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[/td][td][/td] [td]==Founding==[/td]
[td]==Founding==[/td] [td]The Women's National War Relief Association was incorporated at [[Albany, New York]] on May 31, 1898. According to a report in The American monthly review of reviews, its president was [[Julia Grant|Mrs. General U. S. Grant]], its director-general Mrs. [[Ellen Hardin Walworth]], and its assistant director-general [[Helen Miller Gould]]. The board of vice-presidents comprised the wife of the [[Attorney general|Attorney-General]], Mrs. John W. Griggs, along with the wives of the governors of [[Massachusetts]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Wyoming]], [[Illinois]], [[Virginia]], [[Wyoming]], [[Colorado]], [[Connecticut]], [[Ohio]], [[North Dakota]], [[Kentucky]], Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, Idaho, Washington, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana, Arkansas, South Dakota, West Virginia, Maine, and Pennsylvania. The constitution was adopted in May 1898.<ref name="The American Monthly Review of Reviews">{{cite journal|last=Tolman|first=William Howe|author2=Albert Shaw |year=1899|title=Some Volunteer War Relief Associations |journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|publisher=Review of Reviews|volume=19|pages=189β192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n...War+Relief+Association&pg=PA190|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref>[/td] [td]The Women's National War Relief Association was incorporated at [[Albany, New York]] on May 31, 1898. According to a report in The American monthly review of reviews, its president was [[Julia Grant|Mrs. General U. S. Grant]], its director-general Mrs. [[Ellen Hardin Walworth]], and its assistant director-general [[Helen Miller Gould]]. The board of vice-presidents comprised the wife of the [[Attorney general|Attorney-General]], Mrs. John W. Griggs, along with the wives of the governors of [[Massachusetts]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Wyoming]], [[Illinois]], [[Virginia]], [[Wyoming]], [[Colorado]], [[Connecticut]], [[Ohio]], [[North Dakota]], [[Kentucky]], [[Alabama]], Oklahoma, Georgia, Idaho, Washington, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana, Arkansas, South Dakota, West Virginia, Maine, and Pennsylvania. The constitution was adopted in May 1898.<ref name="The American Monthly Review of Reviews">{{cite journal|last=Tolman|first=William Howe|author2=Albert Shaw |year=1899|title=Some Volunteer War Relief Associations |journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|publisher=Review of Reviews|volume=19|pages=189β192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n...War+Relief+Association&pg=PA190|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]==Activities==[/td]
[td]==Activities==[/td]
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