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Designing Women: Embroidery in Dutchess County
DESIGNING WOMEN: EMBROIDERY IN DUTCHESS COUNTY
By Nan Fogel This article is based on conversations with Ima Dean Matthews and Ann Collins
Flowers bloom in the pews of tiny St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lithgow, a hamlet of Millbrook. Lilacs, anemones, even night-blooming cereus, and dozens of other colorful flowers and fruits greet the visitor in the form of embroidered kneelers, the small cushioned stools used to kneel during prayers. There are more than one hundred of them, done by the women of the church, a project just completed this year. Twenty-seven of them were designed and stitched by Sally Gifford O'Brien, an artist and memberofSt. Peter's congregation. Mrs. O'Brienhasleftalegacytoher native Millbrook, as well, in the embroidered wall panels that hang in the local library showing topographic features and historic scenes of the town, and the embroidered kneelers for altar railings at Grace Episcopal Church. It is no coincidence that there are many accomplished embroiderers in Dutchess County. In the past fifty years two embroidery guilds were founded and flourished here; one is still active. The first was the Millbrook Needlework Guild, founded by Margaret Thome Parshall in the early 1950s. The daughter of Oakleigh Thome, Mrs. Parshall grew up in Millbrook on her father's estate. After marrying, she divided her time between homes in Amenia and New York City. She loved embroidery and met with several of her Millbrook friends once a week at her home to practice this art. In New York City she was a member of a group that affiliated with the English Embroiderers' Guild; there was no American guild at the time. The art of embroidery was taken more seriously in England and in some of the European countries, where national guilds thrived and academies trained new generations in the embroidery arts. Mrs. Parshall' s enthusiasm for needlework and her desire to see it grow in this country led her to bring a series of young women who had studied at the Royal School of Needlework in England to this country to teach. The first teacher to be hired was Erica Wilson, who later became well-known for her beautiful embroidery, designs and teaching ability. She taught silk embroidery, crewel and some canvas work. After leaving Millbrook she authored several books on embroidery and opened her own shops. She was followed by Gillian Cox, and, later, by Sheelagh Small, who
each stayed a few years before leaving to marry. The last teacher brought to the "school" was a woman from Denmark, Olga Hansen. She expanded instruction to include black work (black thread on white even-weave linen), white work ( white thread on white linen), metal thread, silk embroidery, crewel with wool threads, Danish cross-stitch, lace and ecclesiastical embroidery, using many of these techniques for kneelers and altar cloths. Mrs. Parshall bought a large two-story house on Franklin Street in Millbrook for her school in 1954. Classes met downstairs and there was an apartment upstairs for the teacher. Sally Gifford O'Brien also lived there and did designs for the women who wanted them. The group called itself the Millbrook Needlework Guild and its invited members were mostly women from Millbrook and Poughkeepsie. The teacher ordered all materials and gave instruction. Classes were held three or four days a week, with a different group meeting each day. Ima Dean Matthews was a member of the Monday group, and remarked that Mrs. Parshall always encouraged the students and upheld high standards of needlework. In 1958, Mrs. Parshall, Mrs. Dorothy Doubleday Babcock and Sally Behr (later Mrs. Samuel L. Pettit) founded the American branch of Embroiderers' Guild (United Kingdom). Their aim was to make embroidery available to anyone interested in learning its many techniques. Small exhibits were held and membership soon increased. Their first seminar, in 1963, was held in Salisbury, Connecticut with Gillian Cox McKenzie and Erica Wilson as two of the teachers. In 1970, the American branch withdrew from Embroiderers' Guild (U .K.) and took a new name, Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. It was the right time for interest in needlework to grow and chapters began to open across the country. A chapter could form in a town or city where twenty women got together to create a nucleus. Many accomplished needleworkers who had practiced their art at home eagerly joined chapters. By 2000, the Embroiderers' Guild of America had grown to approximately 300 chapters in all states, with a membership of 21,000. Mrs. Parshall was known as a very generous and supportive member. She served as the first president of the American Branch after its founding, and in 1991 her contributions were commemorated in a gallery named in her honor at the Embroiderers' Guild of America headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. The Millbrook Needlework Guild continued after Mrs. Parshall' s death in 197 6, under the care of Olga Hansen, until the transfer of her husband's job brought an end to the school in the early 1980's.
Needlework is an ancient art, going so far back in history its beginnings cannot be determined. It is known that silk embroidery work was being done in China 3,000 years ago. Ima Dean Matthews spins one imaginary scenario: a woman sits by a fire in prehistoric times, making clothes for her family. As her needle moves in and out of the cloth, she has an impulse to embellish, to add beauty to usefulness, and the first embroidery is created. In 197 4, Florence Fried, of Staats burg, Dutchess County, and several friends held a meeting to form a local chapter. They named it the Skyllkill Needlework Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. Many who joined were also members of the Millbrook Needlework Guild. Their aim has always been to promote needlework as an art form. Within three months there were sixty members. In 1999, on the 25th anniversary of its founding, the number had grown to 135 members. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month at St. James Church in Hyde Park. Early on the day of the meeting there are informal workshops for learning new stitches and receiving help with projects. After a formal business meeting, people stay for a planned program or lecture. Those with special interests and talents share their knowledge with each other and occasionally they invite outside speakers to teach new techniques and designs. There are also independent and group correspondence courses and special interest groups. The Chapter is open to anyone who is interested in needlework, including men, and there is a special interest group which meets in the evening at a member's home. Perhaps because Skyllkill has a large membership of skilled needleworkers drawn from several small towns and hamlets of Dutchess County, there is an active interest in community outreach. A few years ago, Anne Friedland, a Sky llkill member, was approached by the director at the Ogden and Ruth Livingston Mills State Historic Site in Staatsburg to see if there was interest in reproducing a 17th century Italian tapestry. The original had been damaged by years of dust from coal used to heat the mansion. Today, a number of women are doing just that, working in teams, to replicate the scene. The tapestry is being worked in panels of canvas, using a bargello pattern, which will completely cover the background. In the center there is a large silk medallion with a scene of Mary, the angel Gabriel and a dove, worked in flat silk. When completed, the panels will be joined to form a completed tapestry. Throughout the year members make tree ornaments to give to all those who come to The Lunch Box for Christmas dinner. Several women
have made quilted wall hangings with children's themes for the pediatric unit at Vassar Brothers Hospital; others have worked on bell pulls to be auctioned to benefit the SPCA. There are also members who teach children through Girl Scout and Brownie programs, thereby passing on the needlework skills to another generation. In addition to monthly meetings there are field trips and regional and national seminars. The Skyllkill Needlework Chapter is in the Metropolitan Region, which includes parts of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At these seminars there are opportunities to learn from teachers who are nationally and internationally known in their fields. Since 1992, there has been a sister chapter in New Zealand with whom they exchange newsletters, gifts and general news. Needlework that can be done with a needle with an eye describes the many types of needlework which may be entered in Skyllkill shows. The Chapter hosts an exhibition every two years. "The Art of the Needle, 2000," their fourteenth exhibit, was held in September 2000 at Mt. Gulian Historic Site in Beacon. More than 300 entries highlighted the work of approximately one hundred women who carry the knowledge of needlework in their fingers. It is a credit to Dutchess County that a founder of the Embroiderers' Guild of America is one of its own.
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DO-IT YOURSELF WOMEN'S HISTORY TOUR OF DUTCHESS COUNTY by Joyce C. Ghee and Stephanie Mauri
Joyce C. Ghee, the current president of DCHS, is the former Dutchess County Historian who developed six driving tours of the county. Stephanie Mauri, former Chairman of Dutchess County Landmarks Assoc. and current Research Coordinator for DCHS is a preservationist with special expertise in mapping and interpretation of historic maps.
In a county named for a woman--Maria Beatrice D'Este, the Dutchess of York--women have been both makers and keepers of its history since the very beginning of its existence as a municipality. The tour described by the authors is by no means a complete examination of the historical accomplishments of Dutchess' s women. Our only intent in the tour is to touch upon the variety of historical contributions women have made in fields as varying and encyclopedic as one can imagine. We have been assisted in our choices with suggestions and help from local historians: J. Winthrop Aldrich, Ann Linden, Olive Doty, Willa Skinner, Joan Van Voorhis, Nick McCausland, Joan Miracco, Bernice Thomas, Barbara Bielenberg, Judy Carlson, John Quinn, Margaret Quinn and Patrick Higgins. We thank them for adding to the long list and to Nan Fogel for her editing. Historical significance, like leavening in bread, theoretically needs time to rise. If the authors' decision to choose our tour heroines from those who are no longer with us appears arbitrary to some, we accept the blame. Some later tour will no doubt identify sites related to the accomplishments of representatives of current generations; among others: environmentalist Frances Reese, arts activist Julia Dunwell, religious leader Ruth Peale, political trailblazers like Lucille P. Pattison, Jean Murphy and Clara Lou Gould,jurists such as Jane Bolin and Judith Hilary, and women who served in the military of 20th c. Wars. Dutchess County women in public life, the arts, commerce, science, education, today are legion but the way was paved by their forebearers who balanced homemaking and child raising with community building and adventures into new fields of endeavor.
Our list of both public and private acheivers is presented in the text in alphabetical order by last name. Citations are limited to basics: the municipality, era and one or two important facts.
Supplementary information found in DCHS library or yearbooks is in parentheses foil owing each entry.
Select your own route on the basis of your interests. If you want to know more about a site or historical figure we welcome researchers at the OCHS library in Clinton House.
TOUR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY SITES IN DUTCHESS COUNTY
Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich. Red Hook /Ban:ytown/ Rokeby. Heiress, Spanish American War Nurse, feminist, activist. Late 19th-mid-20th c. One of the "Astor Orphans," she received a Congressional medal for her services caring for Spanish American War wounded and wrote her memoirs, Family Vista, in 1958. (Lately Thomas. The Astor Orphans-a Pride of Lions).
Widow Elimbeth Allen. Pleasant Valley/Beekman Patent. Patent settler, businesswoman. 18th c. Her connections by marriages to the Allen and Flagler families made early land deals the basis of family fortunes. (1979,'S0YB).
Mary Lucy Ham Alley. Beekman. Homemaker, educator, librarian. (b.1893-d.1988). Women like Mary Alley have been the glue binding communities together by building useful public institutions with and for their neighbors. ( 1999/'00 YB)
Alida Livingston Armstrong. Red Hook/ Rokeby. Heiress, Country Seat founder (b.17 61-d.1822). Her marriage to Revolutionary War hero General John Armstrong joined Livingston Hudson River land holdings to national power. Together the Armstrongs made Rokeby estate a home and country seat.
Jenny Barlow. Union Vale. Teacher, public servant. (b.1864-d.1948). Her life of community service began as a teacher in one-room Waterbury School. As the first woman in Union Vale to be appointed to public office she served as Town Clerk from 1923 to 194 7.
Anne Beadle. Pleasant Valley/ Clinton. Homemaker. (b 1792-d. ?). Her 1806 embroidered map of the world sampler done in a Pleasant Valley Quaker School at age 14 is the clue unlocking early 19th century women's education. (1994 YB).
Virginia Berry. Pleasant Valley. Historian, artist. 20th c. She and her husband served as the town's first official municipal historians, appointed in 1966. Her oils and watercolors in the Pleasant Valley Library record area historic structures and places.
Sarah Gibson Blanding. PoughkeepsieN assar. College administrator, educator. 20th c. At Dr. Mac Cracken' s retirement Miss Blanding was named Vassar's first woman President. Her administration ( 1946-1964 ), while Vassar was still a women's college, saw the beginning of campus architectural changes introducing contemporary architecture into a traditional landscape.
Lydia Booth. Poughkeepsie, City. Women's education leader. 19th c. Her methods and scholarship as head of Cottage Hill Seminary for Girls were models for step-uncle, Matthew Vassar, as he established Vassar Female College. (Edmund Platt. History of Poughkeepsie).
Irene Bower. Pleasant Valley. Historian, writer. (1910-1965). As a member of the family that developed the town's early mill industry, her access to records and information and the scrap books that she kept have become a rare source of local history.
Catharyna Rombout Brett. Beacon. Businesswoman, patent settler. (b.1687-d.1764). Brett began constructing the county's oldest frame house ca. 1709 when she and husband Roger left New York City to claim her inheritance, a third of 85,000 acres in her father's 1685 Patent. Early widowhood and challenges raising sons in a wilderness urged diplomacy with local Indians, sub-dividing land-holdings to multiply neighbors and retaining the Brett mill/landing as cash/ supply line. Her strategy became a county development paradigm. (Henry Cassidy. Catharyna Brett, Portrait of a Colonial Business Woman. 1992 YB).
Margaret DeMott Brown. Poughkeepsie/ Adriance/ Vassar. Photographer, artist. 20th c. Her work for Vassar College and Helen Wilkinson
Reynolds capturing the landscape, architecture and history-makers of the era in Dutchess County illustrated many of the society's early publications. (HW Reynolds. Poughkeepsie, the Origins and Meaning of the Name.)
Mary Flagler Cary. Millbrook. Benefactor. 20th c. Her gifts ofland and funding made at mid-20th century enriched and multiplied Dutchess County's landscape and educational resources. The Institute of EcoSystems and Gifford House gardens are among visible clues to generosity spurred by a love of nature, gardening and concern for the environment.
Lettie Carson. Harlem Valley. Public transportation advocate/ activist. 20th c. As leader of the Harlem Valley Transportaion Association she led a 12-year effort to save public access to rail transport for Harlem Valley citizens. Her efforts impacted federal legislation re abandonment of rail lines.
Nancy Cook. Hyde Park/Val-Kill. Craftswoman, political activist. 20thc. Her friendship with Marion Dickerman and Eleanor Roosevelt launched Mrs. Roosevelt's political education and provided a knowledge of crafts leading to establishment of Val-Kill Industries in the 1920s. This social experiment was conceived as off-season work for farm youth. (Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia).
Dorothy Day. Red Hook/fivoli/ Rose Hill. Liberal writer, Socialist suffragette. (b.1897-d.1980). She brought her faith as a converted Catholic, her ardent Socialist/liberal leanings and a reporter's literal view to the establishment of the Catholic Worker publication ( 1933) and numerous social projects ( such as the Catholic Worker Farm experiment) designed to make society attentive to the needs of others.
Julia Dean. Pleasant Valley. Theatre actress. 19th c. One of two popular thespians with the same name, this Julia was the daughter of parents whose Pleasant Valley business was managing national theater groups and company tours. Folklore purports that on a tour of the west ca. 1830, she captured the heart of Brigham Young and turned down his proposal of marriage. (1974 YB).
Elsie DeReimer. Poughkeepsie City/Glebe House/Sleight House. LaGrange. Daughter of Peter De Reimer, Glebe House occupant after
1796. 18th-19th c. The sober portrait of De Reimer' s willful daughter, Elsie, in the house belies the character of a woman who at twenty-two is said to have defied tradition and her family by climbing out a window to elope with 46-year old Jacobus Sleight. (The Glebe House booklet
OCHS).
Maria Beatrice D'Este. City of Poughkeepsie/ Courthouse/ Clinton House. Dutchess of York, Queen Mary of England. (b. 1658-d. l 718). Marriage to James Stuart, Duke ofY ork in 1673 during Charles II' s reign, made an Italian Catholic Duchess of Modena the Dutchess of York. In 1683, when her husband and brother-in-law divided Stuart northeastern lands among friends and family into municipalities, she was given "the Dutchess' s Countie" -now Dutchess and Putnam. With Charles' death she reigned briefly ( 1685-1688) as queen before Protestant forces regained power sending her into French exile. The courthouse symbolizes the center of municipal power since the 17th c .. Clinton House collections hold images of the beautiful Dutchess who never saw "her" county.
Marion Dickerman.Hyde Park/Val-Kill. Educator, political activist.(b.1890-d.1983.) 1920s political work with Nancy Cook and Eleanor Roosevelt sealed friendships and business partnership in Val-Kill Industries. She was principal of the Todhunter School in New York City where Mrs. Roosevelt taught. FDR-built Stone Cottage was given to the three with life tenancy, as Cook/Dickerman' s residence and ER' s vacation home. They turned it to their own political and social agendas.(Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia).
Dr. Phebe Doughty. Beacon Physician. 20th c. In 1904, she became the city's first woman doctor, following her father into his practice. She served the community for over 60 years.
Deborah Dows. Rhinebeck/Southlands Farms. Horsewoman, business woman, benefactor. 20th c. WP A artist Olin Dows' sister devoted her life to maintaining the characteristics of rural life that she valued. She turned a portion of the Dows family estate,"Foxhollow ," into a successful, respected riding academy and horse farm. Her foundation now protects the rural nature of the area.
Betty Blair Eggert. Poughkeepsie/Glebe House/Red Hook/ "Maizefield"Preservationist. 20th c. As founding Director of Dutchess County Landmarks Association, she led the first 1970s efforts in Dutchess County to survey and protect important historic architecture from her office in Glebe House. She coped with preservation issues daily on a very personal level as owner of "Maizefield," a significant 18th c. Georgian style home.
Marjorie Finger. Northeast/original Kildonan School. Educator. 20th c .. As a teacher at Viewpoint School (now Kildonan) she saw a need for a curriculum and learning center for special needs children. With two friends she founded Maplebrook School devoted to these interests.
Hallie Flanagan. PoughkeepsieN assar. Theatrical producer, drama teacher.( 1890-1969). As Vassar faculty, she founded and directed Vassar's Experimental Theatre Project ( 1925-55). During a leave from 1935-39, she served as Director of the WP A Federal Theatre Project, bringing theatrical productions to audiences nation-wide.
Gertrude Ford. Poughkeepsie/Route 44. Businesswoman. 19th-20th c. For 56 years she served as head of the successful G. F. Tea Co. business she founded in 1907. At a time when women did not enter commerce she made a place and a name for her product that has seldom been equaled. (1991 YB).
Charlotte Cuneen Hackett. Hyde Park/"Hackett Hill"/ Poughkeepsie City/ Cunneen Hackett Cultural Center. Lawyer, benefactor. (b.1888d. l 971 ). Trained as a teacher, she then studied law. With admission to the bar at age 30, her legal skills were put to civic benefit: creation of the Cunneen-Hackett Charitable Trust in 1968 and the gift of "Hackett Hill" in 1969 to the Boy Scouts. Cunneen Hackett Cultural Center honors her. (1979YB).
Elsea Thome Haight.Millbrook/ Harts Village. Journal keeper. (b.177 5 d.1844 ). Her meticulous record of family births, deaths, and marriages provides an invaluable original source for historians. ( 1958 YB).
Elisa Woolsey Howland. Beacon. Community activist, nurse. 19thc. During the Civil W arshe and all the women in her family became part of the
Sanitary Commission, serving as nurses for the wounded. A military camp in Washington D .C. was named to honor their efforts.
Mary Lou Jeanneney.Poughkeepsie/ Vassar. Librarian, writer, historian, craftswoman. (b.1928-d.2000). Best known as Vassar's Special Collections Librarian and as editor ofDCHS Yearbooks, she also designed jewelry and was co-author of Dutchess County: a Pictorial History in 1983. (1999/'00YB).
Dr. Grace Kimball. Poughkeepsie/ YWCA. Physician, missionary, medical administrator, women's health advocate, community leader. (b.1855-d. l 942). A long career in medicine and public health brought under its umbrella social and cultural issues concerning women's lives. She served as president of the YWCA for over 40 years.( 1999/' 00 YB).
Gertrude Knievel. Beacon/Knievel St.Writer. 20thc. Born in Beacon in 1891, she became a writer of popular mysteries; The Diamond Rose and six others. Kneivel A venue, near her home, was named for her.
Elise Kincaid. Poughkeepsie/ "Maple Grove". Estate owner, benefactor. 20th c. She owned the farm straddling the Poughkeepsie City/fown line where cows grazed on the front lawn of "Maple Grove," a National Register l 9thc. home overlooking Poughkeespie rural cemetery and the waterfall ("U-pu-ki-ipi-sing") naming the city.
Helen LaPorte. Rhinebeck/Chancellor Livingston DAR. Organization founder. 20th c. The founder of the Rhinebeck DAR chapter purchased the original modest frame home of General Montgomery and his wife Janet Livingston and gave it to the DAR as their headquarters.
Mary Lasker. Amenia. "Smithfield". Benefactor. 20thc. While she and her husband were best known as 20th c. benefactors supporting medical research, beautification efforts were an extension of her concern for a healthier world. They moved easily from her estate gardens at "Smithfield" to the surrounding community where dwarf fruit trees along Amenia' s Route 22 and the village still testify to her beliefs. With Lady Bird Johnson she took the message across America.
Catherine Flint Leigh. Amenia. Smithfield Cemeter_y. Historian and genealogist.(b 1913-d 1990). Town historian from 1965-1990, she used local history celebrations as a way to reinforce community institutions.
Margaret Beekman Livingston. Tivoli. North of County line. Heiress, major landholder. (b.1724-d.1800) Chatelaine of Clermont, daughter of Col. Henry Beekman, this "Grande Dame" of the Livingston clan raised a family of national leaders while managing a vast landholdings, workers and leaseholders during the era of the American Revolution.
Sybil Ludington. Putnam Co. evolutionary War hero. (b.1761 d.1839). Col. Henry Ludington' s young daughter made him proud on the night of April 26, 1777 with her courageous 40 mile night ride to warn the people and rally his troops after the British attack on Danbury.( 1945,' 83 YB).
Jean Flagler Matthews. Beekman/Flagler Cemetery. Frog Hollow Rd .. Family historian, benefactor. 20th c. The youngest daughter of Harry Harkness Flagler and granddaughter of millionaire industrialist Henry H. Flagler made it her task to identify and gather together all family ancestors in Dutchess County. The Family Cemetery was dedicated in October 1976. (1979 YB).
Mary Starr Miller. Rhinebeck/Starr Institute Building. Country Seat owner, benefactor. 19th c. This 19th century great-granddaughter of Major General Philip Schuyler renovated and made her home on his estate, the Grove. She was a dedicated community benefactress, giving the Starr Institute building to the town for its first library.
Maria Mitchell. Poughkeepsie/ Vassar College. Astronomer, educator (b.18 l 8-d.1889). The brilliant self-taught daughter of a seafaring family was honored for her discovery of the comet bearing her name. She was recruited by Vassar to teach Astronomy and direct the Observatory in 1865. (1999/'00 YB).
Susan Moore. Moores Mills/Lagrange. Quaker businesswoman. l 9thc. This quiet Quaker lady turned Moores Mills into a tourist destination. For over 50 years her home, Floral Home, was a popular vacation boarding house. (Joan Spence/Joyce Ghee.Taconic Pathways).
Janet Livingston Montgomery. Rhinebeck/ "Grasmere" /Red Hook/ "Montgomery Place". (b.1743-d. 1828) Country Seat founder. As the wife of America's first fallen hero, General Richard Montgomery, she was a public figure during the early years of the nation. Her greatest achievement was development of"Montgomery Place," her home in Red Hook. ( 1930 YB).
Sophia Wittenberg Mumford. Amenia Leedsville. Artist, writer. 20thc. As the wife of noted art historian Lewis Mumford the talents of artist and author Sophia Wittenberg have been obscured. She was a writeron the staff of"Dial" when they met and he wisely chose her to be his only proof-reader.
(b.1683-c. l 753) As one of Henry Beekman's daughters, she inherited "Back Lots" in the Beekman Patent. She oversaw the development of thousands of acres now encompassing four towns and personally rode into the wilderness to check out properties and collect rents. Pawling was named for her. (Dr.MacCracken. Old Dutchess Forever).
Bessie Harden Payne. City of Poughkeepsie. Educator, community and religious leader, missionary. 20th c. She combined work as a teachermissionary in South Africa with the duties of a clergyman's wife. Later she matched NAACP, Ebeneezer Baptist Church and Catharine Street Community Centervolunteerism with service as Principal of the Little Red School House, teaching special needs children. ( 1999/' 00 YB).
Mehitabel Wing Prendergast. Pawling/Quaker Hill/Poughkeepsie/ Courthouse. Pre-Revolutionary rent wars heroine. 18th c. When husband William found himself imprisoned and sentenced to be hung for treason for leading Dutchess's 1766 leaseholders "Rent Wars" revolt, his gentle Quaker wife rode to New York in quest of a Governor's pardon. It succeeded, just in the nick of time. M. Kammen paper Transformations of an American County. (1944,'71 YBS)
Sr. Helen Marie Proper (formerly Sister M. Scholastica ). Amenia/
Immaculate Conception School. ( 1921-1996). Religious educator Sister Helen was born in Amenia and devoted 54 years of her life to the work of the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt. She served as principal of Immaculate Conception School for 15 years.
Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. Poughkeepsie. City/ Adriance/ Glebe House. Historian, writer, researcher, genealogist, editor, civic leader, preservationist (b.1875-d.1943). A charter member of OCHS, who forged its methodologies, Miss Reynolds edited the Yearbook for over 20 years. Her work as municipal historian, preservationist and civic leader, contributed more to Dutchess County's history reserves than any other scholar.(1968,'79,'83, '93)
Sarah Delano Roosevelt. Hyde Park/ Library/ "Springwood". Mother of a President, community benefactor. (b.1854 d.1941 ). As a Victorian woman of privilege she was well trained to assume the duties of a president's mother; a hostess who opened her home to royalty and heads of state. She also took local duties seriously, giving the hamlet its library in 1927 as a memorial to her husband.
Ellen C. Roosevelt. Hyde Park/ "Rosedale" Roosevelt heiress, sportswoman.(b.1868-d.1964). This first cousin of F.D.R., a proper Victorian lady in many respects, was a serious challenger on the tennis court who won the U.S. Women'sDoubleschampionshipin 1890. (1958 YB).
Eleanor Roosevelt.Hyde Park/ "Val-Kill"/ "Springwood"/ FDR Library. First Lady, a US delegate to the United Nations, world leader. (b. 1884-d. 1962). When she married a distant Roosevelt cousin in 1905, she began an ascent in history that brought fame, opportunity, tragedy, and finally world-wide political, social and cultural influence. She taught, wrote, spoke as a civic/national leader, Governor's and President's wife, businesswoman,joumalist and at length a United States UN Delegate. Her story is told in hundreds of books but also is found at her wing of the FDR Library, the family home "Springwood" and her own home, now the first National Historic Site for a First Lady in U.S. History--"Val-Kill."
Marguerite Bailey Rosenson. Amenia. Publisher. ( 1900-1997). Fate took a hand in her career when her husband was injured during WWI and she was forced to take on the task of editing and publishing the Harlem Valley Times, the newspaper founded by Joel Benton in 1852 as the Amenia Times. As the first woman in that position she proved to be a complete success.
Mrs. Mary Crooke Broome Livingston Ruggles. Poughkeepsie. Wife of civic leaders/ government officials. ( 19th c.). Her "fairytale" rags to riches story of social success through marriage epitomizes the dependent status of 19thc. Victorian women. (1924 YB).
Mary Landon Sague. Poughkeepsie City/Barnard Ave./ Vassar. Educator, scientist, civic leader, collector.( b.1885-d. 1971 ). A year after graduation from Vassar in 1907 she became part of the faculty where she served ( 1908-1952) as chemistry professor and department chairman. She was a civic leader in Community Chest, Vassar Hospital, and AA UW and began gathering a unique women's period costume collection for her 50th class reunion. Exhibited locally, the clothing attracted scholarly attention and raised funds for charity before being given to Vassar.
Lucy Maynard Salmon. (PoughkeepsieN assar ). Educator, historian. ( 19th-20th c.) Vassar's respected History Department began with the recruitment of Professor Salmon in 1887. Her research methodologies based upon original sources: documents, diaries, artifacts and material culture of the past as proof of historical theses became and remained a Vassar hallmark. As an early member of OCHS she impressed upon her colleagues the necessity of doing one's own careful homework and not depending upon "authorities."
Belle Saltford. Poughkeepsie. Physical Education Teacher, Civic Leader ( 1878-1969) She was active in many civic efforts: a founder of PT A in New York, Regent of Mahweniwahsigh Chapter DAR during its second effort to save Clinton House, worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to form a local League of Women Voters and ran for state office.
Margaret Sanger (Slee). Fishkill/ Willow Lake on VanWyck Rd./ Fishkill Rural Cemetery. Institution founder. ( 1883-1966) 20th c. Founder of the Birth Control movement in the U.S. Her work made her a global women's leader. She became President of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952.
Amy Rotch Sargeant. Beacon. Educator. ( 19th-20thc ). She founded the respected Sargeant School for Girls ( 1893-1918), known for its innovative methods.
Hannah Schenck. Beacon/ Mme. Brett House. Historic house owner. (18th c.). The granddaughter of Mme. Brett, wife and hostess for her husband, a Revolutionary War quartermaster, she entertained George Washington at Brett Homestead.
Pauline Reichert Slater.Poughkeepsie/Union St.IN ativity Church. A fireman's wife. (b.1862-d.1943). Like her husband, she was the child of German immigrants building a new life, centered on family and a church community in a new country. Research and photographs show her mettle in making a home faced with endless hard work, modest means and her husband's dangerous profession. (99/'0l YB).
Amy Spingarn. Amenia/froutbeck. Artist, writer, civil rights activist.( 1883-1980). She was a leading figure in the fight for civil rights for women and African Americans, working with her husband, Columbia professor and literary critic, Joel Spingarn. As a painter, poet and photographer she made her own mark. Together they made Troutbeck a center for social and cultural thought and action.
Lucy Staley. Rhinebeck/Fair Grounds. Businesswoman, community activist. 20th c. Staley was a business woman and boarding house owner whose salesmanship and management skills addressed community service: coordinating civil defense, recruitment for the WACS and Air Force during WW II and after the war turned to the PT A and running County Fair Arts and Crafts and Flower Shows.
Daisy Suckley. Rhinebeck/ "Wilderstein" / Hyde Park/ "Top Cottage". Country Seat owner. 19th-20th c. Her home, "Wilderstein," is National Register Queen Anne Victorian. A Roosevelt cousin and FDR's friend and confident, she gave him "Fala", his famous Scotty, and assisted his planning of "Top Cottage". (Geoffry Ward. Closest Companion).
Carolyn Atwater Swift. Poughkeepsie/ Clinton House. Historian, genealogist, civic leader.(1857-1929.) She was the founder of the Mahweniwahsigh chapter of the DAR and the tum-of-the century leader who energized the community to save Clinton House in 1900. ( 1999/'00 YB).
Elizabeth Crannell Tappen. Poughkeepsie, City/Glebe House. Housewife. Daughter of Tory lawyer Bartholomew Crannel. 18th c. An outspoken proponent of rebellion at a time when women had no rights, her publicly-aired Whig views clashed with those of family members; (The Glebe House, booklet DCHS).
Dorthea Taylor. (Poughkeepsie/ Fairview/ Children's Home/ 26 Forbus St.-Original Little Red School House). Teacher. 20th c. Her love of children carried her from raising her own family to caring for them in many settings: nursery school, the Children's Home and the original Little Red School House where she learned and taught herself how to deal with the obstacles to learning of deafness, mental retardation and autism. ( 1999-' 00
YB.)
Sarah Taylor. Fishkill Village/I 00 Main St. Community leader, public servant.( 1897-1983). Sarah "Sally" Taylor came to live in Fishkill in 1922, prepared to give it her "all" as a volunteer community leader in Girl Scouts, Mental Health Assoc., the library, as the first special education teacher in the Wappingers District, as a businesswoman, and in 1965 as the first woman mayor and only woman mayor in New York State. She came to be associated with the annual 4th of July reading of the Declaration of Independence in Fishkill. Her name was given to Sarah Taylor Park and Taylor Lane.
Susannah Leister Vaughton. Staats burgh. ( 17th-18th c.) Michael Vaughton's widow might have been one of our county's early patent holders, but for a 1695 colonial court decision overturning her husband's claim. It was nullified and her land subsumed into that of Henry Beekman' s daughter. (1981 YB)
Amy Pearce Ver Nooy. Poughkeepsie/ Adriance/ Clinton House. Historian researcher, writer. (20th c.) Amy VerNooy followed in Helen W. Reynolds' footsteps as the Editor of the Yearbook and as a prolific writer/ researcher of articles from the 1940s to the 1960s. She also served as DCHS' s unsalaried Secretary, a euphemism for staff.
Katherine Wolcott Ver Planck. Beacon. Organizational leader. She was the owner of Rose neath, one of Beacon's most famous estates and the founder of the Melzingah Chapter of the DAR.
Jean Webster. Union Vale. Skidmore House. Writer. 20th c. (18761916) The niece of Mark Twain had writing in her blood. After graduating from Vassarin 1901 shesettledin Union ValetowriteDaddyLongLegs, Dear Enemy and the Patty books.
Irene Wilcox. Milan/ Town Hall/ Wilcox Park. Benefactor. (18941977). Mrs. Wilcox turned grief over the loss of her husband in 1942 and only son in 1950 into good works. Her generosity provided rural Milan with a Town Hall and community center and the County a park.
Deborah Rogers Willets. Millbrook Quaker Educator. (b.1789 d. 1880). Educational innovations in teaching both boys and girls (teaching methods, textbook development, and effective administration, shared with her husband, Jacob), made Nine Partners School one of the most prestigious schools in the country. (1935,'76 YBs).
Annette Innis Young. Poughkeepsie/ "Locust Grove" Benefactor. 20th c. (b.1885-d.197 5) The owner of historic "Locust Grove," understood its significance as Livingston and S.F.B.Morse property. She provided an endowment that assisted its development as a public national historic site and park.
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On February 10, 2000, Mary Louise Jeanneney died at the Northeast Center for Special Care, Lake Katrine, New York. Although she had been in the hospital for a long time, her death was sudden and unexpected. In addition to her activities with the Dutchess County Historical Society, Mary Lou was a member of the Clinton Historical Society and a delegate to the Southeastern NY Documentary Heritage Program. She also leaves a lasting legacy as co-author of the book Dutchess County, a Pictorial History.
Mary Lou Jeanneney
Mary Lou was born January 13, 1928, to the Reverend Michael and Lucille Kronemeier Baas, in Louisville, Kentucky, and later graduated from Atherton High School there. Many miles and many years later she
could still resurrect a Kentucky accent when a particular story or situation would benefit from that rendition. And she always had a story to tell. With a master's degree in library science from Rutgers University, Mary Lou spent time during the Korean Conflict working as a librarian at the United States Army Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. She carried her love of Japanese art with her ever after, never failing to impress her friends with the breadth and depth of her know ledge of things Japanese from pottery to bonsai. People who knew Mary Lou from only one of her activities were not always aware, at first, of the variety of her interests. She had a collection of opera recordings including her favorite, Placido Domingo, but she also knew the lyrics to songs ofBeatrice Lillie and Tessie O'Shea. At one point, she was showing friends a photograph that appeared to be of her daughter, Emilie, singing at a microphone. But, in fact, the photo was of Mary Lou, taken when she was an undergraduate at Elmhurst College and would sneak away to sing with a Chicago jazz band. After moving to New York State, Mary Lou worked at the Leavittown Public Library, the New York Public Library, Marist College Library and finally, V assarCollege Library. It was at V assarCollege where Mary Lou not only endured the computer revolution but conquered it in order to grapple with graphics files sent by her son Paul to illustrate his latest adventures with a series of orphaned animals. Mary Lou also shared her life with a number of pets, a cat in Japan and a number of dogs, but the last and dearest was Nora, her wire-haired dachshund who misses her, as we all do.
DUTCHESS COUNTY IDSTORICAL SOCIETY STATEMENT OF REVENUE & EXPENSES
DECEMBER 31, 2000
Revenues: Investment Income Membership & Other Support/Gifts/Grants/Donations Fund Raising/silRib/Dutchess Award Historic Publications Genealogy/Sales & Service/ Auction Transfer $ 1,848.00 13,912.00 15,614.00 21,547.00 5,515.00 5,390.00 13,600.00
Total Revenue $77,426.00
Expenses
Payroll/Benefits
Insurance Utlities/Maintenence Office & Security Micellaneous Expenses Historic Publications Affiliations/Professional Consultants Genealogy /Sales and Service Museum & Library Fund Raising Capital Improvement
Total Expense
Net
$34,233.00 4,187.00 5,452.00 4,536.00 1,742.00 2,399.00 2,290.00 867.00 146.00 14,559.00 4,455.00
$74,866.00
$2,560
Joyce C. Ghee, President Hyde Park, New York
Rocco Staino, Vice President for Program Poughkeepsie, New York
James Spratt, Vice President for Development Hyde Park, New York
David Dengel, Secretary Poughkeepsie, New York
Mary Ann Lohrey, Treasurer Poughkeepsie, New York
Marguerite Berger Joyce Bickerstaff Edward Cattuzzo Clairmont M. Spooner
Rosemarie A. Calista Richard Reitano Joan Smith RichardJ. Stearns Barbara Van ltallie
Nancy Alden Donna Kinnear Fred Schaeffer
2001
2002
2003
Hopewell Junction, NY Poughkeepsie, NY Poughkeepsie, NY Poughkeepsie, NY
Poughkeepsie, NY Poughkeepsie, NY Hyde Park, NY Hyde Park, NY Poughkeepsie, NY
Staatsburg, NY Amenia,NY Poughkeepsie, NY
STAFF
Eileen M. Hayden, Director Maryann Thompsett, Bookkeeper Stephanie Mauri, Research Coordinator
Dutchess County
COUNTYIHSTORIAN vacant
CITYIHSTORIANS
Beacon, Joan Van Voorhis, 1 Municipal Plaza, Beacon, NY 12508 Poughkeepsie, Myra Morales, Box 300, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602
TOWNIIlSTORIANS
Amenia, Kenneth Hoadley, Town Hall, Amenia, NY 12501 Beekman, Vincent Vail, Town Hall, 4 Main, Poughquag, NY 12570 Clinton, William McDermott, Town Hall, 1375 Centre Road, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Dover, Donna Hearn, Town Hall, 126 East Duncan Hill Rd., Dover Plains, NY 12522 East Fishkill, Everett Lee, Town Hall, 370 Route 376, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533 Fishkill, WillaSkinner, TownHall,401 Route52,Fishkill,NY 12524 Fishkill (Village), Karen Hitt, 91 Main Street, Fishkill, NY 12524 Hyde Park, Margaret Marquez, Town Hall, 627 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY 12538 LaGrange, Emily Johnson, Town Hall, 120 Stringham Road, LaGrangeville, NY 12540 Milan, Patrick Higgins, Town Hall, Route 199, Red Hook, NY 12571 Millbrook, David Greenwood, Town Hall, Merritt Ave., Millbrook, NY 12545 Millerton, Diane Thompson, Acting Historian, 518-789-4346 Northeast, Diane Thompson, Acting Historian, 518-789-4346 Pawling, Robert Reilly, Town Hall, 160 Charles Colman Blvd., Pawling, NY 12564 Pine Plains, Elizabeth Potter, Acting Historian, Town Hall, Pine Plains, NY 12567 Pleasant Valley, Olive Doty, Town Hall, Route 44, Pleasant Valley, NY 12569 Poughkeepsie (Town), Jean Murphy, Town Hall, Overocker Rd., Poughkeepsie, NY12603 Red Hook, J. Winthrop Aldrich, Town Hall, 1095 Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571 Rhinebeck (Town), Nancy Kelly, Town Hall, 80 East Market St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Rhinebeck (Village), Nancy Kelly, 76 East Market St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Stanford, Dorothy Burdick, Town Hall, Route 82, Stanfordville, NY 12581 Tivoli,BemieTieger, Town Hall, 96Broadway, Tivoli,NY 12583 Union Vale, Joann Miracco, 2 Duncan Road, LaGrangeville, NY 12540 Wappinger (Town), Brenda Von Berg, Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Rd., Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 Wappingers Falls (Village), Brenda Von Berg, Town Hall, 2 South A venue, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 Washington, David Greenwood, RR 1, Box 227, Millbrook, NY 12545
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF DUTCHESS COUNTY
Amenia Historical Society P.O. Box 22 Amenia, NY 12501
Beacon Historical Society P.O. Box 89 Beacon, NY 12608
Bowdoin Park Historical and Archeological Society 85 Shaefe Road Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Clinton Historical Society Clinton Comers, NY 12514
The Town of Dover Historical Society Dover Plains, NY 12522
East Fishkill Historical Society P.O. Box 245 Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
Fishkill Historical Society P.O. Box 133 Fishkill, NY 12524
Hyde Park Historical Society P.O. Box 182 Hyde Park, NY 12538
LaGrange Historical Society P.O. Box 112 LaGrangeville, NY 12540
Little Nine Partners Historical Society P.O. Box 243 Pine Plains, NY 12567 North East Historical Society Millerton, NY 12546
Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling, Inc. P.O. Box 99, Pawling, NY 12564
Pleasant Valley Historical Society P. 0. Box 309 Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
Egbert Benson Historical Society of Red Hook, P. 0. Box 1813 Red Hook, NY 12571
Rhinebeck Historical Society P. 0. Box 191 Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Roosevelt/Vanderbilt Historical Association P.O. Box 235 Hyde Park, NY 12538
Stanford Historical Society Stanfordville, NY 12581
Union Vale Historical Society P.O. Box 100 Verbank, NY 12585
Wappingers Historical Society P.O. Box 974 Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Town of Washington Historical Society 551 Route 343 Millbrook, NY 12545
Index
Abbott, Eva Rugar 53 African American Community,
Poughkeepsie 24 Air Force National Guard 54 Airy, Dr. G.B., Greenwich (England)
Observatory 31 Alden, Nancy Chapman 53, 83, 87 Aldrich, Margaret Livingston Chanler 94 Allen, Elizabeth 94 Alley, Mary Lucy Ham 45 American Association for the
Advancement of Women
Congress 33 American Board of Foreign Missions 41 American Academy of Arts and
Sciences 31 American Baptist Home Mission
Society 27 Anderson, Marian 25 Anti-Semitism 84 Anti-tuberculosis Project 42 Arendt, Hannah 83 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 59 Armstrong, Alida Livingston 94 Art of the Needle 92 Association for Mental Retardation 68 Atwater, Caroline Swift 35 A very, Myra H. 35
Babcock, Mrs. Dorothy Doubleday 90 Babcock, Rufus 30 Bardavon Opera House 25 Barlow, Jenny 94 Beadle, Anne 95 Beni, Nick 76 Berry, Virginia 95 Bethune, Mary McLeod 26, 84 Blanding, Sarah Gibson 95 Bolin, Gaius, Sr. 27 Booth, Lydia 30, 95 Bower, Irene 95 Bowne, Samuel W. and Nettie 42 Brett, Catharyna Rombout 95 Bright, John and Sophia Reichert 8 Brinckerhoff, Barbara Greener 53 Bush, Augustus 49 Butrica, Dorothy Hammerle 54 Buys, Barbara 38 Caldwell, Rev. 76 Calvary Cemetery 21 Campilli, Lorraine Mondrick 54 Carden, Mae 69 Carden Method 69 Carnegie Institute of Technology 58 Carson, Lettie 96 Carter, Hodding 88 Cary, Mary Aagler 96 Casals, Pablo 83 Castle Point Veterans Hospital 54 Catherine Street Community Center 26 Census 43 Chagall, Marc 83 Cherry Point, North Carolina Air
Base 63 Church of the Nativity 7 Ciolko, Mary Darrow 54 City of Poughkeepsie Fire
Department 11 Clinton, Governor George 35 Clinton House 35 Clow, Ruth 50 COBOL computer programming language 85 Coburn, M.D. 48 Coffin, Tristram 36 Collins, Ann 89 Computers, Mark I and II, Univac I 85, 86 Connor, "Bull" 84 Constantinople, Turkey 42 Cook, Blanche Weissen 83 Cook, Nancy 96 Corey, Albert B. 38 Cross Road Press 80 Culbertson, Ely 88 Cummins, Evelyn Atwater 37 Curran, Helen Salsick 54
Daughters of the American Revolution(D.A.R.) 35 Day, Dorothy 96 Dean, Julia 96 DeReimer, Elsie 96 DeSole, Mary 76 Deufemia, Patricia 54 Dewey, Governor Thomas 88 Dickerman, Marion 97 Digital Equipment 86
Doughty, Dr. Phebe 97 Dows, Deborah 97 Dutchess County Association for Retarded Children (ARC) 69 Dutchess County Cerebral Palsy Clinic 69 Dutchess Community Co11ege 69 Dutchess County Association for Mentally Handicapped Children 68 D'Este, Maria Beatrice, Dutchess of York 97
East FishkiU Community Library 52 Eastman Gaines Co11ege 47 Ebenezer Baptist Church 25 Eclipses: Denver, 1878; Iowa 1869, 1878 32 Eggert, Betty Blair 98 Embroiders' Guild of America 90 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 31 English Embroiderers' Guild 89 Erdrich, Vivian 70
Ferris, Reverend Charles 25 Finger, Marjorie 98 Fishkill Plains 48 Fishki11 Plains Community Library 50 Flanagan, Hallie 98 Ford, Gertrude 98 Fort McCle11an, Alabama 57 Fort Si11, Oklahoma 58 Fort Bragg, North Carolina 57 Foster, Mrs. D. Crosby 35 Fowler, Mrs. Milton A. 35 Fried, Florence 91 Friedland, Anne 91 Fry, Varian 83
Gayhead 51 Gibson Mandolin Club 37 Girton, Elva Riker 54 Golden Jubilee, 1902 16 Gore, Albert 63 Grace Episcopal Church 89 Great Lakes Training Center 60 Greene, Goldie Weiss 54 Guy, Sir Thomas 30
Hackett, Charlotte Cuneen 98 Hafcut, Mrs. Horace D. 35 Haight, Elsea Thome 98 Hansen, Olga 90 Harden, John and Mary M. 24 Harren, Eve11a Gary 54 Hasbrouck, Mrs. Frank 35 Hatfield, E., New York State Senator 39 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 31 Hayes, Roland 25 Heermance, Mrs. Martin 35 Herschel, Sir John and Caroline 31 HiH, Mrs. Wi11iam Bancroft 41 Hirsdansky, Dr. Sara 68 Hitler's Germany 84 Hitsman, Dorothy Howell 45 Hopper, Admiral Grace 85 Horton, Ernest 48 Hosmer, Harriet, sculptor 32 Howland, Elisa Woolsey 98 Hudson Valley Volunteer Fireman's Association 13 Hughes, Langston 25 Human rights 83 Hunter, Mary Alice 54 Husted, Judy Utecht 54
Industrial Relief Organization 42 International Business Machines Corporation 77 Iran, visitors from 80
Jeanneney, Mary Lou 99, 108 Jewett, Milo P. 30 Johnson, Dr. G. Orvi11e 76 Johnson, President Lyndon 85 Junior Chamber of Commerce, Tulsa,
Oklahoma67
Katzin, Janet Effron 54 Kefauver, Senator Estes 77 Kennedy, President John F. 80 KimbaH, Dr. Grace Niebuhr 40 Kincaid, Elise 99 Kirchner, Charles 36
Ku Klux Klan 88
LaDue, Alice Roy 54 Lady Washington Hose Company 11 Landowska, Wanda 83 LaPorte, Helen 99 Lasker, Mary 99 Leigh, Catherine Flint 100 Letchworth Village 66 Leverrier, Urbain 31 Lindberg, Edith 46 Linden Hall Finishing School 46
Little Red School House 66 Livingston, Margaret Beekman 100 Luckey, Platt & Co. 27,49 Ludington, Sybil 100 Lynch, Katherine 69
MacArthur, General Douglas 88 MacCracken, Dr. Henry N. 27,37 Mahwenawasigh Chapter, DAR 35 Marble, Alice 88 Matthews, Mrs. Shirley 80 Matthews, Jean Hagler 100 Matthews, Ima Dean 89 Mayo, Dr. Leonard U. 80 McCarthy, Senator Joseph 88 Mccrimmon, Rachael 46 McGill, Ralph 88 McKenzie, Gillian Cox 89 Merry Go Round 80 Michel, Mrs. Charles 77 Miles, Mrs. William A. 35 Millbrook, NY 89 Millbrook Needlework Guild 89 Miller, Mary Starr 100 Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) 29 Montgomery, Janet Livingston 101 Moore, Susan 100 Morgan, Dr. Robert Wesley 27 Morse, Samuel F.B. 32 Mount Gulian Historic Site 92 Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg 101
NAACP local chapter 27 Nantucket Athenaeum 31 National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. 26 National League of Women's Service43 Naval Communications Center, Manhattan 58 Nelson House 25 New York Infirmary for Women and Children41 New York State Department of Health 42 New York State Department of Mental Hygiene76 New York State Education Department 70 New York State Education Department Board of Regents 38 New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Historic Sites 38 New York State Legislature 73 New York State Library 50 New York State Office of Architects 37 New York State Taconic Park
Commission 36 New York State Welfare League for Retarded Children 66 North Clove 47 North Carolina Junior Chamber of
Commerce67
Office of Department of War 47 Office of Chief of Naval Operations 59 Office of Naval Intelligence 58 Ogden and Ruth Livingston Mills
State Historic Site 91 Ossan Air Base, Seoul, South Korea 59 O'Brien, Sally Gifford 89
Parris Island, South Carolina 57 Parshall, Margaret Thome 89 Patri, Angelo 76 Pawling, Catherine Beekman Rutsen 101 Payne, Bessie Harden 24, 70 Payne, Reverend Herbert 24 Pettit, Mrs. Sally Behr 90 Poppinhouse, Sarah 54 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle 36 Poughkeepsie High School 26 Poughkeepsie Journal 55 Poughkeepsie Neighborhood Club 26 Poughkeepsie New Yorker 38 Poughkeepsie School Superintendent 70 Prendergast, Mehitabel Wing 101 President's Panel on Mental Retardation 80 Price, Dr. Garrett 26 Proper, Sister Helen Marie 101 Puff, Stephen 70
Rawson, Frances T. 43 Raymond, Allan and Harriet 67 Readers Digest (The) 67 Rehabilitation Programs, Inc. 81 Reichert, Joseph and Martha L. 6 Reifler, Sally Goldberg 54 Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson 102 Rooney, Martha Umphenour 54 Roosevelt, Eleanor 76, 83, 102 Roosevelt, Ellen C. 102 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 84 Roosevelt, Governor Theodore 36 Roosevelt Library 83 Roosevelt, Sarah Delano 102
Rosenson, Marguerite Bailey 102 Royal School of Needlework 89 Rubican Foundation 77 Ruggles, Mary Crooke Broome Livingston 103
Sague, Mary Landon 103 Sague, Mayor John C. 42 Salisbury, CT 90 Salmon, Lucy Maynard 103 Saltford, Belle 37 Sanford, Mrs. Robert 35 Sanger, Margaret 103 Sargeant, Amy Rotch 103 Schenck, Hannah l 04 Schmidt, Bernadine 67 Schultz, Margaret Stickler 54 Seaman, Annie Yates 41 Seaman, Josephine Gaskin 41 Sitzer, Nelson 50 Skyllkill Needlework Chapter 91 Slater, Pauline Reichert and William E. 7 Small, Sheelagh 89 Smith Bros. Cough Drop Co. 25 Somerville, Mary 31 South Africa 26 Southern Conference on Human Welfare 84 Spencer, Rev. Earl 76 Sperry Rand 85 Spiegel, John and Mary Reichert 13 Spingarn, Amy 104 St. Peter's Episcopal Church 89 St. Elizabeth's Society 16 St. James Church, Hyde Park, NY 91 St. Francis Hospital 42 Staley, Lucy 104 Stambrook, Mimi 74 State Fireman's Association Convention 13 Stevens, Mayor 76 Suckley, Daisy 104 Sultan of Turkey 41 Sweet, Sara46 Swift, Carolyn Atwater 35, 104 Syracuse University 75
Taconic Press 83 Tappen, Elizabeth Crannell 105 Taylor, James Monroe 33 Taylor, Sarah 105 Taylor, Dorothea 66, 105 Teachers College, Columbus,
Mississippi 68 Thelberg, Dr. Elizabeth B. 42 Thurmond, Governor Strom 88 Truman, President Harry 88
U.S. Air Force 54 U.S. Army Nurse Corps 54 U.S. Marine Corps Reserves 54 U.S. Military 53 U.S. Navy 53, 85 U.S.S. Hopper 86 Union Street Historic District 6 United Federation of Negro Women 26
Valley Forge (PA) Medical Center 55 Van, Turkey 41 Van Cleff, Mrs. Spencer 35 Van Kleek, Frank 36 Varick, Mary 35 Vassar, Matthew 29 Vassar College 29 Vassar Brothers Hospital 27 Vassar College Observatory 33 Vatican Observatory 31 Vaughton, Susannah Leisler 105 Ver Nooy, Amy Pearce 105 VerPlanck, Katherine Wolcott 105 Vincent, Rebe46 Virginia Seminary College, Lynchburg,
Virginia 26 Voight, General Wilma 63
Walter Reed Army Hospital 55 Wassaic School 69
WAVES54
Webster, Jean 106 Wesleyan Methodist Church Chapel 50 Whitney, Mary 32 Wilcox, Irene 106 Willets, Deborah Rogers 106 Wilson, Woodrow 43 Wilson, Erica 89 Wilson, Dr. Louis 38 WIMSA 63 Wodell, Katherine 35 Wolpert, Helen 72 Women's Memorial, Washington, DC 63 Woodside, Marjorie Weatherwax 54 Work Projects Administration 27 World War I 47 World Warll 53
Yale University 31
Young, Annette Innis 106 Young Women's Christian
Association 43 Young America Hose Company 9
Zimet, Rabbi 76
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