Evening star., 1915-09-28


twas old enough, she has served in ever!
Office in the corps and held many i'm
portant offices in the department. hav
ling just completed year as depart
lmeCt president, and was appointed ma
tional inspector by Sarah E. Fulton a.
tDetroit
Mrs. McGwire's mother. Mary L. Carr
was charter member of the nationa
organization. Mrs. McGwire is also 8
member of the D. A. r.
Mrs. Mcbride, national counselor, hat
just become past national presfden,
when she was asked to become the
a great worker in her own department
Indiana, and has been department
president. She has held many other
Offices, and is. on the board of the or
phans' home as well as being connected
with many organizations of philan-
thropy and charity. When Mrs Agnes
Hit was national president she served
as national secretary. She is from a
soldier family and married a soldier
Judge Robert Mcbride, who was a
member OF the Lincoln Guard. and Is
row an Indiana jurist. Her home is in
Indianapolis.
| Mrs A. Van Campen, national insti-
! tutng and installing officer, of Cannon
/ Falls Mimi, has recently retired as
, department president of the Womans
F.! Relief Corps of that state, having had
| a very successful year
Looks After Women's Pensions.
Mrs Flo Jamison Miller is not only
chairman of the legislative commit
tee, but is chairman of the committee
on widows pensions. in which the
Woman's Relief Corps is SO much in
terested. She also is a past president
of the national body.
She is a member of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps of Illinois, and last year,
Il f.
ment president, she proposed to Mrs.
Miller that she, as chairman of the
legislative committee. see what she
could do in her own state to obtain a
of the burial places of soldiers and
sailors of Illinois. This was work
which was to her liking. and she went
before the legislature with her propo-
sition, and other members of the order
came to the front Also and it was not
long until there was a law on the
statute books making it obligatory to
obtain and keep record of all the
soldiers and sailors buried in Illinois.
Mrs. Van Fleet. national chairman
executive board. is the eldest daughter
of the late William W. and Georgeanna
Chambers. When the veterans marched
up Pennsylvania avenue fifty years
ago she, an infant in her mothers s
arms. saw the parade
Mrs. Van Fleet assisted her mother
in organizing La Fayette Woman's Re-
lief Corps, No. 10. January. 1898, and
Is the only charter member now in the
OF the corps. treasurer and also junior
vice president of the Department of
Potomac.
She is past president of her corps.
has served five years as treasurer. also
served as secretary from 1903 to the
present date. She is past department
president, past department Junior vice
president, past department treasurer,
past department patriotic instructor,
past department executive board mem
Der, and now is serving as chairman
of the national executive board.
She is the wife of Joseph 8. Van
Fleet, one of the organizers of the
Naval Reserves. who served In the war
with Cuba with rank of lieutenant.
Mrs. Hough of the executive board
has been member of the w. X. C. for
a number of years and has filed many
important Offices. In the Department Of
Nebraska she has served on the pen
sion and relief committee, has been Sec
retary, treasurer. corps president, corps
secretary, press correspondent three
years, patriotic instructor i've years,
and still holds that Office. and also has
been department president.
Mrs. Risdon entered into the work
twenty years ago. Although Mrs. Ris-
don can claim no close relationship with
the Grand Army OF the Republic. out
side of her work, she was elected the
IDSUDeT Oh Inc NATIONAL eXRCu-
tive board at the last national conven-
tion held in Detroit. She has also held
the presidency of the Department Of
New Jersey Woman's Relief Corps. as
well as other minor Offices in her de-
partment. and has filled every office in
her corps.
Holds Other Offices.
Mrs. Martin. second member of the
executive board. was president of STAN
nard Corps. Burlington, VT. two years,
and department president last year. She
is vice president of the Daughters of
1912. and state secretary Of the same
organization. Her husband Is DEPART
ment commander of the G. A. r. Of
Vermont this year. Their home is in
Burlington
Mrs. Dodge has been a member of the
organization for many years. and is
prominent in the Department of Ken
lucky. She was elected a member Of
the executive board last year in De-
troit. In Kentucky she Is known for
her loyalty to the veteran and for her
patriotic work among the children,
Mrs. Dodge Is the wife of Assistant
Adjutant General LIE Van Dodge. a
teacher In Berea College. at Berea, KY.
The Office Of chief -of-staff is one OF
cares and responsibilities, and Mrs.
Cnangst. who holds the Office, was fit
ted for it by several years Of respon-
sible offices in her own department, that
OF Iowa. She has been department presi-
dent and has held many offices in her
own corps.
She has seen the order grow almost
from infancy to its present mature age.
for she has been a member twenty
eight years, and has finished this ma
tional Office for the thirty-third nation
al convention. Her work is always Of
a high order OF efficiency. backed by
that loyalty to principle which every
member should have. She Is patriotic
by inheritance and education.