Appendix
Those who find in the stories of Mount Vernon and The Quincy Homestead a stimulus for the preservation of other famous American residences will naturally inquire into the successful methods of the organizations of patriotic women who now carry on that work in a manner so perfectly suited to the charge.
To answer those inquiries, and more particularly to record the identity of those who are now “carrying on,” there follows a list of the current officers of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.
| Regent | |
| Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys | On the Green, Dover, Delaware |
| Hon. Vice-Regent | |
| Mrs. Elizabeth B. A. Rathbone | Michigan |
| Vice-Regents | |
| Miss Alice M. Longfellow | Massachusetts |
| Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison | Pennsylvania |
| Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey | Texas |
| Mrs. Robert D. Johnston | Alabama |
| Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer | West Virginia |
| Mrs. John Julius Pringle | South Carolina |
| Mrs. William F. Barret | Kentucky |
| Mrs. Henry W. Rogers | Maryland |
| Miss Mary F. Failing | Oregon |
| Mrs. Eliza F. Leary | Washington |
| Mrs. J. Carter Brown | Rhode Island |
| Mrs. James Gore King Richards | Maine |
| Miss Mary Evarts | Vermont |
| Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon Foster | Delaware |
| Miss Annie Ragan King | Louisiana |
| Miss Jane A. Riggs | District of Columbia |
| Mrs. Horace Mann Towner | Iowa |
| Mrs. Thomas P. Denham | Florida |
| Miss Harriet L. Huntress | New Hampshire |
| Mrs. Charles Eliot Furness | Minnesota |
| Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott | Indiana |
| Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks | Wisconsin |
| Miss Annie Burr Jennings | Connecticut |
| Mrs. Willard Hall Bradford | New Jersey |
| Mrs. Charles Nagel | Missouri |
| Mrs. George A. Carpenter | Illinois |
| Miss Mary Govan Billups | Mississippi |
| Mrs. John V. Abrahams | Kansas |
| Mrs. Margaret Busbee Shipp | North Carolina |
| Mrs. Horton Pope | Colorado |
| Mrs. Charles J. Livingood | Ohio |
| Mrs. Randolph Anderson | Georgia |
| Mrs. Celsus Price Perrie | Arkansas |
| Mrs. Horace Van Denenter | Tennessee |
| Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler | California |
The restoration and custody of The Quincy Homestead is in the hands of a committee of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. The promoting and sustaining figure in the work is the present chief executive of the Society, Mrs. Barrett Wendell, of Boston.