Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
NEW YORK.


ment of the Womans Relief Corps,
February Z, 1854. less than year after
the national, with Mrs. Sarah c. Mich
OILS as department president. She served
three terms consecutively and after
ward was again elected to head this
big department.
From the first great deal of money
has been expended in relief, and last
years was no exception, for the report
at the conventional gave the amount for
relief and turned over to posts as S10,-
1861 besides gift to army nurses OF
$3.50.
This year New York has the honor of
having the national president, Mrs. Sa-
rah Z. Fulton.
ship of 1O.S62. which will make up a
voting delegation for the national con-
vention of 80.
The officers for the year are: Depart
ment president, Mrs. Mary Alice Tir-
rell, New York: department secretary,
Mrs. Beatrice J. Tyson. Long Island;
department treasurer, Mrs. Ella Stearns
Tiffany, Jamestown; senior vice presl-
dent, Jennie L. Korb, Syracuse: junior
vice president, Berthal L. Thomas.
Phoenix: chaplain, Addie Haven. Alton
chairman executive board, Elizabeth
Young, Geneva: inspector. May p. Fish,
Saratoga; counselor. Mary 5. Sanford,
Buffalo: instituting and installing Of
triotic instructor. Carolyn Wright,
lion; press correspondent. Leila Gill
day, Morristown: senior aid. Florence
l.. Sutton, Greenwich. Conn.
alternate at large, Rilla S. Dennis: dele
gates, Henrietta Lord, Diana Wilcoxen,
Ida F. Homer. Effie E. Elliott. Ceceiia NJ.
Hudson, Carrie Ellsworth, Orpha II. Law
ton. Carrie ]. Evans, Clara Steefsmlth'
Nettie E. Bolton. Imogene L. Guion, Eliza
beth Hoag. Addie Haven and Flora NJ
Merrick: alternates, Helen !. Ellis, Lavina
Peck, Alice B. Holmes, Sophia Heinrich,
Mary j. Siocum. S. Annis Brown. Rhoda
H. Rhoades, May G. Hughes kittie Love.
Elizabeth Patterson, Elizabeth r. Bidwell.
Magdalena Boyer, Ella Mae Sheriff and
Catherine Brown.
Mrs. Mary Alice Tirrell. president of
the Department of New York, has long
been a worker in the Woman's Relief
Corps ard has served her own corps in
various offices, and was also depart
ment patriotic instructor before being
elected to the higher office. Mrs. Tir-
rel is eminently fitted to fill this Of
flee. for she is a good parliamentarian
and a fine executive.
Mrs. Mary S. Sanford. who is now
department counselor of New York
was the president last year She is not
only working member of the auXii-
larry of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, but is also Il MEMBER OF the bdub IL
ters of the American Revolution and of
the Daughters of Veterans. She is
from a patriotic family, for her great
Observation-Disclosures was in the revolu-
tionary war, her father was in the
Mexican war and was first lieutenant
of the 5th Michigan Cavalry in the
civil war Two uncles were in the
civil war and brother was first lieu
tenant in the Sapnish war.
president of the Woman's Relief Corps,
who is here for the encampment. was
born in Norway, Me-, but when young
her parents moved to Monticello. Wis.
in 1858. Two years after the close of
the civil war Abbie Noble was married
to c! E. Adams, a veteran. moving to
Monroe in 1869. Ten years later the
family moved to Superior. Neb., where
they have resided ever since.
In 1896 Mrs. Adams organized "O1d
Abe" w. r. c., and she has been an en-
ergetic worker since that time. She
has held many offices in her depart
rnent, having been president in 1895,
and has also had appointive offices in
the national body. until at the Denver
convention she was elected to the high
est Office in the gift of the order. Mrs
Adams father was Maj. Daniel Noble,
who served in the war of 1872 and in
that with Mexico.