Biography juliette gordon low

Founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Name variations: Daisy Low. Born Juliette Magill Gordon on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia; died of cancer on January 17, 1927, in Savannah, Georgia; daughter of William Washington II (a cotton broker and second lieutenant in the Confederate army) and Eleanor Kinzie Gordon; attended private day and boarding schools, and Mesdemoiselles Charbonniers' School, New York City, diploma, 1880; aunt of Daisy Gordon Lawrence (a writer); married William Low, on December 21, 1886 (died 1905); no children.

Moved with her family (without her father) to her maternal grandparents' home in Chicago for the duration of the Civil War (1864); with reunited family, returned to Savannah (August 23, 1865); began attending day school in Savannah; went to Stuart Hall boarding school in Virginia and that summer made first visit to Europe (1873); at 15, transferred to Edge Hill boarding school in Virgi