Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-16
D. A. R. NOTES.

One of the important social events OF
| the D. A. r. Congress was the recep-
| ton given by Manhattan Chapter OF
New York city to Mrs. William Cum
ming Story, candidate for president
general of the society. in the red room
of the Willard Hotel from to o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
With Mrs. Story in the receiving line
were Mrs. William A Smoot of Vir-
ginia, Mrs. Charles f. Brown of Wash
ington. Mrs. julius e. Burrows of
Michigan. Mrs William c. Boyle of
Ohio. Mrs. Edgar A. Ross of Georgia,
Mrs. Charles E Kregelo of Indiana,
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Mrs. George
NJ. Sternberg and Miss Janet Richards
of the District of Columbia. all candi-
with Mrs. Story; Mrs. Charles w.
Fairbanks, wife of the former Vice
President of the United States. and
honorary president general Of the So
ciety; Mrs. Daniel Manning. also hon
orary president general: Miss Sophie
general. and the following state
regents: Mrs. Isaac Newton Chapman,
California: Mrs. John Laidlaw Buell..
Connecticut; Miss Anna Cunningham,
Delaware; Mrs. William III. Thompson.
Kentucky; Mrs. John Alden Morse.
Maine: Mrs. John G. Cunning, Massa-
chusetts; Mrs. George C. Squires, Min
nesota; Mrs. J0eph II. Dearborn, New
Hampshire; Mrs L. Bradford Prince,
New Mexico: Mrs. Willard S. Augsburg,
New York, and Mrs. Charles Fred Bos-
hart. vice regent, New York; Mrs.
Harry Hyman. Texas; Mrs. Mary NJ. F..
Allen, Utah; Mrs. Joseph A. DeBoer,
Vermont: Mrs. Walter j Reed, Wash
ington state, and Mrs. Edwin H. Van
Ostrand, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Richard Jackson Barker. former
vice president general, is at the Ebb1tt.
accompanied by Miss Grace M. Coyne.
There are quite number of wives of
members of the House and Senate serv-
ing as regents and delegates in the pres
emit congress of the, Daughters. Among
these are Mrs. Daniel Reid Anthony.
wife of the representative OF the first
district of Kansas. Mrs. Effie Hiatt Van
Tuyl is regent Of the Capt. jesse Leaven-
worth Chapter, d. A. r. of Leavenworth.
Kan, and has just been elected state vice
regent. Mrs. Anthony is alternate for
Mrs Van Tuyl. Mrs. Van Tuyl is very
of the Woman's Press Club of Kansas.
of the American Flag Association. of the
national committee on prevention of desc
Grafton of the flag for the D. A. r.,
and state chairman of this committee
for Kansas. She is president of the
Civic League of Leavenworth and an ar
dent Suffragist.
Among the women who have strings
vice regent of Ohio and wife of Past
Department Commander Kent Hamilton
of the Grand Army of the Republic. She
wears seTen bars, showing her string of
revolutionary ancestors. She is also a
Colonial Dame, member of the New
England Society and Of the Society of
the War of 1872.
One of the interesting members of the
D. A. r.. congress is Miss Mary NJ. Muir
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Tennessee. who is state regent of the Ten
nessee d. A. r. and organizer and first
regent Of the Murfreesboro Chapter. Miss
Murfree is better known to the reading
world as Charles Egbert Craddock, the
author of stories of the Tennessee noun
tains.
Mrs. Daniel Manning. former president
general of the D. A R.. and an honorary
president. is visiting the congress.
Mrs John w. Foster the second presi-
dent general of the D. A. R., received the
same cordial greeting yesterday from the
congress that she has received every year
since she retired as president general.
Mrs. Foster is an honorary president gen.
eral, and never fails to visit the congress
when in session.
York, Mrs. Howard Hamilton Baker, is
giving the Daughters pleasure by singing
whenever they ask her to.
There is one woman in the congress
who has an undoubted right to belong to
the order of Colonial Governors of Ameri-
ca and that is Mrs. Herbert Turrell, a
delegate of Orange Mountain Chapter Of
Orange, N. j. She has in her string of
colonial ancestors nine colonial govern
ors. Mrs. Turrell is historian of the
Society of Mayflower Descendants and is
the author of a genealogy of several
branches Of Rhode Island families.