The DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children.
DAR members volunteer millions of service hours annually in their local communities including supporting active duty military personnel and assisting veteran patients, awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid each year to students, and supporting schools for underserved children with annual donations exceeding one million dollars.
As one of the most inclusive genealogical societies in the country, DAR boasts 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the United States and internationally. Any woman 18 years or older-regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background-who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership.
Lewis Kingman Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), plays an active role in various activities particularly with our wonderful American military personnel. We work hard to collect donations for sending needed items as well as "goodies from home" and lots of love and good cheer to our soldiers, especially during the Christmas season. We stay busy sending gift baskets to both our men and women veterans, as well as supplying baby baskets to give to new mothers. Our meetings are a great time to see each other, make plans through the year and hear our speakers from veteran organizations and community leaders.
We invite you to our meetings! Members will help you document your patriot ancestor! Join the journey of placing your ancestor in the DAR records to support the history of the American Revolution!
Visit www.dar.org.
DAR members volunteer millions of service hours annually in their local communities including supporting active duty military personnel and assisting veteran patients, awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid each year to students, and supporting schools for underserved children with annual donations exceeding one million dollars.
As one of the most inclusive genealogical societies in the country, DAR boasts 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the United States and internationally. Any woman 18 years or older-regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background-who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership.
Lewis Kingman Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), plays an active role in various activities particularly with our wonderful American military personnel. We work hard to collect donations for sending needed items as well as "goodies from home" and lots of love and good cheer to our soldiers, especially during the Christmas season. We stay busy sending gift baskets to both our men and women veterans, as well as supplying baby baskets to give to new mothers. Our meetings are a great time to see each other, make plans through the year and hear our speakers from veteran organizations and community leaders.
We invite you to our meetings! Members will help you document your patriot ancestor! Join the journey of placing your ancestor in the DAR records to support the history of the American Revolution!
Visit www.dar.org.
Welcome to Kingman, Arizona!
The city of Kingman, Arizona, and our chapter as well, are named for Lewis Kingman, a civil engineer for what was then the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad constructed in the 1880s. Mr. Kingman surveyed a railroad route between New Mexico and California.
Lewis Kingman also surveyed the route between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Needles, California, in 1880 and supervised the building of the railroad from Winslow to Beale's Springs, which is near the present location of the City of Kingman.
In 1882, a settlement designated as "Kingman" cropped up along the railroad tracks that soon had a rooming house and a couple of stores. The fledgling town was named after Lewis Kingman, the railroad surveyor. The railroad camp grew into a mining, ranching, and transportation center for northwestern Arizona. By the turn of the century, Kingman had grown to some five hundred people and continued to develop as gold was discovered in the hills surrounding the town.
Lewis Kingman was born in Massachusetts in 1845 and attended common schools. He attended Hunt's Academy and studied engineering with Shedd and Edison in Boston. Mr. Kingman was known for his many varied abilities, not the least of which was leadership. He exhibited ambition, dependability, and warm-heartedness. Ultimately, Lewis Kingman became Chief Engineer of the Mexican Central Railway. There he remained until his death in 1912.
The city of our chapter, Lewis Kingman Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), plays an active role in various activities particularly with our wonderful American military personnel. We work hard to collect donations for sending needed items as well as "goodies from home" and lots of love and good cheer to our soldiers, especially during the Christmas season. We stay busy sending gift baskets to both our men and women veterans, as well as supplying baby baskets to give to new mothers.
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Visit our Arizona Society Daughters of the American Revolution at www.arizonadar.org
Click here to contact our Administrator!
Click here to contact our Registrar regarding membership!
The content contain herein does not necessarily represent the position of the NSDAR. Hyperlinks to other sites are not the responsibility of the NSDAR, the state organizations, or individual DAR chapter.
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