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Women from the Time of Mary Washington
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NATIONAL PRESIDENTS. NATIONAL SECRETARIES. NATIONAL TREASURERS.
Sarah C. Mink Sarah E. Phillips Armilla A. Cheney
Emma R. Wallace Jennie Bross Armilla A. Cheney
Lizabeth A. Turner Harriette L. Reed Isabelle T. Bagley
Agnes Hitt Ida S. McBride Isabelle T. Bagley
Sarah J. Martin. Mary H. Shepherd Isabelle T. Bagley
Flo Jamison Miller Mattie Jamison Tippett Isabelle T. Bagley
Harriet J. Bodge Charlotte E. Wright Sarah E. Phillips
Mary L. Carr Fannie D. W. Hardin Sarah E. Phillips
Calista Robinson Jones Mary Ellen Conant Sarah E. Phillips
Lodusky J. Taylor Ada E. May Sarah E. Phillips
Sarah D. Winans Jennie S. Wright Isabelle T. Bagley
Fanny E. Minot Helen McGregor Ayers Sarah E. Phillips
Abbie Asenath Adams Mary R. Morgan Charlotte E. Wright
Carrie R. Sparklin Belle C. Kimball Charlotte E. Wright
Kate E. Jones Eliza Brown Daggett Charlotte E. Wright
Mary L. Gilman Maria W. Going Charlotte E. Wright
Jennie Iowa Berry Georgia Wade McClellan Charlotte E. Wright
Belle C. Harris Ida Wilson Moore Charlotte E. Wright


Women of the Woman's Relief Corps.

E. FLORENCE BARKER.

First national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. When the Woman's Relief Corps was organized as a national body at Denver in 1883, there was present Mrs. E. Florence Barker of Maiden, Massachusetts, who at the time, was president of a large patriotic and benevolent organization of the state, called the Union Board Woman's Relief Corps. This, she with a number of other ladies represented at the Denver meeting. She had long been known for her good works, and had been assiduous in working for the soldiers during the Civil War, and after that, she married Colonel Thomas E. Barker, of the 12th New Hampshire Regiment. After a life spent for the good of others, she passed on to her reward, September 11, 1897.

KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD.

Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, second national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, was one of the organizers, acted as secretary at the first meeting and was elected national senior vice-president at that meeting.

She is an Ohio woman and was one of those who "waited" during the Civil War, while she also worked with her might, for not only the soldier husband, but for all who had gone at their country's call. Her husband is General Isaac R. Sherwood, a member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States. Mrs. Sherwood is without a peer as an executive officer,