Ethel Roosevelt Derby - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• The Adam-Derby House that Ethel Derby occupied from 1913–1977 was added to the National Register of Historic Places May 17, 1979.
• Ethel Derby's niece, Susan Roosevelt Weld who was an admirer of "Auntie Ethel", named her daughter Ethel Derby Weld even though she knew the name was "out of fashion" at the time. Mrs. Derby was visited by Ethel Weld who was born only weeks before her death.

• Although a die-hard Republican, Derby often referred to herself as "a liberal Republican."