Dear California Daughters,

As we begin the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of our California State Society, Women’s History Month is the opportune time to focus on one of our California Daughters who was an integral part of our early record.

Sarah Isabelle Hubbard was a member of the group of women who had gathered in Washington DC to organize the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1890.  Later, her name appeared on the act of incorporation when the National Society received its charter from the 54th Congress of the United States.

At the close of the first session of the Daughters, Flora Adams Darling proposed Mrs. Hubbard as organizing regent of a society in California.  In April 1891 the officers of the National Society elected her as the first State Regent of California, empowering her to organize the sixth state society.  Nearly twenty years later, in 1910, at the State Conference in Los Angeles, she was unanimously elected Honorary State Regent.

She was the granddaughter of Valentine Holt, a soldier in the Revolution, which made her a Real Granddaughter.

In 1896, she organized the first society of the Children of the American Revolution in California.  It was named the Valentine Holt Society.   For her work, she was made honorary vice-president of the National Society.

We owe a debt of gratitude to her for the part she played in the early life of the National Society and in the formation of our California State Society.

Together let us

“Celebrate America!”

“Celebrate Service!”

and “Celebrate 125 Years of the CSSDAR!”

Carol Oakley Jackson
State Regent