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The Ladies Benevolent Society provided an estimated 10% of charity proceeds in Charleston at the time. With the rise of other charitable groups such as the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy and the Methodist Benevolent Society during the mid-19th century, the Ladies Benevolent Society’s workload diminished. [1]
Sarah Visanska was a founder and first president of the Charleston section of the National Council of Jewish Women. [2] She spent six years as president of the Charleston Civic Club, and two years as president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. [3]
American Benevolent Legion – Founded in the mid-1890s in San Francisco. [10] Disbanded by the early 1920s. [11] American Fraternal Insurance Union – Founded the mid-1890s in Batavia, New York. Open to men and women. Had lodges throughout western NY State, admitted men and women. [12]
The Woman's Exchange Movement (or Women's Exchange Movement) refers to a system of benevolent consignment stores, usually established and managed by women, to benefit women. A number of them are members of the Federation of Woman's Exchanges (1934), which is still active.
Luso-American Financial - A Fraternal Benefit Society - Founded in 1868 as the Portuguese Protective and Benevolent Association of the City and County of San Francisco. Grand Council, most likely a state organization, was founded in 1872, and Supreme Council in 1921. Changed name to Benevolent Society of California in 1948. Women were admitted ...
Mary Blanchard Lynde (December 4, 1819 – June 26, 1897) was an American philanthropist and social reformer, active in all of the progressive women's movements in Wisconsin. [1] She was the co-founder of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls , and the first woman in Wisconsin to receive a state office appointment.
In English, the association is also known by other names, such as the Chinese Six Companies in San Francisco, [2] especially when it began in the 19th century; Chong Wa Benevolent Association in Seattle; and United Chinese Society in Honolulu. In the Western and Midwestern United States as well as Western Canada, 中華會館 is the common ...
Frances Jacobs (née Wisebart; March 29, 1843 – November 3, 1892) was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Jewish [1] Bavarian immigrants and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.She married Abraham Jacobs, the partner of her brother Jacob, and came west with him to Colorado where Wisebart and Jacobs had established businesses in Denver and Central City.