United Spanish War Veterans

Soon after the Spanish–American War ended, in early 1899, discharged veterans formed fraternal societies to keep in touch with their former comrades.

The President of the Legion's Rhode Island chapter was Mrs Ellen V. Meehan during the 1930s; her husband was Cpl.

James Arthur Meehan, who served in the Spanish war with the Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry.

During the last years of The United Spanish War Veterans existence members of another organization called The Sons of Spanish American War Veterans founded in 1927 took up "acting" officer roles and ran the organizations chapters as well as their own.

The United Spanish War Veterans chapter meetings were held between 1992 and 1998 without any living members after the death of Nathan E.