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Eugenia Scholay Washington (June 27, 1838 – November 30, 1900) was an American historian, civil servant, and a founder of the lineage societies, Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America. Washington was born in 1838 near Charles Town, Virginia, in present-day West Virginia.
Daughters of America Friendship Council No 16 Application for Membership. The Daughters of America is an American secret society, Nativist organization dating from the late-19th century. It was founded in 1891 as an auxiliary of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. [1]
Wright was born and raised in Georgia. [1] She is the daughter of Charles Benjamin Rouse Sr. and Wauneithe Mitchell Rouse. [2] Her father, a Korean War veteran, was a recipient of the Good Conduct Medal, the China Service Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal Korea, and the Korean Service Medal with six stars.
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Another society formed around the same time was the Daughters of the American Revolution. Organized following the United States Centennial of 1876 and a Centennial of the US Constitution in New York in 1889, the NSCDA has worked in historic preservation, restoration and the interpretation of historic sites since its New York Society first ...
Two strangers who lost their fathers to terrorism — two decades, and more than 5,000 miles apart — have become sisters in grief. Kristin Marino, of upstate Monroe, lost her dad, Kenneth, an ...
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. In April 1890, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer (Maria Denning Van Rensselaer), Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, and Mrs. Archibald Gracie King decided to found a ...
The mothers of former Miss USA 2023 winner Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA 2023 winner UmaSofia Srivastava are calling out the Miss USA and Miss Universe organizations in the wake of their ...