[Mrs. De B. Randolph Keim DAR scrapbook]. [1908]

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[Mrs. De B. Randolph Keim DAR scrapbook]. [1908]

A scrapbook with newspaper clippings, printed programs, typescript letters and ephemera related to Mrs. de Benneville Randolph Keim and the Daughters of the American Revolution, Berks County Chapter from Reading, Pennsylvania on the occasion of the presentation of a hall clock to the National Society of DAR on April 22, 1908. Includes typescript letter to Mr. De B. Randolph Keim, The White House letterhead, dated March 25, 1908 signed by secretary to the President; two typescript letters to Mr. Keim, on United States Senate, Sixtieth Congress letterhead, dated April 26, 1908 and March 2, 1908 each signed by M.R. Anderson on behalf of Senator Boies Penrose; and ALS on DAR letterhead addressed to Mr. De B.R. Keim dated March 23, 1908 signed by Mrs. Keyser Fry. Also includes typescript: "Mrs. Keim's remarks incident to the inability of Senator Penrose to be present" and program of the seventeenth continental Congress of the National Society of the DAR held April 20-25, 1908.

1 scrapbook (ca. 40 items) : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Daughters of the American Revolution. Berks County Chapter (Reading, Pa.)

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Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914

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Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921

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Born in Philadelphia in 1860, Boies Penrose graduated from Harvard University and practiced law in his native city in 1883. From 1884 until 1897 he served in the Pennsylvania legislature as a representative and senator. An unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1895, he served as a United States senator from 1897 until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1921. From the description of Boies Penrose political and legal journal, 1889. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries)...