Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon was born to a wealthy family in Savannah, Georgia. Her father served as a Confederate Army officer and after the war she spent a few years in Chicago with her maternal grandparents as the family fortune was rebuilt. She married a cotton manufacturer but, after she was widowed in 1905, met and befriended Robert Baden Powell and his sister. After a time in England, she returned to the U.S. to found in 1915 the American version of their institution, the Girl Scouts. She died in January, 1927. (By John Osborne)