New England Boy Scouts

New England Boy Scouts
Country	United States
Founded	1911
Defunct	c. 1916
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The New England Boy Scouts (NEBS) were an early American Scouting organization that split off from the American Boy Scouts in 1911 and merged with the Boy Scouts of America by 1916.

History

The American Boy Scouts were organized in May 1910 by publisher William Randolph Hearst. In December 1910, Hearst resigned, citing mismanagement on the part of the ABS directors.^[1][2] The New England Division left the ABS and formed the New England Boy Scouts.^[3] The New England department of the ABS separated from the national organization in 1911 and formed the New England Boy Scouts.

NEBS member George S. Barton, of Somerville, Massachusetts, founded Boys' Life magazine in January 1911. The magazine covered the three Scouting organizations of the time: the Boy Scouts of America, the American Boy Scouts and the New England Boy Scouts. In 1912, the Boy Scouts of America purchased the magazine, making it an official BSA magazine.^[4]

NEBS merged into the BSA in 1916.

References

1. ^ "Hearst Leaves Boy Scouts" (PDF), The New York Times, December 9, 1910, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A03E5DC1638E333A2575AC0A9649D946196D6CF, retrieved September 26, 2007 
2. ^ "Hearst's Name the Lure" (PDF), The New York Times, December 16, 1910, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E0CE7D91F39E733A25755C1A9649D946196D6CF, retrieved September 26, 2007 
3. ^ Dizer, John T., "The Birth and Boyhood of Boys' Life", Scouting (November–December 1994), http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/9411/d-wwas.html, retrieved January 17, 2008 
4. ^ Barton, George S. (March 1, 1911). "The New England Boy Scouts are Soon to be Incorporated". Boys' Life: 36. http://books.google.com/books?id=2ThyM-8T1J4C.