by Ellie | Mar 31, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. After World War II, Hawaii worked to develop tourism from the U.S. mainland. In May 1953 the Huguenot Women’s Society held its annual mother-and-daughter dinner. The theme was a Hawaiian...
by Ellie | Mar 24, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. The Women’s Society (later known as Presbyterian Women of Huguenot Memorial Church), was established to raise funds for church activities and mission projects at home and abroad. During the...
by Ellie | Mar 17, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. Marguerite “Maggie” Hicks was born in 1905 in Pelham, the daughter of Esther and Clarence Hicks, who was an executive vice president at the Standard Oil Corporation. He served as an elder at...
by Ellie | Mar 10, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. Margaret Mina Brisbine was born in Yankton, South Dakota in 1901, the daughter of dry-goods merchant Hiram Ellsworth Brisbine and Mina Van Tassel Brisbine. She moved with her family to...
by Ellie | Mar 3, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. Myrtle Bales was born in Iowa in 1899. As a youth she was affected when the local sheriff threatened to arrest women who wore pants instead of skirts to do farm work during World War I....
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