Colonial Dames of America

National Headquarters at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York City

The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who lived in British America from 1607 to 1775, and was of service to the colonies by either holding public office, being in the military, or serving the Colonies in some other "eligible" way. The CDA is listed as an approved lineage society with the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.

The National Headquarters is at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York City, which was purchased by the CDA in 1924.

History[edit]

The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Notable members[edit]

Lillie Stella Acer Ballagh, founder of Matinee Musical Club, Los Angeles^[1]
Fanny Yarborough Bickett (1870-1941), First Lady of North Carolina and first female president of the North Carolina Railroad
Florence Anderson Clark (1835–1918), author, newspaper editor, librarian, university dean
Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832–1908), writer and preservationist in Williamsburg, Virginia.^[2]
Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, businesswoman and philanthropist; founder of the Connecticut chapter of CDA^[3]
Laura Dayton Fessenden (1852-1924), author
Sallie Foster Harshbarger, active in civic and fraternal work^[1]
Mary Hilliard Hinton, historian, painter, anti-suffragist, and white supremacist
Alice Curtice Moyer^[4]
Edith Allen Phelps, twice president of the Oklahoma Library Association, the first professional in the Library Science field in the Oklahoma City system^[1]
Adelaide Hamilton (1830-1915), last surviving granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton. She joined the organisation when it was first launched.
Florence Warfield Sillers, historian and socialite
Fay Webb-Gardner, First Lady of North Carolina
Lynn Forney Young, lineage society leader

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Dictionary of Virginia Biography - Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman Biography". www.lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
^ Woodward, Walt (22 November 2021). "A Formidable Founding – The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut". Today in Connecticut History. Office of the Connecticut State Historian. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
^ Johnson, Anne (1914). Notable women of St. Louis, 1914. St. Louis, Woodward. p. 166. Retrieved 17 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[Binheim-1] Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[2] "Dictionary of Virginia Biography - Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman Biography". www.lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-15.

[Colt-3] Woodward, Walt (22 November 2021). "A Formidable Founding – The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut". Today in Connecticut History. Office of the Connecticut State Historian. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

[Johnson-4] Johnson, Anne (1914). Notable women of St. Louis, 1914. St. Louis, Woodward. p. 166. Retrieved 17 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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