washington; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
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Slocomb, Joshua. Born, 1759 ; died, May 28, 1810 ; served, 1779-80, member of
Ebenezer Battalion ; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Smith, Ebenezer. Born, 1748; died, November 24, 1825. (See p. 27, Record
of Connecticut Men in the War of tne Revolution.) Grave located by
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, of Putnam, Conn.
Smith, Eldad. Born, 1740; died, June 16, 1805; in Capt. Jonathan Wells's com-
pany; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Smith, Geobge. Born, 1726 ; died, 1808 ; member Col. Webb's regiment ; buried
in Goldstreet Cemetery, Old Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys
Chapter.
Smith, Solomon. Born, December 25, 1753, at Athol, Mass. ; died, November 7,
1818, at Guilford, Vt. ; private in Capt. Warner's company ; in the northern
department at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne at Tarry town (see Massachu-
setts Soldiers and .Sailors, vol. 14, pp. 549, 551) ; buried in Weatherheafl
Hollow Cemetery, Guilford, Vt. Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter.
Sommeb, Capt. Jacob. Died, May 27. 1817 ; age, 68 years and 21 days. Grave
located by the Germantown Chapter, Pennsylvania.
Spaulding, Capt. Leonard. Born, September 27, 1728, at Westford, Mass.;
died June 17, 1778 ; served as pay-roll captain, Boyden's company, Col. Wil-
liam Williams's regiment of militia; in service of United States to Ben-
nington in 1777 ; was in Capt. Sawyer's company of militia for the defense
of northern frontiers of the United States in June, 1779 (other services, see
Vermont Rolls, pp. 39, 131, 199, 617) ; buried in Slab Hollow Cemetery, Dun>
merston, Vt. Grave located by Brattleboro Chapter; has a Government
marker.
Spenceb, Lieut. Isaac. Born, October 12, 1759; died, October 16, 1840; served
under his father, Gen. Joseph Spencer ; buried in the Old North Cemetery.
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Spenceb, John. Born, 1745; died, July 17, 1829; served under Lieut. Col.
George Pitkin ; buried in Spencer Hill Cemetery, Manchester, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Spenceb, Theodobe. Born in 1759; died, June 29, 1845; served three years in
Capt. James Horton's company; buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Stanley, Samuel. Born, 1748 or 1749 ; died. May 4, 1737 ; served under Lieut,
Charles Seymour, Lexington Alarm; buried in West Hartford Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Stanley, Theodobe. Born, October 8, 1752; died, December 14, 1830; member
of the Hartford Company, Lexington Alarm; buried in Center Cemetery,
East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Steel, Allen. Born, 1757 ; died, June 17, 1802 ; in Capt. John Sedgwick's com-
pany ; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Strong, Rev. Nathan. Born, October 5\ 3748; died, December 25, 1816; chap-
lain in Col. Samuel Wyllys's regiment; buried in Old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Sweet, . Grave located by Downer's Grove Chapter of Illinois.
Symonds. Ashna. Born, 1758; died, January 20. 1850; he was a pensioner In,
1840: buried in Spencer Hill Cemetery, Manchaster, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
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Taylor, John. Born, 1738; died, May 12, 1812; served under Col. George Pit-
kin; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by
Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Thomson, Alexander. Buried in Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church Grave-
yard, 6 miles from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County
Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Townsend, Capt. Noah. Died, 1813. Grave located by Germantown Chapter,
Pa.
Treat, Matthias, Jr. Born, 1751; died, June 15, 1827; served under Capt.
Roswell Grant; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, Bast Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter. /
Veazev, Capt. Edward. Served as Captain in Smallwoods* Regiment. Grave
located by John Eager Howard Chapter, Baltimore.
Veazey, Lieut. William. First lieutenant Flying Camp Militia. Grave located
by John Eager Howard Chapter, Baltimore.
Wade, John. Buried in Rocky Spring Presbyterian Orach Graveyard, 6 miles
from Chambersburg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Wadsworth, Gurdon. Born, 1750; died, 1826; transported supplies from Con-
necticut to Continental Army; buried in old North Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Col. Jeremiah. Born July 17, 1743; died 1804; appointed one of
State commissaries, April, 1775; buried in Goldstreet Cemetery, old Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Sergt. Nathan. Born, 1754; died, 1831; sergeant of Hartford
Guard in 1778; buried in old North Cemetery. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Sergt. Ruben. Born, 1753; died, July 1836? served under Capt.
Samuel Wyllys and Capt. Wadsworth; buried in old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Lieut. Roger. Born, 1756 ; died, May 17, 1810 ; served 3 years,
Fifth Reigment, Col. Philip Burr Bradley ; buried in old North Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Samuel. Born, 1746; died, April 10, 1798; served in Capt.
Jonathan Wells' Company ; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, Lieut. Timothy. Born, 1745; died, 1826; sergeant under Col.
James Wadsworth ; burled in old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wadsworth, William. Born, 1744 ; died, January* 4, 1811 ; served 1775, 1776,
1779; buried in old South Cemetery, Hockanum, Conn. Grave located by
the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wallace, Lieut. George. Died, 1795; lieutenant in a Delaware Regiment.'
Grave located by John Eager Howard Chapter, Baltimore.
Wallace, Michael. Died, 1798; served in Smallwoods' Regiment as surgeon.
Grave located by the John Eager Howard Chapter, Baltimore.
Warner, Gideon. Grave located by Downer's Grove Chapter, Illinois.
Warner, Jonathan. Born, 1759; died, 1845: buried in village cemetery, South
Wales, Erie County, N. Y. Grave located by Buffalo Chapter.
Warner, Josiah. Died December 27, 1880. aged 85 ; buried in North Amherst
Cemetery, Massachusetts. Grave located and marked in May, 1918, by
Mary Mattoon Chapter, of Amherst, Mass.
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Warren, Ashbel. Born, 1760 ; died, September 12, 1848 ; served from Windsor
In Second Regiment, 1780; buried in Center Cemetery, Bast Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Waterman, Charles. Born, 1760; died, October 15, 1816; served in Fourtli
Connecticut Regiment, 1780. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Watson, Col. James. Buried In the Moss Spring Graveyard, adjacent to Green-
castle, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Webb, Samuel. Grave located by Rich Chapter, in Jonesboro, 111.
Webster, Noah. Born, March 25, 1722; died, November 9, 1813; served at
Fishkill, also with militia during 1777; buried, West Hartford Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter, Hartford, Conn.
Welles, Lieut. Bazey. Born, August 5, 1744; died, October 23, 1814; served
in Capt. Sedgwick's company at Boston; commissioned lieutenant In 1777;
buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Gravd located by
Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wells, Ebenezeb. Born, 1736 or 1737 ; died, January 10, 1814 ; served In Capt.
Chester Wells's company; burled in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wells (Col. and Capt.) Jonathan. Born, February 20, 1733; died, July 13,
1816; served from 1775 to 1777; buried in Hockanum Cemetery, East
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
White, John. Served in Col. Gay's Wadsworth Brigade; buried In Old South
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
White, John Jr. Born, 1754: died, January 31, 1827; served in Connecticut
State Troops, Capt. Robinson's company. Buried In Old South Cemetery,
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
White, Lemuel. Born, 1738; died, May 4, 1780; served from 1778 to 1780;
buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth
Wyllys Chapter.
Whiting, Lieut. Nathan H. Born, November 6, 1759; died, 1801; served from
1777 to 1781 ; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Grave
located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Whitman, Capt. Samuel. Born, July 26, 1753; died, February 17, 1810; served
from 1775 to 1779; buried in West Hartford Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Williams, David. Born, February 21, 1755 ; died, October 13, 1839 ; pensioner
in 1832; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn. Grave located
by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Williams, Jacob. Born, June 12, 1748; died, August 28, 1828; member Hart-
ford Company, Lexington Alarm; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hart-
ford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wtll^s, Thomas. Born, 1754. Died, December 19, 1838; member Hartford
Company, Lexington Alarm ; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford,
Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Wilson, Adjt. John. Served as adjutant, Sixth Battalion, 1777; buried In
Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church Graveyard, 6 miles from Chambers-
burg, Pa. Grave located by Franklin County Chapter, Chambersburg, Pa.
Wilson, Nehemiah. Buried in drover Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Pa. Grave
located by Oscahu Chapter.
Wintergast, George. Burled in Grover Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Pa. Grave
located by Oscahu Chapter.
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Woodbjpdge, Capt Russell. Born, May 8, 1719 ; died, November 5, 1782 ; mem-
t>er Hartford Company, Lexington Alarm ; buried in Center Cemetery, East
Hartford, Conn. Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
Woopbbidge, Samuel. Born, 1731; died, July 4, 1794; member Hartford Com-
pany, Lexington Alarm ; buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
Grave located by Ruth Wyllys Chapter.
THE FLAG.
Arkansas reports that the State legislature- passed a bill to prevent desecra-
tion of the Hag, and that Gov. Brough signed the bill in the presence of a num-
ber of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
. California did wonderful work in presenting flags, scattering flag^odes among
the, foreign population, presenting newly naturalized citizens with flags, etc.
Nearly all chapters observed Flag Day and many special celebrations were
held. Aurantia and Rubidoux Chapters at Riverside held a " recognition serv-
ice " for newly naturalized citizens in Riverside County.
There were 40 large flags presented to public institutions and new citizens;
240 small flags and numerous service flags; 1,500 copies of California State
Flag Laws and 200 flag codes were distributed to libraries and schools, and many
of these framed.
Colorado reports many small flags distributed ; 30 large framed copies of the
Constitution placed in public buildings; and a $60 service flag with 354 stars
presented by one chapter.
Connecticut : Putnam Hill Chapter presented two flags to colored churches.
Every chapter is wideawake in the distribution of flag rules, giving talks and
lectures on the use and abuse of the flag, preventing desecration of the flag,
and restoring old flags. The Mary Clapp Wooster Chapter distributed the State
flag rules to 380 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Florida Everglades Chapter presented flags to first, second, and third
grades of city and suburban schools, ftfiaini, Fla. ; outdoor flag to Red Cross
Society; one to Children of the American Revolution; and flag codes given to
ail the schools in Sanford — white and colored.
Georgia reports 23 flags presented during the year.
Illinois chapters distributed more than 2,000 flag leaflets. The Rebecca
Parke Chapter presented 9 large State flags and hundreds of small flags to
schools.
Indiana daughters presented 255 American flags to Boy Scouts, schools, build-
ings, etc.; gave 2 service flags, and were diligent in the care of the flag and
preventing its desecration.
Iowa reports that flag leaflets have been sent out by every chapter in the
State, and several thousand small flags, presented to new Americans.
Kansas Daughters presented 16 flags to school children, 6 to public schools,
6 silk flags to Daughters leaving for foreign work, and 5 service flags, making
a total for Kansas of 33 flags, besides the distribution of 173 large flag cards
and 344 leaflets.
Louisiana reports that Caddo Chapter presented a large and beautiful silk
flag to Centenary College.
Maine Daughters have distributed flag codes and leaflets, and presented
many service flags as well as United States flags. One chapter keeps in good
condition the flag which waves over a granite shaft in memory of her dead
heroes.
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Maryland chapters were active in flag work of all kinds. F:ag Day is cele-
brated every year at Old Westminster Church, and the Revolutionary soldtertf
graves there and at St. Paul's Cemetery, Greenmount, Glendy, and Loudon
Park are decorated with flags. The chairman of the State committee to pre-
vent desecration of the flag placed 350 flag codes in public schools. ,
Massachusetts Daughters distributed 13,000 flag codes, 8,025 creeds, 110 flag
leaflets, 50 flag buttons, 60 copies United States Constitution, 24 copies Decla-
ration of Independence, presented 214 large flags, and assisted in presenting
for- the State a large silk flag to the Church of All Nations. This ceremony
took place in Old Faneuil Hall, under the auspices of the 16 chapters of Boston,
when- the speakers represented six nationalities, Flag Day, 1918.
Michigan reports the presentation of 73 flags, and 2 witk rflagstaffs ; also
the distribution of 1,360 flag codes.
Minnesota chapters distributed 20.000 copies of the creed; presented 13
large allied flags to the Army and Navy Club, 37 flags to schools, and gave
each soldier in the mi itary hospital a flag on peace day.
Mississippi Daughters secured the legislation for prevention of desecration
of the flag; also completed the large flagstaff at Natchez.
Missouri Daughters presented and dedicated, at their State conference, two
large flags; the first, 9 by 16 feet, represented with its 523 stars the men be-
longing to the Daughters of 43 Missouri chapters ; one large star in the center
represented Gen. John J. Pershing, of Missouri, and distinguished Revolutionary
ancestors. The other flag was a small silk flag representing 15 Missouri
Daughters who served on foreign soil.
Nebraska Daughters presented flags and distributed codes, leaflets, and Vhad
rules governing the flag printed in the daily papers. ' !
New Hampshire chapters presented 9 flags to public schools, 1 silk flag to
Camp Fire Girls, and 1 service flag to a chapter — making a total of 11. *i
North Carolina, through Mecklenburg Chapter, Charlotte, reports the presen-
tation of three flags. The State chairman of committee on prevention of
desecration of the flag, Mrs. C. W. Tillett, sr. f has been most active in getting
the bill through the State legislature to prevent desecration. Througn her
efforts many flag codes liave been framed and placed in schools, etc.
Ohio reports that nearly every one of the 67 chapters celebrated Flag Day,
June 14, 1918. Flags were presented to nine Y. M. C. A. huts at Camp Sherman,
Boy Scouts, Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. of other cities, the Erie County Children's
Home, etc. There were 27 flags presented and thousands of leaflets. -
Oklahoma Daughters suceeded in getting a bill through the State legisia*
ture to prevent desecration of the flag in the State.
Pennsylvania reports the distribution of 600 flag codes, 350 flag leaflets, and
the presentation of 296 flags, costing over $300.
Rhode Island chapters gave 450 small flags to the Army and Navy and 6
larger ones.
South Dakota reports the distribution of 5,500 flag codes to schools, public
places, etc., and flags given as prizes in school.
Texas Daughters distributed 10,000 copies of the Constitution; placed hun-
dreds of copies of the flag rules in schools and public places.
Vermont reports that the Ethan Allen Chapter has been presented with an
old colonial flag having 13 stars. Green Mountain Chapter presented a flag
to Converse School, value $8.
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Through the medium of the flag alone the Daughters have wrought
a good work, as the following table will show :
Flags presented (including large, small, service, silk, etc.) — 8,798
Flag codes and leaiflets * 28,517
Copies of the Constitution - 10,090
Copies of the American's Creed 28, 025
Copies of Declaration of Independence 85
Total amount of money expended for flag purposes, as reported by
a few chapters 1— $2,422.77
The following resolution shows in a mild form the interest the
Daughters of the American Revolution have in the flag:
Whereas at the burial on the coast of Scotland of American heroes, victims
of the torpedoing of the Tuscania, at the Mull of Oa. Islay, there was no
United States flag to be found in the village ; and
Whereas a few women of the village were up through the entire night making
a flag from a miniature emblem carried by one of the men : Be it therefore
Resolved, That the Daughters of the American Revolution in congress as-
sembled transmit to their Scoth sisters, through the proper authorities, their
deep appreciation of this beautiful service.
This is signed by Mrs. Edward L. Harris, Ohio State regent;
Mrs. Butterworth, vice president general, Illinois; and Mrs. Wil -
liam H. Wait, State regent of Michigan.
To make it more definite and more graceful, we have added :
• The Daughters of the American Revolution in congress assembled send
to their Scotch sisters an American flag through the proper authorities, with
expressions of their deep appreciation for their beautiful service.
This American flag was sent to the Scotch women by the society,
1919. (For a full story of these two flags, see Daughters pf , the
American Revolution Magazine, August, 1918.)
HISTORIC SPOTS.
Georgia, — The old home of Gen. Lachlan Mcintosh in Savannah has been
marked by the Lachlan Mcintosh Chapter with a tablet bearing the foUowing
inscription: "The home of Gen. Lachlan Mcintosh, 1782-1806. The first con-
stitutional session of the Georgia Legislature was held in the long room,
January, 1783. Headquarters Gen. George Washington, May, 1791."
• Illinois. — Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter placed a bronze tablet on the
building where Lincoln made his last speech.
' Martha Board Chapter erected a bowlder where Lincoln spoke in 1858.
Illini Chapter gave a fountain, costing $650, to the city of Ottawa in memory
of< La Salle, for whom their county was named.
A member of the Illini Chapter' and her husband presented a sundial marking
the spot where Lincoln was mustered out of the Black Hawk War as captain
and where he at once reen listed as a private in 1832.
Aurora Chapter placed a tablet in G. A. R. Hall bearing the following in-
scription: "In memory of all soldiers buried in Kane County."
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Springfield Chapter placed a bowlder on the site of the first schoolhouse
built in Springfield.
Mary Little Deere Chapter marked the first water-power dam built across
the Mississippi or any of its tributaries. This dam was built in 1841 from the
Moline shore to Arsenal Island.
The honorary State regent, Mrs. George Lawrence, replaced a defective
flagpole on Starved Rock, at a cost of over $400.
Kansas. — Fort Larned Chapter marked the spot where the first tree was
planted at Fort Larned, once a prominent western post, exactly on the old
Santa Fe Trail.
A white-bronze tablet was placed on the Old Blockhouse at Fort Scott by
the Kansas Daughters.
Maine. — Hannah Weston Chapter of Maqhias placed a marker to direct
people to the grave of Hannah Weston, the Revolutionary heroine for whom
the chapter is named. They also placed three bronze memorial tablets to mark
the respective places of the first physician in Machias ; " the Foster Rubicon " ;
and the memory of Col. Benjamin Foster and Wooden Foster.
Michigan. — Abiel Fellows Chapter, Three Rivers, marked the Downing trad-
ing post, 4 miles east of Centerville, located on the Ypsilanti branch of the
old Territorial road, in Nottawa Township, St. Joseph County, September
21, 1918. The Ypsilanti branch of the Territorial road was marked with a flag-
staff and flag on same date.
Louisa St. Clair Chapter repaired old Fort Wayne, June, 1918. Saginaw
Chapter located , the old burial grounds in use before 1858 in the city of
Saginaw.
Stevens Thomson Mason Chapter, of Ionia, placed a bronze tablet on the first
schoolhouse in Ionia.
Ottawawa Chapter, of Port Huron, located the grave of Dr. Norman Nash, a
pioneer missionary to the Indians.
Menominee Chaper marked five historical sites — Sturgeon War; first frame
house built, by Charles McLoid, sr. ; Mission Point; site of old trading post;
and the grave of Lewis Chappell.
Sarah Treat Pruden Chapter marked the grave of Elizabeth Pruden, a
"Real Daughter."
Abiel Fellows Chapter located the graves of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Kline (Mrs.
Jacob D.), born 1798, died 1896, buried at Centerville; Mrs. Jane Foresman
Silliman (Mrs. Alexander S*), born October 1, 1803, died August 3, 1869,
daughter of Samuel Foresman, buried at Riverside Cemetery, Three Rivers;
Maria Farrand, born 1794, in Morris County, N. J., daughter of Phineas Far-
rand ; came to Michigan in 1836, died 1869, buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Colon.
The three women are daughters of Revolutionary soldiers and buried in St.
Joseph County.
Montana. — The Daughters of Montana are taking steps toward buying and
preserving the blockhouse, near White Sulphur Springs, Mont, which was
used as a fort during the early wars with the Indians.
New Hampshire. — Newflelds Chapter marked one historic spot in New
Hampshire during the year; and the Marjory Sullivan Chapter, of Dover,
dedicated a tablet to the memory of Maj. Richard Walderne.
North Carolina.— The Daughters in the State have many unfinished markers
to report later, when the war work has been completed. The Battle of Char-
lotte Chapter, Charlotte, N. 0., marked with a handsome drinking fountain
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the spot where the Battle of Charlotte was fought, September 26, 1780. The
following is the inscription :
In Commemoration
of
The Battle of Charlotte,
Sept. 26, 1780.
Erected by the Battle of Charlotte Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
1918.
•' For God and my Country I stand."
Ohio. — The Daughters of Ohio have used their influence in procuring the site
of Campus Martius, Marietta, the flrst settlement of the Northwest Territory,
and no doubt will mark and preserve it in future. Too much can not be said of
the wonderful work of the Ohio Daughters in the erection of the D. A. R.
Lodge at Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, at a cost of $21,847.78, as a war
relief work. It will ever be a monument to their untiring efforts and noble
sacrifices in the interest of humanity. A splendid photograph of this lodge is
given in this report.
Oregon. — The Sarah Childress Polk Chapter of Dallas, Polk County (named
in honor of President James Knox Polk), erected a marker on the site of the
first courthouse built at Dallas, in 1850. The marker, which is a shaft of Polk
County stone, was made and presented to the chapter by the Hon. George L.
Hawkins, of Dallas, Oreg. (See photo of marker.)
Pennsylvania. — Fort Mcintosh Chapter, of Beaver, erected a marker and
bronze tablet on the site of Gen. Anthony Wayne's Encampment, 1792-08, at
Legionville, Pa.
Fort Antes Chapter celebrated Independence Day by dedicating a monument
which bears the following inscription : " Shawana, the last Indian girl in the
West Branch Valley ; daughter of Old Nicholas, a friendly Seneca. Died Febru-
ary, 1851, aged 16."
Chester County dedicated a bronze marker at Phoenixville, to the memory of
Mrs. Hannah Philips Stille-Eaches, their Real Daughter, the flrst to become a
member of the Daughters of the American Revolution from Pennsylvania
She lived nearly the century mark.
The Scranton City Chapter placed a bronze marker on the grave of its only
Real Daughter, Huldah A. Brown, who was born November 15, 1830; died
December 31, 1917.
Merion Chapter, on February 22, 1919, unveiled a bronze tablet marking the
site where the Fourth Battalion, Georgia Continentals, encamped under Col.
John White, August, 1777. It was placed in the churchyard of St. John's
Episcopal Church, Cynwyd, Lower Merion. The flag used at the ceremonies is
the chapter flag of 1776 and was made by 13 charter members in 1895.
Fort Antes Chapter, Jersey Shore, unveiled a bronze tablet on Memorial Day
in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the World War.
Philadelphia Chapter has nearly completed the restoration of the head-
quarters of Gen. Farnum, the oldest house in Valley Forge Park.
South Carolina. — King's Mountain Chapter, York, S. C, marked the site of
Billy Hill's Ironworks. This site lies 10 miles east of York and Is unique in
being a spot of Revolutionary and Civil War interest. The Winnie Davis
Chapter, U. D. C, cooperated with the King's Mountain Chapter in marking
this site. Its Revolutionary history consisted of the molding of munitions of
war, as well as being the home of William Hill, the founder of the works.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy interest centered around the birth-
place of Lieut. Gen. Daniel Hill of Civil War fame. One marker was used
with appropriate inscriptions for both chapters. The monument has for its
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base a millstone, over 100 years old, given by Mr. Hand, who now owns the
place. On the foundation of the works is a small granite marker given by one
of York's citizens. The Daughters of the American Revolution secured Dr.
D. H. Hill, of Raleigh, N. C., to deliver the address. He is a great-great-grand-
son of Billy Hill aritt a son of Lieut. Gen. Daniel Hill.
Old Ninety-six District Chapter, Edgefield, unveiled a handsome bronze tablet
on the county courthouse in memory of the soldiers who died for their country
in the late World War.
Tennessee. — The Samuel Doak Chapter, of Morristown, placed a marker in
Greenville, Tenn., to mark the site of the first capitol of the State, then known
as the *' State of Franklin."
Vermont. — Stones commemorating the captivity of the Johnson family were
placed in their present position by a descendant of Capt. James Johnson and
Susannah, his wife. These stones are in the town of Reading, about one-half
mile south of the village of Felchville, on the east of the highway between
Felchville and Springfield, Vt., and close to a bridge over a stream. The
inscription on one of these stones reads :
This is near the spot that the Indians encamped the night after they took
Mr. Johnson and family, Mr. Larabee, and Mr. Farnsworth, August 30, 1754,
and Mrs. Johnson was delivered of her child half a mile up this brook.
When trouble's near the Lord is kind,
He hears the captive's cry ;
He can subdue the savage mind
And learn it sympathy.
The inscription on the other is :
On the 31st August, 1754, Captain James Johnson had a daughter born on
this spot of ground, being captured with his whole family by the Indians.
These stones remained for more than a century undisturbed, until 1918, when,
with the permission of the selectmen of Reading, a great-great-great-grand-
daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Johnson had both stones sunk and cemented into a
granite monument to preserve them from weather, and placed in the same
position as they formerly occupied.
Washington. — Mary Ball Chapter placed a marker in Point Defiance Park
to mark the site of the Wilks Expedition landing place, April 10, 1841.
Narcissa Prentice Chapter marked the site of old Fort Walla Walla with
a beautiful bronze tablet.
The Sacajawea Chapter, Olympia, influenced the purchase of the old Stevens
home at Olympia, as a memorial to the first governor of the State in
1853 — Gov. Isaac Stevens.
West Virginia. — Through the efforts of the James Wood Chapter a marker
has been placed to commemorate the spot where the first settlement was
made in West Virginia, where the city of Parkersburg now stands. James
Neal, the first settler, built a blockhouse which afforded a shelter from the
Indians. This was called " Neal's Station." The granite marker cost $250.
Pack Horse Ford Chapter placed a tablet on the market house in Shepherds-
town, W. Va., at a cost of $83.
OLD TRAILS ROADS.
Follow the murks that they have set beside
The narrow, cloud-swept track, to be thy guide;
Follow, and honor what the past has gained,
And forward still, that more may be attained.
—Van Dyke.
Georgia. — Mrs. J. L. Walker reports the tracing of several old trails roads —
viz : Barnard's Path, Kennard's Path, Old Horse Path, Old Indian Path, Great
Indian War Path, Old Etowah Path, and Creek Path, all in the State of Georgia.
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Iowa. — Council Bluffs Chapter placed a large bowlder In Bemis Park, Council
Bluffs, to mark the end of the Mormon Trail through Iowa. This mammoth
bowlder bears a bronze tablet* a bas relief depicting the story of the pioneer
crossing the plains. The tablet is the work of a young Norwegian artist, Paul
Fjelde. and cost the chapter $1,400. *
Maryland reports that markers have been placed on the road of " Braddock's
Trail," and the Daughters have on hand $335.89 for marking trails roads.
Massachusetts. — The Massachusetts Committee on Old Trails has collected
data relating to all old trails, fyut the conditions (luring the year this report
covers were such that the purchase of metal road signs had to be postponed.
The Old Boston Post Road, the State highway from Springfield to Boston, is
reported as in fine condition.
Michigan. — A blue print has been made of Michigan's old trails roads, show-
ing the location of Historic spots as well as indicating where Revolutionary
soldiers' graves are placed. Two markers have been placed and much tracing
of old trails.
Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter located the site and completed the marking
of the Old Territorial Road on the western side of the city of Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Minnesota. — A book entitled "Old Rail Fence Corners," by Mrs. Jas. T.
Morris, of Minnesota, contains a map and history of the old trails in the State.
Mississippi. — The James Rex Whitney Chapter placed an additional marker
on the Natchez trace in Jefferson County. The chapters throughout the State
are planting magnolia trees around each bowlder marking the trace within the
State, as Mississippi is called " The Magnolia State."
North Carolina, the State which has so many ** firsts " to her credit, did not
mark any " old trails " this year, but had her head above the clouds, amid the
stars, blazing a new trail along the milky way, and when, in the future, the
Daughters of the American Revolution begin to place markers along this new
trail, remember that North Carolina has the first right to place the first marker
on the first star, along the aerial route, in honor of her distinguished son,
Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the " flying parson," who was the first aviator to
accomplish the daring feat of flying across the continent.
. Oregon. — The Multnomah Chapter, Portland, Oreg., dedicated a marker on
July 4, 1918, located on the old Barlow road.
South Carolina. — Nearly all the highways through the State are the old
original Indian trails roads.
Texas. — The Daughters in Texas placed 118 Texas granite markers atong
the King's Highway (El Camino Real), or old San Antonio road, the oldest
and most historic road across Texas.
WELFARE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
This is a field of work which gives ample opportunity for each
Daughter to do individual service; each chapter to undertake some
worthy charity ; each State to record wonderful advancement in the
betterment of humanity. Some of the notable efforts of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution are found in the following list of
gifts, donations, and enterprises reported by the chapters, East, West,
North, and South :
Gifts of money to employ teachers for foreign-born mothers;
clinics for a settlement house; school for boys; mothers' classes;
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Tablet placed by Old Oak Chapter, D. A. R., of Grafton, Mass., to mark the historic old oak
tree, 18$ feet in circumference, under which the patriots In that community pledged their
services to American independence.
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parties for Mexicans, the keynote being Americanization ; maternity
cottages; home leagues; needy Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion; charity cancer hospital; milk stations; visiting nurses; civic
league; immigrants' home; community houses; shelter houses; Au-
dubon Society ; Boy Scouts ; society to prevent cruelty to animals and
children; materials for clothing; boxes of clothing and barrels of
fruits, jellies, provisions, medicines, canned goods, literature, knitted
afghans, and quilts for camps and hospitals; planting trees along
memorial highways; donations to build entire hospitals, as was the
case of one member of a certain chapter, who gave $75,000 to build
a hospital.
These and hundreds of others form a most interesting chapter in
the annals of the Daughters of the American Revolution. This is
often classed under the head of philanthropy, and for the year
1918-19 the amount of $147,449.23 was reported as having been spent
for philanthropic purposes.
PRIZES AND MEDALS.
The giving of prizes and medals for best essays on patriotic sub-
jects and for highest grades in history is still continued by the
Daughters. For the year just ended $519.50 were expended for prizes.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH.
Under this head much work has been accomplished. Each section
of the country affords its particular field in the line of research work.
Some States have sent copies of " old wills and deeds " ; marriage rec-
ords; local history, compiled from accurate information gained from
early settlers; stories or papers of old inns and taverns during Revo-
lutionary times; old treaty places; the account by a Revolutionary
soldier himself, "A Revolutionist before the Revolution"; early
churches and early post offices; records of Revolutionary soldiers,
date of birth, marriage, death, services, place of burial, etc. ; women
heroes of the Revolutionary War ; old burying grounds ; stage-coach
days ; gravestone inscriptions ; war songs and their writers ; old trad-
ing posts; records of ancestry; old relics and documents; forts and
ferries of Revolutionary times ; some original church records dating
back to 1700 ; old trails and State roads ; old Indian forts ; and genea-
logical papers and family histories number into the hundreds.
SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.
Some one has aptly said : " It is a new thought to many that the
Daughters of the American Revolution Are interested in building
for the future, as well as in the history of the past ; but one of the
declared puposes of this organization is to foster true and good
citizenship through education." Work among the mountain schools
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occupies a prominent part of the chapters' work all over the United
States. Great results have come from the efforts to educate the white
children of the southern mountains, whose ancestors fought the In-
dians and later made possible the victory at King's Mountain.
While- there are a great many schools in the southern mountains,
and in these schools many memorial scholarships maintained by
Daughters of the American Revolution chapters and individuals, yet
there is but one school founded and supported by the Daughters of
the American Revolution, and this school is the Tomassee Industrial
School, " in the sunset corner of South Carolina.''
Scholarships.
Among the schools established in the southern mountains we find
the Daughters of the American Revolution have taken scholarships
in a great many, chiefly the Helen Dunlap School in Arkansas;
Martha Berry School, Georgia; Pine Mountain, Hindman, Berea
College, Kentucky; Maryville College, Tennessee; Flag Pond, Ten-
nessee; Lees-McRae School, Dorothy Sharpe School, North Caro-
lina; Georgetown School, Tomassee School, South Carolina; Oak
Hill Academy, Virginia; Roe Indian School, Kansas; Matthew T.
Scott, Jr., School, Kentucky; Southern Industrial Institute, Char-
lotte, N. C. ; and many others equally as worthy.
War Reltef and Red Cross.
(See report of Mrs. W. H. Wftj t, publicity director, War Relief Service
(Committee, Appendix.)
Perhaps the greatest achievement of war work was accomplished
by the Daughters of Ohio, when they planned and erected the lodge
at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. This Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution lodge contains 65 rooms and cost the Daughters of
Ohio $21,84778 ; but this was a small item when compared with the
good returns from it, as Gen. Glenn said at the dedication of the
lodge : " In the heat and strife of battle, the memories of this home,
with its Christian influences, will be worth infinitely more than it
cost." During the influenza epidemic it proved a veritable haven of
refuge in a time of trouble, for " anxious wives, mothers, sisters, and
sweethearts, who kept vigil beside the sick ones, found the Daughters
of the American Revolution lodge doors open day and night." A
photograph of this meritorious undertaking of the Ohio Daughters
is found elsewhere in this report.
MEMORIAL DAY AND SPECIAL MEMORIALS.
Memorial Day is generally observed by all chapters, sometimes
with a specially prepared program with noted speakers, and again- in
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cooperation with other patriotic societies, such as Daughters of 1812,
Colonial Dames, Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Daughters,
Sons. of the American Revolution, G. A. R., and others.
SPECIAL MEMORIALS.
A special memorial may take the form of an imposing monument,
a building, a park, an avenue of trees, a painting, a picture, a book,
a flag, anything that perpetuates the memory of a man or woman
who enlisted in any way toward the betterment of humanity, especi-
ally through the channels of the society, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The memorial. which seems to appeal* to most everyone is the schol-
arship memorial. There are so many of these it will be impossible to
mention them all, but a few of the notable ones are as follows :
Arkansas. — One chapter contributed 903 books to the library as a memorial
to chapter regent.
California. — Arrowhead Chapter marked the graves of two real daughters.
Long Beach Chapter is erecting a memorial to those heroes from that community
who fell in the World War.
Palo Alto Chapter keeps two subscriptions to the Red Cross in memory of a
past member.
Hollywood Chapter maintains two scholarships in Berea College, Kentucky.
Connecticut. — The chapters of the whole State of Connecticut have completed
the State fund of $1,000 for a perpetual scholarship in Maryville College in
memory of Miss Margaret E. Henry.
District of Columbia. — Five scholarships have been given by the Daughters
of the District of Columbia as follows : One to Florence Tuttle, of North Caro-
lina, who is a lineal descendant, through two lines, from John Witherspoon,
signer of the Declaration of Independence; another scholarship to Dora Mc-
Clanahan in Matthew T. Scott, jr., School, Phelps, Ky. ; another to Miss Barr,
a mountain girl ; another has been donated to the Florence Crittenden School
of Washington, D. C. ; another scholarship in honor of Miss Mary R. Wilcox,
who was born in the White House, has been given to a mountain school to be
used by a girl who is a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
Florida.^-The Sally Harrison Chapter is erecting a memorial arch to the
soldiers and sailors of Seminole County.
Illinois. — The chapters of Illinois have given six scholarships in southern
mountain schools.
Maryland. — The Daughters of Maryland presented a handsome silk flag to the
Maryland University Hospital, in memory of Lafayette.
Massachusetts. — The Daughters of Massachusetts have presented sets of
lineage books and many other volumes of historical and genealogical works to
Continental Hall Library. The old Blake House Chapter gave a chair in honor
of Mrs. Alexander Stockwell.
Michigan. — A mineral collection was given to Grand Rapids High School in
memory of Lucius Comstock Boltwood, a soldier of the World War killed in
France.
Minnesota. — St. Paul Chapter cooperated with the city council in placing a
memorial tablet to the soldiers and sailors of St. Paul and Ramsey County.
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Missouri. — A mural painting, "The call of Missouri," executed by Edwin
Howland Bhishfleld, of New York City, was placed in the Public library of
Kansas City, Mo., as a gift by the Kansas City Chapter, at a cost of $20,000.
North Carolina. — The Major Reading Blount Chapter presented a picture of
the Duke of Beaufort (the lord proprietor for whom the county of Beaufort is
named > to the public school of Washington, N. C.
The Thomas Wade Chapter placed a memorial chair in a hospital in Wades-
boro, N. C, in memory of a former regent, Mrs. Albert Boylin.
Ohio. — The chapters in bhlo continued the scholarship in honor of Annette
Phelps Lincoln and the Philippine scholarship.
Pennsylvania. — The Daughters of Pennsylvania gave a $1,000 scholarship to
Maryville College, Tennessee, in honor of 22 members who were in foreign
service during the recent war. Many other scholarships were given in southern
schools, and the Philippine scholarship fund completed.
Virginia. — The Daughters of Virginia presented a cabinet to the museum in
Continental Hall in honor of Miss Alethla Serpell ; also completed their payment
on the Jefferson bust in Continental Hall.
AMERICANIZATION.
This has been touched upon under the head of patriotic education,
which includes girl home makers, children of the American Revo-
lution, sons of the Republic, mothers' classes, night schools, and va-
rious other clubs and societies for the betterment of the foreigner
and others who would be ideal American citizens.
Now that we have put aside knitting helmets and sweaters, making
coffee and sandwiches, and serving in canteens, for the active soldier
boy, or rolling bandages and making Red Cross supplies for the
sick and wounded, we find ourselves face to face with a grave re r
sponsibility, and in many cases a hard task — that of Americanization.
Will we meet our responsibility? If the love of liberty stirred to
patriotic endeavor our ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary
War, and the youth of our land who fought in the recent World War.
will not the love of that same flag under which they fought not stir
the hearts of the Daughters of the American Revolution to rise to
the opportunity now before us, and try to teach those who now seek
our shores for a " haven of refuge," love for the flag and the Ameri-
can's creed, so that in the coming years this fair country of ours will
be the home of liberty-loving, law-abiding citizens, presenting a
vision as beautiful and unforgetable as that of " youth rollicking
on the cloud-kissed heights of our own American hills " ?
The answer is yet to be told in future reports of the Daughters of
the American Revolution; but, with the splendid work already
started, it is safe to say the Daughters will measure up to their re-
quirements in this field of work, as they have always done in every-
thing they have undertaken.
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Bowlder with bronze tablets erected by the Webster Groves Chapter, D. A. R., to honor the
585 men and women from Webster Groves, Mo., who aided in the Great World War, and
to those who made the supreme sacrifice.
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APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE PUBLICITY DIRECTOR WAR RELIEF SERVICE
COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO THE TWENTY-EIGHTH
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, APRIL 14-19, 1919.
Madam President Genebal and Members of the Twenty-Eighth Continental
Congress :
Patriotism translated into facts and figures is the keynote of this report,
which is a brief history of our part as Daughters of the American Revolution
in the World War.
Acting on the authority vested in her by the Twenty-Sixth Continental Con-
gress, the president general, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, upon the adjourn-
ment of congress, appointed a permanent war relief service committee, with
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, chairman, and Mrs. Albert S. Burleson, vice chairman.
This committee met and divided the country into six districts with a district
director at the head of each district. Mrs. James Benton Grant, Colorado,
western ; Mrs. Fred H. H. Calhoun, South Carolina, southeastern ; Mrs. Frank
D. Ellison, Massachusetts, northeastern; Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Texas,
southern; Mrs. Frank W. Banhsen, Illinois, central; Mrs. Albert S. Burleson,
District of Columbia, eastern ; Mrs. William. Henry Wait, Michigan, publicity
director.
It was found advisable to redistrict the country for our work and to add
other members, including vice chairmen, to the committee. Those changes were
made by the president general, the committee now standing:
Chairman. — Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, District of Columbia.
Vice chairmen. — Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, District of Columbia; Mrs.
Thomas A. Edison, New Jersey.
Director of publicity. — Mrs. William Henry Wait, Michigan.
Secretary. — Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, District of Columbia.
Northern division. — Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, director, Massachusetts ; Mrs.
John Laldlaw Buel, vice director, Connecticut.
Eastern division.— Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, director, District of Columbia ;
Miss Helen E. C. Overton, vice director, Pennsylvania.
Southeastern division. — Mrs. Fred H. H. Calhoun, director, South Carolina;
Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster, vice director, Georgia.
Central division. — Mrs. Harold R. Howell, director, Iowa; Mrs. John Lee
Dinwiddle, vice director, Indiana.
Western division. — Mrs. James Lowry Smith, director, Texas; Miss Stella
Pickett Hardy, vice director, Arkansas.
Pacific coast division. — Mrs. James I-tenton Grant, director, Colorado; Mrs.
Maynard Force Thayer, vice director, California.
During the period of service, Mrs. Andrew F. Fox, Mississippi, for a time
served as director of the southeastern division, and Mrs. S. P. Davis, Arkansas,
as vice director of the western division.
At Its meeting, April 24, 1917, the committee authorized the issuance of
registration blanks to the entire membership in order* that every daughter
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might measure her ability for service to her country at war.- These registra-
tion blanks issued within a month after the declaration of war by the United
States preceded the national registration of women by many months, and
proved most valuable as a measure which taught many daughters the neces-
sity of preparing for active war service, stimulated in others long-dormant
talents, and aroused in many the consciousness that the time had come when
the services of every American woman as well as every American man might
be needed in the struggle which was Impending.
In the same consignment with the registration blanks were also sent a copy
of a letter from the chairman, Mrs. Scott, to M. Jusserand, French ambassador,
asking him how best the daughters could show their appreciation of and
sympathy for France; a copy of M. Jusserand's reply to Mrs. Scott telling
us the needs of the children of France; and a copy of a letter from Mr.
Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, suggesting how women could
serve their Government in agricultural lines. Mrs. Scott also sent a most
appealing letter to the chapters setting forth the needs of the little French
orphans.
At a meeting of the committee, June 21, 1917, it was decided to distribute
information on work made necessary by the war, and to that end a series of
44 bulletins has been written and issued by the publicity director. The sub-
jects cover knitted garments (three bulletins), clippings, French orphans,
jelly (two bulletins), marking of gifts, food, reports of war work, question-
naires to regents, home service, paraffin candles, sending gifts to United States
Navy, an all- American America, Liberty loans (four bulletins), business bulle-
tin, trench caps, patriotism versus thoughtful ness, Tilloloy (two bulletins),
war resolutions adopted by the Twenty-Seventh Continental Congress, the
enemy within our gates, Allies, England, and the Daughters of the American
Revolution, salvage, national service schools, vacations and D. A. R. roll of
honor pins, the D. A. R. magazine as a war factor, rechickenizing France, eyes
for the Navy, keep the home fires burning, exhibit at Twenty-eighth Conti-
nental Congress, reconstruction in France, and stump socks.
The plan of distribution adopted at the committee meeting, June 21, 1917,
was found to be so satisfactory that it has been continued without interruption.
The bulletins were counted out for each State and tied together in the office of
the publicity director. To each district director were sent the packages of
bulletins for the States in her district. She in turn sent the parcels to the
State regents in her ' district, and the State regents forwarded them to the
chapter regents. So to all these daughters who have served in the distribution
of these bulletins, to the chapter members who have worked so efficiently, to
all the members of the war relief service committee who have planned so wisely
and served so faithfully, especially to Mrs. Hodgkins, who has had charge of
the French orphan list, and to Mrs. Hanger who compiled our registration
blanks ; to Mrs. Scott, our chairman, who has been untiring in her enthusiasm
for the cause ; and to the president general, Mrs. Guernsey, who has been most
helpful with suggestions and advice, belongs the honor of having made possible
this report of the war work of the National Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution. It is a record that shames not our claim of loyalty to the flag of our
forefathers, and of faithfulness to the cause of freedom for which they lived
and died.
Requests for our literature reached us from other organizations, notably the
National Committee of Patriotic Societies, which several times included our
bulletins in their distribution of literature of patriotic societies; also the Na-
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tional Security League; Women's Division, Bureau of Public Information;
National Y. W. C. A.; Russell Sage Foundation; and from Miss Ida Tarbell,
chairman publicity committee, Women's Division, Council of National Defense.
It is most gratifying to know that our bulletins were republished by news-
papers in various parts of the country and were used by the committee of
Council of National Defense in some States. We also received a letter from
the former Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. McAdoo, in response to our bulletins
and a statement of the work of the Daughters for the Liberty loans, expressing
appreciation of our work in the cause.
In all, we made a distribution of 179,200 Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion registration blanks and bulletins.
Besides these publications of our own, your committee has distributed other
helpful war-time letters and literature — the former written by Mrs. Guernsey
and Mrs. Scott, the latter furnished by the Navy League, Woman's Committee,
of the Navy League, Woman's Naval Service (Inc.), National Committee of
Patriotic Societies, etc., to the number of 25,000, making a total distribution of
214,200 bulletins and pamphlets.
The Daughters were invited by the War Department, through Mrs. Clara
Sears Taylor, Women's Division, Bureau of Information ,to take part in the
compilation of a photographic history of the war, as it is " the purpose of the
War Department to include a comprehensive series of photographs to illustrate
war activities of the women of the country." Responding to this call, many
chapters sent pictures of the Daughters engaged in war activities, of hostess
houses and rooms, etc., for the exhibit at the Twenty-seventh Continental Con-
gress. At the close of the exhibit the war pictures, with a full report of the
war work of the Daughters, were given by us to Mrs. Taylor for the national
files at the Army War College.
A report of our work was also sent to Mrs. Heath for Smithsonian report.
It being deemed advisable by the president general and the editor of the
magazine, Miss Lincoln, to have a page in the magazine given over to the war
relief service department, an invitation was sent to the State regents to furnish
items of war work being done by the Daughters in their States. Cuba, Hawaii,
the Philippines, and the Orient, as well as many States, have been represented
on this page.
To-day the result of all the efforts of the Daughters is before us. The record
covers the beginning of our war work, when, as women of a neutral nation, we
worked for national surgical dressings, Red Cross, and other war relief, to the
present hour, when as women of, a victorious nation we are welcoming back to
our shores America's victors, meeting with a brave front the problems of
reconstruction and readjustment. With this record of our work we dare look
into the eyes of men who stood in the front-line trenches because we have been
true to our trust and have stood in the second-line trenches of home service.
The Daughters of the American Revolution have made no " drives " for the
benefit of our war work. We are not included as beneficiaries in the united war
work campaign fund. We have not received from the Government any salaries
for our war work as an organization. We had no " franking " privileges, no
free use of the mails, express, or telegraph. We ourselves have financed all our
overhead expenses Incurred by the war.
The national report is compiled from reports received in March, 1919, by the
publicity director from the State regents regarding French orphans, Tilloloy,
Daughters of the American Revolution Liberty loan, and national service schools.
A supplementary report of States is appended to this report
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Gifts for all branches of the service at home and abroad and for home relief.
Not priced.
Priced.
Cash.
Barrack bags, 3,929, at 50 cents each
Box lunches
Candy
Christmas boxes
Christmas celebrations
Christmas packets
Comfort kits, 68,734, at $2 : ,
Flowers
Games
Borne relief
Hospitality houses
Hospitality rooms *
Housewives, 23,752, at 75 cents each
Jelly, 93,752 glasses, at 20 cents each
Knitted garments, 296,268 garments or 74,067 sets, at $12
•Mending bureau
Mess funds
Miscellaneous gifts
Musical instruments -..
National service schools
National surgical dressings and Red Cross, prior to Apr. 6, 1917:
Money contributions ,
Hospital garments i
Surgical supplies
Knitted garments
Miscellaneous gifts
To Belgium
To France
To other war objects
Picture puzzles
Property bags, 10,815, at 50 cents each
Red Cross:
Money contributions
Comfort kits
Hospital garments ,
Knitted garments <
Surgical supplies
Miscellaneou s gifts
Work given to Red Cross, Red Cross material used :
Hospital garments
Surgical supplies
Knitted garments
Comfort kits
Refugee garments
Special work for Red Cross:
Proceeds of salvage sale given Red Cross -
Proceeds of concert given Red Cross
Solicited for Red Cross
Collected for Red Cross by 1 chapter I
Scrapbooks
Special gifts:
A chapter in the desert met each troop train and served
lemonade.
Wayfarer's Club for War- Working Girls
Rent of business store given
Use of entire building given to Red Cross:
Thanksgiving dinner
Monthly salary of $85 given to hostess in community house.
Park purchased and tree planting begun as memorial to
1 county's soldiers.
Memorial to men of Jackson and Duvall Counties, Fla. . . .
Camp welfare and war relief rooms
Equipping 3 women to go abroad
Special comforts given for soldiers
Gift of one member: Purchase Camp Pike. 26 aviators
outfitted; lunches to 6 trainloads of soldiers
Furnishing Khaki Club
Loan fund established for incapacitated soldiers
Room in base hospital furnished.
Three dozen mattresses made for soldiers stationed at
viaduct.
Battery adopted
Rubber beds for wounded aviators
Ninety-seven sons adopted
Milk purchased all summer for 20 babies.
Seven soldiers, two nurses, and two sailors adopted.
Hospital ward adopted.
Hospitality to men in sen ice:
House guests
Table guests
Guests at public tables
48,340
$1,964.50
13,812
46
7,323
2,090.00
5,962.72
3,018
1,111
407.00
$117,468*00
40,954
96
65,399.13
230.00
20,538
331,686
328
20,100
3,871.70
200.00
2,048
30,585
163.590
126,649
3,230,813
6,162
379,114
23,903,104
194,812
21,510
385
507,086.65
20,429
42,396
96,329
50,109
13,639.75
28,606.68
1,910.20
17,814.00
18,750.40
888,804.00
3,414.91
7,486.45
11,007.29
7,712.00
67,484.43
27, 680. 12
263.00
808.00
5,407.50
759,140.55
10,800.00
3,000. 00
15,390.00
473,963.00
500.00
1,600.00
75.00
100.00
1,000.00
350.00
4,854.00
500.00
1,200.00
5,000.00
1,050.43
150.00
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Gifts for all branches of the service at home and abroad and for home relief — Con.
Not priced.
Priced.
Cash.
Hospitality to men in service— Continued.
Dances, dinners, luncheons, and picnics given.
Ice cream and cake served i ,000.
Dinner to company starting for Mexican border.
Entertainment of 50 convalescent soldiers three days.
Welcome-home dinner to one company.
Three s»ilors entertained as week-end guests for three
months, etc.
Smileace books
Tobacco
Vehicles-
Ambulances
A utomobiles
Diet kitchens
Field kitchens
Trucks.
Vests.
Victrola records, etc .
2,333
3
1
1,653
681
$296.00
3,640.65
29,684.40
977.00
672.00
5,065.00
520.00
140.00
Contributions to other organizations doing war work.
Net priced.
Priced.
Cash.
Cnited war work campaign
1468,061.85
Speakers
672
3,363
Speeches
Y.M.C.A.... - ....
i57,606.i6
Books
1,052,025
8,631
Maffarfne iniK«?ctf ptlotia ...
$2,762.06
741.69
3,756.00
Newspaper subscriptions , «
"Pianos and victrola x , , , , ,
Y, W. C.A
59,046140
Miscellaneous gifts
405
472.00
Knight* nfCnliimhiM .
10,236.00
Miscellaneous gifts .,., ,
5
Salvation Army
10,454.50
Miscellaneous gifts. ».....»
82.00
75.00
Jewish relief
6,230.50
Miscellaneous gifts. i
American T^hrary Association - . . , , T , , -,.,,, . , .
9,256.00
Miscellaneous gifts
34,474
383.00
War camp community $ervi<»« . , t ,
13, 34a 25
Salary of camp mother for two years. 1
Other organizations
57,350.55
Miscellaneous gifts , , ,
287
639.00
Screening camp kitchen,
liberty loans:
Taken by chapters
333,538.50
Taken bv States ...
2,400.00
Taken bv individual Daughters . ♦
36,447,074.28
Sold bv Daughters .". . . , ... ...... ' - -
51,951.363.00
D. A. ft. Liberty loan (totaled under list of gifts).
Thrift stamps:
Taken by Daughters
36,761.00
Sold by Daughters ,
565.00
War savings stamps:
Taken bv Daughters ...... , *
212,950.03
67,451.00
Sold by Daughters '
Prance: " I
Cash ^ '
5,554,73
137,994.28
French orphans .... 1 ....: '. . . . '}
Garments
65,497
5,581
Miscellaneous , 4 , .
17,737.05
Poultry farms . . . . . '. . - T ... r - . ..-,.,.,- T - ,.;. ^ ... -
9,135.73
Tilloloy
42,365.84
Our other allies:
Cash » *
71,225.06
Garments
30,i66
3,235
Miscellaneous * .....*
23,?21.61
Miscellaneous gifts include boxes and barrels of clothing, provisions, fruit,
cakes, doughnuts, eggs, milk, jam, bottles of grape juice, nuts, toilet articles,
writing materials, linens, crate of bicarbonate, cots, wheel chair, athletic
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equipment, electric iron, Bibles, Testaments, flags to members of the service,
sewing machine, bed in Neuilly ; four French soldiers adopted ; French mother
maintained; two Belgian, five Armenian, one Italian orphan adopted; equip-
ment of an American soldier serving in the French army ; 1 Belgian prisoner
adopted; etc.
Miscellaneous gifts do not include bundles of secondhand newspapers and
magazines, rolls of old linen and cotton, post cards, picture cards, envelopes of
clippings, pin wheels, trench candles, valentines, gun wipes, handkerchiefs
made from old linen, and 3,562,499 surgical supplies.
RECAPITULATION.
Gifts.
Cash and priced gifts *3, 730, 385. 00
Miscellaneous gifts unpriced 1, 711, 372. 00
War investments.
Liberty loans, thrift and war savings stamps taken by Daughters- $37, 032, 732. 81
N. S. D. A. R. Liberty loan 100,000.00
Total war expenditures of Daughters 40,863,118.41
Total sales of war investments by Daughters 52, 019, 379. 00
The Daughters in many States early recognized the value of preserving for
future generations the war records of our men in service, and also realized
the psychological value to the man himself, and the effect on the morale of the
service if the men knew the people of their home towns and counties had vital
interest and pride in their records. To this end many hundreds of letters were
written "to the boys" — the most unique example being that of a Daughter
teaching in one of our Government Indian Schools who has written 20 letters
each month to her soldier pupils overseas. In one State this work, systematically
commenced by the Daughters, was taken over by the State.
Realizing the importance of training our young women in agricultural lines
when our men were being called from the ploughshare to the sword, the
Daughters contributed for scholarships in national service schools held In
Washington, D. C, and Chautauqua, N. Y., spring and summer of 1918.
That the American girl is worthy of all the advantages that can be given her
is proved by the splendid answer to the " call to colors," made by 279 of our
Daughters who enlisted for service in the United States, their services being
recognized and paid for by the United States Government.
One hundred and twenty-five of our Daughters enlisted for foreign service
but were not called; but honor is due them because, forgetting self, they an-
swered to roll call for service on foreign soil when the crisis came.
The names of all these patriotic women have been collected, and are ready
With their data for the part they will play in the war history of the Daughters
when it is written.
Two hundred and sixty-two of our Daughters joined that great crusade of
women who, the first in the history of the world, left native shores to help
struggle on foreign soil with disease and death in the presence of the most
horrible war of all time in order that the world might be kept a decent place
for the children of the men.
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SFRVICE ABROAD.
(In every case where the country is not mentioned, the service is in France.] ■■'
Alabama. — Miss Katherine Gardner, hut entertainment; Mrs. Mary Steirfer
Crommelin, canteen; Mrs. H. M. Taylor, Red Cross; Miss Julia Lide, Red Cross
nurse, Base Hospital No. 17.
Arkansas, — Miss Myra C. Meeks, superintendent of hospital.
California. — Ruth Rogers, casualty searcher, Red Cross; Miss Harriet North 1
*ap, nurse; Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, British hospital service nurse. ?
Colorado. — Miss Mary Brand Chew, canteen service, Red Cross ; Miss t>orothy
Plumb Haynes, entertainer in concert company.
Connecticut— Miss Alice C. Rogers, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Lillian Mack Hfitchcock,
nospital service; Miss Lillian Estelle Farrell, canteen service; Miss Anna Rum-
baugh, nurses' aid ; Miss Frances Elliot Hickox, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Esther Vobr-
hees Hasson, nurse, American Expeditionary Forces ; Miss Ruth Lane Daniels'
supervisor of nurses, United States Base Hospital No. 15; Miss Lucy Pratt
Mitchell, Army Nurse Corps, United States Base Hospital No. 12, American
Expeditionary Forces ; Miss J. Alice Maxwell, at the head of the " Mayf air Re-
lief ; " Miss Elsie Livingston Hepburn, canteen work; Miss Edith Brooksj Red
Cross nurse, Palestine; Mrs. Vera J. Edwards, American Red Cross, hospital
unit; Miss Alice Cunningham Rogers.
Delaware. — Mrs. Edith Knowles, canteen; Miss Virginia G. Yardley, maker
of surgical dressings asd secretary at Washington Inn, London, England;
District of Columbia.— Mt^. Flora Stanton Kalb, Y. M. C. A.; Miss Emma
Steed, Red Cross matron; Miss Alma Winningham, stenographer; Miss Jean
FUckinger, service abroad ; Miss Virginia R. Hicks, stenographer ; Miss Cornelia
H. Hill, secretary Red Cross, Italy; Miss Mary Benton Wright, stenographer
for Treasury Department ; Miss Florence Caldwell, nurse, American Expedition-
ary Forces; Mrs. Hoover Hanger, surgical dressings and general sewing.
Florida. — Lucy J. Chamberlain, secretary ; Bernice W. Lyle, director in
recreation hut.
Georgia. — Miss Mary Brown, reconstruction work, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss tsolitie
Campbell, reconstruction work, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss EUeigh Page Tucker, Y. W.
C. A. ; Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith, diet department, Rolland Hospital ; Miss
Mary Davis, canteen; Miss Maude Fisher, canteen; Miss Ettiene Baldwin,
Y. W. C. A.
Illinois. — Mrs. Carl Vrooman, canteen; Mrs. Lucile Irion Ryan, Red Cross;
Miss Elizabeth Craig, nurse ; Miss Amy^ Gort, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Margaret M.
Mclllvaine, nurse ; Miss Alice Pratt, hospital ; Miss Harriet Fulmer, nurse ;
Miss Gail Myers, Miss Mabel Ellis, Y. M. C. A., England ; Miss Mabel Parrott,
nurse; Miss Helen Green, Y. M. C. A.; Miss Elizabeth Hendricks, Y. M. C. A.;
Miss Bessie Mabel Fuller, nurse; Miss Eva Hunt, canteen.
Indiana. — Miss Mary Agnes Goldthwaite, nurse, Hospital NO. 18 ; Miss Louise
Wright, entertainer; Miss Martha Royce, canteen; Dr. Caroline Lawrence,
head of children's hospital, Jerusalem ; Miss Leah Graves, secretary ; Dr. Ada
McMahan, base hospital ; Miss Mary Holiday, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Lila Frew
Kurtz, Y. M. C. A. canteen, London ; Miss Catherine Lory, nurse.
Iowa.— Miss Hattie B. Lymenstahl, Red Cross nurse; Miss Eunice Wolcott,
In France with Peace Commission; Miss Margaret Reid, Y. W. C. A. ; Miss Mil-
dred R. Gllson, Red Cross nurse, Unit K of Council Bluffs; Mary Katherine
West, superintendent Unit No. 12 Hospital ; Miss Ruth E. Hamiel, Red Cross
nurse; Celene Virginia Barger, canteen worker and entertainer; Edna Sed-
wick, reconstruction work.
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Kansas.— Miss Elizabeth Gorsline Flagg, Y. M. C. A. educational work ; Miss
Gqila Adams, Y. M. C. A. entertainer ; Miss Rachael Pugh, secretary Y. M. C. A. ;
Miss Lucile Otto, nurse; Miss Ada Allen, hospital hut service^ Miss Lydla Dow,
nurse; Miss Lucy Porter, canteen, London; Miss Clara Francis, Red Gross
searcher ; Mrs. IL E. Don Carlos, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Anna E. Insley, Y. M. C. A.
Kentucky. — Miss Mary Wheeler, Red Cross entertainer as singer, Prance and
England; Mrs. B. A. Evans; Miss Harriet Cleek, nurse; Miss Kate Pence,
clerk ; Miss Mary W. Arvin, nurse, Base Hospital No. 5 ; Miss Margaret Drulen,
Red Cross nurse.
Louisiana. — Miss Fay Alcock, hut worker, Base Hospital No. 104; Romar
Hening Smith, clerical and canteen work.
Massachusetts. — Ruth Monroe Wei ton (Mrs. Ranna H.), canteen; Miss Grace
Mabel Bacon, educational commission, A. E. F. ; Miss Helen Dodge, furlough
areas as hostess; Miss Sibyl Robeson, auto driver; Miss Ellen Pierce Clarfc,
London, England; Miss Mary A. Frye, with Array of Occupation, Germany;
Miss Helen Mae Frances Lincoln, United States army nurse; Miss Florence
Nesmith, canteen worker; Mrs. John Craig (Mary Young), Y. M. C. A.; Miss
Grace Nichols, canteen worker, Red Cross ; Miss Agnes Smith, Red Cross nurse,
Evacuation Hospital; Miss Maude Pfaffman, clerical work, Gen. Pershing's
headquarters; Mrs. Fred H. Smith, canteen worker; Miss Madeline M. Bell,
canteen and clerical worker for Red Cross.
Michigan. — Miss Eleanor Cook, reconstruction, Turkey; Miss Doris Mauck,
hostess club, Women's Furlough Home; Mrs. Priscilla P. Burd, Y. M. C. A.
canteen; Ada Dickie Hamblin; Miss Ethel Evelyn Hathaway, Red Cross hos-
pital hut service, Scotland, and Brest, France; Dr. Maria Belle Coolidge,
physician, as lieutenant in American Red Cross; Miss Edith Gibson Haskell,
reconstruction aid ; Dr. Rhoda Grace Hendricks, physician and surgeon, Scottish
Women's Hospital, French Military Hospital, Poitiers and Asnieres; Sophia
Fuller Sweet, assistant hospital nurse; Miss Kate Baldwin, canteen worker,
Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Josephine Sherzer, Red Cross searcher.
Minnesota. — Amy Robbins Ware, wireless and telegraphy for the blind, now
in charge of largest canteen in Paris, inspecting canteens for the Government in
France; Marion Moir, Orphilantis des Armes; Mary Smith Jones, Red Cross
Hospital Hut Service ; Miss Franc Matthews, nurse.
Mississippi. — Miss Maude Cooley, Red Cross nurse, Hospital Unit No. 24;
Mrs. Emma Gene Venn, Red Cross searcher, nurse; Miss Ruth Burnslde,
canteen work, Y. M. C. A.
Missouri. — Ethel Sikes, Red Cross nurse ; Miss Daisy File, Red Cross nurse ;
Mrs. Walter Sanford, Red Cross searcher; Miss Julia Smiley Balbraith, Red
Cross nurse ; Miss Katherine Mathews, stenographer ; Miss Naomi Walton, Red
Cross nurse; Miss Florence Helm, Red Cross stenographer; Miss Virginia Rus-
sel, Red Cross nurse; Miss Virginia George, Knights of Columbus canteen.
Montana. — Miss Ethel Seeley, reconstruction; Miss Isabell Hawkins, recon-
struction.
Nebraska. — Ella King Morrison, canteen ; Margaret Jean Butter, Red Cross ;
Anne Caldwell, Y. M. C. A., Russia ; Bess A. Richards, stenographer.
New Hampshire. — Miss Laura E. Sanborn, nurse, Base Hospital No. 6.
American Expeditionary Forces; Dr. Marion L. Bugbee, Children's Branch
American Red Cross; Miss Myrna S. Howe, head aide physical reconstruction.
Base Hospital No. 27, American Expeditionary Forces; Miss Dorothy Ibferrill,
Base Hospital No. 61 ; Miss Clara A. Mitchell.
New Jersey.— Persis Snodgrass, Y. M. C. A.; Dorothy Clark; Amj[ Clark;
Violet Bennett ; Dr. Elsie Rose, hospital.
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New Mexico. — Miss Clarissa Hale Spencer, secretary World's Com., Y. W.
C. A., Russia.
Hew York. — Miss Elaine Rawlins, canteen work ; Miss Edith L. Gros, nurse,
Military Hospital, London, England; Helen M. Sweet, canteen Y. M. C. A.;
Susan L. Heermance, canteen Y. M. C. A. ; Maude M. Woolsey, nurse, returned
to this country and then made second trip abroad ; Miss Ruth Sherman Bent-
ley, Red Cross nurse (year in LaPann, Belgium; year in Ru Oraye, France;
year in Saloniki, Greece; now Mrs. Predcello) ; Miss Edith Dean, hostess en-
tertainer; Elizabeth G. Patterson, Red Cross nurses' aid; Margaret D. Cook,
Y. W. C. A. ; Marion D. Campbell, American Expeditionary Forces ; Katherine
Feeck, American Expeditionary Forces; Anna K. Wellman, canteen work;
Kate Huntley, private secretary, England; Margaret H. Mabee, Motor corps;
Lydia C. French, Red Cross nurses* aid; Anna W. Gillett, canteen; Caroline
B. Dow, Y. W. C. A. director, France, England, and Scotland; Mrs.Radcliffe B.
Lockwood, Y. M. C. A. ; Mrs. Claudia Hall Fleming, Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Adele
Poston, full charge base hospital, 400 beds.
North Carolina. — Miss Anne Penland, nurse; Miss Rebecca Routh Bridges,
Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Edith Wynne, Red Cross ; Miss Lura Heath, Y. M. C. A. ;
Miss Marion Torrence, singer ; Miss Mary Murphy.
Ohio. — Miss Flora Mason, Y. M. C. A. canteen ; Miss Lois Tappan, canteen ;
Miss Anna Pauline Harrison, canteen; Miss Lavina Belle Hart, Y. W. C. A.
canteen; Mrs. Nellie Steel Armstrong, nurse, Serbia (Belgrade); Miss Clara
D. Shuart, Red Cross Analysis of Character; Miss Sharp (daughter of am-
bassador), Y. M. C. A. canteen; Mrs. Zorab W. Bowman, national surgical
dressing an,d home communication bureau, Red Cross; Miss Martha Kinsey,
Y. M. C. A. hut; Miss Julia P. Norton, canteen, Paris and Issoidun; Miss
Katherine Geddes, home communication and surgical dressings; Miss Lois
Ruth Campbell, nurse; Miss Ruth Hargrave, Base Hospital No. 114, recon-
struction aid ; Miss Grace Young, nurse ; Miss Janet Jones, telephone operator ;
Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, librarian; Miss Clara Wright, Red Cross nurse; Eda
Kerr Ohland, nurse; Miss Grace Stucky, canteen; Miss M. Sydna Sheldon,
nurse. Base Hospital No. 115; Miss Harriett Long, American Library Associa-
tion.
Oregon. — Mrs. Ruby Flint Hughes, wounded soldiers, Geneva; Mrs. Henry
Talbot, Y. M. C. A.; Miss Elizabeth Freeman Fox, Y. W. C. A.; Miss Jessie
Finch, nurse.
Oklahoma. — Miss Mynn Coggswell, entertainer, Y. M. C. A.
Pennsylvania. — Miss S. Elizabeth Arnold, canteen work with Y. M. C. A.;
Mrs. Nelson Courtland Brown, canteen Red Cross; Miss Lois Brundred, 1
1 Miss Brundred furnished her own equipment ; also gave money for luxuries to the
soldiers to the amount of $4,354.
Army of Occupation, Coblenz, canteen; Miss Bessie Eastman, Y. M. C. A.;
Miss Helen Minerva Garverlch,. United States Army nurse; Miss Vera L.
Keagle, A. W. C, Unit 93, equipped for Serbia; Miss Edith Lewis, nurse,
Red Cross, Military Hospital No. 1 ; Miss Jennette P. Mechling, nurse, United
States Base Hospital, American Expeditionary Forces; Miss Geraldine Houtz
Masser, Red Cross nurse; Miss Alberta E. McKeever, Red Cross nurse, Base
Hospital ; Miss Edith Dill Patton, equipment manager of the Red Cross Motor
Equipment Park, Neuilly ; Miss Rebecca N. Rhodes, canteen service, Y. M. C. A.;
Miss Mary Weimer Spencer, canteen work; Miss Urnia Clare Turner, Red Cross
nurse; Miss Katherine White, in American Hospital; Miss Clara Waring, sec-
retary Y. M. C. A.; Miss Mary C. Warner, canteen in Gare, Red Cross; Miss
Florence Whiteside, nurse ; Miss Helen Yerkes.
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Philippines, — Miss Mary Fee, canteen ; Miss Mary Polk, library work, Siberia ;
Mrs. Applegate, Red Cross nurse, Siberia.
Rhode Island. — Miss Jennie B. Stanton, cantonment; Amelia Spicer Crane,
chief nurse, Base Hospital No. 30; Gertrude Cottrell Bray, attendant Y. M.
Hut at Zinzig on the Rhine with the Rainbow Division.
South Carolina. — Miss Jennie Elder White, Red Cross nurse, American Base
Hospital, Vichy; Miss Theresa McDavid, Y. M. C. A. canteen service, London
and Paris.
Tennessee. — Fannie O. Walton, Anna Blanton, Lillian Byrd, Anna McGhee
Sanford; four others from Tennessee, names not given. (Five nurses, two
canteen, one Y. W. C. A.)
Texas. — Miss Ethel Hilton, Red Cross; Miss Dorothy Love, canteen service;
Miss Ruth Sanderson, Y. M. C. A„ Paris ; Miss Ella Day Herring, Y. W. C. A.
Vermont.— Mrs. Alice Easton, canteen Y. M. C. A. ; Miss Helen Raulett ; Mrs.
Mary L. Stickney, canteen; Miss Cathleen Sherman, Red Cross worker.
Virginia. — Mrs. Ellen B. Rixey, Base Hospital No. 17, Italy; Miss M. A
Anderson, Base Hospital No. 27, Italy; Mrs. Madge C. Taffany, Red Cross
helper nurse, Italy; Mrs. Arthur Taylor, rehabilitation work; Miss Lizzie
Gill Thurmond, Hospital Unit No. 41.
Washington. — Miss Wemner, canteen ; Mrs. Pecfc, nurse ; Miss Stanford,
nurse; Miss Laney, United States Signal Corps, telephone operator.
West Virginia. — Miss Mayme Anderson, Knights of Columbus ; Miss Gertrude
Garden, Y. M. C. A. canteen ; Miss Gertrude Latham, American Red Cross can-
teen ; Mrs. Sue Watson Stockley, reconstruction work.
Wisconsin. — Miss Jane Taylor, Camp Hospital 31, A. P. O. ; Miss Georgia
Sheldon, American Hospital for Italian Wounded, Italy ; Miss Stella Matthews,
head of 100 nurses, Base Hospital No. 22; Nellie M. Wilcox, nurse; Miss
Helen McArthur, Red Cross Nurses' Aid; Miss Evelyn Smith, Base Hospital
No. 104.
Were there a service flag for women, the service flag of the Daughters of
the American Revolution would have on it to-day two gold stars, for two of
our members have made the supreme sacrifice that freedom might live. Mrs.
Emma Gene Venn, a Daughter, of Mississippi, died in a hospital in France,
of influenza, October 24, 1918. Miss Alice Cunningham Rogers, a Daughter,
of Connecticut, died very recently in Paris, France. All honor to these two
women who gave their own lives that others might live in peace.
We now come to that portion of our report which seems ** the holy of holies "
to womanhood to-day. We meet 7,482 of our Daughters who have given to the
world as heroes the child who has lain next their hearts — Daughters represent-
ing 9,506 sons and daughters.
Before 286 of our Daughters whose stars in their service flags have turned
to gold, we " spiritually uncover " and pray that they may be given that " peace
which passeth all understanding."
The armistice brought with it to the Daughters a realizing sense of the
magnitude of the work before us, and without delay our attention and energy
were turned to furnishing knitted garments, comfort kits, jelly, scrapbooks,
games, fruit, flowers, etc., to our wounded and sick men returning from " over
there" to convalescent and reconstruction hospitals in America. At present
many chapters are busily engaged in knitting stump socks for those heroes
who for life will be handicapped by the price they paid when they battled for
world freedom.
Our national board of management and many other Daughters eagerly re-
sponded to the plea of our sisters in France that we sign their petition to the
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peace conference that women maltreated by the enemy should not be considered
by the world as dishonored, but as wounded for their country's sake. The
names of thousands of Daughters were included in the 7,000,000 names of
American women forwarded on the petition to the peace conference.
The war found us a body of loyal American women with a beautiful build-
ing of our own, a memorial to our ancestors. The war has left us a national
organization with a record for war service, thus establishing for us a reputa-
tion which the world will expect us to maintain for all future time. Our
building has been hallowed by the salute given it by our troops, as they passed
it, " marching on to war." To be worthy of that salute means a future dedi-
cated anew at this congress to the service of God and freedom.
Respectfully submitted.
Clara Hadlet Watt.
(Mbs. William Hehby Wait.)
24150°— 21 11
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, previous to en-
trance of the United States into the Great War.
National surgical dressings and Red Cross.
Cash.
Hospital
gar-
ments.
Surgical
supplies.
Knitted
gar-
ments.
Miscellaneous gifts.
Priced.
Not
priced.
Alabama..:
$893.00
Arkansas *
5.00
1206.20
125
81.00
10,196.81
67
4,712
1,550
18,306
35
Connecticut l
159
42.50
10,344
1,984.00
300.00
160.00
394
5,112
105
Florida
257
5,002
160.00
50
Illinois
10,240.00
216.00
1,533.75
167.00
7,500.00
22.50
720.50
182
1,259
200
229
14,000
20
1,762.00
6
1,868
6,018
2,860
84
Maine
227
7,024
3
32.50
50
1,552.05
4,367.64
1,205.00
424. 40
4,681.56
462.80
991.00
1,869.50
1,097
3,035
26,378
66,888
337
M ich igan *
1,200.00
98
12
501
Missouri *
39,475
770
900
152
20,000
514
84.50
25.00
121
New Mexico
New York 4
1,309.50
North Carolina
North Dakota
5.00
Ohio*.
2,228.10
360.00
2,143
3,874
1,158
Oklahoma -
390
359
546
11,813
50,693
150
Pennsylvania , . T
939.00
South Carolina
6,000
SOUth PakOta r - - r r - , t r t . . r
15.00
197.00
Tennessee, r
100
Texas. . ....•
8
Utah
Vermont
391.30
101.00
5,000
Virginia
20
280.00
Washington
3
West Virginia
200.00
1,4*3.00
59.00
Wisconsin
83
250
40
15
Argentina
12
Tot*
67,484.43
20,538
331,686
328
3,871.70
20,100
1 One "barrel" silver coin.
: Five thousand yards gauze.
'Five base hospital equipments.
'Electric machine for Red Cross hospital. Dinner to company starting for Mexican border.
1 Two hospital beds.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, previous to
entrance of the United States into the Great wW— Continued.
France.
Belgium.
Various
war
objects.
Cash.
Gifts
priced.
Gifts not
priced.
Cash.
Gifts
priced.
Gifts not
priced.
Cash.
Aiahama . . . T . . . . .
Arizona
California
Colorado
16.00
1220.39
2,894.45
Connecticut
$151.50
District of CoHimbia.
3.00
( ! )
1200.00
Florida
142.00
131.86
194.50
Georgia
Y£VL B
Illinois
Indiana ......
76.00
Iowa ..........
3,000.00
Kansas i
Kentucky
66.00
T4>uisia n a - , - . , . .
100.00
Maine . ... r t
85.75
Maryla n <1 ...--- T T . r
Massachusetts
Michigan , t r , r
155.00
Minnesota . . - t t „ ,
220.00
Mississippi. . . . t t , , ,
Missouri.*.
Montana
Nebraska -
1
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
166.66
248.10
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
380.56
Oklahoma -r r
6.00
Pennsylvania
1,111.73
Rhode Island
25.00
South Carolina
«
South Dakota
Tennessee ... ^ T T
Texas
4
Utah
Virginia
19,220.43
West Virginia
Wyoming „. r
Cuba/.
263.00
1
27,680.12
200.00
4
808.00
'Outfit for bed and patient in French hospital.
'Dinner to 3 companies starting for Mexican border
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orado
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►rgia
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sachusetts
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sissippi
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th Carolina
th Dakota
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ton
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Virginia '
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itina ;..;;
Totai.
e "bftrmi" «4i VA . *_
National surgical dressings and BeA
Cash.
$893.00
&00
81.00
10,196.81
1,984.00
300.00
160.00
10,240.00
216.00
1,633.75
167.00
7,500.00
22.50
720.50
1,552.05
4,367.64
1,205.00
424.40
4,681.56
462.80
991.00
1,869.50
8,210.02
1,309.50
342.00
36a 00
*939.*66*
'"i&oo"
2,125.00
197.00
***39lV?
101.
"**2or
Hospital
gar-
ments.
Surgical
supplies.
Knitted
gar-
ments.
67
4,712
394
*257
182
1,259
200
2,860
"**227
1,097
3,035
12
501
1,550
18,306
5,112
"5,*602
22*
14, (K
V
900
isr
200.00
-<~er a. year. Mending groups furnished aU suppli e
n*M? Oustar.
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" +ers American Revolution, from &eclarat\
1 1919. To all branches of the service
•^ent
\
•>I
168
.000
V
j_
Haper,
kid
and
fur-
lined
vests.
Pic-
ture
puz-
zles.
Smileag
books?
Cash.
I
*^.
127
25
"""366"
32
92
5
\
1
;y5
10
260
6
147
"iii'oo*
1,188
126
134
135
34
21
207
"**2.*66*
892
78
6
23"
657
1,376*
3
305
136
285
365
61
433
612
10
606
**333"
3
63
19
110
' 15
112
s
""36*
25
75
in. 66
62.50
* "46*56*
69
58
12
2ti9
14
939
1,009
800
1,813
629
422
28
1,215
100
291
118
265
32
14
310
75
330
19
200
37
439
49
66
127
500
60
123
3
80
620
300
25
147
300
21
60
42
4
8
20
15
200
1,357
160
170
138
611
1,002
16
165
2,427
279
24
17
29*
1
1
51
24
%
,2
245
144
2,103
769
229
1
350
56
291
1,141
510
50
30
75
"*3i8*
555
24
3
1,096
24
380
215
175
2
20
234
86
19
3
70
<* .
475
370
459
80
149
453
25
50
19
50
500
2,085
17
J, 906
975
9,702
2,699
3,884
455
990
787
2,115
1,721
310
505
2,155
50
250
32
""aoi"
86
247
20
548
50
686
6
\Y
3.00
5
20
10
249
" 56. 66*
579
188
258
94
.s lands..
868
f
296,267
58,734
23,752
3,929
10,815
20,243
3,007
1,653
2,048
296.00
2
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919.
Mending bureau.
Cash.
Hours.
Number
garments.
New
garments.
Alabama
1,280
Aiitori*..
Arkansas
$151.00
2,520
575
California
Colorado
35
25
Connecticut *...*.* .. , , . ... ,.,,.r...
Delaware
District of Columbia
58.00
25.00
40.00
41,919
1,217
Florida
Georgia
1,625
1,622
Idaho
Illinois
36.00
Indiana
915
76
12
Iowa '.'.'. '.
Kansas
Kentucky'
1,666.66
3,050
27
600
Louisiana
20
Maine*
Maryland.
Massachusetts
755.38
160.53
380.00
385.00
100.00
8,284
9,780
684
11,118
5,575
800
Michigan*
1,642
Minnesota.
Mississippi
Missouri
590
880
Nebraska
1,992
1,240
New Jersey
New York
100.00
375
North Dakota
2ii
Oklahoma ,
15,724
Pennsylvania
15.00
2,060
South Carolina
1,000
South Dakota
Tennessee
1,503
5,006
Utah
Virginia, T T -
200.00
800
750
West Virginia
1,000
Wyoming ,
Cuba
3,414.91
89,260
38,588
1,642
i One day a week by 5 members.
* Twelve weeks.
* One day a week at 4 forts by 4 to 6 women for over a year. Mending groups furnished all supplies
< Make, present, and sew on division insignia at Camp Custer.
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War work, "National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of tear by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. To all branches of the service.
Comfort equipment
Knitted
gar-
ments.
Com-
fort
bags.
House*
wives.
Bar-
rack
bags.
Prop-
erty
bags.
Scrap
books.
Oames.
and
fur-
lined
vests.
Pic-
ture
puz-
zles.
Smileage
books.
Cash.
No.
Alabama
7,888
1,407
164
283
471
127
25
117
Arizona
Arkansas
2,521
4,621
8,403
19,332
263
1,479
660
1,574
52
124
330
516
169
"*"*90*
50
****87*
480
164
176
674
164
195
"366"
32
92
5
126
California
30
Colorado
10
260
6
147
iis'oo"
64
Connecticut
Delaware
45
District of Columbia
Florida
7,637
1,048
3,118
1,250
13,843
13,495
11,297
5,688
8,527
234
17,168
1,632
604
1,238
55
2,002
2,046
4,868
1,705
2,857
138
1,306
221
5
593
1,188
126
892
136
285
365
61
433
612
10
606
134
135
34
21
207
*"*2. 66*
37
Georgia
213
20
**89i"
2,596
964
3,204
50
187
50
"275*
501
27
25
400
******
256
2
*""*23*
657
*i,*376*
3
305
76
6
Idaho
Illinois
* **333*
3
""* 165"
63
19
110
' 15
112
Indiana
**"*36*
25
75
in. 66
62.50
* *46.56"
Iowa
Kansas
1
Kentucky
150
Txmtrfftna ..........
Maine
69
58
12
29
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan , .
17,565
14,326
7,051
566
14,875
222
3,344
6,059
9,539
800
11,104
15,534
2,041
766
18,678
18,366
3,164
3,018
1,825
985
196
2,412
769
702
989
1,556
171
1,031
827
5
1,885
162
61
168
3,000
269
14
939
1,009
800
1,813
629
422
28
1,215
100
291
118
265
32
14
310
75
330
io"
200
37
439
49
66
89
Minnesota
127
29
Mta&iqsfppi ...... * x .
15
Missouri/.
600
60
123
3
80
620
300
25
147
300
21
60
42
4
8
20
25
Montana. ••
150
Nebraska
57
New Hampshire
New Jersey
15
200
38
New Mexico
New York
2,441
4,462
245
144
2,103
769
229
80
149
1,357
160
170
611
1,002
16
165
2,427
279
24
17
29*
1
51
24
129
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
350
56
291
1,141
510
50
30
75
*"*3i8*
555
24
3
1,098
24
380
215
175
2
40
188
Oklahoma. ..m.^
203
Oregon
20
234
85
19
3
70
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
475
370
297
7
100
South Dakota
25
53
Tennessee ,
1,027
50
19
500
17
Texas
Utah
Vermont
3,906
975
9,702
2,599
3,884
456
990
787
2,115
1,721
310
505
2,155
50
250
32
"305*
86
247
20
548
50
686
6
i.7*
3.00
Virginia
5
20
254
Washington
WestVfrginia
Wisconsin .,....,..
10
249
* 56.66"
27
579
188
12
Wyoming
Argentina .........
CuBa ••
258
94
Honolulu.. .........
The Orient
Philippine Islands..
868
298,267
58,734
23,752
8,929
10,815
t
20,243
3,007
1,653
2,048
296.00
2,333
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War work, "National Society* Daughter* American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. To alt branches of the serv-
ice — Continued.
Comfort equipment.
Jelly.
Vehicles.
Ambu-
lances
un-
priced.
Priced.
Field
kit-
chens
un-
priced.
Priced.
Miscellane-
ous.
Amount
ex-
pended.
Cash.
Flow-
ers
priced.
1,821
16
700
2,534
1,836+370
3,170
California
2
$25.00
8,005.00
2,558.40
926.00
$10.00
5-passenger
machine.
$977.00
Connecticut. , . -,
Dist of Columbia.
1,828
1,000
5,991
462
1+
1
25.00
$136.00
Florida ,.
2
Diet kitchen.
47.00
51.00
Illinois
2+
3
4,560.00
1,177
2,807
2,085
2,781
3,494
427
80.00
Kentucky -,
40.00
Louisiana.
10.00
Maryland
Massachusetts.
3,144
2,668
6,000
572
3,270
75
916
1,040
7,000
100
3,684
1,678
120
12,977
682
1,642
5,518
1,618
1,500
82
776
1,711
40.00
Michigan
65.00
Minnesota- - T r t .
Mississippi
1
2,741.00
Truck
520.00
60.00
Nebraska
New Hampshire. .
New Jersey
New Mexico
15.00
2,000.00
1 $4.00
New York.
+2
+1
1,987.50
40.00
2
North Carolina. . .
North Dakota....
Ohio
70.00
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
4,466.00
5,030.00
Diet kitchen.
$625.00
Rhode' Island
South Carolina . . .
South Dakota
2,160.50
Tennessee
Te*as- , - TT . ..,,--
Utah
Vermont
no
650
2,800
175
776
*"** +1
10.00
30.00
Virginia
1 """
Washington
West Virginia....
Wisconsin
1
Wyoming .......
Argentina.
Cuba
93,783
16
29,684.40
3
5,065.00
625.00
2,169.00
407.00
.... ..
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. To all branches of the service
at home and abroad.
Gifts.
Tobacco.
Candy.
Christ
mas
boxes.
Christ-
mas
packets.
Musical
instruments.
Victrola
records.
Lbs.
Cash.
Cash.
No,
$172.00
$125.00
1,212
r,691
6.00
159.50
55.70
10.00
"ioo*
42.50
179.00
16.00
5.00
295
412
96
66
53
93
191
163
$200 victrola
$130.00
California... .........
2 victrolas
160
/I pianola
100
Delaware
\2 victrolas
20
District of Columbia. .
236.00
12.00
11.00
52
42.00
176
95
1,061
33
507
367
846
500
341
30
422
115
29
88
(1 guitar
I
Florida
\l piano -r -. r - -
95
196
17.00
[l victrola.
J
Idaho -"-"
Illinois
130.00
303.00
39.00
309
75
80 phonographs. . •
117.50
260
\ i DDonoeraph
*24
\\ victrola
68
[2 ukuleles
15.00
269.00
100
187
10
244
50
50.00
32.50
12.00
15
Massachusetts
93.00
272.50
49.00
193.00
112.50
517
179
717
318
1,080
173
287
1,000
416
177
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri.
105.00
110.00
800
1 victrola
180.00
11.00
171.50
91
37
300
New Hampshire
New Jersey
12.15
106.50
New Mexico
New York
1,352.05
25.00
15.00
69.00
5.00
607
117
47
523
22
28
200
9
"64
1,163
1 victrola
10.00
North Carolina
27.50
North Dakota
2
150
9
10
621
Ohio
•450
45.00
26.00
25.00
65
Pennsylvania
232.75
183.00
South Carolina
South Dakota
9
23
409
Texas.
28.50
13.00
Utah
57.00
28.00
14.00
22.00
25.00
45
99
100
48
83
1 victrola
5.00
Virginia
do
36
Washington
18
do
20
West Virginia
Wisconsin
10.00
10.00
587
38
Wyoming
Argentina
CuDa
1"""
3,640.65
2,090.00
13,812
7,323
96+230
170.00
681
1 Phonograph records.
'Boxes.
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by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. To all branches of the service.
Hospitality.
Christmas
celebrations.
Houses.:
Rooms.
|
Entertainment.
*
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i
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i
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i
1
1
i
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o
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Alabama
$326.00
3
$265.00
4,521
4,957
530
1,571
Arizona
Arkansas
27.50
75.00
160.00
424.00
650.00
306
5,891
210
44
1,059
464
10,481
786
166
3,589
"i'edd
200
*i,*i99
100
307
2iJ300
900
343
25
2,000
580
420
794
2,806
73
California
72
*3
317
468
Colorado
2
400.00
875.00
116.05
$2,041.50
2oaoo
419
Connecticut
$109.00
132.45
961
District of Columbia.
20
//2
Florida
Georgia
100.00
1,215
6,334
28
28,474
1,395
1,085
2,529
5,000
1,306
35
630
322
1,889
2,607
950
625
Idaho
250.66
Illinois
350.00
156.00
392.00
2,650
971
735
525
1,100
Indiana
13.30
Iowa
Kansas
sa 00
827.35
2,000
Kentucky
2
Louisiana . r T .
66
Maine
25.00
6.00
392
287
11
182
Maryland
Massachusetts
73.00
19a 12
37.80
130.75
274.00
333
2,440
1,997
120
600
125
100
21
5,000
426
1,846
1,836
286
800
250
579
112
7,000
650
803
Michigan, *
1,42a 00
1,073
50
27
Minnesota...
1
Mississippi ..........
10.00
800.00
5
15.00
20.00
100
80
1,182
770
40
Missouri A .» , ,xw
2, 75a 00
Montana
1
Nebraska
i86.661
36.25
187. 70
130
317
New Hampshire. ...
204
'2,000
15
100
1.000
5,000
New Mexico
New York
506.25
35.00
607
2.432 3.514
374
374
North -Carolina .
25.00
io.'66
52.00
904.00
676 745J 1,800
45 1 225' 12
2,311] 2,293 688
North Dakota. . ....
Ohio
i,ooaoo
21,847.78
165
376
560
2,117
Oklahoma
342.00
36 233
1001 8S
1,35*1 1,206
4,000
25
412
300
Oregon
Pennsylvania
82.00
....
67a 00
....
165.00
28.20
Rhode Island i .
South Carolina
South Dakota
53l 114
892! 438
2,833 3.000
* *39
3,540
80
Tennessee
265.00
276.00
Texas
4
52.00
16,604
Utah
Vermont
10.00
14
300
1,695
220
2,250
2,295
*"*956
1,150
170
150
Virginia
3oaoo
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
21
10
38.75
85
80
2,401
5,049
Wyoming
Argentina
CuBa
46
5,962.72
107
28,606.68
424
l,9ia20
7,486,45
42,3981
96,329
50.109
48,346
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War work, "National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 6, 1919. To all branches of the service.
Special gifts.
Cash.
Npt priced.
Alabama..
Arizona...
Arkansas..
$500.00
California....
Colorado
Connecticut.
Delaware .........•>.
District of Columbia. -
75.00
Florida.
Georgia.
Idaho...
Illinois..
500.00
1,000.00
100.00
350.00
1,600.00
Indiana.
Iowa
Kansas..
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts..
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
500.00
Missouri.
1,200.00
5,000.00
Nebraska
New Hampshire.
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina..
North Dakota..
Ohio
1,050.43
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania..
Rhode Island..
South Carolina.
South Dakota. -
15a 00
4,354.00
Texas.
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington-
West Virginia..
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Argentina
Cuba
Honolulu
The Orient
Philippine Islands .
16,379.43
Three sailors entertained as week-end guests for three months.
Oift of one member to purchase Camp Pike.
Milk for 20 babies purchased for the summer.
Entertained 50 convalescent soldiers three days.
A chapter in the desert met each troop train and served lemonade.
7 soldiers, two nurses, and two sailors adopted.
Icecream served for 1,000 soldiers.
6 hospital equipments.
Thanksgiving dinner.
Wayfarers' Club for War Working Girls.
Camp welfare and war relief rooms.
Memorial women of Duval land Jax Counties.
Equipping three women to go abroad.
Rent of entire floor of business building given for work shop
26 aviators outfitted.
Rent of entire building for Red Cross use.
Welcome-home dinner to Company I.
97 sons adopted.
$85 a month. Supports hostess for community house.
Lunches to six train loads of soldiers.
Raised by tag day; funds used for soldiers' necessities.
Luncheon, dinner, and dance for Jackie Band.
Furnishing Khaki Club, West Point.
Park purchased and tree planting begun as memorial to Claiborne
County soldiers by one chapter.
Loan fund for incapacitated soldiers while learning a new branch
of work suited to their handicap.
Furnished room in base hospital.
4 godsons adopted.
1 destroyer equipped.
1 submarine outfitted.
Sponsor to company of 120 boys and met with their mothers each
month.
4 months' teaching of French and Spanish.
Chapter adopted a battery.
$40 a month for sick in hospital.
New magazines supplied men in spruce camps.
3 rubber oeds for wounded aviators.
Gift of one daughter for luxuries for soldiers.
i wagon
Wards have been adopted.
12 equipments.
Expense of boy in Red Cross Hospital
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War worl, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration of war
by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. To all branches of the services.
' Miscellaneous gifts.
1
Miscellaneous gifts.
Cash.
Priced.
Not
priced.
Cash.
Priced.
Not
priced.
Alabama
$548.00
9
32
60
4,672
1,142
1,644
New Hampshire
New Jersey
$245.95
$945.75
1,000.00
1,010.50
1,900.70
308.50
211.00
900.00
865.00
121.05
22,125.33
981.60
325
Arizona
Arkansas
$500.00
310.80
124.00
253.00
1,068.50
New Mexico
California .,.._
New York
179.00
1 893
Colorado
North Carolina
*267
Connecticut
1,961.00
North Dakota
Ohio
70.00
3,883.75
Delaware
7,370
348
District of Columbia.
599.50
110.00
281.00
161.50
801.93
991.00
2.50
2,850.00
1,173.48
2,285.66
775.00
815.50
280.00
69.47
718
495
1,752
19
508
217
34
807
575
Oklahoma ...........
Florida
Oregon
150.66
951.50
65.00
593
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
17
Idaho
431
Illinois
100.00
565. 44
Indiana
South Dakota
75
Iowa
Tennessee
85.00
2,954.00
4
Kansas
Texas
Kentucky
1,060.00
Utah
Louisiana
Vermont
56.00
1,767.80
185.00
75.00
3,216
100
Maine
15.40
Virginia
Maryland
Washington. . . . .
1,365
538
Massachusetts
10,161.07
1,421.49
935.00
1,537.00
2,383.85
20.00
166
10,402
384
577
196
3
West Virginia
Michigan ».
135. 75
Wisconsin
Minnesota .......
Wyoming
Mississippi
Argentina
Missouri -
184.00
CuBa
Nebraska —
11,007.29
65,399.13
40,954
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War ioorlc, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. Gifts to other organizations.
-
Other contributions made previous to Not. 11-18, 1018.
- -
Y.W.C.A.
Knights of Columbus.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
$571.00
30.00
621.00
3,807.00
1,464.00
1,115.00
30.00
622.15
125.00
367.50
125.00
1,245.00
1,224.00
3,123.00
3,000.00
1,620.00
59.00
100.00
150 books
$105.00
Arkansas r
Vfctrola.......
$166.00
ioo.oo
2,360.00
577.50
1,342.00
Delaware
District of Columbia
95.50
0)
Flag
5.25
%
630.00
150.00
50.00
60.00
War chest
War chest
83.00
907.00
1,855.00
10,870.00
645.00
2,372.75
20.00
2,506.00
625.00
3,000.00
101.75
i57.66
156.00
230 books
Mississippi
70.00
r
1,535.50
205.00
12.50
New Hampshire . ,.....,,,..
New Mexico
New York
631.75
311.00
188.00
1,280.00
86.00
219.25
6,630.00
877.00
233.00
North Carolina. - T T ^ T r
North Dakota,
129.00
1,050.00
110.00
43.50
493.25
Ohio
3 flags
Oklahoma-- -
<»)
Rhode Island * . .-,
South Carolina
South Dakota. . * . ^ T
51.00
906.00
3,308.50
200.00
120.00
Utah.
25.00
35.00
805.00
715.00
928.50
128.25
Virginia. . r
Refreshments.
(«)
Gifts
40.00
West Virginia
200.00
Wyoming* **,,.,.--,
Argentina. . » . * T T T
Cuoa...*..-
59,046.40
405
472.00
10.236.00
3
* Vestments for two chaplains.
• Canned goods; clothing.
• Twenty -five Christmas boxes.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. Gifts to other organiza-
tions—Continued.
Other contributions made previous to Nor. 11-18, 1918.
Salvation Army.
Jewish relief.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
$151.00
Clothing
"
$72.00
50.66
165.00
140.00
1,548.00
50.00
California
Clothing
100.00
46.50
* 212.50
6.25
78.00
110.50
276.00
35.00
40.00
500.00
50.00
25.00
126.00
Bedding
$56.66
10.00
Books..
$75.00
Florida .
184.00
25.00
1,800.00
2.00
121.00
1,081.00
1,015.00
209.00
105.00
TlljT10l8-,-,- T
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Kentucky
Clothing
Clothing
8,000 magazines
Maryland ,--
500.00
45.00
Clothing
Groceries
32.00
60.00
42.50
Michigan
Mississippi
90.00
889.25
10.00
17.50
967.50
1,000.00
10.00
156.00
10.00
Missouri.
13.00
225.00
2.00
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
129.00
10.00
10.00
25.00
63.00
North Carolina
North Dakota
221.00
100.00
5.00
380.00
1,700.00
Ohio
(*)
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
**;*; ;•;*!
Rhode Island
i
South Carolina
! "
South Dakota
10.50
399.00
l
Tennessee- - T . , - . - T . T
I
111.00
Texas
Utah
Vermont
89.50
93.50
Virginia
1
Washington
100.00
125.00
80.00
1
17.00
200.00
2.00
West Virginia
i
Wisconsin
i
Wyoming
Argentina
Cuba
\" "
10,454.50
82.00
6,230.50
75.00
<50 pairs shoes, 39 pairs socks.
• Shoes, clothing.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. Gifts to other organiza-
tions — Continued.
Other contributions made previous to Nov. 11-18, 1918.
American Library Association.
War Camp Community Service.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
Cash.
Miscellaneous.
Cost.
$135.00
$346.00
(•)
105 books
14a 00
500.00
340.00
9a oo
( 7 )
California
500 books
426 books
7i6.66
746.50
30.00
287.25
80 books
Connflftttent, T , ,
606 books
District of Columbia
422.50
4a oo
406 books
Florida
100 books
5,091 books
1,000.00
Idaho
Illinois
218.00
189.00
93.50
156.00
1,587.00
572 books
1.120 books....
500.00
Kentucky
Books
$40.00
4a 00
1,335 books. . . .
32.00
Maryland
94.00
483.00
626 books
204.00
52.00
Michigan
862 books
15,200 books. . .
Mississippi - . - ^
223.25
1,219.00
7& 00
161.00
41.00
1,440 books
2,566.75
Books
275 books
350.00
13.00
2,000.00
New Hampshire
120 books
50 books
New Mexico
8.50
275.00
New York
3,642 books
10.00
5.00
5.00
174 00
North Carolina
North Dakota
56.66
675. 00
21.00
39.00
263.00
5.00
242 books
Ohio
200 books
Oklahoma.
Books
10.00
33.00
106 books
133.00
1,718.00
Rhode Island
440 books
loaoo
South Carolina
South Dakota
16.75
200.00
937.00
Tennessee
250.66
55
Texas
Utah
Vermont
im. 75
35.00
1,250.00
Virginia
100 books
490 books
loaoo
1,056.00
30.00
Washington
West Virginia
50 books
365 books
Wyoming
Cuba
9,256.00
34,474
383.00
13,340.25
• 390 pieces bed linen and towels.
' Jam, flowers, etc.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. Gifts to other organiza-
tions — Continued.
Other organizations doing war
work.
Home relief.
Cash.
Gifts
priced.
Gifts
un-
priced.
Cash.
Miscel-
laneous
gifts.
S247.25
Wife of soldier supported.
Free medical treatment.
$250.00
2,615.00
202.00
2,627.50
946.00
757.75
17.00
346.00
50
50.00
T>4»lftWftTft
District of Columbia . .
25.00
14
437.00
5.00
1
95
10.00
640.00
443.00
1,342.00
30.00
900.00
Illinois
500.00
5.00
Hospital bin paid.
Gift to aged father of
soldier.
Indiana
1,000
TC&TlTOfl
30.00
165.00
286.00
Layettes and coal tar-
nished.
Layettes and hospital
care.
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
6,083.00
37
Maryland
Massachusetts
5,131.57
102.35
50.00
208.00
600.00
412.00
576.00
392.00
75.00
300.00
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
•
Nebraska
35.66
1,819.13
Fuel, etc.
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Rent, coal, etc.
To soldiers' mothers.
Board of 2 small children
paid in orphan asylum.
New Mexico
240.00
25.00
New York
4,831.50
200.00
3.00
20,858.00
35
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
40
250.00
25
Burial of child.
Oklahoma
Oregon
i, 252. 66
9,163.00
55.00
"^366.66"
442.00
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
3 nurses to emergency
hospital
South Carolina
South Dakota
54.00
50.00
54.00
Tennessee
Texas
803.00
Utah
Vermont
104.03
185.00
Virginia
112.00
217.00
Washington
175.00
West Virginia
Wisconsin
1,211.00
200.00
410.00
Wyoming
Argentina
Cuba
57,350.55
639.00
287
13,639.75
1,111
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. France.
Garments.
Poultry
farms.
Garments.
Refugee
gar-
ments.
Shawls.
Lay-
ettes.
Refugee
gar-
ments.
Shawls.
Lay-
ettes.
Poultry
farms.
Alabama
444
34
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina —
North Dakota
Ohio
8,263
250
98
6,518
8
50
19
6
128.30
Arkansas
150
640
400
4,450
15.00
California
30
1
11
$100.00
100.00
29.00
5.00
Colorado
1,210.00
9.30
Connecticut
Oklahoma,
Delaware
Oregon
Pennsylvania.
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
500
2,549
1,358
78
Dlst. of Columbia..
Florida
1,859
306
3,028
18
25
28.20
11.75
209.00
57
577.00
Georgia
Tdaho -
24
Illinois . ...„„-,--
13,434
3,573
75.00
Tennfttseftr ,,,,....
1,000
1,451
5.00
Tndlenft
Texas
10
"**5*
100
2
12
650.00
""75*66
Utah
Kansas - -t
2,544
1,500
Vermont
1
1
12.30
Kentucky
Virginia
50
633
685.00
Washington
West Virginia
MaUlA ..rrr-r
94
22
Maryland
Wisconsin
5,483
40
149.20
Massachusetts
7,666
6,659
12
59
***20*
34.00
2,463.68
84.00
Wyoming -
Argentina
Cuba
Mississippi
Honolulu
580.00
The Orient
Montana
7
Philippine Islands.
Nebraska
New Hampshire. . .
New Jersey
619
174
15
1
11
2*666*66
64,896
401
200
9,135.73
24150°— 21 12
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. Franc*.
MfeceDaneoas.
Cash.
Priced.
Nat priced
articles.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Colombia.
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Argentina
Cuba
'$300.00
$1,124.00 « 4,333.00
1,467.00
192.50 » 1,139. 75:
150.00
♦666.00
37
37
400
258
260
23
501
5,128.50
123.00
80.00
71.00
28.16
2,439.00
» 1,318. 89
245.50
435.00
•50.00
1,046.00
400.50
597.00
240.00
156.00
40.00
23.50
246.23
30.00
111.00
600.00
270.00
44.25
121
**72
2,477
17
89
251
50.00
875
5,554.73 17,737.05
5,581
> Hospital bed.
• Cafeteria, hospital bed, etc.
* Maintenance of French mother, etc
« Hospital bed in Neuilly.
» To children of southern France, etc.
* Fruit trees.
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Special gifts {not priced).
Alabama.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
California.
Colorado.
Connecticut: Donations for French
soldier's family (soldier a prisoner) ;
donations for ambulance driver in
France.
Delaware.
District of Columbia : Two Americans
serving as officers in French Army
equipped.
Florida : Entire French family adopted.
Georgia.
Idaho.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Iowa.
Kansas: Linen for 300 layettes.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Maine: Aided in support of Fouienay.
Maryland.
Massachusetts.
Michigan.
Minnesota.
Mississippi.
Missouri.
Montana.
Nebraska.
New Hampshire : Four men adopted.
New Jersey.
New Mexico.
New York.
North Carolina.
North Dakota.
Ohio : Fifty fruit trees.
Oklahoma.
Oregon.
Pennsylvania.
Rhode Island.
South Carolina.
South Dakota.
Tennessee.
Texas : Hospital bed.
Utah.
Vermont.
Virginia.
Washington.
West Virginia: Crippled French sol-
diers are being educated by Daugh-
ters at State University.
Wisconsin.
Wyoming.
Argentina.
Cuba.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919. France,.
Our Allies (other than France).
Cash
Gar-
ments.
Gifts
priced.
Gifts not
priced.
Miscellaneous.
11,058.00
1,146
131
2 Belgian orphans adopted.
Arizona
Arkansas
377.50
5,646.00
782.35
3,963.83
3 Armenian orphans adopted.
California.
725
495
734
Colorado
3 Belgian babies adopted.
OnA-fauith cost of ambulance for
Connfrticut . r
1939.50
Delaware
Italy.
District of Columbia. .
Florida
2,022.30
758.00
417.03
45.00
630.00
548.00
6,249.60
806.00
5,170.00
184.00
255.95
554
1,245
1,330
150
476
3.20
220.93
91.50
562
Georgia....
1,084
Idaho ................
Illinois
50
250
74
Indiana .....*
Iowa
1.041
2,686
2,262
58
134
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
25.00
30
Maryland
Ma i>- acnu-etts
4.185 00
1,100.81
1,675.25
173.50
3,336
1,039
1,025
109
240
125
822
126
46
56a. 00
Michigan...
1 Belgian prisoner adopted.
MinpMfttA-
19,200.00
4.45
180
Mississippi
MiflflonH*. ............
Montana .»»»..
100.00
1,320.50
1,032.60
Nebraska
250.00
New Hampshire
New Jersey
2 Belgian orphans adopted.
New Mexico
New York
15,343.70
278.60
319.00
2,500.00
170.00
128.50
7,345.00
67.00
3,671
124
63
2,072
25
15
North Carolina
North Dakota
OIlio
8.50
654
Oregon
1,233
312
446
675
410
i,9i5.28
44.25
Rhode' Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
899.14
350.00
385.60
Tennessee .
15
1 Italian orphan adopted.
Texas
10.00
Utah
3.837.00
324.00
362.00
145.00
260.21
170
25
638
Virginia
300
West Virginia
Wisconsin -....*.--.-.,
49
40.00
21
Wyoming T . Trr --. ,
Cuba
50
71,225.06
30,106
23,321.61
3,235
12
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* Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
the United States to Apr. 10, 1919, in France.
Gifts to Red Cross.
Cash.
Hospital
garments.
Surgical
supplies.
Knitted
garments.
Comfort
' kits.
Miscellaneous gifts.
Priced.
Number.
•
%
114,144.93
401.00
3,411.00
19,500.00
27,962.75
101,677.73
394.00
6,622.00
2,000.00
8,197.39
2,025.00
5,600.00
27,757.85
18,918.00
40,543.00
4,241.00
4,016.00
19,193.05
5,105
24,874
71
14,801
3,099
3,135
634
1,450
2,000
559,526
60
21,000
1,017
5,267
12
560
174
716
t
>512
ticut
$708.40
care
rict of Columbia.
1,462
200
10,990
578
5,000
106,121
1,900
733
42
8,528
24.00
«2,327
150
3,036
700
7,660
3,475
3,528
458
545
142
1*334
600.00
12,560
Illinois
4,917
19,140
25,964
3,090
2,518
84
564
43 , ,000
111,480
50,650
4,024
5,775
385
49
113
454
350.00
300.00
■ 8
30
Kentucky
i/ouisiana. t
24,928
217
169.25
16
Massachusetts
22,396.91
26,697.00
62,060.39
0,835.70
7,530.47
1,226.51
23,553.25
9,924.90
100,000.00
4,413
7, 681
3,416
718
74,222
305,514
5,522
3,018
2,808
21,657
1,797
322
6,065
296
1,121
324
642
2,148
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
*i,4i8
590
77
593
700
470
255
1,236
1,573
150
139,657
6,024
1,000,000
♦ 10,800.00
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
20,608.11
22,206.00
5,254.00
35,778.72
2,398.00
998.00
47,600.00
18,949.25
628.00
1,346.25
4,845.00
9,221.25
14.690
304
413,663
44
13,755
225
14
2,102
184
600
10,546
4,577
3,695
124
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
3,018
20,106
1,575
25
75
3,792
130
Oklahoma
205
14,441
6,041
911
1,000
232,263
40,380
( 6 )
'473,953.00
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
( 8 )
64
516
2
158
994
27,825
Utah
4,722.57
3,884.00
739.00
4,200.00
8,678.57
2,396
698
3,540
250
202
2,447
3,056
2,008
400
1,441
250
113
897
135
688
Virginia
594
70
West Virginia
Wisconsin
8,976
•30.00
Cuba
(10)
Honolulu
254.00
The Orient T
Philippine Islands. . .
868
2,720
292
u 600. 00
759,140.55
163,590
3,230,813
126,649
507,086.65
i Ambulance pillows.
s Sewing machines; set of instruments.
• Hospital bed. Neuilly, France.
« Rent of building given Red Cross. Equipment of women to go abroad for service.
• Electric cutter.
• Given Red Cross proceeds, salvage sale.
i Given Red Cross, proceeds of concert. Room furnished Base Hospital No. 1.
• 115,390 solicited for Red Cross. 1150 Red Cross nurse.
• Collected for Red Cross by one chapter.
» Three hospital equipments.
ii Knitting machine.
" Canvas stretchers.
» Raised and given to Red Croat.
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919.
Work given to Red Cross (Red Cross material used).
Hospital
garments.
Surgical
supplies.
Knitted
garments.
Comfort
kits.
Refugee
garments.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas^
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia.
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas *
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island ;
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Argentina
9,362
44,877
6,975
413
6,101
51,643
13,090
69,900
165,811
281,939
4,687
635
1,133
168
10,734
35,220
6,631
1,025
90
2,300
49,250
10,580
14,945
2,290
1,290
1,304
21,116
175
109,744
3,770
53,240
288,819
86,276
2,907,291
15,913
26,742
51,767
3,154
300
4,936
8,207
8,216
5,474
4.461
350
5,602
27,214
1,311
31,447
959
98,480
514
4,662
210
120,742
27,705
546,690
5,000
18,000,000
7,488
163,423
12,436
14,286
2,357
12,000
1,314
560
900
2,205
3,794
25
8,677
773
774
1,648
883
346
5,850
5,678
8,228
1,113
678
5,473
287,282
7,500
3,560
23,849
2,000
963
159,055
11,875
17,666
962
807
12,772
912
730
8,444
3,390
800
25,000
1,790
902
3,129
648
110
918
3,357
543
1,109
25
220
409
3,781
514
658
40
610
2,316
30
210
52
337
146
2,136
445
2
738
35
722
220
65
50
476
536
4,448
3,000
2,013
2,800
1,148
4,500
22,900
111
1,670
1,319
1,000
4,720
300
288
Total.
379,114 23,903,104 194,812 21,510
385
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war hy the United States to Apr. 10, 1919 — Continued.
Liberty loans.
Chapters.
States.
Individual
Daughters.
Sold by
Daughters.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia.
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Argentina
Cuba
Honolulu
The Orient
Philippine Islands . . .
$3,950.00
50.00
400.00
4,050.00
3.450.00
12,275.00
$8,920.00
$50.00
2,200.00
255,600.00
1,239,269.00
988,225.00
4,366,275.00
$637,835.00
47,250.00
168,000.00
202,000.00
167,425.00
2,243,000.00
8,750.00
450.00
12,900.00
500.00
33,000.00
3,900.00
2,427.00
6,100.00
1,600.00
500.00
1,250.00
100.00
503,050.00
265,850.00
3,759,811.00
36,200.00
1,744,098.00
4,450,000.00
1,032,960. 00
307,710.00
293,900.00
122,000.00
901,957.28
1,153,950.00
1,416,500.00
3,365,650.00
24,950.00
1,656,548.00
1,011,550.00
581,550.00
581,350.00
559,950.00
51,600.00
8,740,800.00
9,500.00
3,300.00
3,392.00
500.00
1,850.00
300.00
1,371.00
1,650.00
80,000.00
11,250.00
15,200.00
425.00
50.00
6,100.00
1,253.50
700.00
10,100.00
1,655.00
5,550.00
1,150.00
200.00
76,510.00
50.00
24.00
2.108,800.00
982,691.00
1,600,050.00
478,875.00
346,640.00
30,000.00
484,035.00
662,505.00
691,400.00
558,700.00
781,680.00
266,375.00
42,000.00
122,800.00
254,585.00
8,750.00
1,227,807.00
336,190.00
55,400.00
1,965,628.00
85,500.00
18,000.00
2,800,900.00
491,310.00
215,000.00
30,000.00
156,400.00
802,450.00
1,842,210.00
560,500.00
1,000.00
1,715,899.00
259,250.00
400,000.00
11,204,450.00
106,400.00
240,000.00
7,592,606.00
1,403,000.00
1,100.00
600.00
1,500.00
1,200.00
1,450.00
404,750.00
124,600.00
344,350.00
130,838.00
193,050.00
1,132,400.00
7,050.00
322,000.00
126,950.00
Total.
6,450.00
100.00
333,538.50
2,474.00
36,447,074.28
51,951,363.00
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Appendix.
War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from, declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919 — Continued.
Thrift stamps.
War savings stamps.
Taken by
Daughters.
Sold by
Daughters.
Taken by
Daughters.
Sold bv
Daughters.
Alabama r . ^ ,
Arizona * ..
Arkansas . * . ... T ..... t .,.,. T . T , T ,. T ... r . T r
California . r T . . , . T . , . T . . . T . T . T T . T . T , . T
Colorado
128,796.00
Cwnfiflticnt r . T . T
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
10,000.00
Georgia
122,395.00
1,355.00
Idaho
1200.00
$565.00
Illinois
Indiana. , . T . T .
18,201.00
27,300.00
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
I Louisiana - ,.-.-.-. T . ,...,,..-,-, T . T
Maine
1,300.00
6,390.65
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota.
Mississippi- T . r ... T . T . r ..... r .... T . T
21,487.00
Missouri T
Nebraska
New Jersey
18,000.00
2,423.00
36,372.50
7,935.00
1,322.50
New York
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania - - ,
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee- *
Utah
Virginia
4,615.00
West Virginia .»
Cuba
The Orient
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War work, National Society, Daughters American Revolution, from declaration
of war by the United States to Apr. 10, 1919 — Continued.
National
Service
SchooL
National
Service
SchooL
Alabama. T .,,, TT , TT -.- T
Kf w Hampshire ,
130.00
Art ton* ...... x T r .
New Jersey
66.00
Arkansas
$56.00
60.00
New Mexico
30.00
California
New York
515.91
Colorado
North Carolina
Connecticut - . T , ,
1,180.00
35.00
96.00
10.00
North Dakota
Delaware
Ohio
1,038.92
90.00
District of Columbia
Oklahoma
Florida
Oregon
8.50
Georgia
Pennsylvania .* t , XJ , lJX ,
1,096.00
Idaho .
Rhode" island
310.00
Illinois
96.00
South Carolina
3.00
Indiana
South Dakota
Iowa
153.00
60.00
Tennessee.
30.00
Kansas
Texas
270.00
Kentucky
Utah
Louisiana
Vermont
255.00
Maine
180.00
Virginia
Maryland . . .
Washington
100.00
Massachusetts ,.
1,212.00
320.00
West Virginia
Michigan. ,
Wisconsin
i27.66
Minnesota
Wyoming
Mississippi
125.00
Argentina
Total
Montana
7,712.00
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Appendix.
Contributions by States as shown by the treasurer general's books from beginning of war
to May 8, 1919. 1
States.
French
orphans.
Ital-
ian
relief.
Re-
chick-
enizing
France.
Arme-
nian
relief.
Train-
ing
camps.
Mis-
cella-
neous.
Membership.
liberty
loan.
Tilloloy.
Alabama
11,055.50
10.00
1,931.35
2,918.64
1,010.63
4,427.84
/Chapters,
i At large..
/Chapters.
\ At large. .
/Chapters.
tAt large..
/Chapters.
"lAt large..
/Chapters.
1 At large..
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1,058
82
72
13
712
38
2,056
384
1,499
93
6,190
59
18
3
132
3
2,130
292
631
82
3,205
128
75
4
205
31
5,581
456
3,208
99
3,865
257
1,666
121
1,456
57
412
46
1,593
28
838
84
6,836
271
3,640
125
1,375
77
867
31
4,164
232
274
49
1,448
105
$460.00
9.00
139.00
7.00
489.71
9.00
1,743.00
95.00
1,050.00
21.00
5,510.74
9.50
6.00
$251.60
Arizona
5.00
1.00
Arkansas
$55.00
€0.00
.60
273.00
California
4.00
567.50
Colorado
24.00
365.50
Connecticut
Cuba
$13.76
965.00
$20.00
367.50
3,027.04
5.00
Delaware
78.00
3,332.79
696.00
2,648.18
"'m.bb'
2.00
2,094.50
59.50
483.00
7.00
3,133.00
7.00
59.00
59.66
District of Co-
96.00
10.00
54.00
127.50
.50
803.69
lumbia.
Florida
34.00
259.25
Georgia
209.00
3.60
1,310.96
Hawaiian Isl-
ands
5.50
239.00
Idaho
803.50
4,653.88
829.50
19,334.21
1,113.00
828.00
13.00
455.67
867.00
3,649.75
8,847.45
315.50
4,540.21
2,603.73
200.75
1,366.58
38.50
917.50
1,403.50
114.00
5,643.38
559.50
111.00
21,945.37
339.00
•
88.66"
3.00
5,521.00
60.00
1,984.18
17.00
2,743.33
33.00
1,619.50
20.00
1,197.00
19.00
418.00
12.00
348.26
3.00
768.50
15.00
7,168.00
112.00
3,671.00
17.00
1,378.50
11.00
465.00
1.00
3,527.90
28.00
102.00
8.00
666.85
7.00
"850.66
THinois
96.00
105.00
2.50
3,211.00
Indiana
27.00
1,066.68
Iowa
636.20
153.00
60.00
12.00
6.60
2,183.52
Kansas.....
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14.00
846.50
Kentucky
7.50
400.00
Louisiana
8.00
200.50
Maine
180.00
360.00
806.00
Maryland
30.00
18.00
1,405.93
Massachusetts...
Michigan
616.00
1.00
14.40
463.68
1,212.00
325.19
6.50
3,670.08
81.50
1,886.64
Minnesota.,
8.05
1,035.00
Mississippi
95.00
159.77
4.00
224.60
Missouri
87.50
1.50
1,361.53
Montana
13.00
49.75
Nebraska
5.00
6.00
464.65
5.00
New Hampshire
10.00
1,498.44
i5
1,846
31
1,989
210
162
17
11,827
915
1,147
80
66
30
4,947
234
643
78
3.66
882.66
1.00
1,630.00
38.00
62.00
8.00
6,108.15
163.50
809.50
17.00
5.00
13.00
3,963.60
26.00
400.68
9.00
1.60
763.34
New Jersey
66.00
30.00
470.00
1.60
737.60
New Mexico
27.60
8.00
New York
3.00
2,663.76
North Carolina..
127.00
426.01
North Dakota...
4.60
6.60
Ohio
30.00
10.00
1,038.92
90.00
10.00
4.00
1,976.88
Oklahoma
16.00
146.34
4.60
1 Where the amounts in this report do not agree with those given in report of publicity director it is
because of the fact that the money did not pass through the hands of the treasurer general but was sent
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* by States as shown by the treasurer peneraVs books from begin-
ning of tear to May 8, 1919— Continued.
\
1
Ttal-
def.
Re-
chick-
enizing
France.
Arme-
nian
relief.
Train-
ing
camps.
Mis-
cella-
neous.
Membership.
Liberty
loan.
TiUoloy.
\V
25.00
/Chapters.
1 At large..
/Chapters.
\ At large. .
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547
58
6,204
494
26
4
1,068
39
1,860
107
294
28
1,354
82
2,000
134
148
3
1,800
13
1,432
115
1,216
146
1,066
31
1,992
97
177
15
58
$324.50
3.00
3,800.50
77.00
33.00
$211.50
^ ^ -33.75
1,095.00
3.00
3,785.10
182.50
58.50
16.00
t
806.50.
1,542.06.
310.00
3.00
"i*077."66"
1.00
972.25
9.00
191.00
6.00
969.50
12 00
1,973.50
36.50
123.00
"* *964.*56*
1.00
992.75
20.00
376.00
11.00
847.00
20.00
978.50
25.00
83.00
6.00
10.00
88.00
60.00
***600.*66
<iina..
5.00
678.55
Dakota...
8,484.19.
1,126.15.
4.50
67.00
.50
265.50
5.00
579.79
.uessee
30.00
270.00
3.00
I'Axas......... .
13,591.01.
Utah
14.50
69.50
Vermont
601.75.
225.00
5.00
.50
430.65
Virginia
738.76.
12.00
.50
354.50
Washington
1,256.00.
75.00
14.50
265.75
West Virginia...
2,022.60.
2,363.85.
256.50.
6.00
328.50
Wisconsin
127.00
10.00
3.00
490.50
Wyoming
10.00
22.50
foreign -
3.50
5.50
5.00.
Pages at twenty-
seventh Con-
gress.
Historic Com-
41.75
mission, Dis-
trict of Co-
lumbia.
National Officers
100.00
1,929.33
Club.
Interest
Total
137,994.28
647.00
1,446.54
30.00
6,971.69
2,230.13
104,435
277,801.79
42,365.84
* As only $77,801.79 toward the Liberty loan had been paid in, by vote of congress the full amount
($100,000) was purchased with the understanding that the debt would be liquidated by the States making
up their entire quotas.
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Amount* pledged during Twenty-eighth Congress {Apr. U-19, 1919) hut not
redeemed at close of books May 8, 1919.
States.
Liberty
loan.
Tilloloy.
States.
Liberty
loan.
Tilloloy.
Alabama , . * . , . t T
110.00
$5.00
13.00
460.50
New York
165.00
45.00
221.50
85.00
135.00
Arizona, . . T . . , . T -.
New Jersey
23.00
California
313.00
10.00
North Carol ina
Cuba
Pennsylvania
Pistrict of Columbia
24.00
Texas"
405.75
Iowa
110.00
8.00
Virginia
10.00
10.00
10.00
Kentucky
37.00
10.00
Washington
10.00
Total
Michigan
ioJoo"
50.00
944.50
1,033.25
Missouri
Maryland has pledged full quota for Liberty loan.
Contributions to French Orphan Fund, Liberty loan, and Tilloloy will be
found in report made by the treasurer general.
The above is correct as shown by the records and books of my office.
Mary H. S. Johnston
(Mbs. Robert J. Johnston),
Treasurer General, N. #., D. A. R.
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Page.
Abiel Fellows Chapter, Michigan 143
Act of incorporation „ 7
Alexander, Mrs. Thomas 7
Algonquin Chapter, Michigan 119
Americanization ,— 150
Arrowhead Chapter, California— _i 149
Atwater, Dr. Mary B 11
Auditing committee, report of 43
Aull, Mrs. Charles H 9
Report of 66
Aurantia Chapter, California 140
Aurora Chapter, Illinois 142
Ayres, Mrs. Amos E 12
B.
Bahnsen, Mrs. Frank W 9
Banquet Hall committee, report of 51
Barlow, Miss Catherine Brittin, Curator General 10
Report of 45
Barnes, Mrs., report of 26
Barnett, Mrs. George 50
Barrett, Mrs. Charles W 11
Barrett, Mrs. Kate Waller 12
Barton, Clara 7
Bassett, Mrs. Charles Wesley, report of 51
Bates, Mrs. Theodore C 13
Bissell, Mrs. Charles H 10
Blackburn, Mrs. Charles A 11
Blackburn, Miss Jeanie D 9
Blount, Mrs. Henry 7
Board of Management, National 9
Bond, Mrs. Charles H., report of 104
Bowron, Mrs. Henry S., report of 80
Boynton, Mrs. Henry V 7,13
Brayton, Mrs. James T., report of 60
Breckenridge, Mrs. Clifton R 7
Breshkovsky, Madam Catherine, address by 22
Broadhead, Miss Stella 12
Brooks, Mrs. Bryant Butler 12
Buckner, Mrs. Simon B 7
Buel, Mrs. John Laidlaw 10
Burrell, Mrs. Walter F 12
Burrows, Mrs. Julius C 7
JJushnell, Mrs. Drayton W-„™-^-r^ —^-^ ^ 13
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Cabarrus Black Boys Chapter, North Carolina 120
Cabell, Mrs. Mary V. E., Honorary President presiding 7, 13
Caddo Chapter, Louisiana 140
Calder, Mrs. Albert L 12
Calhoun, Mrs. Fred H. H 9
Campbell, Miss Catherine 11
Carey, Mrs. John Newman 13
Caswell-Nash Chapter, North Carolina L 120
Chaplain General, Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce 6, 16
Report of 35
Chapman, Mrs. Wilbur G., report of 67
Charity Cook Chapter, Michigan . 119
Chenault Mrs. C. D 11
Chenoweth, Miss Lillian 10
Children of the American Revolution committee, report of 62
Chubbuck, Mrs. H. E 11
Clark, Mrs. A. Howard 7,13
Clarke, Mrs. Arthur E 7
Clarke, Mrs. George Kuhn, report of 47
Cleveland, Grover 8
Coburn, Miss Louise H 9
Conrad Weiser Chapter, Pennsylvania. 120
Conservation committee, report of 91
Constitution, revision of the 113
Continental Chapter, Wisconsin 120
Continental Congress, proceedings of the 16
Continental Hall committee, report of 27
Cook, Mrs. Anthony Wayne 12
Corresponding Secretary General, Mrs. Woodbury Pulsifer 10
Report of 38
Cottle, Mrs. Cassius C . 10
Council Bluffs Chapter, Iowa 146
Credentials committee, report of 23
Crowell, Miss Emma L., Recording Secretary General 9
Report of 36
Crumley, Miss Sarah A 12
Curator General, Miss Catherine Brittin Barlow 10
Report of 45
D.
Delafleld, Mrs. Wallace 13
Desecration of the Flag, committee to prevent, report of 55
Desha, Mary 7
Devereux, Maria 7
Dorset, Miss Helen 12
Driesbach, Mrs. H. Grant 12
Duvall, Mra B. Walker 12
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Editor of the D. A. R. Magazine, Miss Natalie S. Lincoln, report of 109
Eliot, Mrs. Samuel 7
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Connecticut ^__,„_. w ^, 1 , 118
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Elliott, Mrs. A. Marshall 11
Ellison, Mrs. Frank Dexter 11
Report of 26
Ethan Allen Chapter, Vermont 141
F.
Felter, Mrs. Frank 11
Field, Mrs. Stephen J 7
Fielder, Mrs. James Fairman 11
Finance committee, report of 43
Fitts, Mrs. Henry D . 11
Flag, the 140
Flag, committee to prevent desecration of the, report of 55
Fletcher, Mrs. Duncan U., Organizing Secretary General 9
Report of 39
Fletcher, Miss Hilda 10
Foreword 15
Fort Antes Chapter, Pennsylvania 144
Fort Larned Chapter, Kansas 143
Fort Mcintosh Chapter, Pennsylvania 144
Foster, Mrs. John W 7,12
Foster, Mrs. Sheppard W 9
Report of 91
Fowler, Mrs. James M., Librarian General 10
Report of 44
Fox, Mrs. Andrew Fuller 9
Frazer, Mrs. Ernest.- 10
French orphans committee, report of 73
G.
Genealogical research committee, report of 56
General William Smalhvood Chapter, Maryland 118
George, Mrs. George Edward 11
Report of 54
Goble, Mrs. George H 12
Goode, Mrs. G. Browne 1 7
Graham, Mrs. Willis B 11
Grant, Mrs. James Benton 9
Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers located 118
Alphabetical list , 120
Greely, Mrs. A. W 7
Green Mountain Chapter, Vermont 141
Green, Mrs. Samuel McKnight 9
Groshon, Mrs. Maurice 12
Grouitch, Madame Slavko Y 51
Guernsey, Mrs. George Thacher, President General 9
Address by 16
Report as chairman of Continental Hall committee 27
Guthrie, Mrs. William A 9
Hagan, Mrs. Hugh 7
Hall, Mrs. Frank B 9
Hall, Mrs. George C -, , „ „..„ , 10
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Hamilton, Bishop John W 50
Hamlin, Mrs. Teunis S 7
Hanger, Mrs. G. Wallace, report of 76
Hanley, Mrs. John H 11
Hannah Weston Chapter, Maine 143
Hardy, Miss Stella Pickett 9
Harris, Mrs. Edward Lansing 12
Harshbarger, Mrs. Oswald O 10
Hartman, Mrs. Rudolph B 12
Hayden, Mrs. Herbert 10
Hazlett, Mrs. Lucy Woodhull 11
Heartsill. Mr 50
Heath, Mrs. Benjamin D., Reporter General to the Smithsonian Insti-
tution 5, 10, 15
Report of 44
Heavner, Mrs. Clark W 12
Henry, Mrs. William Wirt 7
Hinkle, Mrs. James F 11
Historian General, Mrs. Edmund P. Moody 10
Report of 47
Historic spots 142
Historic spots, report of committee on preservation of 52
Historical research 147
Hodgkins, Mrs. Howard L., report of 73
Hogg, Mrs. N. B 7
Hollywood Chapter, California 149
Holt, Mrs. Truman Slayton 12
Report of _ _ 113
Honorary Chaplain General, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood 13
Honorary Presidents General 12
Honorary President Presiding, Mrs. Mary V. E. Cabell 13
Honorary Vice Presidents General 13
Hubbard, Mrs. Adolphus S 7
Hull, Mrs. J. A. T 7
Hume, Mrs. John P 9,16
Report of 55
I.
Illini Chapter, Illinois 142
Incorporation, act of 7
Insignia Committee, report of 66
International Bureau of Lantern Slides and Lectures, committee on, re-
port of 1 80
International Relations, committee on, report of ^ 104
James Rex Whitney Chapter, Mississippi 146
James Wood Chapter, West Virginia 145
Johnson, Mrs. William A 12
Johnston, Mrs. Robert J., Treasurer General 10,188
Report of 23, 41
Jones, Miss Lottie E., report of 81
Joy, Mrs. Henry B 113
Jlldd, Mrs, Francis-, „— — — » • » ~™ -~- 11
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Kansas City Chapter, Missouri m •— ~.— _ — Hi), 150
Keim, Mrs. de B. Randolph 7
Kindred, Mrs. John J *_ 10
King's Mountain Chapter, South Carolina 144
Kinney, Mrs. Sara T 13
Knott, Mrs. A. Leo _> 7
Kress, Mrs. Fred U
L.
Lachlan Mcintosh Chapter, Georgia 142
Lane, Hon. Franklin K (50
Lang, Mr 50
Lantern Slides and Lectures, committee on, report of 80
Lawry, Mrs. George T 12
Lee, Blair 7
Legislation in United States Congress, committee on, report of 108
Lester, Mr. Orrin C 116
Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter, Illinois 142
librarian General, Mrs. James M. Fowler 10
Report of : 44
Lincoln, Miss Natalie S., report of 109
Lindsay, Mrs. William 13
Lobingier, Mrs. Charles Sumner 12
Lockwood, Mrs. Mary S., Honorary Chaplain General 7, 13
Longley, Mrs. Charles E 9
Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet M., report of 62
Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Michigan 143
M.
McAllister, Louise Ward 7
McDuffee, Miss Alice Louise 11
McFadden, Mrs. Louis T., report of 108
McGown, Mr 91
McLean, Mrs. W. Charles 10
McMillan, Mrs. James 7
MacDonald, Mrs. Marshall 7
Mack, Mrs. John Talman 12
Magazine committee, report of '. . 110
Major Reading Blount Chapter, North Carolina 150
Management, National Board of 9
Mann, Mrs. Arthur W 11
Manning, Mrs. Daniel 12
Marjory Sullivan Chapter, New Hampshire 120
Martha Board Chapter, Illinois , 142
Martin, Mrs. J. M 12
Mary Ball Chapter, Washington 145
Mary Clapp Wooster Chapter, Connecticut . 140
Mary Kilton Dummer Chapter, Maine 118
Mary Little Deere Chapter, Illinois ,. 118, 143
Mathes, Mrs. Mildred S 13
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter,, North Carolina 120
Medals, prizes and — . 147
Memorial Day and special memorials , 148
24150°— 21 13
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Memorials, special ; 149
Menominee Chapter, Michigan 143
Mercer, Mrs. William Parker 12
Merlon Chapter, Pennsylvania. 144
Merrick, Miss Maude B 11
Miller, Mrs. Lee Charles 12
Minor, Mrs. George M., report of 110
Moody, Mrs. Edmund P., Historian General 10
Moore, Mrs. Philip North 60
Morgan, Mrs. John Morris . 11
Morris, Mrs. James T 11
Moss, Mrs. John Trigg = 11
Mountain Schools, Southern 147
Multnomah Chapter, Oregon 140
N.
Narcissa Prentice Chapter, Washington 145
Nash, Mrs. Charles W 12
National Board of Management 9
National Old Trails committee, report of . 54
National Service School committee, report of 76
New Chapters 118
Newflelds Chapter, New Hampshire 143
Noel, Mrs. B. F 11
Norvell, Mrs. Lipscomb 12
O.
Old Ninety-six District Chapter, South Carolina 145
Old Trails, National, committee, report of 54
Old Trails Roads 145
Olney, Richard 8
Organizing Secretary General, Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher-J 9
Report of 39
Osborne, Mrs. Frank Stuart 7
Ottawawa Chapter, Michigan 143
P.
Pack Horse Ford Chapter, West Virginia 145
Page, Mr. William Tyler 16,50
Palo Alto Chapter, California 149
Patriotic activities 117
Patriotic Education committee, report of 81
Patterson, Mrs. Isaac Lee 9
Pearson, Mrs. Robert H 10
Peeples, Mrs. Oscar T 11
Pennybacker, Mrs. Percy 50
Philadelphia Chapter, Pennsylvania 144
Philippine scholarship endowment fund committee, report of 113
Pierce, Miss Elisabeth F„ Chaplain General 9, 16
Report of 35
Pierce, Miss Grace M., Registrar General 10
Report of 39,56
Pierce, Mrs. Robert L 12
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Preservation of historic spots, report of committee on 52
President General, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey 9
Address by 16
Presidents General, honorary 12
Price, Mrs. Edwin A 12
Prizes and medals 147
Proceedings of the Continental Congress 16
Program committee, report of 26
Pryor, Mrs. Roger A 7
Publicity director, war relief service committee, Mrs. William Henry
Wait, report of 151
Pulsifer, Mrs. Woodbury, Corresponding Secretary General 10
Report of 38, 43
Purcell, Mrs. Benjamin Ladd 9
Putnam, Mrs. Charles E 7
Putnam, Mrs. E. Gaylord 13
Putnam Hill Chapter, Connecticut 140
Putnam, Mrs. John Risley 7
R.
Real daughters, committee on, report of 60
Rebecca Parke Chapter, Illinois . 140
Reciprocity committee, report of 67
Recording Secretary General, Miss Emma L. Crowell 9
Report of 36
Reed, Mrs. Robert J 12
Reed, Xhomas B 8
Regents and vice regents, State 10
Registrar General, Miss Grace M. Pierce 10
Report of 39
Reid, Mrs. George L 10
Reporter General to the Smithsonian Institution, Mrs. Benjamin D.
Heath 5, 10, 15
Report of : 44
Resolutions, committee on 27
Reynolds, Mrs. William N 9
Ridout, Mrs. Weems 11
Ringer, Mrs. F. I 11
Rott, Mrs. Otto 11
Rubidoux Chapter, California 140
S.
Sacajawea Chapter, Washington 145
Saint Clair, Mrs. F. O 7
St. Paul Chapter, Minnesota 149
Sally Harrison Chapter, Florida 149
Samuel Doak Chapter, Tennessee 145
Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter, Michigan 146
Sarah Childress Polk Chapter, Oregon 144
• Sarah Treat Pruden Chapter, Michigan 143
Schoentgen, Mrs. Edward P 11
Scott, Mrs. Matthew T 12
Report of 68
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Scranton City Chapter, Pennsylvania 144
Service School, National, committee, report of 76
Seydel, Mrs. L. Victor 11
Shackelford, Mrs. Samuel J 11
Sherrerd, Mrs. William D 9
Shields, Mrs. George H 7
Shippen, Mrs. W. W 7
Short, Mrs. L. M 12
Shumway, Mrs. Frankin P 11
Simonton, Mrs. William H 12
Sloan, Mrs. John Trimmler 12
Slocum, Dr. William F 116
Smith, Mrs. Gregory L 10
Smith, Mrs. James Lowry ^ 9
Smith, Mrs. J. Morgan 13
Smith, Rosa Wright . 7
Southern Mountain Schools 147
Special memorials 149
Spencer, Mrs. C. S 11
Spencer, Mrs. W. O 12
Springfield Chapter, Illinois 143
Standing rules, report of committee on 26
State Regents and Vice Regents 10
Sternberg, Mrs. George M 13
Stevens Thomson Mason Chapter, Michigan 143
Stevenson, A. E 8
Story, Mrs. William Cumming 12
Stote, Mrs. William H. R _ 1 10
Submittal, letter of 5
Surghnor, Mrs. Graham . 11
Talbott, Mrs. William H 9
Talbott, Bertha H., report of 43
Thomas Wade Chapter, North Carolina 150
Tilley, Miss Edith May 12
Tomrlinson, Mrs. Frank ! 10
Transmittal, letter of 3
Treasurer General, Mrs. Robert J. Johnston 10
Report of 41
V.
Valentine, Miss Jennie A 12
Vice Presidents General 9
Vice Presidents General, Honorary 13
Vice Regents, State Regents and 10
W.
Wait, Mrs. William Henry, Publicity Director, War Relief Service
committee f-lzr t21- r ££. f -lM£ i 9
^Report of . 151
(Walker, Mrs. A. E 11
Walworth, Ellen Hardin 7
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War Relief Service committee, report of 68
Warring, Mrs. Francis W 12
Washington, Eugenia - 7
Washington, Mrs. Joseph 7
Watkins, Mrs. Harris R 12
Webster, Mrs. Lorin 11
Welfare of women and children 146
Whitcomb, Mr. Arthur S : - 16, 50
Wilbour, Mrs. Joshua 7
Wilkins, Mrs. F. M 12
Women and children, welfare of 146
Wood, Mrs. James S 11
Woodward, Mrs. Clarence B 10
Wortham, Mrs. Louis J 12
Wroth, Mrs. James H . 11
Y.
Young, Mrs. George Morley 12
Young, Mrs. Joseph T 11
Young. Mrs. Otis E « 10
Yawger, Mrs. John Francis, report of 52
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