[5] She was one of the original signers of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was an active member of four of the leading charity organizations in Washington.

[8] Her great-grandfather, Amos Lincoln, was a captain of artillery and one of the intrepid band who, in 1773, consigned the tea to the water in Boston harbor.

[8] Coolidge was delicate in childhood, and her philanthropic spirit was early shown in flower-mission and hospital work in Boston.

Her childhood was passed as a neighbor of Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin Percy Whipple, and James T.

Meeting the mothers of both the rich and the poor, and seeing the great need of intelligent care in bringing up little children, she began a large correspondence with others.

Her devotion to the children of the Foundling Hospital in Washington, and the great hygienic reformation she brought about, gave that institutional record of no deaths among its residents during the six months she acted as a member of its executive board of officers.

Some of the stories included: "Little Black Fairy" (Coal), "Mother Willow and Her Friends," "The Discontented Raindrop," "Little Bed Cap" (Squirrel), "The Violet and Nutshell," "The Rose Club," "How the Fairies Came" (Rainbow colors), "Dear Little Brownie" (Chestnut), "Little Yellow and His Brothers and Sisters" (Maple leaf).

[13] Harriet Lincoln Coolidge died on either 17 or 18 May 1902 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after having been rushed there from Washington, D.C. suffering from acute bronchitis.