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The organization Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in United States' independence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Daughters of the American Revolution )〕 A non-profit group, they work to promote historic preservation, education and patriotism. The DAR has chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia. DAR chapters have been founded in Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. As of 2012, over 850,000 women have been able to trace their lineage to join this organization. Although it is referred to as the DAR (or DAR), the official name of this organization is the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). National Society Daughters of the American Revolution membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the Revolutionary period who aided the cause of independence; applicants must have reached 18 years of age and must be “personally acceptable” to the society. In the late 20th century the society's membership totaled approximately 180,000, with some 3,000 local chapters throughout the United States and in several other countries.〔Daughters of the American Revolution. (2013). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://library.eb.com/eb/article-9029443〕 DAR's motto is "God, Home, and Country." ==Founding== In 1889 the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration was celebrated, and Americans looked for additional ways to recognize their past. Out of the renewed interest in United States history, numerous patriotic and preservation societies were founded. On July 13, 1890, after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to allow women to join their group, Mary Smith Lockwood published the story of patriot Hannah White Arnett in the Washington Post, ending her piece with the question, "Where will the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution place Hannah Arnett?" On July 21 of that year, William O. McDowell, a great-grandson of Hannah White Arnett, published an article in the Washington Post offering to help form a society to be known as the Daughters of the American Revolution.〔 The first meeting of the society was held August 9, 1890.〔 The first DAR chapter began on October 11, 1890, at 2 p.m. at the Strathmore Arms, the home of Mary Smith Lockwood, who was one of the DAR's four co-founders. Another one of the society's four co-founders was Eugenia Washington, a great-grandniece of George Washington. The other two were Ellen Hardin Walworth and Mary Desha. 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 met at the Strathmore Arms that day, but Washington, Desha, Lockwood, and Walworth are called co-founders since they held two to three meetings in August 1890. The First Lady, Caroline Lavina Scott Harrison, wife of the United States President Benjamin Harrison, lent her prestige to the founding of DAR, and served as its first President General. She had initiated a renovation of the White House to update its infrastructure and was interested in historic preservation. She helped establish the goals of DAR. DAR was incorporated by congressional charter in 1896. In the same period as DAR was founded, such organizations as the Colonial Dames of America, the Mary Washington Memorial Society, Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sons of Confederate Veterans were also founded. This was in addition to numerous fraternal and civic organizations. A memorial to the Daughters of the American Revolution's four founders, at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated on April 17, 1929; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who sculpted it, was a member of DAR.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Founders Memorial )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daughters of the American Revolution, Founders statue at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney located in James M. Goode's Foggy Bottom area )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daughters of the American Revolution」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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