History of the Ottawa Chapter

The original Ottawawa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in August 1906 with sixteen members.  Their fifty-five years in existence, the chapter did many things to further the work of the DAR.  The Ottawa Chapter of the DAR was re-organized June 9 1977, in the Kensington Room of the Fogcutter Restaurant, Port Huron, Michigan. The new chapter used the Ottawa name which means in Native American, Algonquian language, "to trade."

Organizing Members

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With concurring limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

  From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep the ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips.  “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus 1883