Take Action for the Present Day

Access your inner "Nancy Drew" and help solve some mysteries:

The reason for the long list of names after the "how we got our camp " snippet is because if these were the people who cared about Girl Scouting in 1937, their grandchildren are alive today & may possibly care about helping.

If they are alive, they can be found. If any of them are interested in their family histories, they may have letters, pictures, memories of their own relating to Crowell Hilaka or Girl Scouting in general that Grandma & Grampa told them about on holidays. They may have passed on their Girl Scouting heritage.

So if anyone feels like investigating anyone of these names and trying to track down the decsendants or get more information, and even ask for a donation to keep the camps open, go for it!

 

Of course, the extra challenge in tracking womens' history is that the ladies used their husbands' names. and if they married or re- married after this time frame, they got different names! but hey, that just makes the puzzle more interesting!

 

What I do know:

Kirby had 3 children with his first wife. They never lived at the camp - there are grandchildren around, but they do not have any attachment to the camp. Kirby and his second wife did not have any children.

Julia & Benedict Crowell had two children: the son never married. I have very little info on Florence, their daughter & have never found out if she & her husband had any kids. Julia's maiden name was Cobb - her dad's first name was leonard - the family made their money in pharmecuticals.

POTENTIAL LEADS: Mr. and Mrs. Warner Seely were both VERY involved & their grandchildren, if any, may be good sources

I had not realized until piecing together the conncetion between early GS & the natural history museum - they may have something in their archives.