Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-03-20
truQe Beacon,

The new president-general Is the
widow of the late Secretary of the
Treasury She traces her lineage back
many generations. She was a Misc
Fryer, her fathers family being Hol.
land Dutch. On her mothers side she
is descended from Robert Livingston.
first Lord Of the Manor Of Livingston
and among her ancestry are Philip,
the second Lord, and Robert. the third
Lord of the Manor, Col. Peter r. Liv-
1ngston; Gov. Rip Van Dam, Abraham
De Peyster, Olaf Stevenson Van
CORTLAND and Col. Peter Schuyler.
The Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution is rot the oldest OF the patriot,
lc societies of women, but 1t is the
largest and most influential. The con-
dition for membership in the organiza.
ton is that an applicant shall be de-
scendcd from an ancestor who, with
unfailing loyalty, rendered material
aid to the cause Of independence as a
recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor
or as civil officer in one of the sever
al colonies or states or Of the united
colonies or states" The applicant OF
course must be acceptable personally
to the society. acR7,s,
The only patriotic women's society
which antedates the Daughters is the
Society Of the Colonial Danes Of Amer.
lea. That was organized in New York
in April, 1890. with the object of secur-
ing relics and preserving the history
and traditions Of the heroes Of the war
OF the Revolution and the fathers OF
the republic. The Daughters of the
American Revolution was organized In
Washington. Oct. II, 1890 This was in
the Harrison administration, and many
of the women whose husbands held
prominent positions under the govern
ment interested themselves in the Sc
ETY.. Mrs. Harrison was made
dent general, and she held the ps,How-
until her death. After her Mrserday
w. Foster was president genera
short time; then Mrs Adlai E. 81 rs
son, wife of the then vice pre-
the United States, was electecsorderly
held the Office until the electi3 g, .,s7
Manning.
The founders of the society asorderly.
Mary S. Lockwood. Miss,-,,, a..
Washington, Miss May Desha and
Mrs Ellep-.~E. Walworth Of Wash
2.stSoSI The first suggestion came in
published article from the pen OF
Mrs. Lockwood, and the work of form.
ing the organization was done by the
four women named. Since the society
was formed several others of a similar
character have sprung into existence,
among the Daughters of the Reyolu-
ton, the National Society Colonial
Danes of America, the Danes of the
Revolution and the General Society of
the United Daughters of 1912. OF these
the Daughters Of the Revolution is an
offshoot from the Daughters Of the
american Revolution. It ows its exis-
tence to split in the Daughters of the
American Revolution, growing out OF
controversy over the qualifications
for membership. At the outset the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
adopted a rule that only lineal de-
scendants Of men who fought for free
dom in the Revolution should be adj
mitted, but when the question Of Miss
Eugenia Washington's membership
arose it was agreed to suspend the ruIa
and admit this one collateral descend
ant Of the greatest Revolutionary hero,
Immediately other candidates for sus.
pension of the rule presented them
selves. and war Of the "collateralss
and the "lineals' was inaugurated.