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Estelle Skidmore Doremus

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28: 269:. She was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Estelle was said to be the only member of the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution whose father actually served in the Revolution. She was a Regent of the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and honorary Vice President of the National Society. 191:
Doremus was born in New York, the daughter of Hubbard Skidmore and Caroline Avery. Hubbard Skidmore was believed to have served at a young age in the American Revolution under guidance from his father, the soldier Zophar Skidmore. On her mother's side Doremus was a granddaughter of Thaddeus Avery, a
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Following Doremus's death in 1905, John Torboss Underhill succeeded her as the third president. Now as President of the Society and Chairman of the Monument Committee, he felt renewed pressure to raise the additional money needed and proceed with work on the monument. While neither Doremus nor her
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Captain Thaddeus Avery was branded with hot irons in this room, and his wife threatened with death by the Hessians, when they refused to divulge the hiding place of the money of the Continental Army. Mrs. Avery baked bread in this oven for the Revolutionary soldiers. This hero and heroine were the
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She had brilliant conversational powers, and a charm of manner which created about her a wide circle of friends. She had a wide acquaintance throughout the country and hosts of distinguished friends abroad. There gathered at her entertainments statesmen, professional men, men of affairs, artists,
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From 1898 until her death in 1905, Mrs. Doremus served as the second president of the Underhill Society of America, which had been founded in 1892 with the purpose of helping to establish a suitable monument to the memory of
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husband lived to see the results of their labors, a plaque at the base of the Underhill monument recognizes Mrs. Robert Ogden Doremus as one of two "Patrons" who supported erection of the monument.
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Charles Avery Doremus (September 6, 1851 – December 2, 1925), chemist. For 22 years he served as a faculty member of the College of the City of New York. He died December 2, 1925 of heart disease.
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grandparents of Mrs. R. Ogden Doremus, Second Regent of the New York City Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, which organization affixed this tablet June 9th, 1900.
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Upon returning to New York City, she and her husband became important figures in society and well-known supporters of music and the arts, including the
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Doremus was influential in honoring Captain Thaddeus Avery, her maternal grandfather, by placing a plaque at the Avery Homestead in
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Estelle E. Doremus (died August 1937), an accomplished musician and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Doremus went on to participate in a number of organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the
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Skidmore; May 6, 1830  – May 21, 1905) was the daughter of Hubbard Skidmore, who served in the
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published following her death described the creative and stimulating environment Doremus cultivated:
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musicians, actors and others of distinction. These, with their wives and daughters, formed a "
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Charles Avery Doremus, Thomas Cornelius Doremus, Estelle E. Doremus, Arthur Lispenard Doremus
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Regent of the New York City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1892-1894
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The Doremus family in America, 1687-1987: based on the Doremus family history in America
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Thomas Cornelius Doremus, died of pneumonia on March 25, 1928 (aged 74).
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in Brooklyn, New York. A "Memorial Sketch" to Doremus was prepared by
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Following her death on May 21, 1905, at age 75, she was buried in the
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and Thomas C. Doremus, a merchant, and a Professor of Chemistry at
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and read at the Underhill Family Reunion on October 7, 1905.
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Leader of the American colony in Paris during the reign of
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Arthur Lispenard Doremus, died April 24, 1953 (aged 84).
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Estelle and Robert Doremus had the following children:
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that was frequented by leaders of the musical world.
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