The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
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a new state society was organized III
Topeka today in the senate chamber
of the state capitol. The organization
will be chartered under the name OF
The Native Daughters of Kansas"
a number of years ago society
known as The Native Sons of Kansas
was organized by Col. A. 5. Johnson
a Kansas pioneer. That society has
been disbanded, and the only organl-
zation to keep alive the memories of
the early struggles in this state was
made this morning Mrs. DeWltte -
NelliS probably the oldest surviving
white woman born IN the Kansas ter
ritory was instrumental in gathering
together the women eligible to mem
bership and in planning the organlza-
ton.
The officers elected at the meeting
we're: Mrs. Nellis. president; Mrs
Frank p. MacLennan, first vice pres1-
deaf: Mrs. Fargo OF Chicago, second
vice president; Mrs. W. ). galloway
treasurer; Miss Annabel Garvey, MS
torian.
Those eligible to membership are
women born in Kansas and descended
from pioneers of territorial days. The
constitution adopted at the meeting
gives as the objects of the organiza-
ton: To promote spirit OF patriot
ism; TO encourage feeling OF feIloW-
ship among the worthy native daugh-
terss of the state; to preserve the MS
tory of the early pioneers; to rever-
ence their memory; to work for the
permanent establishment of the prln-
ciDIes that they believed in-temper-
snce, etc. Annual meetings of the So
ciety are to be held in the state cap1-
tai. and other meetings can be called
bv the president or three members OF
the executive board. 1t is the pur-
pose of the society to call a meeting
fatx- Of .
daughters Of Kansas who are more
than y years of age, and the members
need not be descended from territorial
pioneers
The charter was signed by the mem
bers present with their full names. The
first signature was that of Mrs. Flor
ence Chase Crawford Capper- Mrs.
Capper is the granddaughter of Enoch
Chase. who was one of the slgners or
the charter of Topeka. Her father,
the late Colonel era wford, was an ear
~ Kansas governor, and her husband,
Arthur Capper, is the first native born
Kansas governor.
Mrs. Laura Douthitt Root is one of
the charter members. Her father
came TO Kansas in SO, and tried the
first lawsuit on Kansas soil. Mrs.
Virginia McAfee Nellis was the daugh-
ter of the late Rev. j. B. McAfee,
pioneer of the Lutheran church, who
haG a mission in Leavenworth, and
built the first church in Kansas Mrc-
Mamie Neale Galloway was born in
Kansas and her grandparents, Col
and Mrs. George Veale, came to Kan
sas in an early day, as did also Mrs.
GaiIoway's maternal grandparents.
the Tinkam family. She is a descend
ent of Fielding johnson, one of the
wealthieSt men of the early days in
the state. being merchant of uncOm-
mon prosperity for those days. Mrs. |
Nellie John Fargo is the daughter of
Col A. s. Johnson, said to be the first
white child born in the territory Mrs.
Helen Thompson Donaldson is the
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. w. A l.. |
Thompson. and the granddaughter of
Mr.. Jacob Smith. an old settler In To- |
peka. who was the original owner of
the Thompson Hardware company,
nence in the state. Mrs. Rome Colvin. |
who belonged to the Curtis family of
North Topeka, was born in Topeka. |
She is sister of Senator Charles Cur |
it's Miss Bertha c. Spencer of Kan |
City, Kan. is one of the members |
She is the daughter of the late Mr.. !
George Spencer, who came to Kansas /
in SO, and she is sister of the late !
Mr. Charles Spencer of Topeka. Mrs. /
Anna Goddard MacLennan was one of !
the signers. Her people also were /
early settlers in Kansas in territorial /
times Miss Annabel Garvey is the |
granddaughter of the late L. Garvey. |
who edited the first newspaper in t
liam Stone, a native Kansas girl, is |
one of the charter members of the So !
ciety. She is the granddaughter of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Jesse Stone, who came to /
Kansas in covered wagon in pioneer |
times.
1t was suggested that each member /
of the society learn the history of the |
family to which she belongs and make /
a record of the facts concerning the /
early days of that family liz Kansas, /
and present the record to the historian /
to be filed in her department.
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Miss Nan Weightman will entertain /
a few guests at informal evening |
party Wednesday night, for Miss |
katheryn Sawyer, of Kansas City.
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The Darling of the Household is /
shamefully spoiled, the older girls /
say. In their young counting days, |
they were never allowed to shelter f
one of their beaux later than ten /
thirty, but little sisters most favored |