Hollywood Chapter

The name “Betsy Ross” was first selected as the name for the Chapter but was later changed to “ Hollywood . ” 

The Hollywood Chapter DAR was organized on March 18, 1910, by Mrs. Mary I. Barnes, Organizing Regent, and Honorary State Regent, 1910‑1911. Mrs. Barnes was a seven-time delegate to the National Suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., and accompanied Miss Susan B. Anthony and others to the Capital to ask Congress for some favorable action looking toward the enfranchisement of women. 

Other notable women who have belonged to the Chapter include (in part):  Frances Upson Young, mother of Hollywood screenwriter, Clarence Upson Young; Maude Gage Baum, daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, an active Suffragette of the times, and wife of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz; and Virginia McMath, better known as “Ginger Rogers,” who joined Hollywood Chapter in 1945 and was a member until 1988.  

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