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The community of Cherbourg, formerly known as Barambah, is located in the South Burnett district of south-east Queensland. According to research conducted by anthropologist Norman Tindale, Cherbourg is situated on the traditional lands of the Wakka Wakka Aboriginal people.[ In 1843, Barambah station was taken up by the pastoralists J S Ferriter and Edmund Uhr. The arrival of the pastoralists led to the dispossession of local Aboriginal people and widespread frontier violence. In the Wide Bay and Burnett districts, 28 squatters and shepherds were killed by Aborigines between 1847 and 1853. By 1850, the squatters had called for Native Police protection; in the interim, reprisal killings by the squatters continued. By 1853, a report from the Burnett District stated that: ‘this district is looking well, the blacks are perfectly quiet, sheep all healthy, and greatly on the increase…the native police are most efficient.’ [9] After the hand over to the Queensland Government, living conditions and facilities at Barambah failed to improve and the Aboriginal residents of Barambah lacked adequate housing, sanitation, education and medical facilities. They were issued basic rations by the government, but the quality of the food was often poor.[16] As a result of these factors, Barambah suffered a high death rate in its initial decades, and epidemics of tuberculosis, whooping cough, dengue fever and measles were regular occurrences at the reserve.[17 Government control was also increasingly exerted through the establishment of the dormitory system for Aboriginal children at Barambah. The Reformatory Schools (Industrial) Act 1865 authorised the government to remove ‘neglected’ Aboriginal children from their families and raise them in state controlled dormitories. The first girls’ dormitory building at Barambah was built in 1909 and a boys’ dormitory was completed in 1910. The first dormitories at Barambah had no beds or mattresses and the children slept on the floor. Over time, the dormitory system at Barambah was expanded to include older girls and mothers with young children. Source: www.qld.gov.au/firstnations/cultural-awareness-heritage-a...

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Webster

Mary Harriman Rumsey resp. Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey (November 17, 1881 – December 18, 1934)
She was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc.. And she was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York State Governor and United States Diplomat.
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harriman_Rumsey

The same woman:

Interesting. . . thanks for the connection b/n the Jr. Lge. and the Settlement movement--must learn more about this. Fascinating--she was essentially the Founder of the Junior League Movement as it exists today.

Thanks B-59 for locating her name. We will add it to our catalog record.

This photo ran in the Sunday (Portland) Oregonian on July 30, 1916 with the caption: "One of of the strongest organizations formed in support of Charles E. Hughes is that of the women of New York, who have raised a large fund and are carrying on active work to assist his campaign. A leading member of the organization is Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, a daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. As Mary Harriman she was well-known socially in New York. She inherited from her father a love of horses and was a frequent exhibitor at horse shows." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-07-30/ed-1/se...