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This is Major General Harry Lee, USMC (June 4 1872 - March 1 1933). Lee was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps for the war with Spain August 2 1898. He served at the Havana Naval Station during the war and in various ships of the Navy and Marine Corps stations following it. Joining the 6th Regiment in 1917, Lee commanded the 6th Regiment at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne Forest and marched with the Army to the Rhine. After the war he commanded the Marine Brigade in Santo Domingo, sent in 1921 to pacify the country and establish constitutional government. For 3 years he served as military governor of the country. Later General Lee commanded Marine Barracks, Parris Island, and while in command of the Marine base at Quantico, Va., died March 1 1933. For his World War I service, Major General Lee was awarded the Army and Navy Distinguished Service Medals, the French Legion of Honor, and other decorations. Bio from: www.navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/HARRY_LEE_APA_10

In August 1921 was ordered to Santo Domingo to command the 2d Brigade of Marines, s. Evening star. [volume], August 14, 1921, Image 63 (photo) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1921-08-14/ed-...

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Cynthia Wenslow B-59 Thank you for the summary and links to additional information. We'll add a note to the catalog record.

She looks a lot like Oscar Wilde in last week's photo !

In her less glamorous prison dress

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“Abby Scott Baker (1871-1944)

Abby Scott Baker, of Washington, D.C., came from a multi-generational military family. She was one of Alice Paul's earliest associates and helped Paul and Burns plan their first major event–the March 3, 1913, national suffrage parade on the eve of Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. She served as treasurer of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU) in 1914 and quickly became one of the most effective lobbyists for both the CU and its successor, the National Woman's Party (NWP).

Baker traveled the country as part of the CU's "Suffrage Special" train tour of western states in April-May 1916. The envoys set off with fanfare from Union Station in Washington, D.C., and Baker was in charge of handling the press for the tour. The support that she helped raise from women in states that had already granted women's suffrage culminated in a June 1916 meeting in Chicago to form what was at first called the Woman's Party of Western Voters, or Woman's Party, for short (later, the NWP). When the NWP was more formally organized in relation to the CU in March 1917, Baker was elected to the NWP executive committee and served as its press chairman (1917-18) and political chairman (1917; 1919-21).

Baker was among the first demonstrators to picket the White House; she was arrested in September 1917 and sentenced to 60 days in the Occoquan Workhouse. In February-March 1919, she served as publicity manager and speaker for the "Prison Special," a three-week lecture tour by NWP activists who spoke to packed audiences about their jail experiences in an effort to generate support for the suffrage cause.

Baker was an important lobbyist during the key years (1917-20) that the NWP pressured for passage of what became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Known as the diplomat of the NWP, Baker was a significant presence in the organization's ongoing tactic of asserting personal influence upon leading authorities in public and private life. When the NWP's patriotism was challenged, she reminded critics that her three sons were fighting in World War I. In the midst of the ratification process for the 19th Amendment, Baker was among the NWP members who attended the Democratic National Convention of 1920 in San Francisco and successfully brokered a pro-suffrage plank as part of the party platform. She subsequently lobbied the presidential candidates from both political parties, James M. Cox and Warren G. Harding, to support the women's rights cause.

After suffrage was achieved, Baker became a member of the NWP's Committee on International Relations and the Women's Consultative Committee of the League of Nations. She also represented the NWP at the League's 1935 international conferences in Geneva where the issue of equal rights was discussed.”

Here she is in c. 1916 looking older more mature.
Via The Library of Congress

Harris & Ewing opened in Washington in 1905. Earliest date?
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Her wedding photo, from The Washington(D.C.) times., October 19, 1915, with the caption" "MRS. THOMAS DEMPSEY HARRINGTON, Formerly Miss Marta Calvo. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1915-10-19/ed-... Her father was at the time the former Costa Rican minister to the U.S.

Marta Hercilia Calvo de Leon Birthdate:November 2, 1889 (55) Death:October 2, 1945 (55) San José, Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica (Strokes) "Her mother's family were from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, a wealthy family. Her father's family from Costa Rica, he being the Ambassador of Costa Rica and Mexico for 18 years. She grew up surrounded by the diplomatic core families in Washington, D.C. and would accompany her father on many occasions to social events. Learned to play piano and composed her own music." www.geni.com/people/Marta-Calvo-de-Leon/6000000000926676386

"About Thomas D.Harrington Graduated from Georgetown University in Finances. After marrying, they went to live in Costa Rica, arriving October 1915.Was Comptroller for United Fruit Co. in Costa Rica. Lived in a house fully furnished by them in the town of Zent, on the right side of the River Guapiles.Here he was co-owner with Mr. Gutierrez and Mr. Rossi of the Roxana Farm, named after Mr. Gutierrez's daughter. Founder and shareholder of LACSA Airlines. Comptroller at Banco de Costa Rica before it was nationalized. www.geni.com/people/Thomas-D-Harrington/6000000000937616937

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