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Jane Duxbury Schleinzer was born in Warsaw, Indiana. She married John R. Schleinzer and has four children and eight grandchildren. 

She worked in the corporate world in Information Technology and has been an antique dealer since 1991. 

Memberships

  • National Society of New England Women (Honorary President General)

  • Illinois Heritage Alliance, (Founder, President)

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Honorary President General)

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Honorary President General)

  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America (President)

  • Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Honorary Governor General)

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Member at Large, Past Illinois Governor)

  • Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (2nd Vice President General)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Chaplain General, Honorary Illinois President)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (1st Vice President General)

  • Scions of Freedom Signers (Secretary, Organizing Member)

  • Order of the Star and Sail (Steward, Co-founder)

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners (Treasurer General)

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries

  • Descendants of Miners 1607-1907 (Recording Secretary General, Founding Member)

  • Colonial Dames of America

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Honorary Illinois Governor)

  • Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 (Organizing Tent President Jennie Hodgers)

  • Descendants of Colonial Regulators (Treasurer General)

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900

  • Founders Fellowship (Historian General)

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Secretary General)

  • Illinois Cameo Society (Past President)

  • Illinois Heritage Weekend (President, Founder)

  • Jamestowne Society

  • Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (Organizing Chapter 1st Vice President)

  • National Huguenot Society

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Honorary President Illinois)

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Past Illinois President)

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Honorary Illinois President)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

  • National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (National Overseer)

  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Editor General, Honorary Illinois Branch Governor)

  • National Society Southern Dames of America

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary Chapter President John Kinzie)

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

  • Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

  • Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Chancellor General)

  • Pilgrim William White Society

  • Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • The IX 

  • Winslow Heritage Society

  • National Gavel Society

Published

Jane was the editor for Under Lock and Key, the newsletter for the Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables for 10 years. She was also the Editor General for one term for the Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims and produced that newsletter for two years.

Other

In 2015, she was responsible for getting the Mayflower Commemorative Coin Act bill submitted in the U.S. Congress and Senate and personally went to Capitol Hill to lobby legislators; working closely with her own Congressman. 

Jane has organized and set up the Illinois Heritage Weekend events every year since 2013. She set up and oversaw the 2018 GBOA Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, and was awarded a GSMD Certificate of Recognition for her coordinating efforts. She was co-chairman for the 2019 NSDCH annual conference in Saint Charles, Illinois. She also set up the annual 2024 meeting for the New England groups. 

As a member of The Aladdin Knights of the Mystic Light, she and her husband were the General Knights for 2 of the Gatherings. This is the annual convention for people that collect lamps made by the Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company and other companies. The first Gathering had over 700 attendees from around the world.

Jane and her husband also ran the annual depression glass show and sale for their local glass collecting club for 10 years.

She also received the Girl Scouts of America, Volunteer of Excellence award after twelve years as cookie mom for two troops.

She believes you get more out of membership by becoming active in the societies you belong to.

 

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