Flora Adams Darling
Flora Adams Darling (July 25, 1840 – January 6, 1910) was an American author. She is primarily noted for playing a role in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1890.
Early years and education
She was born Sophronia A. Adams in Lancaster, New Hampshire, the fifth of eleven children of Harvey Adams, a member of the Adams political family, and his second wife Nancy Dustin Adams, née Rowell. She is still listed as "Fronia Adams" on the 1860 census, and was living in Lancaster with her family at age nineteen. At some point after this, she changed her name to Flora.
She was educated at Lancaster and Sanbornton.
Career
In later life, she claimed to have been married in New York City on March 12, 1860, to Edward Irving Darling on March 12, 1860,[1] a man 22 years her senior.[2]
More likely, the marriage, if it did take place, occurred later. Though she described her husband variously as a Confederate colonel and from Louisiana and Kentucky, neither has any record of him among its officers, nor does the index of Confederate soldiers in the National Archives.
Despite growing increasingly deaf following the war,
She lived in
In 1910, while visiting her brother in New York City, she died of apoplexy.[4] Female members of the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812 between the age of 18 to 35 are termed "Flora Adams Darling Daughters" in her memory.[6]
Works
- 1607–1907. Memories of Virginia; a souvenir of founding days (1907)
- Founding and organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Revolution (1901)
- The Senator's Daughter (1892)
- From Two Points of View (1892)
- A Social Diplomat (1891)
- Was it a Just Verdict? (1890)
- The Bourbon Lily (1890)
- A winning, wayward woman: Chapters in the heart-history of Amélie Warden (1889)
- Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War, A Social Diplomat (1884)
References
- ^ a b c d "New Hampshire Necrology", The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress, 42, J. N. McClintock: 62–63, 1910
- ^ a b c Flora Adams Darling Papers, 1862–1908, Special Collections Research Center, College of William and Mary, retrieved 2011-10-30
- ^ Davies, Wallace Evan, in "Flora Adams Darling", chapter in Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2, Harvard University Press, Jan 1, 1971. Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, editors.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, eds. (1893), A woman of the century: fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life, vol. 3, Moulton, pp. 228–229
- ^ Membership, National Society, United States Daughters of 1812, retrieved 2011-10-31
External links
Works related to Woman of the Century/Flora Adams Darling at Wikisource- Works by or about Flora Adams Darling at Internet Archive
- Flora Adams Darling Papers, 1862–1908, Special Collections Research Center, College of William and Mary, retrieved 2011-10-30
- "History", State of New York Society U.S.D. 1812, archived from the original on 2012-04-25, retrieved 2011-10-30
- "Inventory of the Flora Adams Darling Papers 1862–1908", Swem Library, College of William and Mary, retrieved 2011-10-30
