Background
Padgett, Dora Adele was born on March 16, 1892 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Luther Howard and Jane (Wells) Styron-Simpkins.
Padgett, Dora Adele was born on March 16, 1892 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Luther Howard and Jane (Wells) Styron-Simpkins.
Graduate Washington Normal School, 1912. Student Cornell Univercity, 1915.
; 1 son, Edward R. Feature writer Washington and Detroit newspapers, 1912-1922. Publicity representative National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1925-1929. Editor Planning and Civic Comment, quarterly American Planning and Civic Association and National Conference State Parks, Washington, from 1935.
Secretary American Planning and Civic Association, from 1959, Committee of 100 on the Federal City, from 1959.
Executive secretary National Conference State Parks, from 1959. Associate editor National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 1945-1958.
Member Daughters of American Revolution (chapter regent 1949-1951), Daughter American Colonists (state Regent District of Columbia 1946-1949), National Genealogical Society.
Married Edward Riddel Padgett, October 21, 1920 (deceased.