Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. [1]
Ellen Hardin Walworth (October 20, 1832 – June 23, 1915) was an American author, lawyer, and activist who was a passionate advocate for the importance of studying history and historic preservation. Walworth was one of the founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was the organization's first secretary general. [1]
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.
[9]: 98 In 1890, Harrison was the first President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a woman's organization that celebrated the contributions of women during the founding of the United States. Her involvement gave the organization legitimacy, and her first speech to the group was the first public speech to be written and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Daughters of the American Revolution monuments and memorials (1 C, 12 P) Daughters of the American Revolution people (3 C, 255 P) Daughters of the American Revolution state forests (2 P)