The Ashuelot Chapter was founded in Keene, New Hampshire, on January 24, 1896, at the home of Margaret R. Lamson Griffin. The chapter was named for the original grant of land upon which the city of Keene is located. The name Ashuelot is of Indian origin, and was used to designate the township and the river that divided it.
The twelve charter members are listed below.
Clara Burnham Abbott | Sarah Frances Whiting Allen |
Candace Adaline Mack Barker | Alice Hayward Batchelder |
Emeline Joslin Colony | Mary A. Foster |
Margaret R. Lamson Griffin | Sarah Elizabeth Joslin Kingsbury |
Bessie Violet Osgood | Fannie Azubah Osgood |
Emoretta Taft Robertson | Nancy Marietta Taft |
1896-1899 | Margaret R. Lamson Griffin |
1899-1901 | Emeline Joslin Colony |
1901-1903 | Clara Burnham Abbott |
1903 | Martha Ripley Faulkner |
1903-1905 | Fanny Blake Colony Barrett |
1905-1907 | Louise Morrison Brooks |
1907-1909 | Jeannette Dorcas Roberts |
1909-1911 | Rhoda J. Colburn Shedd |
1911-1915 | Maria A. Holt Howes |
1915-1917 | Fanny Blake Colony Barrett |
1917-1920 | Mary A. A. Hurd Prentiss |
1920-1922 | Emily P. Stebbins Baldwin |
1922-1925 | Helen Barlow Holmes |
1925-1927 | Beth Cummings Platts |
1927-1929 | Lucy Jennings Dickinson |
1929-1931 | Inez M. Vaughn |
1931-1933 | Eliza E. Gee |
1933-1935 | Frances Rigdon Abbott |
1935-1937 | Susan Esther Holdredge Hilton |
1937-1939 | Marjorie Wardwell Hutchins Minnick |
1939-1941 | Jane Elliot Larsen |
1941-1943 | Bessie Howard Lane |
1943-1945 | Viola Russell Adams |
1945-1947 | Helen Miller Murray |
1947 | Mary Lucinda Saxton |
1947-1949 | Edith Cummings Miller Newton |
1949-1951 | Helen Gregory Mulvaney |
1951-1953 | E. May Tasker Pearson |
1953-1955 | Elizabeth Blanding Bryant Jackson |
1955-1957 | Grace Louise Whipple Pitcher |
1957-1959 | Helen Pearson Tolman |
1959-1961 | Flora Schlimper Colton |
1961-1963 | Hildred Empie Avery |
1963-1965 | Ruth Gertrude Chisholm |
1965-1967 | Edna Whitcomb Blood |
1967-1969 | Catherine Louise Winters |
1969-1971 | Helen Turnure Baldwin Krippendorf |
1971-1973 | Phyllis B. Sinclaire |
1973-1975 | Maude Russell Dickinson |
1975-1979 | Virginia Harmond Marchant Felch |
1979-1981 | Dorothy Sawyer Black Walker |
1981-1982 | Helen Mills Murray |
1982-1986 | Barbara Pattee Haggart |
1986-1991 | Virginia Harmond Marchant Felch |
1991-1992 | Ann Woodbury Wyman |
1992-1995 | Virginia Harmond Marchant Felch |
1995-1998 | Joy Cooper Fernandes |
1998-2001 | Joye Churchill Barrett |
2001-2004 | Marilyn Millett Pratt-Holmquist |
2004-2007 | Beatrice Rogers Record |
2007-2010 | Verne Christian Greene |
2010-2013 | Dorothy Farrar Howard |
2013-2016 | Marilyn Higgins Huston |
2016-2019 | Nancy J. Howard |
2019-2022 | Cheri Casper |
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