To answer those inquiries, and more particularly to record the identity of those who are now “carrying on,” there follows a list of the current officers of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.

Regent
Miss Harriet Clayton ComegysOn the Green, Dover, Delaware
Hon. Vice-Regent
Mrs. Elizabeth B. A. RathboneMichigan
Vice-Regents
Miss Alice M. LongfellowMassachusetts
Mrs. Charles Custis HarrisonPennsylvania
Mrs. Thomas S. MaxeyTexas
Mrs. Robert D. JohnstonAlabama
Mrs. Eugene Van RensselaerWest Virginia
Mrs. John Julius PringleSouth Carolina
Mrs. William F. BarretKentucky
Mrs. Henry W. RogersMaryland
Miss Mary F. FailingOregon
Mrs. Eliza F. LearyWashington
Mrs. J. Carter BrownRhode Island
Mrs. James Gore King RichardsMaine
Miss Mary EvartsVermont
Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon FosterDelaware
Miss Annie Ragan KingLouisiana
Miss Jane A. RiggsDistrict of Columbia
Mrs. Horace Mann TownerIowa
Mrs. Thomas P. DenhamFlorida
Miss Harriet L. HuntressNew Hampshire
Mrs. Charles Eliot FurnessMinnesota
Mrs. Benjamin D. WalcottIndiana
Mrs. Lucien M. HanksWisconsin
Miss Annie Burr JenningsConnecticut
Mrs. Willard Hall BradfordNew Jersey
Mrs. Charles NagelMissouri
Mrs. George A. CarpenterIllinois
Miss Mary Govan BillupsMississippi
Mrs. John V. AbrahamsKansas
Mrs. Margaret Busbee ShippNorth Carolina
Mrs. Horton PopeColorado
Mrs. Charles J. LivingoodOhio
Mrs. Randolph AndersonGeorgia
Mrs. Celsus Price PerrieArkansas
Mrs. Horace Van DenenterTennessee
Mrs. Charles S. WheelerCalifornia

The restoration and custody of The Quincy Homestead is in the hands of a committee of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. The promoting and sustaining figure in the work is the present chief executive of the Society, Mrs. Barrett Wendell, of Boston.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Incorrect accent marks and archaic / dialect spellings were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

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