[Letter] 1910 Oct. 21, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. [to] Eli Whitney / Wm. H. Taft.

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[Letter] 1910 Oct. 21, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. [to] Eli Whitney / Wm. H. Taft.

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Taft, as President of the American Red Cross, appoints Whitney a New Haven member of the American Red Cross Endowment Fund Committee.

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

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