The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-02-17
Continues Work of Pioneers Building History Northwest Leads Daughters
of american Revolution n WashingtonS Birthday Fen
BY PAULINE SUING BLOOM

Greaness-that combination of a superior quality
and power that makes stand out head and
shoulders above his contemporaries gloriously
manifest in George Washington. Statesman-Dip-
lomat-Genteman-S Soldier and Leader.
His birthday each year is the shrine about which
a noble band of American women, the Daughters
of the American Revolution, gather to pay him hom-
age and to nstill love of country in the young and
the fuel the fires of patriotism burning
in every American breast.
Owing to the illness of Mrs Clark c. Upton,
gent of Esther Reed Chapter. d. A. r.. Mrs C. X.
Merriam, vice regent and chairman of American
cation and Patriotic Education committees will pre-
side at a meeting in the EliZabethan room
of the Davenport hotel when all Daughters of the
American Revolution in the city will be guests.
Mrs. Merriam is widely known Spokane woman.
the daughter of pioneers who played a large part
in the making of the history of the Northwest, the
late General and Mrs. T. r. Tannatt. General Tan
matt was graduated from West Point just before
the beginning of the Civil War and after years of
service he resigned to become associated with Hen
ry Willard. He gave his entire time to the promo.
ton of railroad building and land development
companies in the Northwest with headquarters in
New York, making his first trip to the Northwest
in 1879. Later he moved his family to the Pacific
coast and known throughout the Northwest
of its greatest orators He served eight
years as regent of Washington State College AT
his death he buried with full military honors
at Paramount Cemetery, the troops at Fort Wright
officiating
Mrs Merriam treasures the tributes of Bishop
Wells, who pronounced him noble soldier of the
and a patriot, and Judge Chadwick who said
of him:
my knowledge of General Tannatt gained from
intimate acquaintance of years, warrants my say
ing that the Northwest had worthier citizen. He
was a contribution in large measure to the growth
and welfare of the commonwealth. His interest
in patriotic and educational affairs made his name
familiar throughout the Northwest where ii is
cepted in any community and in every strata of
society synonym for honesty and integrity.
He was honored, too, by a memorial published
by the Association of Graduates of West Point for
his splendid record
Mrs Tannatt was the first daughter of the Amer.
lean Revolution in eastern Washington Before
siding here she Interested herself in the organiza-
tion of Esther Reed Chapter. She state chair.
man of patriotic education and historian for the
ID. A. r. She wrote the booklet Indian Battles
of the Inland Empire published by Esther Reed
Chapter. She a descendant of old Boston fam
lilies with the traditions which have made the ma
tons history.
And with such traditions could daughter fail to
carry on? As Miriam Tannat, Mrs. Merriam
was charter member of Esther Reed Chapter of
the ID. A. II. and since her marriage to Dr. c. X.
Merriam in 1905 has been actively interested in
the patriotic and Amercanzation work of the
chapter and also in the work of the Woman's Aux
Hilary of the Episcopal church She is member
of the Society of Founders and Patriots Chapter
in Portland Oregon.
Last spring Mrs. Merriam and her daughter,
Elizabeth, student at Mills College, Califor-
mia, attended the national congress of the ID. A.
r. in Washington, where special honor given
her through the commentator of her work in con
nection with the publication of "Reminiscences of
the Whitman Massacre" an authentic contribution
to Northwest history. This work suggested by
the late Mrs. Tannatt and made possible through
the efforts of Mrs Merriam. Mrs. George H. Gobe
and Mrs. NJ A. Phelps.
Mrs Merriam Is member of the Art Associa-
tion interested in the Grace Campbell Memorial
Museum and is Of the organizers of the Spo-
kane branch of the National Archaeological society