Born Juliette Magil Kinzie, Juliette Gordon Low was born October 31, 1860 in Savannah, Georgia. As an infant she was nicknamed "Daisy" by an uncle who declared that she would be the brightest Daisy in the garden. As a child her favorite activities were playing outdoors and painting elaborate paper dolls.

While a teenager, she attended Virginia Female Institute and later, Mesdemoiselles Charbonniers, a French finishing school. After her education, she traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe. Low also helped during the Spanish-American War by aiding her mother in organizing a convalescent hospital for injured soldiers coming back from Cuba.

A widow with no children, Low was searching for something valuable to do with her life when in 1911 she met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Less than a year after returning to the U.S., she made a historic phone call to a distant cousin saying, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all of the world, and we're going to start it tonight!"

On March 12, 1912, Low met with 18 girls to register the first troop of American Girl Guides. The organization's name became Girl Scouts in 1913.

GIRL SCOUT MUSEUM
The LINK to the Girl Scout Virtual Museum:
http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/museum/