Flora Adams Darling

FOUNDER OF THE DAR AND THE U.S. DAUGHTERS OF 1812. Adams was born in 1840 in Lancaster, NH to Harvey and Nancy Dustin Adams. She married General Edward Irving Darling, who was later killed in the Civil War. In 1891 she organized the Daughters of the Confederacy and became its Director General. She was one of the three founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was also Director at the Lamperti School of Music, and Founder and Director of the Edward Irving Darling Musical Society, created in memory of her son, a composer. She authored seven books including A Wayward, Winning Woman, and Senator Athens, C.S.A.