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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]
Wright was the third generation of her family to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, as her mother and grandmother were also members. She joined the national society as a member of the Lady Washington Chapter in Houston, Texas. [1] She participated in her first Texas State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution in ...
FIRST ON FOX– The historic Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) organization, which currently allows transgender members to join its chapters, has pointed to the policy as a necessity for ...
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.
Caroline Eden (née Calvert; born c. 1737) was the daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and sister of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.She married Sir Robert Eden, the last colonial Governor of Maryland, and was the mother of Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet.
Mary Virginia Ellet was born on 24 January 1839 in Lynchburg, Virginia, the daughter of Charles Ellet Jr. and Elvira Augusta Daniel. She married William Daniel Cabell (1834-1904) on 9 July 1867 and became step-mother to his two daughters. Together, the couple had six children: three boys and three girls.
May Marie Erwin Talmadge (February 26, 1885 – August 2, 1973) was an American civic leader who served as the 19th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the first president general of the national society from the U.S. state of Georgia.
The Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. is the national headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). It is located at 1776 D Street NW, sharing a city block with the DAR's later-built Administration Building, and Constitution Hall. Completed in 1910, it is the oldest of the three buildings.