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Troop Leader Spotlight: Lisa Fowler. Troop Leader Spotlight: Kathy Roat. Troop Leader Spotlight: Tonya Zavala. Troop Leader Spotlight: Stephanie Melvin. Troop Leader Spotlight: Mary Patterson. Troop Leader Spotlight: Marcia Lynnes. Daisy started the first troop in Savannah, Georgia, which was her home.
You can visit her birthplace if you go to Savannah. Inspired and enthusiastic with this youth program, she led three Girl Guides troops in England and Scotland. She had a great love for pets, especially exotic birds and could often be seen with one perched on her shoulder. From childhood on Juliette Gordon Low was very athletic.
One of her favorite skills was standing on her head which she would famously do later at the National Headquarters of the Girl Scouts to show off the new uniform shoes. She also struggled with deafness caused by mistreatment of chronic ear infections and an accident in Her father, the Georgia-born owner of the enslaved person-populated Belmont cotton plantation, believed in the secession of the South from the Union; on the other hand, her Northern-born mother, whose family had helped found the city of Chicago, believed in abolition.
While Low's father was joining the war efforts on behalf of the South, her maternal relatives were enlisting in Northern militias.
Low's mother struggled with the conflicting feelings of having loved ones on both sides of the war, as well as harsh treatment from neighbors who didn't understand the family's divided allegiances.
As the war dragged on, Low's mother grew increasingly despondent about her husband's absence and her ability to provide for the family. By the time Low was four, the South had lost the war, and the little girl—malnourished and sickly—still had yet to see her father for more than a few days at a time. In the closing days of the Civil War, the Gordons, under the protection of General William Tecumseh Sherman , moved to Illinois to stay with Eleanor's parents, where Low was exposed to an entirely different way of life.
Her grandfather was a founder of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Athenaeum and the city's public schools. He was also a savvy investor who earned his wealth through the railroads, copper mines and his presidency of the Second State Bank in Chicago. As a result of her maternal grandparents' influence in the community, Low encountered a variety of new people, including many Native Americans, who sought business and investment advice from her grandfather.
Her interactions with Native Americans gave her an early appreciation of Native American culture, which she would idealize for the rest of her life. The family soon reunited in Savannah and, thanks to her mother's efforts to recoup their financial losses in the South, Low's father was able to revitalize the Belmont plantation.
Low's empathy for others and unconventional outlook on life became more apparent as she grew older. Her siblings often commented on her inability to keep track of time, her frequent "experiments" that went awry and acts of kindness that resulted in good-natured disasters.
Her antics earned her the new nickname "Crazy Daisy," giving her a reputation for eccentricity that would stick with her through adulthood. Her adventurous and eccentric nature resulted in a restlessness of spirit when she entered a series of boarding schools, including the Virginia Female Institute, Edgehill School, Miss Emmett's School and Mesdemoiselles Charbonniers.
While she was taught the typical social graces of a highborn lady in school, excelling in drawing, piano and speech, she yearned instead to explore, hike, play tennis and ride horses—all activities discouraged by her restrictive finishing schools. Defiant in nature, Low was frequently caught breaking the rules. By the age of 19, Low was torn between being a dutiful daughter and pursuing her dreams of being an independent woman.
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