Service Star Legion, Atlanta and Fulton county chapter records, 1920-1964.

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Service Star Legion, Atlanta and Fulton county chapter records, 1920-1964.

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Minutes, correspondence, news clippings, and other records of a women's service organization. The clubs's first ten years were under the leadershp of Bettie Harrison (Mrs. Samuel Dews) Jones (1863?-1928), who unveiled the Pershing Point War Memorial in 1920 and greeted both Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Charles Lindbergh on their official visits later that decade. Similarly, in the 1940's Annie (Mrs. Joseph C.) Mellichamp (1870?-1957), previous national president, led the chapter (later named for her) through World War II. Also included are scrapbook pages of the Young Matron's Service Star Legion of Atlanta and some correspondence from the national organization and other groups.

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Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Service Star Legion, Inc.

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The Service Star Legion was a women's service organization who stressed "sisterhood, education, relief, vigilance, and remembrance" for a wide range of traditional and patriotic values and good works related to war veterans. From the description of Service Star Legion, Atlanta and Fulton county chapter records, 1920-1964. (Georgia Department of Archives and History Library). WorldCat record id: 122414497 ...

Jones, Bettie Harrison (Mrs. Samuel Dews)

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Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929

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Marshal of France, taught at the Ecole de Guerre, strategist at the battles of the Marne and Ypres during World War I and commander of the Alllied Armies in 1918. From the description of Letter, 1923. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416593 Marshall of France, and commander of the Allied forces at the end of World War I. From the description of Notes, 1919 Oct. 14-Nov. 19, to the Paris Peace Conference. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 13917422 Fr...

Young Matrons Service Star Legion of Atlanta, records.

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Mellichamp, Annie (Mrs. J. C.)

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