Mary Parke Foster

Held DAR membership # 185

"Descendant of Captain Silas Clark and Daniel Read, of Massachusetts"

Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating:

"Daniel Read was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War; his wife was the daughter of Capt. John Brown, who had three sons that fought at the battle of Bunker Hill."

"Also great-granddaughter of Capt. Silas Clark, who was famous for many daring exploits in the war; was wounded at the battle of Monmouth, which afterwards casued his death"

Mary Parke McFerson Foster was the 3rd President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and wife of John W. Foster, U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parke_McFerson_Foster