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Flora Adams Darling Biography

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DARLING, Flora Adams, founder general of the Daughters of the Revolution, was born July 25, 1840, in Lancaster. N. H. She received her education at the Lancaster academy and from private instructors. She is a member of the well known Adams family, and inherits many traits of her ancestors. Her husband was killed while serving in the confederate army. She is the author of a number of books, the chief of which is Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memories of the Civil War. She is also the author of A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just Verdict; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator's Daughter; Letters or Memoirs of the Civil War; and other novels. She has received the college degrees of A. M. and A. B. in recognition of her literary work.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 280.