Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War Ellen Spencer Mussey
Tent #1
District of Columbia

Tent / Department History

The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent Number One was chartered as a Detached Tent in Washington, DC on October 8, 1902. Twenty-four women signed the original charter. Emma Hayward was the first president of the Tent.

The Tent was named for Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, the wife of Civil War Brigadier General Rueben Delavan Mussey. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Bar in Washington, DC.
The Tent engaged in numerous community, patriotic, educational, historical, genealogical and civic projects.
 
The National organization granted Department status to the Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent in 1977, and in 1978 permitted it to become an independent Department: The Department of the District of Columbia. The group operates under Department rules and has complete representation in the National Body.
 
Charter Members of the Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent
 
Angelina E. Beckman Alice M. Kimball
Paulina A. Beckman Ella S. Knight
Cornelia Clay Mary LeTryon
Elmira Foley Pearl G. Little
Fanny Gushewsky Mary M. North
Jennie Hamilton Lillian A. Norton
Katie H. Hancock Anna M. Roberts
Emma F. Hayward Alice O. Sanderson
Alice Henkel Martha Spencer
Honora Jane Hoffleger Gertrude M. Stevens
Lilly Kemi Jennie Marvin Taylor
Hattie Kemi Laura Thompson
 
 
 
 Past Department Presidents of the Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent
 
2021-2023
Bonnie Brose
2019-2021
Megan Ryno
2017-2019
Joan B. Trafton
2015-2017
Joan B. Trafton
2013-2015
Patricia Kottemann
2011-2013
Dorothy Cloud
2009-2011
Grace B. Clifford
2007-2009
Patricia Kottemann
2006-2007
Carolyn Mitchell
2004-2006
Felicia P. Stidham
2002-2003
Grace B. Clifford
2000-2002
Patricia Kottemann
1999-2000
Linda S. Murr
1991-1999
Sherry L. Padalino
1995-1997
Roena Bayes
1994-1995
Sherry Padalino
1993-1994
Sallie C. Pusey
1991-1993
Iva L. DiFrancis
1982-1991
Ellen J. Beckman
1981
Barbara Mook
1977-1980
Iva L. DiFrancis
1976
Argie Sornson
1975
Marguerite Harris
1974
Bonnie Moore
1973
Argie Sornson
1972
Elsie Allen Shores
1971
Marv B. Gordon
1970
Clotida A. Burnett
1969
Grace B. Green
1968
Kate L. Ohi
1967-1968
Violet Hopkins
1963-1966
Ellen Beckman
1961-1962
Mildred C. Baruch
1960
Mary Gordon
1958-1959
Alta Koyl
1956-1957
Lucetta Hewitt
1955
Thekla Kontos
1954
Celia W. Beckman
1952-1953
Pearl B. Colecchia
1951
Cora V. Dorsev
1950
Edith R. Bugbee
1949
Man M. Crawford
1948
Alice L. Lippold
1947
Myrtle L. Burke
1946
Laura A. Kane
1945
Edith R. Bugbee
1944
Mary E. Kerr
1943
Anne V. Hausman
1942
Mildred F. Poore
1941
Amelia A. Yoder
1940
Jessie M. Lewis
1939
Lizzie Bassett
1938
Clara Holbrook
1937
Svlvia D. MacLaughlin
1936
Eva C. Garis
1935
Alice Meade
1934
Lavinia Bashford
1933
Esther R. Lippold
1931-1932
Nan D. Slatten Thurber
1930
Anna Horn
1929
Ellen S. Meyer
1928
Olive A. Johnson
1927
Kathrvn C. Rann
1925-1926
Anna Hage McElroy
1924
Etoile Albright
1923
E. Helen Temple
1922
Katie A. Guiton
1921
Hermione A. Sutton
1920
Ella G. Clements
1919
Rosalie McK. Shelton
1917-1918
Marv Van Ness Fauth
1915-1916
Jennie L. Hamilton
1914
Hester B. Tritipoe Warner
1913
Bella J. Howe
1912
Ella L. Washburn
1911
Rose M. Sefton
1910
Genevieve M. Spencer
1909
Man H. Crenshaw Fortier
1906-1908
Anna M. Roberts
1905
Vivian D. Stanley
1904
Lillian A. Norton
1902-1903
Emma Hayward