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The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 1890 as a nonprofit, non-political patriotic women's service organization.
In the American comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls, the character Emily Gilmore is a regent of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her granddaughter, Rory Gilmore , is presented to society at a DAR debutante ball and later joins the organization.
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution honors Desha and the other co-founders of the DAR. The first official meeting of the first chapter (branch) of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at 2 p.m. on October 11, 1890, in Strathmore Arms, the residence of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the four co-founders. [3]
Lockwood was also the Daughters of the American Revolution's first historian, and served as editor of the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine from 1894 to 1900. [2] The Daughters of the American Revolution was inspired by her to resolve on October 18, 1890, to "provide a place for the collection of Historical relics which will ...
The local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter was organized in January 1909 by a resident of Somerfield, a village near the Great Crossings Bridge that was also inundated in the 1940s for ...
The DAR Museum was founded in 1890 (the same founding year as the National Society Of Daughters of the American Revolution) as a way of depositing and displaying family heirlooms. As a part of the NSDAR, the museum sought to promote historic preservation and patriotism through collections and displays of colonial era artifacts.
Jul. 25—The Governor William Paca Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution presented awards to outstanding Harford County residents in many fields of endeavor at its ...
Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, "A Woman of the Century"Mary Cabell was one of 18 organizing members of the Daughters of the American Revolution on 11 October 1890. She presided over the first meeting and would continue to chair additional meetings and the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses.