genial disposition, sturdiness of purpose, and charming personality. As president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution she lifted the society out of the chaos into which contentious rivals had dragged it, and placed it in the line of progression and achievement. She made the dream of Continental Hall a possible reality by her skillful financial management. No other woman has received greater honors or worn them more gracefully than has Mrs. Donald McLean, who is among the most faithful of wives, tenderest of mothers, loyal of daughters, truest of patriots, most generous and loyal of friends.
ELLEN HARDIN WALWORTH.
Mrs. Walworth was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and is a daughter of General John J. Hardin, United States Volunteers, and Sarah Ellen Hardin. She was educated at Jacksonville Academy and by private tutors. She was married at Saratoga Springs, New York, to M. T. Walworth in 1852. She graduated from the Woman's Law Class of the University of New York. She was president and founder of the Art and Science Field Club of Saratoga and founder and ex-president of the Post Parliament, New York, and was one of the first three women nominated and elected to a school board under the New York law admitting women as trustees. She is chiefly prominent as being one of the three founders—with Miss Eugenia Washington and Miss Mary Desha—of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was director general of the Woman's National War Relief Association in 1898, and was at the Field Hospital at Fortress Monroe to meet the first wounded brought front Santiago, with supplies, nurses, etc. She went to Montauk and remained in the Field Hospital there until it closed. She has served on many important committees of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is the author of "Battles of Saratoga," "Parliamentary Rules," also various monographs.
MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT.
Mrs. M. T. Scott, recently re-elected as president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is one of the most charming and interesting personalities in American public life. She is a rare combination of the best that blood, culture and wealth can produce on our continent.
