The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-28
A TEA PARTY ANCESTRY
Elizabeth Dyar Chapter Of Winona
Will Commemorate a Spirited
New England Dame.

The fourteenth chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution in Min
nesota to be named, and the thirteenth
to be organized is the Elizabeth Dyar
Chapter of Winona. The membership of
the older chapter, the Wenonah, being
limited to fifty resident members, it was
found advisable to form a second chapter.
For the regular meetings, the cha piers
find it pleasant to hold informal sessions
i'll private houses but the two chapters
will unite on special occasions and in en-
tertaining visiting daughters.
The new chapter takes the name of
Elizabeth tDyar from ancestress of one
OF the members, who, as tradition says,
was one of the enthusiastic Boston women
who assisted in the successful little tea
party which afterward became the most
famous of all such occasions. She was
Elizabeth Nichols, the wife of Joseph
Dyar and undoubtedly possessed artistic
ability, as she applied to the faces Of the
worthy Joseph and his friends a coat of
paint of the most accurate copper color,
sivng them the pleasing effect Of Indians
Oh the Warpath and also wisely distin-
gushing them. to avoid recognition, by
any Tory neighbors Little then did
Elizabeth think. while absorbed in her
realistic portraiture, that in days to
came, her name would be closely asso-
clated with a group of patriotic descend
ants who will keep her memory green
| me new chapter has sprung into a
| fully organized existence in an exception
ally short time. The regent was ap-H
! pointed by Mrs f. A. Rising. the state
regent, about the 18th of January Her
transfer from the Wenonah chapter to the
national society and various other neces-
safy steps We're completed and by the 18th
Of February the chapter was organized
with sixteen new members. and two
transferred from the national society," ali
| papers having been accepted and returned
from Washington. Mrs. TulIoch the
vice president general in charge Of the or
sanlzatlon of chapters, has reported the
new chapter at the congress held in
Washington this week 1t begins it's Of
fetal existence with the following mem
! bers: Regent. Mrs: Florence Shepherd
Little, ancestor. General Seth Ponleroy;
Vlce@regent, Annie Lombard Dyar, ances-
tor, Israel Lombard: registrar. Harriet
irene Larrabee, ancestor John Larrabee;
treasurer Miss. Grace Douglas. ancestor,
| David Lind1ey; recording. secretary, Miss
| Helen Beach Curtis, ancestor. Isaac
steele; corresponding secretary, Abbie L..
Iurlbert. ancestor, Colonel Samuel F'ifield: :
historian. Miss .Adeline M. Jenney. .ances-
Tor Captain Samuel Thrall: chairman
program committee. Miss Kathryn Aine
| Mitchell, ancestor, Wait Beach; cha irman
ways and means committee. Mrs. Ethel
LouS' Ids SIMPSON, ancestor, David Lind l.
ley; Miss Sarah Latham Clement: anccs-
tor. Captain Woodward Latham; Mrs.
Dllzabeth' Clement Woods, ancestor. Cap
tain Woodward Latham; Miss Margaret
De Long Pearse, ancestor. Peter Bailey
| Tearse; Miss Hope A. Graham ancestor.
Timothy Walker; Miss Mabel Lucy Mar
Nln,' ancestor, Benjamin Smith: Mrs.
Sarah Simmons Pfeiffer. ancestor John
HUT; Mrs: Ursula r. Simmons ances-
Tor John Ifutt:
Johnson. ancestor. lothian Stebbins: Miss
Helen Pomeroy Little, ancestor, General
Seth Fomeroy. :
number Of applications are being
prepared and among those to be admitted
at an carly meeting, arc Misses Herberta
stewart Natalie Crise, Helen and Mary
NILS and Hope Williams The cha ptcr
will study the history of Minnesota and
hold it's sessions in the third week Of, each
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