| 词条 | Mary Desha |
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| name = Mary Desha | image = MaryDesha1907.tif | caption = Desha, from a 1907 publication | birth_name = Mary Desha | birth_date = March 8, 1850 | birth_place = Lexington, Kentucky | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1911|01|29|1850|03|08}} | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | occupation = | known_for = | spouse = | children = | parents = John Randolph Desha Mary Curry | relations = Joseph Desha (grandfather) }}Mary Desha (March 8, 1850 – January 29, 1911) was a founder of Daughters of the American Revolution.[1] Early lifeMary Desha was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Randolph Desha, M. D., and Mary Curry. Her sister was Issa Desha, who married William Campbell Preston Breckinridge.[2] She was the granddaughter of Joseph Desha and Margaret Bledsoe and the great-granddaughter of Robert Desha and Elinor Wheeler. She was also the great-granddaughter of Isaac Bledsoe and Katherine Montgomery and the great-great-granddaughter of John Montgomery, Sr., and Marguerite Briarley. She was the great-grandniece of John Montgomery, Jr. and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Wheeler.[2] Mary Desha attended the University of Kentucky (at that time known as "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky"), after which she taught at a private school which she and her mother had founded.[1] CareerAfter attending the University of Kentucky, she obtained a job with the Lexington public school system until December 1885, when she began work as a clerk in Washington, D.C.[1] In 1888, she began teaching in Sitka, Alaska.[1] She wrote to the government in Washington about the poor living conditions of the Alaskan natives, which resulted in a federal investigation.[1] Also while in Sitka she whipped a student, and his father and others went to the school board to complain; this may have helped lead to the end of corporal punishment in Alaskan public schools.[3] A note appeared in the Tacoma Ledger in January 1889, stating, "The Board of Education of Alaska has abolished flogging in the public school. This is a green laurel in the frosty crown of our northerly sister that will distinguish her as a leader in humanitarianism. Flogging school children is a relic of barbarism that casts a sad reflection upon our boasted civilization and scientific achievements."[3] In 1889, she returned to Lexington, but soon went to Washington to work as a clerk in the pension office, and later worked as a copyist for the Office of Indian Affairs.[1] For the rest of her life she continued working in the civil service, as well as acting as an Assistant Director of the Daughters of the American Revolution Hospital Corps during the Spanish–American War in 1898.[1] The first official meeting of the first chapter (branch) of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at 2 p.m. on October 11, 1890, in Strathmore Arms, the residence of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the four co-founders.[4] Sons of the American Revolution members Registrar General Dr. George Brown Goode, Secretary General A. Howard Clark, William O. McDowell (SAR member #1), Wilson L. Gill (secretary at the inaugural meeting), and 18 other people also met at the Strathmore Arms that day, but Desha, Lockwood, Walworth, and Washington are called co-founders since they had held two or three planning meetings in August 1890.[5] Legacy
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.dar.org/archives/four-founders|title=The Four Founders|publisher=Daughters of the American Revolution|accessdate=November 2, 2014}} {{authority control}}{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Desha, Mary}}2. ^1 {{Harvnb|National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution|1901}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.sitkahistory.org/dar-mary-desha.shtml|title=Sitka|publisher=sitkahistoy.org|accessdate=November 2, 2014}} 4. ^The four women listed as founding the organization are Mary Desha, Eugenia Washington, Mary Smith Lockwood, and Ellen Hardin Walworth. 5. ^{{Harvnb|National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution|1991|p=22.}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dar.org/archives/four-founders|title=Founders Memorial|work=Daughters of the American Revolution|accessdate=October 31, 2014}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0000930.htm|title=Daughters of the American Revolution, Founders statue at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.|publisher=dcmemorials.com|accessdate=October 31, 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://marydesha.weebly.com/|title=Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Desha Chapter, District of Columbia|publisher=weebly.com|accessdate=October 31, 2014}} 6 : 1850 births|1911 deaths|American educators|University of Kentucky alumni|Founders of lineage societies|Kentucky women activists |
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