Mrs. William D. Cabell, of Virginia ; Mrs. Henry V. Boynton, of Ohio; Mrs. A. W. Greely, of Washington, D. C; Mrs. F. O. St. Clair, of Maryland; Mrs. A. Leo Knott, of Maryland; Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, of New York; Mrs. G. Browne Good, of Washington, D. C.; Miss Mary Desha, of Kentucky; Mrs. Stephen J. Field, of California; Mrs. Thomas Alexander, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Rosa Wright Smith, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Hugh Hagan, of Georgia; Mrs. John Risley Putnam, of New York; Mrs. G. H. Shields, of Missouri; Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, of New York; Mrs. Marshall MacDonald, of Virginia; Miss Eugenia Washington, of Virginia; Mrs. A. Howard Clarke, of Massachusetts; Miss Clara Barton, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Arthur E. Clarke, of New Hampshire; Mrs. Henry Blount, of Indiana; Mrs. deB. Randolph Keim, of Connecticut; Miss Louise Ward McAllister, of New York; Mrs. Frank Stuart Osborne, of Illinois; Miss Marie Devereux, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Joshua Wilbour, of Rhode Island; Mrs. W. W. Shippen, of New Jersey; Mrs. N. B. Hogg, of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Clifton C. Breckinridge, of Arkansas; Mrs. Adolphus S. Hubbard, of California; Mrs. Charles E. Putnam, of Iowa; Mrs. Simon E. Buckner, of Kentucky; Mrs. Samuel Eliot, of Massachusetts; Mrs. William Wirt Henry, of Virginia; Miss Elizabeth Lee Blair, of Maryland; Mrs. Julius C. Burrows, Mrs. James McMillan, Mrs. J. A. T. Hull, and Mrs. Joseph Washington.
The charter was signed by Thomas B. Reed, and Vice-President Adlai A. Stevenson, president of the Senate, approved by Grover Cleveland, and certified to by Richard Olney. The board of management was composed of the following prominent women: Mrs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, New York; Mrs. Albert D. Brockett, Alexandria, Va.; Mrs. Russel A. Alger, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. N. D. Sperry, New Haven, Conn.; Mrs.
