Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records A Guide to the Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records, 1890-2016 Ms.1995.019

A Guide to the Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records, 1890-2016 Ms.1995.019


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Kira A. Dietz, Archivist

Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Ms.1995.019
Title
Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records, 1890-2016
Quantity
9.1 Cubic Feet, 13 boxes; 1 folder
Creator
Daughters of the American Revolution. Alleghany Chapter (Blacksburg, Va.)
Language
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract
The Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) was formed in 1890 as an organization to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Indepedence, to encourage historical research in relation to the Revolution, and to promote the celebration of all patriotic anniversaries. The records consist of rosters, D.A.R. magazines, contitutions and by–laws, minutes and membership ledgers, yearbooks, scrapbooks, news bulletins, obituaries of members, and the original charter of the Alleghany Chapter.

Administrative Information

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Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records, Ms1995-019, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The initial collection was donated to Special Collections in July 1995.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the July 1995 donation and May 1997 accrual of the Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records was completed in November 1996 and October 1997 by student assistants Helen Harrison and Gina Ellis, and by Laura Katz Smith, Manuscripts Curator. The June 1998, November 2000, and April 2009 accruals were processed in April 2009 by Kira A. Dietz, Processing and Acquisitions Archivist. The 2011 accrual was processed in December 2011, at which time minor changes were made to the descriptive information. January 2012 materials were added to the collection at the time of their donation. 2017 materials were processed in September 2017.

Accruals

Additional materials were donated in May 1997, June 1998, November 2000, April 2009, February 2011, January 2012, and August 2017. Additional donations are expected in the future.


Historical Note

The Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) was formed in 1890 as an organization to "perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence, by the acquisition and protection of historical spots, and the erection of monuments; by the encouragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of the individual services of the Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anniversaries." The motto is "God, Home, and Country." Membership in the D.A.R. is eligible to "any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution." "Patriot" includes several types of military, civil, or other service in the course of the Revolution.

The Alleghany Chapter was organized in Blacksburg, Virginia, in January 1911. The first officers of the chapter were Mrs. Paul Barringer, Regent; Miss Ellen McDonald, Vice–Regent; Mrs. Alexander Black, Treasurer; Mrs. J.S.A. Johnson, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Nelson Mayo, Corresponding Secretary; and Mrs. James Otey, Registrar and Chair of the History Committee. Many of the charter members were descended from pioneers who held land in the New River section of the Alleghany Mountains, now known as "Trans–Alleghany Pioneers." The original members chose the name "Alleghany" over an individual hero of the Revolutionary War as their name, to preserve the colonial history and traditions of the region.

The chapter members erected several markers in Blacksburg and the region memorializing people and events of its colonial history. Most noteworthy is the marker at Barger Fort on Ribbles Spring in Christiansburg, on the grave of Revolutionary soldier and early settler Giles Thomas in the Blacksburg Cemetery, and in memory of Col. William Patton and the pioneers who lost their lives in the Drapers Meadow Massacre in 1755, placed near Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg.

For additional information see:
Alleghany Chapter , National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of the American Revolution

Scope and Contents

The Alleghany Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records contain several types of materials including bound books and ledgers, published bulletins and magazines, conference and committee programs, scrapbooks, and historical newsclippings. The collection also contains the original charter and framed awards.

Two boxes of the collection consist of bound books or ledgers. Box 1 contains Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution rosters from the founding of the DAR in 1890 through the mid-1930s, and a National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book from 1898. Box 9 holds Alleghany Chapter ledgers: membership records, 1911-1991; meeting minutes, 1911-2009; and financial records, 1957-2010.

The collection houses the Virigina DAR News Bulletin from 1962-1991 and the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine from 1928-1932, 1987. It also contains incomplete runs of Alleghany Chapter yearbooks and supplements from 1947 to 2009 and the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution yearbooks from 1980 to 1991.

The programs in the collection relate to chapter, state, and national Daughters of the American Revolution conferences and committees. Examples include materials from Alleghany Chapter annual meetings, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Continental Congress programs and centennial celebration literature, and Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution State Conferences.

The collection includes several scrapbooks and folders of loose newsclippings. The scrapbooks feature photographs of local and national events, programs, and correspondence related to scholarships and service. Scrapbooks in this collection date from 1931 through 2016. The newsclippings often relate to individual members of the Alleghany Chapter, as well as to chapter projects and interests (i.e. the Preston family, the Smithfield plantation, and grave/memorial markers). Clippings in the collection range from the 1920s to the 1970s and come from a variety of local and regional newspapers.

An oversize box (Box 8) contains the original framed charter for the Alleghany Chapter from 1911.The application for the charter is also a part of the collection and can be found in Box 10. Box 8 also houses several framed awards the chapter received between 1942 and 1953.

Arrangement

Materials in this collection are arranged in the following series: Series I: Administrative Information (including chapter history, membership records, constitution and by-laws), 1890-2010; Series II: Awards, 1912-1953; Markers and Memorials (including information on placement of grave and memorial markers and obituaries), 1968-2006; Minutes and Financial Records (ledgers), 1911-2010; Publications (including yearbooks, conference programs, bulletins, and newspaper clippings), 1910-2009; and Scrapbooks and Photographs, 1938-2016.

Series are arranged in alphabetical order. Materials within each series are arranged by material type, then chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Daughters of the American Revolution. Alleghany Chapter (Blacksburg, Va.)
  • Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
  • Montgomery County (Va.)
  • Women -- History

Rights Statement for Archival Description

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Container List

Series I: Administrative Information
1890-2010
  • box-folder 2 folder: 1
    Early history of Daughters of the American Revolution booklet
    1908
  • box-folder 10 folder: 1
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR charter application and founding materials
    1909-1910, n.d.
  • box-folder 3 folder: 1
    History of the Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR
    1960-1987
  • box-folder 3 folder: 3
    History of Chapter Names, Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution, bound book
    1964
  • box-folder 1 folder: 1
    Roster of Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution, bound book
    1890-1958
  • box-folder 1 folder: 1
    Roster of Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution, bound book
    1892-1936
  • box-folder 9 folder: 1
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR membership record book
    1911-1964
  • box-folder 9 folder: 2
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR membership record book
    1939-1975
  • box-folder 11 folder: 1
    Frances Engels Membership Records
    1956
  • box-folder 2 folder: 6
    Supplements to the Roster of the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution
    1959-1965
  • box-folder 9 folder: 3
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR membership record book
    1977-1991
  • box-folder 4 folder: 4
    NSDAR directories of committees
    1982-1992
  • box-folder 1 folder: 3
    NSDAR Lineage Book
    1898
  • box-folder 2 folder: 3 box-folder 2 folder: 4
    NSDAR citizenship, protocol, and procedure manuals, and Constitution and By–laws
    1940-1989
  • box-folder 11 folder: 2
    Alleghany Chapter By-laws (with revisions)
    2009
  • box-folder 4 folder: 9
    NSDAR schools
    n.d.
  • box-folder 11 folder: 3
    Administrative Papers and Correspondence
    2006-2010
  • box-folder 10 folder: 5
    Miscellaneous papers and correspondence
    1934-1967, n.d.
  • folder 1
    "Proclamation by the President to the People" (copy of proclamation by Woodrow Wilson, April 15, 1917, regarding World War I), including a label stating "Presented to the VPI Library by the Alleghany Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 12, 1940"
  • Membership Applications + Transfer Cards
    • box-folder 13 folder: 1
      Applications - A
    • box-folder 13 folder: 2-3
      Applications - B (2 folders)
    • box-folder 13 folder: 4
      Applications - C
    • box-folder 13 folder: 5
      Applications - D
    • box-folder 13 folder: 6
      Applications - E
    • box-folder 13 folder: 7
      Applications - F
    • box-folder 13 folder: 8
      Applications - G
    • box-folder 13 folder: 9-10
      Applications - H (2 folders)
    • box-folder 13 folder: 11
      Applications - J
    • box-folder 13 folder: 12
      Applications - K
    • box-folder 13 folder: 13
      Applications - L
    • box-folder 13 folder: 14-15
      Applications - M (2 folders)
    • box-folder 13 folder: 16
      Applications - N
    • box-folder 13 folder: 17
      Applications - O
    • box-folder 13 folder: 18
      Applications - P
    • box-folder 13 folder: 19
      Applications - R
    • box-folder 13 folder: 20
      Applications - S
    • box-folder 13 folder: 21
      Applications - T
    • box-folder 13 folder: 22
      Applications - U
    • box-folder 13 folder: 23
      Applications - V
    • box-folder 13 folder: 24-25
      Applications - W (2 folders)
    • box-folder 13 folder: 26
      Applications - Y
    • box-folder 13 folder: 27
      Transfer cards
Series II: Awards
1912-1953
  • box 8
    Framed charter of the Allegheny Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
    1912
  • box 8
    Framed awards
    1942-1953
Series III: Markers and Memorials
1968-2006
  • box-folder 3 folder: 4
    Placement of markers on graves of revolutionary soldiers, newspaper articles
    1968-1974
  • box-folder 3 folder: 5
    Allegheny Chapter NSDAR annual meeting programs, newspaper articles
    1969-1987
  • box-folder 3 folder: 6
    Draper Meadow massacre marker
    1971
  • box-folder 3 folder: 7
    Grave marking ceremony for Colonel William Preston and wife, Susanna Smith
    1973
  • box-folder 3 folder: 8
    Placement of markers on graves of Daughters of the American Revolution members
    1976-1980
  • box-folder 4 folder: 7
    Obituaries of Daughters of the American Revolution members
    1992-1993
  • box-folder 10 folder: 21
    Draper Meadow/Barger's Indian Fort marker information
    2005-2006, n.d.
Series IV: Minutes and Financial Records
1911-2010
Scope and Content

Please note: There is some overlap between Subseries I: Minutes and Subseries II: Financial Records. Some meeting minutes include budgetary information and some financial records have copies of meeting minutes attached.

  • Subseries A: Minutes
    1911-2009
    • box-folder 9 folder: 4
      Minutes ledger
      1911-1926
    • box-folder 9 folder: 5
      Minutes ledger
      1926-1950
    • box-folder 9 folder: 6
      Minutes ledger
      1951-1966
    • box-folder 9 folder: 7
      Minutes ledger
      1967-1987
    • box-folder 9 folder: 8
      Minutes ledger
      1987-1994
    • box-folder 9 folder: 9
      Minutes ledger
      1995-2004
    • box-folder 11 folder: 4 box-folder 11 folder: 5
      Minutes
      2005-2007
    • box-folder 11 folder: 6
      Minutes
      2008-2009
  • Subseries B: Financial Records
    1957-2010
    • box-folder 9 folder: 10
      Financial records
      1957-1976
    • box-folder 9 folder: 11
      Financial records
      1962-1986
    • box-folder 9 folder: 12
      Financial records
      1977-1984
    • box-folder 11 folder: 7
      Financial records
      2007-2010
    • box-folder 11 folder: 8
      Financial correspondence
      2009-2010
Series V: Publications
1910-2009
  • box-folder 10 folder: 2
    NSDAR pamphlets and magazines
    1910, 1924, 1987
  • box-folder 2 folder: 2
    National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution magazines
    1928-1932
  • box-folder 3 folder: 2
    Virginia DAR News Bulletin
    1962-1991
  • box-folder 10 folder: 4
    Virginia and North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution programs
    1931, 1948
  • box-folder 4 folder: 2
    Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution State Conference Programs
    1981-1985
  • box-folder 4 folder: 3
    NSDAR Continental Congress programs
    1981-1988
  • box-folder 4 folder: 5
    Public relations literature
    1984-1987
  • box-folder 4 folder: 6
    NSDAR centennial celebration literature
    1989-1990
  • box-folder 2 folder: 5
    Yearbooks and supplements
    1947-1977
  • box-folder 3 folder: 9
    Yearbooks and supplements
    1977-1995
  • box-folder 11 folder: 9
    Yearbooks and supplements
    1996-2009
  • box-folder 5 folder: 1 box-folder 5 folder: 2 box-folder 5 folder: 3
    Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution yearbooks
    1980-1983
  • box-folder 10 folder: 3
    Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
    1928-1961
  • box-folder 4 folder: 1
    Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, programs, and papers
    1978-1992
Series VI: Scrapbooks and Photographs
1938-2016
  • box 6
    Scrapbooks
    1931-1980
  • box-folder 10 folder: 6 box-folder 10 folder: 7 box-folder 10 folder: 8
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR awards scrapbook
    1962-1984
  • box 7
    Scrapbooks
    1980-1987, 1989-1992
  • box-folder 10 folder: 9
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR supplement
    1999-2000
  • box-folder 10 folder: 10 box-folder 10 folder: 11 box-folder 10 carton: 12
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR scrapbook
    1999-2005
  • box-folder 10 folder: 13 box-folder 10 folder: 14 box-folder 10 folder: 15 box-folder 10 folder: 16
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR scrapbook
    2005-2008
  • box-folder 10 folder: 17 box-folder 10 folder: 18 box-folder 10 folder: 19 box-folder 10 folder: 20
    Alleghany Chapter, NSDAR scrapbook
    2008-2010
  • box 12
    Alleghany Chapter (2-003-VA). NSDAR History Book
    2013-2016
  • box-folder 4 folder: 8
    Photographs from Daughters of the American Revolution meetings
    1992-1994