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....
by Ellie | Feb 24, 2026 | 52 Weeks of Huguenot
Posted by Communications Liaison Ellie Simpson, thanks to Archivist Jon Coss. Alfred Lawton Hammett was born about 1850 to Charles and Elizabeth Hammett in Newport, Rhode Island, where his father owned and operated a stationery and book store. He attended the local...
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