Records of the Women's Permanent Emergency Association

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Records of the Women's Permanent Emergency Association

Entry/Object ID

2015.8.1i

Scope and Content

Records of the Women's Permanent Emergency Association, 1956 [pages 119-133]. Includes reports of the Nominating Committee, 1956 Annual Report, Treasurer, 1956 meeting minutes, finances, letters and memoranda etc. Subjects mentioned in records include: Loudoun, Daniel and Emily Oliver Orphanage, Germantown Employment Society, American Red Cross Flood Relief, Native Americans, American Friends Service Committee, Workroom Committee, Frontier Nursing, Woman's Medical College, Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames, Belfield, Civic Club, Sewing Committee, Lebanon, Hungarian relief. People mentioned in records include: Mrs. Anna B. Glinske, Miss Abbot, Mrs. Broome, Mrs. Phoebe Carlisle Kidder, Mrs. Glinske, Miss Lincoln, Mrs. Melvin, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Elizabeth Shellenberger, Mrs. Francis Wetherill, Mrs. Josephine Underwood Ritter, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Francis Wetherill, Mr. A. Douglas Oliver, Mrs. Mellor, Sarah Logan Fisher, Mrs. Sarah Logan Starr Blain, Daniel Blain Jr., Mrs. Margaret Wister Meigs, Mr. Boutros Khoury. Includes obituaries of Mrs. Sarah Logan Wister Starr, August 20, 1956.