Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter

Meriden, CT
Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution
Organized October 1, 1895

Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday or Friday of
September, October, November, December,
February, March, April, and May

'Swifter than a weaver's shuttle the years have slipped by since that beautiful day, October 1, 1895, when twenty-four Daughters of the American Revolution met the recently elected State Regent, Miss Susan Carrington Clarke, in the stately home of Mrs. N.L. Bradley on Colony Street, and organized into a new Chapter. Miss Susan Carrington Clarke little realized that with that brief ceremony she was re-incarnating her own spirit of patriotism, and perpetuating her own name in this little body.     Miss Clarke appointed as Regent, her old friend, Mrs. Kate Foote Coe, wife of Judge Andrew J. Coe of Meriden. Election of necessary officers followed, Mrs. Coe's consent to act as Regent was gained, and the next morning the newspapers announced the birth of a new D.A.R. chapter with charter members as follows: Mrs. Andrew J. Coe, Regent; Mrs. Levi E. Coe, Honorary Regent;Mrs. H. Wales Lines, Vice-Regent; Miss Fannie L. Twiss, Registrar; Mrs. Hannah S. Holbrook, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Charles L. Rockwell, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Alice S. Porter, Treasurer; Mrs. Robert L. Peck, Historian; Miss Lucy A. Peck, Mrs. N. L. Bradley, Mrs. S.J. Hall, Miss Jessie M. Schenck, Mrs. Frank L. Hamilton, Mrs. Edgar J. Doolittle, Mrs. Philo Huntley, Miss Edith L. Bevins, Miss Jennie D. Wood, Miss Kate H. Hamlin, Miss Nettie L. Bowen, Mrs. Charles F. Linsley, Miss Harriet V. Strong, Mrs. Edwin A. Mayne, Mrs. Frank M. Chapin, Mrs. Frank D. Smith, Miss Ella I. Smith.     From Chapter Manual by Mrs. Coe: "This Chapter was the last one organized by Miss Clarke and while its members were still deliberating the matter of a suitable name, on the 21st of October came the news of her death, and at a meeting called immediately it was unanimously voted that the new Chapter should call itself the Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter in loving memory of her who had been most friendly while the organization was forming."     Six members attended Miss Clarke's funeral in Middletown, where with many representatives of other societies they were received in the A.K.E. house, placed at their disposal by its members, who also were guards of honor at the funeral, a last tribute of respect for one who had generously aided them.     From the fraternity house a long procession of women, led by the Regents of Wadsworth Chapter of Middletown and Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter of Meriden, marched across the street to the services in Miss Clarke's home, which is now "President's House" of Wesleyan University.     Although a native of Rhode Island, Miss Clarke spent her life in Middletown with her aunt, Mrs. Samuel Hubbard, wife of the Postmaster General under President Fillmore, and was a charter member, first Treasurer, and an ex-Regent of Wadsworth Chapter. Also, in February 1892, the first delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress of Daughters of the American Revolution.'

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