F. Adelaide Sackett scrapbook, 1884-1886.

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F. Adelaide Sackett scrapbook, 1884-1886.

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Scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings related to the Robert O. Tyler Woman's Relief Corps in Hartford, Connecticut. F. Adelaide Sackett held the positions of Treasurer and President of the group, as well as positions with the state and national organizations.

1 volume.

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7563520

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...

Sackett, Frances Adelaide, 1832-1917.

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