Appendix

Those who find in the stories of Mount Vernon and The Quincy Homestead a stimulus for the preservation of other famous American residences will naturally inquire into the successful methods of the organizations of patriotic women who now carry on that work in a manner so perfectly suited to the charge.

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 Comegys On the Green, Dover, Delaware

Hon. Vice-Regent

Mrs. Elizabeth B. A. Rathbone Michigan

Vice-Regents

Miss Alice M. Longfellow Massachusetts

Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison Pennsylvania

Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey Texas

Mrs. Robert D. Johnston Alabama

Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer West Virginia

Mrs. John Julius Pringle South Carolina

Mrs. William F. Barret Kentucky

Mrs. Henry W. Rogers Maryland

Miss Mary F. Failing Oregon

Mrs. Eliza F. Leary Washington

Mrs. J. Carter Brown Rhode Island

Mrs. James Gore King Richards Maine

Miss Mary Evarts Vermont

Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon Foster Delaware

Miss Annie Ragan King Louisiana

Miss Jane A. Riggs District of Columbia

Mrs. Horace Mann Towner Iowa

Mrs. Thomas P. Denham Florida

Miss Harriet L. Huntress New Hampshire

Mrs. Charles Eliot Furness Minnesota

Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott Indiana

Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks Wisconsin

Miss Annie Burr Jennings Connecticut

Mrs. Willard Hall Bradford New Jersey

Mrs. Charles Nagel Missouri

Mrs. George A. Carpenter Illinois

Miss Mary Govan Billups Mississippi

Mrs. John V. Abrahams Kansas

Mrs. Margaret Busbee Shipp North Carolina

Mrs. Horton Pope Colorado

Mrs. Charles J. Livingood Ohio

Mrs. Randolph Anderson Georgia

Mrs. Celsus Price Perrie Arkansas

Mrs. Horace Van Denenter Tennessee

Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler California

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.