Who is this lady?

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I had to think twice also. Anyone visiting the Washington, D.C. area should make an effort to tour her unusual home in Glen Echo, just outside the city in Montgomery County, Maryland. Our conference tour into D.C. on March 14 will include her downtown office where she assisted soldiers and families after the Civil War. A great lady, who got the support she needed for the American Red Cross after announcing to Senator Conger that she had tended to his badly wounded brother, Everton Conger (as in Garretts' Farm Patrol), during the war.