Register of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Stirling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.) Records, 1911-

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Register of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Stirling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.) Records, 1911-

Collection number: Mss206

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University Library

University of the Pacific

Contact Information

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
URL: https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections

Processed by:: Don Walker
Date Completed:: December 1998
Encoded by:: Don Walker

Descriptive Summary

Title: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Stirling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.) Records,

Date (inclusive): 1911-

Collection number: Mss206

Creator:

Extent: 11.25 linear ft.

Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

Stockton, CA 95211

Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], United Daughters of the Confederacy. Stirling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.) Records, Mss206, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Access Points

corporate name

United Daughters of the Confederacy. Sterling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.)

United Daughters of the Confederacy. California Division

subject

Confederate States of America -History -Societies, etc.

Women -California -Societies and clubs

Women -California -Stockton -Societies and clubs

Biography

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in 1894. Its membership consists of women descendants of Confederate veterans and supporters of the Confederacy organized into over 1000 local chapters. The UDC's objectives are historical, educational and patriotic. The Sterling Price Chapter (Stockton, Calif.) was chartered April 27, 1911.

Scope and Content

The UDC Sterling Price Chapter Records are organized in eight series, as follows: Series I-Minute Books (1911- ); Series II-Membership Reports, Records and Applications (1912- ), including genealogical and biographical information; Series III-Financial Records (1932-2013); Series IV-State Division Correspondence & Misc. Writings(1937-1994); Series V-State and Local Histories & Biographies; Series VI-Publications (1916- ), including California State Division Convention Programs (1916- ), and Yearbooks (1916- ); Series VII-Scrapbooks & Clippings on Sterling Price Chapt. (1918- ); and, Series VIII-Ephemera and Memorabilia (1911-). Additions to the collection are anticipated.

SERIES I: STERLING PRICE CHAPTER (STOCKTON, CALIF.) MINUTE BOOKS

BOX 1.1: MINUTE BOOKS, 1911-1964

1.1.1-1911-1919

1.1.2-1919-1925

1.1.3-1927-1933, 1937

1.1.4-1934-1945

1.1.5-1945-1950

1.1.6-1959-1964

BOX 1.2: MINUTE BOOKS, 1966-2018

1.2.1-1966-1974

1.2.2-1974-1984

1.2.3-1984-1989

1.2.4-1989-2003

1.2.5-Minutes & Reports, 2004-2018

SERIES II:STERLING PRICE CHAPT. & OTHER CALIFORNIA DIVISIONS MEMBERSHIP RECORDS and REPORTS

BOX 2.1: MEMBERSHIP RECORDS; REPORTS, 1911-

-Membership and Patriot List, 1911-2014

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1912-1920

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1921-1923

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1934-1945

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1946-1978

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1979-1990

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 1991-2010

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 2011-2019

-Active Members, Sterling Price Chapter, 2020-

-Demits, 1925-1958

-Transferred memberships

-Individual Member information, Sterling Price Chapter, 1911-1978 [some undated]

-Reports: to Registrar (Membership) Sterling Price Chapter, 1917-1937, 1951

-Reports: Chapter Officers and Members, Fitzhugh Lee Chapter, 1925-1942

-Reports: to Convention, 1930-1935 & Reports: Historian, 1933-1935

-Reports: Chapter Delegates, Jefferson Davis Chapter, 1916; Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, 1916.

-Awards: Cross of Military Service, 1933-1948

-Awards: Southern Cross of Honor General Information

-Awards: Southern Cross of Honor, 1919-1933

- Awards: Certificate of Appreciation, 1992

- Awards: Cross of Service, 1997

-Awards: Winnie Davis Medal, 1987

-Children of the Confederacy: Charter of Incorporation [undated], & Registration List Katie McQueen Patterson Chapter, Aux. to Sterling Price Chapter, 1934 - 1954

-Children of the Confederacy: Applications for membership, Sterling Price Chapter, 1934-1952: A-F

-Children of the Confederacy: Do., G-M

-Children of the Confederacy: Do., N-S

-Children of the Confederacy: Do., T-Z

-Children of the Confederacy: Program, Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1942

-Real Granddaughters Club, UDC Membership Forms, 1984-1988

SERIES III: FINANCIAL RECORDS [Sterling Price Chapter]

BOX 3.1: STERLING PRICE CHAPT. FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1932-

3.1.1-Treasurer's Account Books: 1932-1933

3.1.2-Treasurer's Account Books: 1937-1941

3.1.3-Treasurer's Account Books: 1944-1952

3.1.4-Treasurer's Account Books: 1950-1953

3.1.5-Treasurer's Account Books: 1953-1963

3.1.6-Treasurer's Account Books: 1963-1970

3.1.7-Treasurer's Account Books: 1971-1979

3.1.8-Reports: Work & Contributions, to California Division, 1921-1976

3.1.9-Reports: Treasurer's, 1950-1979, 2010, 2013

3.1.10-Reports: To Convention, 1930-1935

3.1.11-Miscellaneous Financial Records: Tax Records, 1935-1982

3.1.12-Miscellaneous Financial Records: Receipts, 1951-52

SERIES IV: STATE DIV. CORRESPONDENCE/MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

BOX 4.1: CORRESPONDENCE; MISC. WRITINGS, 1937-

4.1.1-Correspondence: Dorothy Madison Watson, 1937

4.1.2-Correspondence: Dorothy Madison Watson, 1940

4.1.3-Correspondence: Dorothy Madison Watson, UDC Calif. State Historian, 1941-1943

4.1.4-Correspondence: Dorothy M. Watson, re: Kimmel, 1941-1942

4.1.5-Correspondence: Bess Dunstan to Sterling Price Chapt., 1942

4.1.6-Correspondence: Mrs. A.R. Bullock, Pres. Calif. Div.---Corresp., 1942

4.1.7-Correspondence: Mrs. Carl C.Cramer, Chmn. Transportation Comm., Natl. UDC---Corresp., 1942

4.1.8-Correspondence: Sidney Lanier Scholarship Correspondence, 1942

4.1.9-Correspondence: Dorothy Watson Tappan, President, 1946-1947

4.1.10-Correspondence: Augusta Kemper, Calif. Div. [?] to Mrs. E.O. Morris, 1947

4.1.11-Correspondence: Loan Programs, 1947-1955

4.1.12-Correspondence: Mrs. Richard Hardin, Calif. Div., Dir. Randolph Fund---Corresp., 1977

4.1.13-Correspondence: Joan C. Gorsuch, Pres. Sterling Price Chapt., 1994

4.1.14-Correspondence: Miscellany, 1970-

4.1.15-Writings:[Dorothy M. Watson ?] [undated]

4.1.16- Brochure: Past and Present “One Hundred Plus Years of Caring: 1894 – the Present”

SERIES V:HISTORIES & BIOGRAPHIES; ACTIVITIES

BOX 5.1: STATE & CHAPTER HISTORIES & BIOGRAPHIES; ACTIVITIES

-Dorothy M. Watson, compil. "Handbook of History, California Division"

-Division Organization, UDC History and Chapter History

-Chapter Histories and Biographical Material [on persons for whom chapters are named]

-Misc. Histories and Biographies [incl. member obituaries]

-Susannah “Lou” Eleanor Dorsey Ewing [biographical]

-State Division Activities: Educational works, n.d. [c1946]

-State Division Activities: Historical Dept.Programs, 1941, 1943

-State Division Activities: Executive Board Minutes, 1942

-State Division Activities: California Division Reports, n.d. [c1946]

-State Division Activities: Courtesy Committee Report, n.d. [c1946]

-State Division Activities: Calif. Chapt., Annual Convention, Sacramento, 1947--- Minutes [draft of version printed in Yearbook, viz. 6.2]

-Local Chapter Activities: Biographical essays on Confederate soldiers

-Local Chapter Activities: Batte, Peter V.---Biographical materials

-Local Chapter Activities: Do.---Corresp. re marker in Stockton Rural Cemetery

-Local Chapter Activities: Grave location records, 1990s

-Local Chapter Activities: Centennial Activities, 2011

-Local Chapter Activities: Misc. Activities (incl. Activity Reports & Programs), 2000-

SERIES VI PUBLISHED WORKS

BOX 6.1a: LOCAL NEWSLETTERS & YEARBOOKS

Abstract: [Sterling Price Newsletter, 1993- ; Sterling Price Yearbooks: 2013/2014- ]

BOX 6.1b: STATE DIVISION BULLETINS & PROGRAMS; LOCAL NEWSLETTERS & YEARBOOKS

-Bulletins, newsletters: California Division, 1941-1942

-Bulletins, newsletters: Dixie Digest, 2000-2003

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1916 16th Stockton

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1933 33rd Stockton

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1939 39th San Francisco [2 pp. of Yearbook?]

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1947 47th Sacramento

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1953 53rd Berkeley [Oakland]

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1955 55th Riverside

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1956 56th Bakersfield

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1969 69th Burlingame

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1975 75th Oakland/Berkeley (2 copies)

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1988 88th Anaheim

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 1993 93rd Sacramento

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 2015 115th Stockton

-State Division Annual Convention Programs: 2021 121st Bakersfield

-State Division Miscellaneous Programs:[undated] , 1942, & 1986-1988

-California Chapters miscellany: Constitution and By-Laws, Jefferson Davis Chapter & Sterling Price Chapter

Books

History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in California: Centennial Edition 1896-1996 . Margaret M. Fitzgibbons, 1997

The History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mary B. Poppenheim, Maude Blake Merchant, et al., 1938.

-UDC Ritual Book, 1959 & National Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA 1941

- History of California Division, 1901-1942: Of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Dorothy Watson Tappan, n.d.

-“United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1894-2019” (125th Anniversary). UDC Magazine, September 2019.

BOX 6.2a: STATE DIVISION YEARBOOKS, 1915/16-

6.2.1-State Division Yearbooks: 1915-1916 15th San Diego

6.2.1b-State Division Yearbooks: 1929 29th Fresno

6.2.2-State Division Yearbooks: 1940-1941 40th Los Angeles

6.2.3-State Division Yearbooks: 1941-1942 41st San Diego

6.2.4-State Division Yearbooks: 1942-1943 42nd Santa Monica

6.2.5-State Division Yearbooks: 1943-1944 43rd Los Angeles

6.2.6-State Division Yearbooks: 1945-1946 45th Los Angeles

6.2.7-State Division Yearbooks: 1946-1947 46th Santa Monica

6.2.8-State Division Yearbooks: 1947-1948 47th Sacramento

6.2.9-State Division Yearbooks: 1948-1949 48th Hollywood

6.2.10-State Division Yearbooks: 1949-1950 49th Berkeley

6.2.11-State Division Yearbooks: 1950-1951 50th San Bernardino

6.2.12-State Division Yearbooks: 1952-1953 52nd Santa Cruz

6.2.13-State Division Yearbooks: 1953-1954 53rd Berkeley

6.2.14-State Division Yearbooks: 1954-1955 54th Santa Barbara

6.2.15-State Division Yearbooks: 1956-1957 56th Bakersfield

6.2.16-State Division Yearbooks: 1957-1958 57th Carmel

6.2.17-State Division Yearbooks: 1958-1959 58th Pasadena

6.2.18-State Division Yearbooks: 1959-1960 59th Oakland

6.2.19-State Division Yearbooks: 1960-1961 60th San Diego

6.2.20-State Division Yearbooks: 1961-1962 61st Los Angeles

6.2.21-State Division Yearbooks: 1962-1963 62nd Riverside

6.2.22-State Division Yearbooks: 1963-1964 63rd San Mateo

6.2.23-State Division Yearbooks: 1964-1965 64th Pasadena

6.2.24-State Division Yearbooks: 1965-1966 65th Santa Monica

6.2.25-State Division Yearbooks: 1966-1967 66th Sacramento

6.2.26-State Division Yearbooks: 1967-1968 67th Los Angeles

6.2.27-State Division Yearbooks: 1968-1969 68th San Diego

6.2.28-State Division Yearbooks: 1970-1971 70th Hollywood

6.2.29-State Division Yearbooks: 1971-1972 71st Pasadena

6.2.30-State Division Yearbooks: 1972-1973 72nd Burlingame

6.2.31-State Division Yearbooks: 1973-1974 73rd Los Angeles

6.2.32-State Division Yearbooks: 1974-1975 74th Anaheim

6.2.33-State Division Yearbooks: 1975-1976 75th Berkeley

6.2.34-State Division Yearbooks: 1976-1977 76th San Diego

6.2.35-State Division Yearbooks: 1977-1978 77th Pasadena

6.2.36-State Division Yearbooks: 1978-1979 78th Sacramento

6.2.37-State Division Yearbooks: 1979-1980 79th Pasadena

6.2.38-State Division Yearbooks: 1980-1981 80th Fullerton

6.2.39-State Division Yearbooks: 1981-1982 81st San Mateo

6.2.40-State Division Yearbooks: 1982-1983 82nd Fullerton

6.2.41-State Division Yearbooks: 1983-1984 83rd Pasadena

6.2.42-State Division Yearbooks: 1984-1985 84th Concord

6.2.43-State Division Yearbooks: 1985-1986 85th Pasadena

6.2.44-State Division Yearbooks: 1986-1987 86th Burbank

6.2.45-State Division Yearbooks: 1987-1988 87th Concord

6.2.46-State Division Yearbooks: 1988-1989 88th Anaheim

BOX 6.2b: STATE DIVISION YEARBOOKS, 1989/90-2018/19-2020/21

SERIES VII: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS

BOX 7.1: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS, 1918-1993

7.1.1-Clippings, 1918-1993

7.1.2-Scrapbooks: 1941-42 [corresp. & clippings on UDC collected by Dorothy Madison Watson]

7.1.3-Scrapbooks: 1941-46 [historical clippings about South collected by Dorothy Madison Watson]

7.1.4-Scrapbooks: 1978-1984 Sterling Price Chapter

BOX 7.2: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS, 1948-1984

7.2.1-Scrapbooks: Alice W. Cooper Boston 1948-1961, San Francisco 1962-1972

7.2.2-Scrapbooks: Robert E. Lee Chapter San Francisco, 1971-1982

7.2.3-Scrapbooks: Robert E. Lee Chapter San Francisco, 1978-1984 (Heidi Hanisco)

7.2.4- Scrapbooks: Children of the Confederacy, 1971-85

7.2.5- Scrapbooks: Alice W. Cooper, 1977-84

7.2.6- Scrapbooks: 1974-1983 Includes early History of Sterling Price Chapter and California Division

7.2.7- Scrapbooks: 1982-1984 Includes early History of Sterling Price Chapter and California Division

BOX 7.3: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS, 1984-1989

7.3.1-Scrapbooks: 1984-85 [photos, clippings, history and activities of Sterling Price Chapter]

7.3.2-Scrapbooks: 1985-86 [do.]

7.3.3-Scrapbooks: 1986-87 [photos, clippings about South created by of Sterling Price Chapter]

7.3.4-Scrapbooks: 1987-88 [photos, clippings history & activities of Sterling Price Chapter & clippings about South; contains local programs in pocket]

7.3.5-Scrapbooks: 1988/89 [photos, clippings history & activities of Sterling Price Chapter & clippings about South]

BOX 7.4: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS, 1989-1999

7.4.1-Scrapbooks: 1989-91 [photos, clippings history & activities of Sterling Price Chapter & clippings about South]

7.4.2-Scrapbooks: 1992/93 [do.]

7.4.3-Scrapbooks: 1992-94 [do.]

7.4.4-Scrapbooks: 1995 [do.]

7.4.5-Scrapbooks: 1996-1997 [do.]

7.4.6-Scrapbooks: 1997-99

BOX 7.5: CLIPPINGS & SCRAPBOOKS, 1999-

7.5.1-Scrapbooks: 1999-2004

7.5.2-Scrapbooks: 2018-2019

7.5.3-Scrapbooks: 2019-2020 & 2020-2021

SERIES VIII EPHEMERA & MEMORABILIA

BOX 8.1: EPHEMERA & MEMORABILIA

8.1.1-Misc. Publications & Clippings (not local) [incl.Transcription of Poem, A Little Home, by Carolyn M[?].]

8.1.2-Southern Campfire Songs

8.1.3-Robert E. Lee Genealogy

8.1.4-"Beauvoir: Historic Last Home of Jefferson Davis" [tourist brochure]

8.1.5-Photographs, 1990s

8.1.6-Small box containing 2 seals.

8.1.7-Eight California Delegate stick pins with ribbons.

8.1.8-Thirteen Confederate crepe paper flags

8.1.9-Ten red paper hearts

8.1.10-Box containing stamps, stickers, Jefferson Davis Chapter by-laws, buttons, etc. mi

8.1.11-Cotton Ornament Favor from 2015 Convention

BOX 8.2 OVERSIZE MATERIALS [in stacks map case, "oversize ms" drawer]

8.2.1-Handwritten Poem A Little Home, by Carolyn M[?].

8.2.2-UDC Charter Certificate Sterling Price Chapter, April 27, 1911

8.2.3-Sterling Price Chapter Membership Certificates, 1911, 1912 [2], 1939, 1941

8.2.4-Jefferson Davis Chapter Membership Certificate, n.d.

8.2.5-Children of the Confederacy Membership Certificates, 1948