The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-profit group,the organization promotes education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization's motto is "God,Home,and Country".
Cornelia "Nellie" Cole Fairbanks was the wife of Charles W. Fairbanks,the 26th vice president of the United States. During her husband's tenure she held the unofficial position of the second lady of the United States from 1905 to 1909. She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement and considered a pathfinder to politics for American women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Estelle Emma Doremus was the daughter of Hubbard Skidmore,who served in the American Revolutionary War,and became a charter member and honorary vice president general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She was a charter officer and regent of the New York City chapter of the DAR between 1892 and 1894. The wife of U.S. chemist Robert Ogden Doremus,she was a leading member of the American community in Paris during the height of the Second French Empire.
Eugenia Scholay Washington 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.
Leila Edna Andrews was an American physician who was one of the first two female members of the American College of Physicians (ACP). Andrews was born in North Manchester,Indiana and received her medical degree in 1900 at Northwestern University. She began a practice in her hometown but relocated to Oklahoma City in 1908. She became an instructor in pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1910;in 1915,she became an associate professor at the school,a position she held until 1925. In 1920,Andrews and Anna Weld of Illinois became the first two women elected to the American College of Physicians (ACP). Andrews later practiced hematology at Oklahoma City's St. Anthony Hospital.
Catharine H. T. Avery was an American author,editor,and educator of the long nineteenth century. Of Revolutionary ancestry and hailing from Michigan,she was founder and regent of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR),of Cleveland,Ohio;Vice-president General of its National Society;and editor of the National Society's official organ,the American Monthly. She also served two years as a member of the Cleveland School Board,being the first woman in Ohio chosen to an elective office.
Denise Doring VanBuren is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 45th President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution from 2019 to 2022.
Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly was an African-American genealogist who traced her American lineage to the April 5,1614,union of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. She was also a member of the Jamestowne Society. In 2019 she became the New York State Regent and a member of the National Board of Management,highest ranking woman of color in the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR),since its founding in 1890. She was a pioneer of African-American genealogy. Born and raised in Brooklyn,she was a local Brooklyn historian and member of the Society of Old Brooklynites (SOB),one of the borough's oldest civic organizations. She was the author of books on Bedford-Stuyvesant as well as the Crown Heights and Weeksville sections of Brooklyn,and family genealogy books tracing her family's American roots.
Mary Jarrett White was the first woman to vote in the state of Georgia,casting a vote after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution but before it was logistically feasible for women to do so in Georgia. White was also the last private owner of one of the first land grants in the state of Georgia,and she was the founding organizing regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Toccoa,Georgia.
Lynn Forney Young is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution,serving from 2013 to 2016. As the organization's president general,she oversaw a $4 million restoration of DAR Constitution Hall,led the organization in setting a Guinness World Record for "most letters to military personnel collected in one month" with 100,904 letters to members of the United States Armed Forces,and met with Elizabeth II during an event to launch a project to digitize the Royal Archives of George III.
Adele Woodhouse Erb Sullivan served as the 26th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution and noted for her 1968 visit to Vietnam with General William C. Westmoreland.
Ida Soule Kuhn was a social and political activist from Hoquiam,Washington. Kuhn was an honorary member of and occupied managerial positions in a number of famous American social organizations. An activist and speaker,she publicly expressed her pro-American political beliefs during World Wars I and II.
Anna Morris Holstein was an American organizational leader,civil war nurse,and author. From 1862 until the close of the war,Holstein was engaged in the hospital service,and after the Battle of Gettysburg,she was matron-in-chief of a hospital in which 3,000 seriously wounded men were looked after. She was the founder and first regent of the Centennial and Memorial Association of Valley Forge,and a regent of the Valley Forge Chapter,Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.).
Ella Park Lawrence was an avid advocate for,and is still known today as the “mother”of the Illinois State Flag. She was the Regent of the Rebecca Park chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR),State Regent of the DAR organizations in Illinois,as well as a known leader and philanthropist of her community,Galesburg,Illinois.
Pamela Hilda Edwards Rouse Wright is an American philanthropist,clubwoman,businesswoman,and jewelry designer. Since 2022,she has served as the President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. She is the second Texan to serve as the national society's president general. In 2022,Wright was presented with the Yellow Rose of Texas Award by Governor Greg Abbott for charitable contributions and volunteerism in Texas.
Linda Gist Calvin is an American businesswoman who served as the 41st president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Florence A. Hague Becker,also known as Mrs. William A. Becker,was an American philanthropist and anti-communist activist who served as the 16th president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. As president general,she led the national society through the Great Depression,developing an employee retirement fund,restoring employee salaries to pre-Depression levels,and focusing on children's educational and nutritional needs. She was recruited by Congressman John W. McCormack to compile a report on Communist propaganda being distributed to American youth. She used her position to speak out against Communism and the Socialist Movement.
Lora Mary Haines Cook was an American civic leader who served as the 12th president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
May Marie Erwin Talmadge 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. Her administration led the Daughters of the American Revolution through World War II,donating money and resources to the American Red Cross. She attended the 1945 United Nations Conference of International Organization and was appointed by U.S. president Harry S. Truman to serve on the National Famine Emergency Council.
Doris Pike White was an American businesswoman,investment banker,and civic leader who served as the 24th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Prior to serving as president general,she was the NSDAR State Regent of Maine. White was vice president of the investment firm Pierce,White,and Drummond,Inc. Pike served on the White House Conference on Highway Safety Committee in 1955 and was the only woman appointed to serve on the Maine Judicial Council.
