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Colonial Dames Of America
The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who lived in British America from 1607 to 1775, and was of service to the colonies by either holding public office, being in the military, or serving the Colonies in some other "eligible" way. The CDA is listed as an approved lineage society with the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America. The National Headquarters is at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York City, which was purchased by the CDA in 1924. History The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Notable members * Lillie Stella Acer Ballagh, founder of Matinee Musical Club, Los Angeles * Florence Anderson Clark (1835–1918), author, newspaper editor, librarian, university dean * Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Colonial or The Colonial may refer to: * Colonial, of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colony (biology) Architecture * American colonial architecture * French Colonial * Spanish Colonial architecture Automobiles * Colonial (1920 automobile), the first American automobile with four-wheel brakes * Colonial (Shaw automobile), a rebranded Shaw sold from 1921 until 1922 * Colonial (1921 automobile), a car from Boston which was sold from 1921 until 1922 Places * The Colonial (Indianapolis, Indiana) * The Colonial (Mansfield, Ohio), a National Register of Historic Places listing in Richland County, Ohio * Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), a historic central neighborhood of Santo Domingo * Colonial Country Club (Memphis), a golf course in Tennessee * Colonial Country Club (Fort Worth), a golf course in Texas ** Fort Worth Invitational or The Colonial, a PGA golf tournament Trains * ''Colonial'' (PRR train), a Pennsylvania Railroad run between Washington, DC and New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sallie Foster Harshbarger
Sallie Foster Harshbarger (February 23, 1874 – April 17, 1958) was California State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Early life Sallie Foster was born in Reno, Nevada, on February 23, 1874, the daughter of Asa Eastman Foster and Sophia Steele. Career Sallie Foster Harshbarger was active in civic and fraternal work. In 1915 she was Regent of the Tamalpais Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in San Francisco and from 1920 to 1922, she was State Regent. She was member of the National Officers Club of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1913 she was Worthy Matron of the Golden Gate No. 1 of the Order of the Eastern Star She was member of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America and Colonial Dames of America Personal life Sallie Foster Harshbarger moved to California in 1898. She married Oswald H. Harshbarger and had two children, Asa Foster and Virginia La Forge. She lived at 269 Mather St., Oakland, California. She died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Established In 1890
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineage Societies
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America. It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance. It does not include general ethnic heritage societies. A *Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts *Aztec Club of 1847 * Associated Daughters of Early American Witches *Association Royale des Descendants des Lignages de Bruxelles () B * The Baronial Order of Magna Charta * Bloodlines of Salem C * Children of the American Revolution * Children of the Confederacy * Cleveland Grays * The Colonial Dames of America D * Daughters of Hawaii * Daughters of the American Revolution * Daughters of the Cincinnati * Daughters of the Republic of Texas F * Flagon and Trencher G *General Society of Colonial Wars * Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Forney Young
Lynn Forney Young is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. Personal life A native of Texas, Young lives on a cattle ranch in Milam County, Texas with her husband. They have two children and three grandchildren. She is a member of a variety of historical and lineage societies. DAR membership Young joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in the 1980s and has served many roles, from Regent of the Tejas Chapter to President General. Elected PG in 2013, she was the first DAR member from Texas to hold the office. The symbol of her administration was the "majestic eagle." Her administration's theme was “Honoring Our Heritage—Focusing on the Future—Celebrating America!,” commonly shortened to "Celebrate America!," and focused the DAR's role as a service organization. She encouraged Chapters and Members to celebrate the 125th ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Webb-Gardner
Fay Lamar Webb-Gardner (September 7, 1885 – January 16, 1969) was an American political hostess, businesswoman, and philanthropist. As the wife of Oliver Max Gardner, she served as the Second Lady of North Carolina from 1917 to 1923 and as First Lady of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. When her husband's political career took them to Washington, D.C., she became known as a prominent society and political hostess and was considered one of the most popular figures in American political circles of the time. Webb-Gardner was active in cultural and civic endeavors and was a member of the American Red Cross, the Woman's Missionary Union, the North Carolina Symphony Society, the National Civic League, and the League of Women Voters, as well as Chairwoman of the North Carolina State Advisory Board of Paroles. A Democrat, she served on the North Carolina Democratic Committee and the Democratic National Committee, and was twice elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Warfield Sillers
Florence Carson Warfield Sillers (September 25, 1869 – April 5, 1958) was an American socialite and historian. A member of an influential American family with colonial ties, Sillers was a prominent figure of Mississippi society and was a founding member of the Mississippi Delta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of multiple lineage and historical societies including the Colonial Dames of America, the National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons, and the Mississippi Historical Society. In 1948 she published the ''History of Bolivar County, Mississippi'', a book on the history of Bolivar County that glorified the Confederacy and contributed to the Lost Cause narrative. Biography Sillers was born on September 25, 1869 in Booneville, Missouri and grew up in Louisiana and Mississippi. She was the daughter of Colonel Elisha Warfield and Mary Anderson Carson. Her father, a planter who owned a plantation in Bolivar County, Mississippi near Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant. He pursued his education in New York before serving as an artillery officer in the American Revolutionary War. Hamilton saw action in the New York and New Jersey campaign, served for years as an aide to General George Washington, and helped secure American victory at the Siege of Yorktown. After the war, Hamilton served as a delegate from New York to the Congress of the Confederation. He resigned to practice law and founded the Bank of New York. In 1786, Hamilton led the Annapolis Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution of the United States, which he helped ratify by writing 51 of the 85 installments of '' The Federali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Allen Phelps
Edith Allen Phelps (February 10, 1866 - July 2, 1945) was the first professional in the Library Science field in the Oklahoma City system. She served twice as president of the Oklahoma Library Association. Early life Edith Allen Phelps was born in Springfield, Missouri, on February 10, 1866, the daughter of Col. John Elisha Phelps (1839-1921) and Margaret Jane White (1846-1915), a prominent family descended from Ethan Allen. She had two siblings: Lucy Phelps (1869-1895) and John Smith Phelps (1872-1947). Phelps attended Drexel University and trained at Columbia University in Library Science. Career Phelps was the librarian at Paso Robles Public Library. For four years she was connected with the Library of the University of Missouri; for 12 years (from 1904 to 1916) she was the librarian at the Carnegie Library in Guthrie, Oklahoma and here taught Library Science course for the University of Oklahoma. For two years she was the librarian at Tyler, Texas, and in 1919 she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Curtice Moyer
Alice Curtice Moyer Wing (1866 - August 16, 1937) was an American writer and suffragist. Her book ''A Romance of the Road'' is a manifesto of the suffragist argument. Biography Alice Curtice Moyer Wing was born in 1866 in Du Quoin, Illinois. While still a baby the family moved to Southwest Missouri, where they were pioneers in Dallas County. In ''A Romance of the Road'', Alice described her parents as "a sturdy young father who cleared and tilled the soil, making what use he could of this Eastern education by teaching the district school in the winter, and ... a pretty young mother, who was never too busy to put on a clean collar (of her own crocheting) when he was expected from the field." The ''Romance of the Road'' was a bright, entertaining, good book, full of practical knowledge and everyday events which were made so heartfelt and interesting that one felt the better for having read it. Moyer was the eldest of six children; five were born in Missouri; they lived on the home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hilliard Hinton
Mary Hilliard Hinton (June 7, 1869 – January 6, 1961) was an American painter, historian, clubwoman, and anti-suffragist. She was a leader in North Carolina's Anti-suffragism, anti-suffragist movement and an outspoken white supremacist, co-founding and running North Carolina's branches of the States Rights Defense League and the Southern Rejection League. A prominent clubwoman, Hinton was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Colonial Dames of America, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America; serving as a booklet editor, artist, registrar, and state regent for the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Biography Hinton was born on June 7, 1869, at Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings, Midway Plantation, her family's plantation in Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County (now part of Knightdale, North Carolina, Knightdale). She was the daughter of Major David Hinton, a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Dayton Fessenden
Laura Dayton Fessenden (, Dayton; December 29, 1852 – May 11, 1924) was an American author of romances and other books between 1878 and 1923. She was a contributor to magazines and a writer of songs. She was the founder of the Highland Park Woman's Club. Before marriage, she wrote as Laura C. S. Dayton. Early life and education Laura Canfield Spencer Dayton was born in Manhattan, New York City, December 29, 1852. Her parents were Abram Child Dayton (author of ''Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York'') and Maria Annis (Tomlinson) Dayton. Her brother, Charles Willoughby Dayton, was Justice of the New York Supreme Court. She also grew up with two other brothers, William Adams Dayton and Harold Child Dayton. There were four siblings who died at birth (or in babyhood), Maria Annis Dayton, John Canfield Dayton, Theodore Edwin Dayton, and Cornelia Blow Dayton. Her ancestors came to the United States in the ''Mayflower''. Fessenden received her education at St. Mary's Hall (now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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