Edward Bell FIELD

                   Full name from D.A.R. application--1891--D.A.R membership no. 223.

Obituary, Denver Post, p. 25, Monday, December 26, 1955:    " Mrs. Edward Bell Field, Jr., 83, of 1317 Ogden St., a Denver pioneer and social leader, died Sunday night in Sands House, 5261 W. 26th Ave., where she had been a patient for 18 months.

"She was born Elizabeth Hardin Field on March 4, 1872, the daughter of Thomas Moore Field and Amanda Ellis Field, early day Coloradans who came to Denver in 1865 from Columbia, Mo.  Mrs. Field's stories of early days in Colorado were written by her in conjunction with Mrs. Blanche McNeal of the University of Denver.  In addition to attending Arapahoe St. school, East high and Mt. Vernon Seminary in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Field studied dramatic art at Lyceum school in New York City.

"    Mrs. Field was one of the few surviving charter members of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  While she was attending Mt. Vernon Seminary in the 1890s at the age of 18, Mrs. Field was invited by a cousin, Ellen Hardin Walworth, one of the founders of the DAR, to become a charter member.  Another of her recollections was attending the unveiling at the White House in 1894 of the portrait of Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison.

"She was married Sept. 15, 1898, to Edward Bell Field, Jr., whom she had known since he was 9 years old. Field was a pioneer telephone man in the state and, at the time of his death In February, 1920, was vice president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.  After her husband's death, Mrs. Field, with her three children, Jim, Pattie and John, moved to Cambridge, Mass., where Jim was graduated from Harvard law school; Pattie Field from Radcliffe, and John Field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  After that Pattie Field became one of the first women vice consuls of the United States, starting her career in the consular service at Amsterdam in 1925. She was accompanied to The Netherlands by her mother, and mother and daughter were presented to the late Queen Wilhelmina.

"  After the death of her son Jim in 1936, Mrs. Field sought to divert her grief with a round-the-world by freighter at the age of 65. She visited the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Bali, Manila, Hong Kong, China and Japan. Since she had appeared in amateur theatricals in Denver, Phoenix, and New York, Mrs. Field returned from her trip to put on a dance program in the native costumes she brought back.

"Mrs. Field is survived by her daughter, Pattie H. Field, at present U.S. vice consul at Genoa, Italy; a grandson, Edward Bell Field, III of Beaumont, Texas; her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. Walpole of Denver and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Marvin of Jenkintown, Pa., and two nephews Thomas Field of Laramie, Wyo., and [F]ield VanMeter of Winchester, Ky."