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MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY
Admission to membership in the National Society is by invitation after an affirmative vote by the chapter or state society. Applicants shall have the endorsement of two members in good standing to whom the applicant is personally known.
Membership is available to women of age eighteen and over who can offer satisfactory proof that they are lineal descendants of an ancestor who, during the period of 1784-1815 inclusive, rendered civil, military, or naval service to our country, rendered material aid to the U.S. Army or Navy, or who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Junior membership is available to girls and boys from birth through age 21. Young women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five are know as Flora Adams Darling Daughters in honor of the Society’s first president.
Civil Service may be, but not limited to the following:
· Those who signed the Oath of Allegiance or the Loyalty Test; · All state, county and town officials and also jurors; · A member of the Continental or Federal Congress, or a member of a State Assembly or Legislature of one of the eighteen states; · A delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States; · A member of a State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States; · An elector of one of the first four Presidents of the United States; · A legislative, executive or judicial officer of the United States of America, including such appointive officers as Treaty Commissioners, Territorial Officers, etc. |
