The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-04-29
trude Beacon.

The new president-general is the
Treasury. She traces her lineage back
many generations. She was a Miss
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-
ingston; Gov. Rip Van Dam, Abraham
De Peyster, Olaf Stevenson Van
CORTLAND and Col. Peter Schuyler.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution is not the oldest of the patriot
ic societies of women, but it is the
largest and most influential. The nen=
dition for membership in the organlza-
ton is that an applicant shall be de.
scended from an ancestor who, with
unfailing loyalty, rendered material
aid to the cause of independence as a
recognized patrioE, as soldier or sailor
or as a civil officer in one of the sever
al colonies or states or of the united
colonies or stateh." The applicant of
course must be acceptable personally
to the society.
The only patriotic women's society
which antedates che 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. TIE 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 soci-
ETY.. Mrs. Harrison was made presi-
dent general, and she held the position
until her death. After her Mrs. John
w. Foster was president general for a
short time; then Mrs. Adlai E. Steven
son, wife of the then vice president of
the United States, was elected, and she
uCiu luc oilCS ullt&t tHe eleCIlOu vi TITS.
Manning.
The founders OF tie society were Mrs.
Mary S. Lockwood, Miss EugGnia
Washington, Miss Mary Desha and
Mrs. Ellen H. Walworth of WASH
| ington. The frs suggestion came in
published artiile 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 similar
character have sprung into existence,
among the Daughters of the Revolu-
ton, the National Society Colonial
Danes of America, the Danes of the
Revolution and tie General Society of
the United Daughters of 1912. Of these
the Daughters of the Revolution is an
offshoot from tie Daughters of the
American Revolution. 1t ows its exis-
tence to split in the Daughters of the
American Revolution, growing GU: of
a controversy OF er 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 ad-
mitted, but when the question of Miss
Eugenia Washing.on's membership
arose it was agreed % suspend the rule
and admit this one collateral descend
ant of the greatest Revolutionary her
Immediately other candidates for su.,
pension of the rule presented theI.-
selves, and war Of the "collaterals,'
and the ''llneals" was inaugurated.