Chapter History
The Nipissing Name
Founding Members
Lula Bryce Abbott
Gertrude Mae Brown
Sarah Woodruff Bryce
Mary Houghton Herrick
Mary Rood Johnson
Vera Lincoln Pinney
Edith Brown Rhead
Elizabeth Rood Bullock
Belle Lincoln Russell
Effie Bryce Sidebotham
Past Regents
Lucy White Williams
Vernelia Rood Taylor
Lucy White Williams
Vera Lincoln Pinney
Fredericka Kay DesJardins
Georgia Winship Rich
Grace Lucille Phillips DesJardins
Kate Agnes Lincoln Rhead
Geraldine Graves Caley
Ada Heaton Winn
Geraldine Graves Caley
Lillian Mae Eldred Taylor
Zetta Winship Stephens
Ethelind White O’Rourke
Marjory Helen Stewart Kruth
Mildred Lowry McBride
Ella Beckwith Rinn
Katrarin Larned Fellers
Lottie Kelch Stier
Ella Beckwith Rinn
Jean Turnbull Harrison
Jean Dockham Whitstock
Ethel Mina Davis Fick
Lillian Mae Eldred Taylor
Lucille Rose Bainbridge Stewart
Marvel Abby Eldred Whittaker
Ruth Lillian Turnbull
Joanne Elizabeth Pask Rutzen
Leah Bessie Pohly Ledebuhr
Kathleen Rae Reamer Turner
Anita Hayes Kirk
Kathleen Rae Reamer Michalski
Anita Hayes Kirk
June Phyllis Seddon Sillers
Madolin Ariel Robinson Barry
Marsha Ann Jewett
Judith Anne Mattila
Pamela Kay Hotary
Cheryl Lynn Gawne
1917-1919
1919-1923
1923-1925
1925-1927
1927-1928
1928-1931
1931-1933
1933-1935
1935-1936
1936-1938
1938-1939
1939-1941
1941-1943
1943-1945
1945-1949
1949-1951
1951-1953
1953-1955
1955-1958
Lapeer County had a large settlement of Chippewa Indians that lived at a lake they called Mas-Qua-Wa Ne-Pis-Sing. Mas-Qua-Wa means cedar and Ne-Pis-Sing means lake. The early settlers called this lake with cedars, Nipissing. The name is now a business street in downtown Lapeer, which was formerly a part of their Indian trail, but the spelling was changed to Nepessing.
Mabel Hornby Kinietz
Kate Hart Lincoln
Neva Eugenia Louks
Belle Hart McCarthy
Minnie Edie Mix
Julia Abbott Slayton
Abbie Johnson Taylor
Vernelia Rood Taylor
Lucy White Williams
Mille Elvira Wilson
Julia Abbott Slayton
Lucy White Williams
Edith Brown Rhead
Millie Elvira Wilson
Gertrude Mae Brown
Belle Hart McCarthy
Vernelia Rood Taylor
Nipissing Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, was organized on September 11, 1917, by the Michigan Regent, Mrs. William Wait. It was the state's 47th chapter. The chapter's Organizing Regent was Lucy White Williams. She was a veteran DAR member of the Louisa St. Clair Chapter for about 16 years. The organization meeting took place at Lucy's home and after the business portion, the gathering was moved to the home of Kate Hart Lincoln for a 4-course luncheon. Lucy's cousin, Julia Belle Abbott Slayton, a member since 1908, transferred from the Genesee Chapter. And founding daughter, Mabel Hornby Kinietz, transferred from the Nipissing Chapter to the Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter, in Ann Arbor, and back again in 1939.
Less than a month after the organization, on October 9th, the 17th annual DAR State Conference was held in Saginaw at the Warren Avenue Presbyterian Church. Ladies from all over the state were traveling by train to attend. This event was quite the occasion and it made the social pages of the Saginaw Daily News. "The welcoming of Nipissing Chapter of Lapeer, the baby chapter as it was called, will be given by Mrs. W. G. Doty and will be responded to by Mrs. Lucy White Williams. Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, President General of the National Society of the DAR will then deliver the main address of the evening."
