[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 22]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 31099]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF THE GLENDALE GENERAL RICHARD GRIDLEY CHAPTER OF THE 
                  DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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                          HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 21, 2003

  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the General 
Gridley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on their 
90th anniversary celebration.
  Mrs. Mary Howard Gridley Braly founded the chapter on December 19, 
1913. Mrs. Braly served as an organizing regent, and was later named 
Regent-For-Life by Chapter members. Mrs. Braly and her daughter first 
became members of the National Society of D.A.R. in 1983 in Highland 
Park, Illinois. Then recording Secretary General Miss Eugenia 
Washington, one of the D.A.R. founders, signed their applications.
  The chapter is named for General Richard Gridley, ancestor of Mary's 
first husband James Conger Gridley. General Gridley was born in Boston 
in 1711. In 1745 he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 
Artillery in the expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg 
of Cape Breton Island. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 
April 1775, he was commissioned chief engineer and Colonel of Artillery 
and was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill. He married Hannah Deming 
and had nine children. He served with General George Washington 
throughout the Revolutionary War. In 1798 General Gridley died in 
Staughton, Massachusetts at the age of 87.
  Today the chapter is extremely involved in the community. It is 
active in veterans' services, ROTC programs, and scholarship programs 
with our local high schools. The chapter also presented the City of 
Glendale with the Department of Defense's 50th Anniversary of the 
Korean War flag. This flag currently flies over the Glendale War 
Memorial at City Hall.
  I ask all Members of Congress to join me today in congratulating the 
General Gridley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on 
90 exemplary years of service to the City of Glendale and surrounding 
communities.

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