DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN RE VOLUTION, SOCIETY OF. A woman's patri otic society, organized in Washington, D. C., October 11, 1890. It has for its objects the perpetuation of the memory of those who achieved American independence, the collection of relics of early American days. and the erec tion of monuments on historic sites. Member ship is restricted to those women of whose ances -tors-at least one aided in establishing American independence. The society has admitted to membership about 40.000 women, organized into some 700 local chapters. These chapters arc found in all of the States and Territories ex cepting Idaho and :Mississippi, Nevada, Arizona, and New :Mexico, and there are also chapters in Canada, the Hawaiian islands, and in Europe. Delegates from all the chapters meet in annual congress ill Washington in the week of Washing ton's Birthday. The society has collected u+Kny historical relics, which have been deposited in the United States National :Museum ill Washington, and it has also a valuable historical and genea logical library at its headquarters in Washington.
During the Spanish-Ameriean War it aided the Government by securing nurses of proper charac ter and qualifications. The society has accumu lated a fund of $125,000, for the purpose of erect ing a Continental .1Iemorial Hall in Washington, and in 1902 purchased a site for that purpose. The National Society was incorporated by act of Congress in 1896, and, in accordance with that act, reports annually to Congress. The society publishes The American Monthly Magazine, the first number of which was issued July, 1892; and also a series of lineage books, containing the record of the ancestry of each member of the organization.